Mendes Wood DM

Mendes Wood DM A Mendes Wood DM foi fundada em 2010 com a proposta de exibir artistas internacionais e brasileiros em um contexto propício ao diálogo crítico e híbrido.

Mendes Wood DM | São PauloRua Barra Funda, 216 Mendes Wood DM | Brussels13 Rue des Sablons / Zavelstraat 1000 Mendes Wood DM Paris 25 Place des Vosges Mendes Wood DM New York | 47 Walker Street O programa da galeria é centrado no interesse de uma diversificação regional e individual enquanto promove o cosmopolitismo e a colaboração. Inspirados na crença de que as práticas artísticas alargam o âmbi

to da ação humana e têm o poder de tocar e mudar o mundo, a Mendes Wood DM desenvolve um programa baseado em conceitualismo, resistência política e rigor intelectual. Recentemente a galeria ampliou seus três principais espaços expositivos para abrigar seu programa em expansão

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Mendes Wood DM was founded in 2010 with the purpose to exhibit international and Brazilian artists in a context conducive to critical dialogue and cross-pollination. Central to the gallery’s program is a concern for regional difference and individuation while fostering cosmopolitanism and collaboration. Inspired by a belief that artistic practices broaden the scope of human agency and have the power to both touch and change the world, Mendes Wood DM cultivates a program premised on conceptualism, political resistance and intellectual rigor. The gallery has recently amplified its three principal exhibition spaces to house its expanding program.

06/04/2026

Inside the Studio – Rosana Paulino

With Paulino representing Brazil at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, we revisit our Inside the Studio video highlighting the artist, whose work centers on social, ethnic, and gender issues, particularly the experiences of Black women in Brazilian society and the violence rooted in racism and the legacy of slavery.

For this edition of La Biennale di Venezia, Paulino presents “Comigo ninguém pode” alongside Adriana Varejão, curated by Diane Lima. The project is inspired by the resilient comigo-ninguém-pode plant and explores protection, toxicity, and transformation in relation to Brazil’s colonial past and its reverberations today.
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23/03/2026

We are pleased to return to Art Basel Hong Kong!

Find us at Booth 1B21 and discover works by Patricia Ayres, Paloma Bosquê, Chiki (Aureliano Alvarado Faesler), Maureen Dougherty, Bendt Eyckermans, Krzysztof Grzybacz, Yamaguchi Kayō, Sanam Khatibi,Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Paulo Monteiro, Tomie Ohtake, Lygia Pape, Marina Perez Simão, Solange Pessoa, Paulo Nimer Pjota, Peter Shear, Marcos Siqueira, and Kishio Suga

Mar 25 – Mar 29, 2026
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

24/02/2026

We are pleased to return to Frieze Los Angeles!

Find us at booth A05 and discover works by Lucas Arruda, Patricia Ayres, Mariana Castillo Deball, Varda Caivano, Maureen Dougherty, Jaider Esbell, Sonia Gomes, Kentaro Kawabata, Vojtěch Kovařík, Mimi Lauter, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, S***a Nakamura, Paulo Nazareth, Antonio Obá, Solange Pessoa, Peter Shear, Hiroshi Sugito, Kishio Suga, and Syotatsu.

Feb 26 – Mar 1, 2026
Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles, USA

28/01/2026

“Affirmation Room” is on view at our New York gallery.

Curated by Germano Dushá, “Affirmation Room” brings together a constellation of artists whose practices channel intangible phenomena. The exhibition departs from the notion of cataphasis, a term derived from Greek meaning the use of affirmative sentences to approach or describe a topic or object. Across different languages and temporalities, the works assembled engage transcendence through geometry, gesture, materiality, and energetic composition. What emerges is a multidimensional field where form becomes a vessel for projection and meaning.

Featuring works by Adriano Amaral, Laís Amaral, Lucas Arruda, Sérgio Camargo, Amilcar de Castro, Torkwase Dyson, Advânio Lessa, Wen Liu, Paulo Nazareth, Lygiae, Rubem Valentim, Guan Xiao, and Leah Ke Yi Zheng.

Through Feb 21, 2026

26/11/2025

We are pleased to return to Art Basel Miami Beach! Find us at booth E22.

🗓️ Dec 3 – Dec 7, 2025
📍Miami Beach Convention Center | 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, USA

Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato En Conversation opens on Aug 31 in our Paris gallery space.The exhibition draws together works ...
20/08/2024

Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato En Conversation opens on Aug 31 in our Paris gallery space.

The exhibition draws together works by Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato alongside contemporary artists Lucas Arruda, Sanam Khatibi, Patricia Leite, Paula Siebra, Marcos Siqueira, Erika Verzutti, and Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro.

“Art historian Rodrigo Moura points to how the main body of Lorenzato’s work, carried out in Belo Horizonte at a time of rapid urban change and industrialisation from the 1950s onwards, depicts in bold shapes and bright colours the city’s ‘marginal modernity, built on social injustice and unplanned urbanization’. This was also the period of the rise of modernism as the dominant framework in arts institutions in Brazil. As a working-class artist, Lorenzato was considered too common for the cultural and economic elites, or else was referred to as a ‘primitive’ painter. He started painting full time after a work accident in 1956, and in 1964 was given his first show at Minas Tennis Club. Moura speculates that the emerging Belo Horizonte art scene categorised his work as naïve in order to create a local version of the trope of cultivated modern connoisseurs discovering and appreciating the aesthetic value of the ‘primitive’. He would subsequently be considered too erudite for a naïve artist, and was not included in survey exhibitions in Brazil that mobilised the categories of folk, naïve or primitive art. In the 1970s, he developed some notoriety amongst artists in Belo Horizonte’s countercultural arts scene, and would continue to gain admiration from a broader circle of artists in the following decades, including those whose works have been placed in conversation with him in this exhibition.” – an excerpt from the curatorial text by Kathryn Weir

📷 Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Untitled (from the "Nocturnal" series), 1984, oil on canvas, 49 x 41 cm

“Estufa” the first mid-career survey of artist Luiz Roque opens this Saturday, Jul 6, at KW Institute for Contemporary A...
03/07/2024

“Estufa” the first mid-career survey of artist Luiz Roque opens this Saturday, Jul 6, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

Roque’s practice inhabits a space between expanded cinema, visual art, and critical theory. His artistic methodology fuses an interest in the legacies of modernism, pop culture, q***r (bio-)politics, and science fiction. This anachronistic approach culminates in timeless montages and environments while often disclosing the urgency of pressing socio-political issues of specific communities and subcultures. His open-ended, short videos are speculative, leaving the viewer wondering about the array of possibilities within alternative realities. The past, present, and future coalesce in each video, resulting in captivating trans-temporal amalgams.

The exhibition takes its title from an eponymous artwork that Roque created with the artist Letícia Ramos in 2004. A large greenhouse filled with tropical plants and flowers is both the subject and setting of the video. This is the earliest work featured in the show, framing an exhibition that looks back on exactly 20 years of Roque’s artistic experimentation, production, development, growth, and (con-)fused temporalities. The exhibition is accompanied by the artist’s first monograph.

“Estufa” is curated by Léon Kruijswijk with the curatorial assistance of Lara Scherrieble

📷 Luiz Roque, Clube Amarelo, 2024

“Estufa” the first mid-career survey of artist Luiz Roque opens this Saturday, Jul 6, at KW Institute for Contemporary A...
03/07/2024

“Estufa” the first mid-career survey of artist Luiz Roque opens this Saturday, Jul 6, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

Roque’s practice inhabits a space between expanded cinema, visual art, and critical theory. His artistic methodology fuses an interest in the legacies of modernism, pop culture, q***r (bio-)politics, and science fiction. This anachronistic approach culminates in timeless montages and environments while often disclosing the urgency of pressing socio-political issues of specific communities and subcultures. His open-ended, short videos are speculative, leaving the viewer wondering about the array of possibilities within alternative realities. The past, present, and future coalesce in each video, resulting in captivating trans-temporal amalgams.

The exhibition takes its title from an eponymous artwork that Roque created with the artist Letícia Ramos in 2004. A large greenhouse filled with tropical plants and flowers is both the subject and setting of the video. This is the earliest work featured in the show, framing an exhibition that looks back on exactly 20 years of Roque’s artistic experimentation, production, development, growth, and (con-)fused temporalities. The exhibition is accompanied by the artist’s first monograph.

“Estufa” is curated by Léon Kruijswijk with the curatorial assistance of Lara Scherrieble.

📷 Stills from Luiz Roque, Heaven, 2016, video, 9’41’’

“Reverie” is on view at our New York gallery space.Reverie, as in a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts, of...
29/06/2024

“Reverie” is on view at our New York gallery space.

Reverie, as in a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts, offers an evocative exploration of abstraction spanning from the 1950s to the present day, tracing the transformative journey of influential artists who have redefined the boundaries of artistic expression. 

Clark’s Bicho Carruagem Fantástica / Fantastic Carriage Bicho (1960) features a hinged metal structure inviting tactile exploration and engages the spectator as an active participant in the creation of its meaning. Oiticica’s Metaesquema (MET234) (1958) marked a shift from two-dimensional to three-dimensional space, which he pursued in subsequent years. He described this series as an exercise in the “obsessive dissection of space” aimed at destabilizing the spatial conventions of Concrete painting, a rationalist movement that promoted geometric abstraction. Sergio Camargo’s rigorous exploration of geometric form through relief and shadow in Chant du couple en 16 temps (1965) emphasizes precision and harmony in his carved wooden compositions, blurring the distinction between two and three dimensions.

The exhibition brings together works by Sergio Camargo, Lygia Clark, Adriano Costa, Amílcar De Castro, Abdias do Nascimento, Michael Dean, Antonio Dias, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Jac Leirner, Paulo Monteiro, Hélio Oiticica, Celso Renato, Mira Schendel and Rubem Valentim.

Vojtěch Kovařík’s solo exhibiton “From Lines to Matter” is on view at in Prague until Sep 8. Vojtěch Kovařík’s work is ...
21/06/2024

Vojtěch Kovařík’s solo exhibiton “From Lines to Matter” is on view at in Prague until Sep 8.

Vojtěch Kovařík’s work is a pantheon in which the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology crowd together and where there are so many figures confined in frames too narrow to contain the weight of their own symbolism. These once extraordinary beings are no longer triumphant. They are summoned in paintings and sculptures in the style of the muralists Diego Riviera and José Clemente Orozco. Kovařík was also inspired by the national socialist art strategies prevalent before the collapse of the USSR, two years before being born in the Czech Republic. His paintings adopt the same principles: simplicity and clarity, use of symbols, exaggerated strokes, striking colors, uniformity, and repetition. Kovařík reveals the gap between the great ideologies and myths our culture and each of us inherit, and the way they perpetuate patterns of oppression. He is dedicated to deconstructing the authoritative, dismantling grand narratives and its heroes, leaving traces of individual mythology and giving them a new relevance. The artist rehumanizes these gods that were so distant, and in doing so, narrates the dilemmas of contemporary life, confronted with symbols too stifling to inhabit his history and experience of the world.

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