Notes related to Brazil

For the second time in its history, two Brazilian curators take on the artistic direction of Latin America's largest visual arts event.

Cristiano Lenhardt was selected for his series of works born from his encounter with the environmental tragedy of the 2024 floods in southern Brazil.

Curated by Diane Lima, the exhibition brings together Adriana Varejão and Rosana Paulino for the first time to rewrite the wounds of colonialism.

The Brazilian museum presents works by Santiago Yahuarcani and Oscar Muñoz, exploring ancestral knowledge and the fragility of images in Latin America.

Throughout the year, the British gallery will host exhibitions featuring the works of Chico da Silva, Juli Isídrez, and Francisco Tún.

beginning, middle, beginning presents an installation by Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle, conceived specifically for the Central Gallery of the Serralves Museum. The work questions the linear conception of time and its relationship to colonial structures.

Two parallel exhibitions revisit dominant narratives through practices that interrogate archive, materiality, and community in Latin America.

Lugar de estar: o legado Burle Marx (A Place to Be: The Legacy of Burle Marx) is the exhibition presented by Lisbon’s MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Center, showcasing an extensive selection of landscape projects for public spaces developed by Roberto Burle Marx (São Paulo, Brazil, 1909 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994) and his collaborators over nearly seventy years.

With references to Baroque, Pop Art, Andean cosmology, music, fashion, and political protest, the exhibition at MASP encourages reflection on gender, colonialism, and the Chola identity.

The museum explores the construction of the region’s identity through a major group exhibition and solo presentations by Jesús Soto, Damián Ortega, Sandra Gamarra, La Chola Poblete, among other artists.

Chief Cipassé Xavante leads this unprecedented performance, which combines ritual, music, and public dialogue to reflect on climate, territory, and indigenous knowledge.

The multidisciplinary exhibition by the Mexican artist, featuring installation, sculpture, painting, posters, and video, closes the Histories of Ecology cycle and highlights the environmental crisis as a social issue.

It is not easy to compose a path through monumental works inside a monumental space. At the 36th São Paulo Biennial, the artists invited by Bonaventure de Soh Bejen Ndikung and his team, present large-scale works whose textures and forms sometimes speak to each other linearly, and other times through oblique movements.

Over 120 groundbreaking works arrive in Argentina in the most extensive exhibition to date on this defining artistic era.

By Marina Baltazar, cultural critic, writer, and researcher

The institution invites artists and cultural agents to take part in its new cycle. Application deadline: November 27.

Kunsthaus Zürich brings together more than 120 historical works and 50 participatory pieces that reveal the Brazilian artist’s profound transformation of modern art.

Mazzoleni presents in Turin a survey of more than two decades of the Brazilian artist’s work.

The exhibition by photographer Edgar Kanaykô Xakriabá reaffirms the strength of Indigenous art as a living, insurgent, and ancestral language.

Curated by Diane Lima, the project Comigo ninguém pode will bring together two of the most powerful voices in contemporary Brazilian art around themes of colonial memory, resilience, and poetic imagination in Brazil’s Pavilion.

By Mario Gioia, art critic and independent curator

Es Baluard in Palma de Mallorca presents Preludio para el sol y las estrellas (Prelude for the Sun and the Stars), a project by Sandra Cinto (Santo André, Brazil, 1968) that transforms the museum space into a realm suspended between perception, time, and matter. The result envelops visitors in an expanded landscape that invites reflection through stillness and contemplation, where the sensory and the act of pausing become central to the experience.

In Casa do Povo's basement, Marcelo Evelin’s performance unleashes a ritual of bodies, rhythms, and nudity that allows no anticipation. An experience that demands looking, breathing, and moving through the present without guide or return.

The São Paulo Biennial opened its 36th edition with a mix of proposals that invite a return to the senses: textures are highlighted, sounds resonate, and at times even scents appear. With a large number of commissioned works, the curatorial approach—led by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung—was guided by several threads, all centered on the idea of “humanity as practice”.

The exhibition connects local and global issues by facilitating dialogue between Brazilian and international artists. Many of these artists are exhibiting their work in Latin America for the first time.

The fair brings together galleries from 12 Brazilian states and expands its reach to include exhibitors from Argentina and the Peruvian Amazon.

By Patricia Avena Navarro

With public activations across multiple cities, Invocations anticipates the Bienal with programs that explore breath, movement, improvisation, and relationships between the human and non-human.

Neue Nationalgalerie presents the first major retrospective in Germany of Brazilian pioneer Lygia Clark, with over 120 works and an interactive approach that expands the boundaries of the museum experience.

This edition unfolds in Belém as a poetic and political reflection on Amazonian and Caribbean territories. More than 80 artists explore the notions of dream, memory, and accent as forces that reconfigure geography, time, and resistance.