Notes related to Brazil

The Pinacoteca de São Paulo, a museum under the Bureau of Culture, Economy, and Creative Industry of the State of São Paulo, presents the exhibition Pop Brazil: Avant-garde and New Figuration, 1960-70, in the Grande Galeria of the Pina Contemporânea building.

Histories of MASP, Renoir, Geometries, Arts from Africa, and Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement are part of Five Essays on MASP, a series of exhibitions based on the museum’s collection that inaugurate the new Pietro Maria Bardi Building.

The Brazilian artist presents his first institutional exhibition in the Netherlands with a collection of works that blend personal reminiscences, mythology, and urban culture.

The final chapter of the Groundwork series follows Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in collaboration with the collective Flor de Café—a gesture of territorial solidarity in the face of extractivism, urbanization, and climate change.

The Gulbenkian Modern Art Center in Lisbon presents Entre os vossos dentes (Between Your Teeth), an exhibition showcasing 80 works by Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964) and Paula Rego (Lisbon, Portugal, 1935 – London, United Kingdom, 2022), reflecting the production, themes, and interpretations of these two artists from different generations.

As part of the Brazil-France 2025 cultural season, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto presents the exhibition Nosso Barco Tambor Terra (Our Boat Drum Earth) at the Nef of the Grand Palais until July 25, 2025.

From different disciplines and territories, the invited artists propose the Biennial as a space of crossing, listening, and shared transformation.

The presence of Brazilian art galleries at major U.S. art fairs — such as Art Basel Miami Beach and Frieze New York — is both frequent and well-established. Galleries like Nara Roesler, Simões de Assis, Mendes Wood DM, and Luisa Strina have become familiar names on the circuit, maintaining a consistent presence year after year.

Until November 23, 2025, the Brazil Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale will present (RE)INVENTION, a project curated by Luciana Saboia, Matheus Seco, and Eder Alencar, members of the Plano Coletivo collective.

Inspired by the visionary spirit of Walter and Nicole Leblanc, the Foundation launches a new programme of exhibitions, residencies, and events, reaffirming its commitment to artistic inquiry, international dialogue, and critical engagement with the urgencies of our time.

The videographic universe of Jonathas de Andrade (Maceió, Brazil, 1982) is only one part of his broader artistic practice. It is, of course, significant—complementing other worlds that shape the ideology and imaginary embedded in both the work and the persona of the Brazilian artist. For this reason, the selection of exclusively audiovisual works under the title Tiempo, sueño, olor (Time, Dream, Scent), on view at Madrid’s Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque, offers a concise, representative, and necessary approach that ultimately bears witness to a part for the whole.

With major exhibitions such as the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams (2022), Surrealism Beyond Borders at Tate Modern and the Metropolitan Museum in the same period, Surrealism at the Centre Pompidou (which closed in 2025), and various revivals of lesser-known figures and centenary celebrations of the movement, surrealism has gained renewed momentum and has (somewhat) emerged from technical archives and private collections around the world.

Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado has died at the age of 81, leaving behind not only an unparalleled body of photographic work, but also a humanistic, sensitive, and committed gaze on the world.

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) presents Hulda Guzmán: Miracle Fruits, the first solo museum exhibition of Dominican artist.

SculptureCenter presents Luana Vitra: Amulets, the first institutional exhibition in the United States of the Brazilian artist, which invites visitors to look beyond materiality and imagine another dimension to which the works belong.

The Spanish artist known for challenging socio-cultural conventions and exploring the power relations embedded in urban imagery and text presents the exhibition Muntadas Lugar Público in Brazil.

La Commanderie de Peyrassol presents a monographic exhibition by Jonathas de Andrade - Maceió, Brazil, resident in Recife -, within the framework of the cultural season, held this year under the aegis of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Culture of Brazil and France. Philippe Austruy - owner of the site and collector of contemporary art -, echoing the desire for a “multidisciplinary, innovative and committed” season and the reflections and contemporary issues defined as thematic axes, in particular, climate and ecological transition, invited the artist to design an exhibition in this vast wine-growing domain in the south of France.

Fundación Ama Amoedo, in partnership with Pivô (São Paulo, Brazil), has an open call for visual artists of Uruguayan nationality, whether they reside in the country or not. One spot will be awarded for a three-month residency in São Paulo, taking place from August 6 to October 31, 2025. The application deadline is Friday, April 11, 2025.

An exhibition that navigates the complex layers of womanhood, resilience, and the inherent solidarity forged through collective survival and the pursuit of safety in community, highlighting the invisible threads that connect women across different cultures.

The Badischer Kunstverein presents the work of the Brazilian poet and artist in their first extensive solo exhibition in Germany; To See Aloud  includes diverse facets of her artistic practice, ranging from early text works, videotext poems, publications and printed matter to photographs, objects, object poems and installations, all the way to her most recent performances and artworks in public spaces, including sound-based and collective activations.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao hosts a retrospective exhibition of Tarsila do Amaral (Capivari, Brazil, 1886 - São Paulo, Brazil, 1973) focused on her conception and renovation of painting, as well as on her recognition as one of the key and most representative figures of the entry of avant-garde and modernizing pictorial languages in Latin America. A central name in Brazilian modernism, her style was consecrated as her own identity, a product of her desires and experiences, evoking both indigenous themes and the modernizing processes of a Brazil that was undergoing a constant transformation.

La Virreina presents the exhibition Destructuras de poder, featuring the work of Regina Silveira (Porto Alegre, 1939), a multimedia artist and a key figure in Latin American and international conceptual art. This exhibition encompasses a significant part of the Brazilian artist’s research and artistic production.

About to turn 92, Anna Bella Geiger, from Rio de Janeiro, never ceases to attest to her robust experimental side with each new exhibition featuring snippets of her shifting production. Both in Brazil and abroad, in solo and group shows, her body of work remains indomitable, uncompromising and full of meaning.

Brazilian artist Anna Costa e Silva (1988) is one of the selected artists for the Delfina Foundation’s Residency Program. Her production is focused on producing environments that encourage vulnerability, dialogue, and exchange.

The exhibition Contar Rutinas (Counting Routines) dedicated by the Cerezales Antonino and Cinia Foundation to the work of Ana Amorim (São Paulo, Brazil, 1956) includes a selection of actions and performative works and installations that reflect the activity of the Brazilian artist from the 1980s to the present. The architecture of this exhibition is marked by the artist's daily conceptual and performative routines, reflecting their influence in the results of monumental dimensions.

The São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) presents the exhibition Serigrafistas Queer: Liberdade para as sensibilidades (Freedom for sensibilities) from December 13 to March 16, 2025. It addresses themes such as the struggle for reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, the political approach to the HIV crisis, and the celebration of diverse affections and identities.

ALTTRA Foundation organizes in three spaces in Palma, on the island of Mallorca, an exhibition that addresses the theme of insularity and its role and idiosyncrasy in a globalized world through several works by Cildo Meireles (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1948). The works chosen, corresponding to five different periods of the artistic production of one of the referents of Brazilian neo-conceptualism, trace a journey through some of the themes and investigations that the artist has developed throughout his life, from fortune and chance to the perception of the physically invisible but perceptible, such as sound, or the relationship between space and its use.

Barcelona's Center of Image La Virreina (La Virreina Centre de la Imatge) is dedicating an extensive exhibition to Regina Silveira (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1939), one of the multimedia artists and key figures of Latin American conceptual art. Within the exhibition line of the center, which advocates the exploration of the aesthetic and ideological languages of images, this show curated by Isabella Lenzi covers a wide range of the Brazilian artist's research, experimentation and artistic production, particularly that developed with technical reproduction techniques and the circulation of images.

Inhotim is presenting three new projects at the end of 2024, in which the protagonists are Rebeca Carapiá, Pipilotti Rist and Rivane Neuenschwander. Three very different strategies by names of different visibilities and generations, which help to forge a moment in the institution that seems more connected to the fascinating and special nature of the place, without leaving aside lively questions about the strange days we are living through.

The Bass is presenting the exhibition asume vivid astro focus – XI, an enveloping installation of patterned wallpaper and decal graphics that spans floor to ceiling in a setting created for works by more than thirty artists. On view from November 13, 2024.