Beatriz Milhazes
Corumbê, 2025
Exhibition
Nomadic Paintings
Sep 25 to Mar 15
R. Cosme Velho, 1105
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Exhibition
Nomadic Paintings
Sep 25 to Mar 15
R. Cosme Velho, 1105
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Beatriz Milhazes
Corumbê, 2025
Nomadic Paintings features 17 projects celebrating 21 years of Beatriz Milhazes’s pictorial installations in architectural spaces.
In the initial conversations with the artist, the term “nomadic mural” came to mind — used by Le Corbusier to describe his large-scale tapestries, considered by the French architect as a solution to the lack of mobility of panels installed permanently in buildings.
The author of Modulor saw tapestries as the “murals of the modern era” since, as mobile components, they could be rolled up and used in other places. He classified them as another path, situated between art and design, painting and sculpture, particularly suited to dialogue with architecture.
Painting — the field in which Beatriz works with mastery — is two-dimensional and starts from a blank canvas. In her site-specific works, pictorial concerns are combined with three-dimensional factors, which she needs to deal with. The logic relating the spatial organization of artworks to the particular aspects of a specific architecture — once seemingly distant fields — became part of the expanded territory of her work. In her interactions with architecture, she has a more limited choice of colors, confined to the industrial tones available in catalogs of vinyl sheets or, in the case of ceramics, to the hues compatible with the kiln-firing process.
By working with architecture she expanded her audience beyond gallery and museum visitors, as most of these architectural works were executed in public spaces in cities. Six are permanent: the installation at A-Art House in Inujima, Japan; in the United States, the two ceramic compositions at New York Presbyterian Hospital; the mural at Grace Farms in Connecticut; and the two lobby murals of a condominium in Miami. By presenting the 17 projects and their respective documentation, “Pinturas Nômades” grants to all of them the permanence they deserve, while making them known to a broader public.
Lauro Cavalcanti
Curator
Beatriz Milhazes
Pink Sunshine, 2021
Vienna State Opera, Áustria
Foto: Andreas Scheilblecker
Beatriz Milhazes
Casa de Baile, 2009
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, França
Foto: Ambroise Tézenas
Beatriz Milhazes
Bailinho, 2007-2008
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo Station, São Paulo
Foto: Isabella Matheus
Beatriz Milhazes
Moon Love Dreaming, 2016
Grace Farms Foundation New Canaan, Connecticut, EUA (projeto permanente)
Foto: Dean Kaufman
Beatriz Milhazes
Jardim Verde, 2011
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Modern Art Center, Lisboa, Portugal
Foto: Cortesia CAM – Gulbenkian | Paulo Costa
Beatriz Milhazes
Guanabara, 2005
Restaurant at Tate Modern, Londres, UK
Foto: Marcus Leith & Andrew Dunkley
Beatriz Milhazes
Gávea, 2004
Facade of the Selfridges & Co store, Manchester, UK
Foto: Vinyline
Beatriz Milhazes
Waving Flowers, 2023-2025
Casa Roberto Marinho, Rio de Janeiro
Foto: Jaime Acioli
Beatriz Milhazes
Oceana Norte e Oceana Sul, 2013
Oceana Residences, Key Biscaine, Miami, Flórida, EUA
Foto: Studio Palma | Cristóbal Palma
Beatriz Milhazes
Tuiuti e Paquetá, 2016-2018
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, EUA (projeto permanente)
Foto: Cortesia James Cohan Gallery
Beatriz Milhazes
Maracolouco, 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japão
Foto: Cortesia Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo | Kenji Morita
Beatriz Milhazes
Corumbê, 2025
Casa Roberto Marinho, Rio de Janeiro
Beatriz Milhazes
Peace and Love, 2005
Gloucester Road Tube Station, Londres, UK
Foto: Daisy Hutchison & Stephen White
Beatriz Milhazes
Yellow Flower Dream, 2018
Inujima “Art House Project” A-Art House, Community Space, Inujima Island, Okinawa, Japão (projeto permanente)
Foto: Yoshikazu Inoue | Courtesy of Fukutake Foundation
Beatriz Milhazes
O Esplendor II, 2023
Turner Contemporary, Margate, Inglaterra
Foto: Thierry Bal
Beatriz Milhazes
O Esplendor I, 2021
Long Museum, West Bund, Xangai, China
Foto: JJYPhoto
Beatriz Milhazes
Coreto da Praça, 2023
18th Venice Architecture Biennale, Itália
Foto: Siqueira + Azul Arquitetura | Nex CG
Beatriz Milhazes
Samambaia, 2009
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, França
Foto: Ambroise Tézenas
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - APR 24 TO JUN 22 2025
Trusteeship: Elizabeth Jobim
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - APR 24 TO AUG 10 2025
Trusteeship: Paulo Venancio Filho
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - DEC 14 TO MAR 30 2025
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 15 TO NOV 17 2024
Trusteeship: Cristina Canale
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 15 TO NOV 17 2024
Trusteeship: Pollyana Quintella
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - MAY 11 TO JUL 21 2024
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti, Marcia Mello e Victor Burton
