Dozens of art events happen every month in cosmopolitan cities like London and Sao Paulo. It can be overwhelming to find the best ones, especially if you need to move from site to site to see WHAT’S ON in your area. We make your life easier by gathering in just one place a selection of shows, including key information like venue, date and a brief summary of each exhibition.
Here is our curated page of shows currently happening in London and São Paulo.
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09/12/2023
Katsumi Nakai Unfolding
London
Katsumi Nakai Unfolding
Luxembourg + Co.
Until 09 December 2023
Few artists in the history of modern art have taken upon themselves the task of exploring the magical potential of hinges as seriously and extensively as Katsumi Nakai. Born in 1927 in the town of Hirakata, Japan, Nakai belongs to a generation of artists that experienced the trauma of the Second World War during their formative years as young adults training in art.
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09/12/2023
Ndidi Emefiele The Gift of Fellowship
London
Ndidi Emefiele The Gift of Fellowship
Rosenfeld
Until 09 December 2023
This new exhibition will be dominated by large paper works; a medium Emefiele has used on many occasions but never giving them such prominence. There are narrative echoes of previous works such as her use of swimming pools, exaggeratedly large glasses and extremely rich and colourful costumes and landscapes, although they are now used in a different way.
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16/12/2023
Xie Nanxing: Hello, Portrait!
London
Xie Nanxing: Hello, Portrait!
Thomas dane gallery
Until 16 December 2023
Portraiture is where Xie Nanxing (b. 1970, Chongqing) is at his most playful and experimental. It is, he suggests, the soil that helps his ideas to grow. His most recent portraits display many of the paradoxes and contradictions that are typical of his practice: an engagement with art history that is both deeply academic and mischievously irreverent; the use of highly personal subject matter to explore complex philosophical questions about the nature of representation; a commitment to the most traditional of genres as a way of bringing painting into new territory.
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16/12/2023
Maya Weishof: O último dia do século
São Paulo
Maya Weishof: O último dia do século
Millan
Until 16 December 2023
Painter Maya Weishof (1993, Curitiba, PR, Brazil) opens The Last Day of the Century, a solo show that follows the artist’s shows in Paris, London and South Korea. With a critical text signed by curator Renato Menezes, the exhibition debuts at Millan in November 11th, Saturday, and marks the end of the 2023 program at the gallery.
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16/12/2023
Aislan Pankararu: Mitocôndria Ancestral
São Paulo
Aislan Pankararu: Mitocôndria Ancestral
Galatea
Until 16 December 2023
Visual universe of medicine and culture Pankararu combines the artist’s first solo show in São Paulo. Rhythmic paintings on kraft and linen are curated by Lisette Lagnado.
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16/12/2023
Rivane Neuenschwander: O fardo, a farda, a fresta
São Paulo
Rivane Neuenschwander: O fardo, a farda, a fresta
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel
Until 16 December 2023
“O fardo, a farda, a fresta”, Rivane Neuenschwander addresses the contemporary persistence of structures inherited from the years of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964 – 1985). By translating the memories of people who lived their childhood during this period into sculptural and visual configurations, his works reconstruct the past and make it resonate with the current moment.
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17/12/2023
All Crescendo, No Reward
London
All Crescendo, No Reward
Zabludowicz Collection
Until 17 December 2023
All Crescendo, No Reward is an exhibition of works from the Zabludowicz Collection that explores the formation and re-formation of subjecthood and objecthood. It is structured around three major moving image installations by Matt Copson, Oliver Laric and Frances Stark.
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20/12/2023
Primavera Silenciosa
São Paulo
Primavera Silenciosa
Luciana Brito Galeria
Until 20 December 2023
The Primavera Silenciosa exhibition, curated by Alexia Tala, presents a diversity of artistic languages, including paintings, sculptures, site-specific installations, photography and tapestry, created by artists from Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panama. The exhibition also includes film screenings and discussions on issues related to ecology and artistic production in response to this theme.
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20/12/2023
Surrealism and Witchcraft
London
Surrealism and Witchcraft
LAMB
Until 20 December 2023
The group exhibition investigates the resonance of the witch figure in art history through the works of 11 female artists inspired by Surrealism. The works span from the beginnings of the movement to the present, particularly highlighting the witch’s feminist significance through pieces that ironically unravel the Freudian symbolism of these broom-riding women.
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21/12/2023
Maria Montero: Chocolate imaginário
São Paulo
Maria Montero: Chocolate imaginário
Sé Galeria
Until 21 December 2023
The works of Chocolate imaginário invite us to appreciate the unrepeatableness of each monument-moment in our lives and encourage us to develop the ability to feel everything, taking advantage of even the most painful emotion or the most difficult situation to cultivate connection, wisdom and fearlessness. These practices can help us through any transition experience; they help us die well, and above all live well.
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22/12/2023
Elena Garrigolas
London
Elena Garrigolas
Saatchi Yates
Until 22 December 2023
The presentation will include 17 new works depicting an eclectic array of visceral and bewildering imagery. Taking inspiration from dreamscapes, internet culture, and personal experience, Garrigolas twists banal scenes into outlandish and confronting self-portraits.
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23/12/2023
In Youth Is Pleasure
London
In Youth Is Pleasure
Vendelmans
Until 23 December 2023
An exhibition dedicated to portraits of children. Selected highlights include a life-size portrait of two embracing brothers by the Belgian neoclassicist FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH NAVEZ, a small oil of NAPOLEON II as an infant, and a work on paper of the early 1880s by PAUL GAUGUIN.
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23/12/2023
Francesca Dimattio
London
Francesca Dimattio
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
Until 23 December 2023
DiMattio’s multidisciplinary practice transcends categories and disrupts preconceived notions of the domestic and decorative. In this new body of work, she continues her deconstruction of domestic objects with sculptural furniture that refers to 18th century Sèvres porcelain, alongside a matching chandelier, a Rococo mirror and Wedgwood-inspired wall sconces, plus an array of objects including crockery and seating.
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31/12/2023
Marina Xenofontos: Public Domain
London
Marina Xenofontos: Public Domain
Camden Art Centre
Until 31 December 2023
Public Domain by Marina Xenofontos is an ambitious new commission conceived as a series of gestures that involve architectural interventions and sculpture. Xenofontos’ work examines the way ideology and cultural knowledge surface in personal histories and material forms.
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31/12/2023
Tamara Henderson: Green in the Grooves
London
Tamara Henderson: Green in the Grooves
Camden Art Centre
Until 31 December 2023
Taking audiences on a journey through her creative process, from experiments made in her studio and garden in Australia, to a major new film commission, a series of 12 paintings, a sound installation, and ceramic, glass and bronze sculptures, Henderson brings our senses into contact with realms that are beyond the reach of everyday experience, and positions the imagination as a vital tool in shaping and radically informing a new tomorrow.
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01/01/2024
Rhea Dillon: An Alterable Terrain
London
Rhea Dillon: An Alterable Terrain
Tate Britain
Until 1 January 2024
Rhea Dillon: An Alterable Terrain brings together new and existing sculptures as a conceptual fragmentation of a Black woman’s body. Examining material and colonial histories, theories of minimalism and abstraction, and Black feminist epistemologies.
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06/01/2024
Exposição Coletiva O Baile
São Paulo
Exposição Coletiva O Baile
Luis Maluf
Until 06 January 2024
The artists participating in the exhibition are: ANTONIO BOKEL • BARBARA BASSETO • BORDALO II • EDU SILVA • FINOK • JANET VOLLEBREGT • JULIO SARRAMIAN • KAROLA BRAGA • LEANDRA ESPÍRITO SANTO • LICIDA VIDAL • LUIZ ESCAÑUELA • MARCIA PASTORE • MARINA SADER • SHIZUE SAKAMOTO • SOFIA LOTTI • TATIANE FREITAS • THIA GO NE VS • VINICIUS PARISI • YOHANNAH DE OLIVEIRA
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07/01/2024
Hiroshi Sugimoto
London
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hayward Gallery
Until 07 January 2024
Featuring key works from all of the artist’s major photographic series, this survey highlights Sugimoto’s philosophical yet playful inquiry into our understanding of time and memory, and photography’s ability to both document and invent.
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07/01/2024
Georg Baselitz Sculptures 2011-2015
London
Georg Baselitz Sculptures 2011-2015
Serpentine South
Until 07 January 2024
Serpentine presents its first solo exhibition of Georg Baselitz (born 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony). It includes a series of sculptures and drawings as well as a monumental nine-metre-tall sculpture Zero Dom (Zero Dome) within the Royal Parks, presented for the first time in the UK.
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07/01/2024
Di Cavalcanti: 125 anos
São Paulo
Di Cavalcanti: 125 anos
Farol Santander
Until 07 January 2024
In celebration of the 125th anniversary of Di Cavalcanti’s birth, Farol Santander brings to São Paulo a set of rare and extraordinary works by the artist belonging to private collections in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Fortaleza. The exhibition includes the exceptional work Carnaval, acquired in the 1930s by a collector in Paris, remaining there until last year, when he returned to Brazil. An impactful work, unknown to the public.
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13/01/2024
Uma cena silenciosa e quase vazia, momento de calor sem vento ao ar livre, à tarde (…)
São Paulo
Uma cena silenciosa e quase vazia, momento de calor sem vento ao ar livre, à tarde (…)
Luisa Strina
Until 13 January 2024
In his second solo exhibition at Galeria Luisa Strina, artist Mario García Torres presents a set of seven bronze sculptures and two wall installations in which he builds a kind of mise-en-scène whose script is vaguely evoked in the show’s title.
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13/01/2024
Margarita Gluzberg: Otherwhere
London
Margarita Gluzberg: Otherwhere
Alma Pearl
Until 13 January 2024
In these novel visual configurations, Gluzberg’s abstract and meditative body of works strives towards a conceptual zone which has been freed of any cultural associations. Their meaning is fully contained within the iridescent vintage materials deployed–bright and fluorescent blues, mesmerising hues of purples and greens, subdued browns–all markers of a remote place, an otherwhere that perhaps was and will never be again.
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14/01/2024
A WORLD IN COMMON: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
London
A world in common: contemporary african photography
Tate Modern
Until 14 January 2024
Bringing together a group of artists from different generations, this exhibition will address how photography, film, audio, and more have been used to reimagine Africa’s diverse cultures and historical narratives. The exhibition follows artists across the many landscapes, borders and time zones of Africa to reveal how photography allows the past and the future to co-exist in powerful and transformative ways.
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14/01/2024
Claudette Johnson: Presence
London
Claudette Johnson: Presence
Courtauld
Until 14 January 2024
Presenting a carefully selected group of major works from across her career, from key early drawings such as the arresting I Came to Dance, 1982, and And I Have My Own Business in This Skin, 1982, alongside recent and new works, this exhibition will offer a compelling overview of Johnson’s pioneering career and artistic development.
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20/01/2024
Rafael Pereira – Lapidar Imagens
São Paulo
Rafael Pereira – Lapidar Imagens
Galeria Estação
Until 20 January 2024
Rafael Pereira’s first solo show at Galeria Estação, Lapidar Imagens celebrates the haughtiness of blackness and dialogues with the provocative aesthetics of modernist portraiture. Curated by Tiago Sant’ana, the exhibition brings together 20 oils on canvas and presents a pictorial production strongly marked by the São Paulo artist’s experiences on several trips around Brazil.
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20/01/2024
Armet Francis: Beyond The Black Triangle
London
Armet Francis: Beyond The Black Triangle
Autograph
Until 20 January 2024
For more than four decades, Armet Francis’ mission in photography has been to document the African diaspora. A Jamaican-British photographer with an acute understanding of black consciousness, his images are life-affirming moments that celebrate the resilience and survival of African diasporic cultures.
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20/01/2024
Hélène Amouzou: Voyages
London
Hélène Amouzou: Voyages
Autograph
Until 20 January 2024
Autograph presents a new exhibition contemplating the complex emotions of displacement and exile. These hand printed photographs are a crucial document of a migrant who has grappled with notions of freedom, exclusion, and bureaucracy – an attempt to recapture her identity and sense of belonging
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21/01/2024
Frans Hals
London
Frans Hals
National Gallery
Until 21 January 2024
This exhibition, the first major retrospective of Hals in more than thirty years, means a new generation can discover why he deserves his place as one of the greatest painters in Western art. Some 50 of Hals’s finest works will be brought together, including the exceptional, first-ever loan of his most famous picture, ‘The Laughing Cavalier’ (1624), from the Wallace Collection.
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21/01/2024
David Hockney Drawing from Life
London
David Hockney Drawing from Life
National Portrait Gallery’s
Until 21 January 2024
The exhibition explores the artist’s work over the last six decades through his intimate portraits of five sitters: his mother, Celia Birtwell, Gregory Evans, Maurice Payne and the artist himself. His familiarity with the sitters enables him to work with a range of mediums and styles, from pencil, pen and ink and crayon, to photographic collage and the iPad.
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21/01/2024
Melissa Cody: Céus Tramados
São Paulo
Melissa Cody: Céus Tramados
MASP
Until 21 January 2024
The exhibition brings together 26 textile works by the Diné/Navajo* artist produced using a traditional Navajo loom. In his works, Cody mixes historical symbols and patterns from Navajo tapestry, with references that range from the landscapes of his home territory in the state of Arizona, United States, to the pop universe of video games and music.
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27/01/2024
Êxtase Giulia Bianchi, Mirela Cabral e Paula Scavazzini
São Paulo
Êxtase Giulia Bianchi, Mirela Cabral e Paula Scavazzini
Janaina Torres
Until 27 January 2024
Bliss (Êcstasy), a visceral and enigmatic short story, written by the celebrated writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), published in Brazil by the publisher Antofágica, with images of works by Giulia Bianchi, is the starting point of Êcstasy, a lively and pulsating sensation that emerges from the paintings and drawings of three young artists – an abysmal and feminine look at dizzying affection, where the act of creation is a way of realizing the intensity and excess experienced by them, in the face of the vibrant nature of the world.
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27/01/2024
Nascituras Rosana Paulino
São Paulo
Nascituras Rosana Paulino
Mendes Wood DM
Until 27 January 2024
Rosana Paulino’s work is centered around social, ethnic and gender issues, focusing in particular on black women in Brazilian society and the various types of violence suffered by this population due to racism and the lasting legacy of slavery. Paulino explores the impact of memory on psychosocial constructions, introducing different references that intersect the artist’s personal history with the phenomenological history of Brazil, as it was constructed in the past and still persists today.
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28/01/2024
Sonhos Yanomami
São Paulo
Sonhos Yanomami
MAM
Until 28 January 2024
The series Sonhos Yanomami, from 2002, was created from his collection of images, the overlapping of chromos and negatives made since 1971, the occasion of his first trip to the Catrimani river basin, in Roraima, Yanomami territory approved by the Brazilian government only in 1992. It is a work from the artist’s mature period, which already had great intimacy with the culture of the people who welcomed it.
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28/01/2024
Murilo Mendes, poeta crítico: o infinito íntimo
São Paulo
Murilo Mendes, poeta crítico: o infinito íntimo
MAM
Until 28 January 2024
From his meeting with Ismael Nery, in 1921, until his death in 1975, Murilo Mendes was one of the most influential figures in Brazilian artistic life. He was an art critic, collector, exhibition organizer, as well as a poet. He played a decisive role in the formation of an entire generation of critics, from Mario Pedrosa to Antônio Bento and Rubens Navarra and was Mário de Andrade’s interlocutor with regard to Rio de Janeiro art. This importance, however, is rarely recognized.
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28/01/2024
Marta Minujín: Ao vivo
São Paulo
Marta Minujín: Ao vivo
Pinacoteca
Until 28 January 2024
The exhibition features more than one hundred works by Marta, from 1963 to today. In the first days of the exhibition, the public is welcomed by the Escultura de los deseos, a 17-meter inflatable in the parking lot of the Pinacoteca.
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28/01/2024
Sonia Gomes: sinfonia das cores
São Paulo
Sonia Gomes: sinfonia das cores
Pinacoteca
Until 28 January 2024
Sonia Gomes’ production includes 34 strings suspended at different heights, which make up a symphony of shapes and visualities. It is a reflection and a product of the way your own body reacts to fabrics, as it creates objects whose materiality connects to the stories of other people and whose scale corresponds to the reach of their limbs.
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28/01/2024
Eu, Você e a Lua
São Paulo
Eu, Você e a Lua
MAM
Until 28 January 2024
Translated into You, Me and the Moon is an installation by Tunga that has never been shown before in Brazil and is among the last works made by the artist who began his production in the second half of the 1960s and died in 2016. Throughout his career, Tunga was interested in alchemy, psychoanalysis, by science and philosophy.
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03/02/2024
Mario Testino: Gone Wild
London
Mario Testino: Gone Wild
Hamiltons
Until 03 February 2024
Hamiltons presents ‘Gone Wild’ featuring exclusive, new work by internationally renowned photographer Mario Testino. Shown at the gallery for the first time, the images feature an array of animals; from lions in Kenya to rare birds in Brazil.
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04/02/2024
Até a Amazônia com Ailton Krenak – Hiromi Nagakura
São Paulo
Até a Amazônia com Ailton Krenak – Hiromi Nagakura
Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Until 04 February 2024
The exhibition brings some beautiful images from trips to villages and communities in the Brazilian Amazon. “Moments of intimacy and contentment between ‘friends forever’ inspired this photographic exhibition mediated by meetings with some of the loved ones who welcomed us in their kitchens and canoes, on their river beaches and in the villages.
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10/02/2024
Um pirata, um poeta, um peão e um rei, Jose Dávila
São Paulo
Um pirata, um poeta, um peão e um rei, Jose Dávila
Nara Roesler
Until 10 February 2024
The exhibition brings together recent works by Dávila, with around 20 works, including installations, sculptures, paintings and drawings. Accompanied by a text by Julieta González, the exhibition reveals intrinsic aspects of the artist’s practice, marked by an approach to language and sculptural tradition from a perspective centered on the articulation between the “constructive will” and the physical principles that govern nature.
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10/02/2024
Outros ritmos, Abraham Palatnik
São Paulo
Outros ritmos, Abraham Palatnik
Nara Roesler
Until 10 February 2024
The exhibition brings together a selection of works never presented before, created at different moments in his career. Abraham Palatnik is a central figure of kinetic and optical art in Brazil. His interest in the creative possibilities of machines and the relationship between art and technology contributed to him developing investigations focused on experimentation with movement and light through different techniques and materials, making propositions based on the visual phenomenon that made his work known over seven years. decades of production.
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11/02/2024
Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective
London
Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective
The Photographers’ Gallery
Until 11 February 2024
For more than sixty years, Daido Moriyama has used his camera to interrogate and revolutionise the way we look at the world with his dense, grainy images. Even today, Moriyama’s pioneering artistic spirit and visual intensity remain groundbreaking. The exhibition traces the path of a photographer who transformed the way we see photography and questioned the very nature of photography itself.
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18/02/2024
Antonio Obá: Revoada
São Paulo
Antonio Obá: Revoada
Pinacoteca
Until 18 February 2024
Antonio Obá’s exhibition looks at the trajectory of the artist who, in a twenty-year career, distributed his works in public and private collections in Brazil and abroad. His work is made up of three important pillars, which guide the narrative of the exhibition: the remembrance of historical events, the attribution of new meanings to these episodes and the educational process.
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24/02/2024
Gabrielle Chanel Fashion Manifesto
London
Gabrielle Chanel Fashion Manifesto
V&A
Until 25 February 2024
The first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, charting the establishment of the House of CHANEL and the evolution of her iconic design style which continues to influence the way women dress today.
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25/02/2024
Philip Guston
London
Philip Guston
Tate Modern
Until 25 February 2024
His early work included murals and paintings addressing racism in America and wars abroad. During the social and political upheavals of the late 1960s, Guston grew critical of abstraction, and began producing large-scale paintings that feature comic-like figures, some in white hoods representing evil and the everyday perpetrators of racism. These paintings and those that followed established Guston as one of the most influential painters of the late 20th century.
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25/02/2024
Histórias Indígenas
São Paulo
Histórias Indígenas
MASP
Until 25 February 2024
The exhibition will present different perspectives on the indigenous histories of South America, North America, Oceania and Scandinavia, through art and visual culture, curated by indigenous artists and researchers or of indigenous descent, bringing together works from various media and typologies, origins and periods, from the period before European colonization to the present.
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03/03/2024
Povoada
São Paulo
Povoada
Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo
Until 03 March 2024
In the exhibition, Diego Mouro presents new paintings, all in oil, depicting everyday and ancestral scenes and characters. “My paintings are based on research work focused on the remains of the country’s black cultural formation. A kind of attentive, careful look, something like a vigil over the details and delicacies of this plural culture formed here. An attempt to talk about ancestry in everyday life, in a non-obvious way.”
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10/03/2024
Alex Červený: Mirabilia
São Paulo
Alex Červený: Mirabilia
Pinacoteca
Until 10 March 2024
The Pinacoteca exhibition brings together more than 100 works, including tiles, polychrome ceramics, bronze sculptures, paintings and engravings, the result of a collection of very diverse references, articulated with great erudition and humor. With rigor and plastic coherence, the artist created a particular universe in which the human being, the word, landscape and the sky are the protagonists.
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31/03/2024
Eixos Jarbas Lopes
São Paulo
Eixos Jarbas Lopes
Pinacoteca
Until 31 March 2024
Jarbas Lopes: axes, retraces a panorama of the artist’s thirty-year career, covering historical works, conceived in the 1990s, and installations created especially for the exhibition. Organized into four sections, which are divided between the parking lot and the fourth floor of Pina Estação, the exhibition seeks to emphasize the purposeful and sensorial nature of the work of Jarbas Lopes, who stands out among the pioneers in reflection on art and the environment.
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07/04/2024
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970 – 1990
London
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970 – 1990
Tate Britain
Until 07 April 2024
The first of its kind, this exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It shines a spotlight on how networks of women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to make an invaluable contribution to British culture. Their art helped fuel the women’s liberation movement during a period of significant social, economic and political change.
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20/04/2024
Turner and Bonington: Watercolours from the Wallace Collection
London
Turner and Bonington: Watercolours from the Wallace Collection
Wallace Collection
Until 21 April 2024
From the rugged Yorkshire Dales to the grandeur of Venice, pausing en route to enjoy the bucolic delights of crab fishing on Scarborough’s beach and to marvel at the gothic splendour of Rouen cathedral from the dockside.
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19/05/2024
Artists Reframe the Black Figure
London
Artists Reframe the Black Figure
National Portrait Gallery
Until 19 May 2024
A major study of the Black figure – and its representation in contemporary art. The exhibition, curated by Ekow Eshun showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora.
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30/06/2024
Portraits to Dream In
London
Portraits to Dream In
National Portrait Gallery
Until 30 June 2024
Photographers Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron are two of the most influential women in the history of photography. Showcasing more than 150 rare vintage prints, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In spans the career of both artists – and suggests new ways to look at their work, and the way photographic portraiture was created in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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03/08/2024
The Leisure Centre
London
The Leisure Centre
Glenn Brown
Until 3 August 2024
The Leisure Centre combines the works of Glenn Brown, with artists from the past and present which are in his collection, of which the full list is below. The exhibition asks the viewer to become a flaneur, travelling through time and place around the rooms of The Brown Collection; questioning which century a work was made, who made it and why.