Ernesto Neto
Through his formal vocabulary, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (b. 1964) engages with the idea of social interaction. Neto has gained acclaim for his large experimental sculptures and installations that dramatically alter our surroundings, activating the senses and inviting viewer participation. The unconventional choice of materials, the simultaneity of internal and external structures, the contrast between the organic and the mechanical, and the qualities of sensuality and tactility, are all deeply inherent to the artist's practice. Neto’s installations draw on the lessons of minimalist sculpture, New Brazilian Objectivity of the 1960s and 70s, and anthropomorphic architecture, transporting the viewer from the hustle and bustle of everyday existence into immersive, multi-sensory environments where time seems to slow down. Constantly producing new formal and conceptual developments in his work, Neto describes his sculptures as living organisms that transgress all limitations.
‘This art appeals to all the senses, it is a holistic experience. Ernesto Neto’s sculptures (often they are sculptural landscapes rather than individually distinguished artifacts) seductively lead the eyes along their surface. Odors emanate: turmeric, cumin and other exotic spices stimulate the nose. Many of the works can, are even supposed to be touched [...]. Reception of the art is an active process. And Neto goes even further: he lets people penetrate into his works. “Naves” are what he calls the sculptural creations he has made since 1997, composed from membranes of stretched fabric that can be walked through, that can be physically conquered, that are supposed to be used.’
Sebastian Preuss, ‘The universe behind the skin’, in Ernesto Neto: From Sebastian to Olivia, exh. cat., Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler and Holzwarth Publications, 2008
Image: animal nature, 2013, 25 mm corten steel, 216 x 348 x 216 cm.; 85 x 137 x 85 in., 1513 kg, edition 1 of 3, plus 1 AP. Photo: def image
Artist Talk
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1964
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1984
Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
1994–1996
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
1997
Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Daros Latin America, Zurich
Denver Art Museum
Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona
Fundació Televisa, México DF
Hara Museum, Tokyo
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporånea, Minas Gerais
Magasin 3, Stockholm
Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofiá, Madrid
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, MOT, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Tate Gallery, London
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Monsoon Collection, London
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Between Earth and Sky
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Niobe Xandó & Ernesto Neto
Gomide & Co, São Paolo
Ultimatum
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2021
...Bem comum
Lugar Comum, Salvador
SunForceOceanLife
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Mentre la vita ci respira – SoPolpoVit’EreticoLe
Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo
2020
Water Falls from my Breast to the Sky (permanent commission)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
Soplo [Blow]
Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago, travelled from:
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires;
Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo (catalogue)
2019
Sopro [Blow]
Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, travelled to:
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires;
Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago
Children of the Earth
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles
2018
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Ernesto Neto / One Day We Were All Fish and The Earth's Belly
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
GaiaMotherTree
Fondation Beyeler in the Zurich Main station, Zurich
2017
Water Falls from My Breast to the Sky (permanent installation)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Um dia todos fomos peixes
Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona
O Sagrado é Amor
Fortes d'Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo
2016
The Serpent’s Energy Gave Birth to Humanity
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Ernesto Neto
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Rui Ni/Voices of the Forest
KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg
2015
Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin
Aru Kuxipa | Sacred Secret
TBA 21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (catalogue)
The Jaguar and the Boa
Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (catalogue)
Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin ~ Aru Kuxipa | Sacred Secret
TBA 21 Contemporary, Vienna
2014
O protesto e a serpente
Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid
Haux Haux
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen (catalogue)
Gratitude
Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
The Body that Carries Me
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
2013
Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires
Olhando o céu
Brazilian Embassy, Rome
Linha da vida
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
SESC Pompeia, São Paulo
notes, stones and dots
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2012
Fecundation, Loucura é parte da vida
Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo
O Bicho SusPenso na PaisaGen
Estação Leopoldina, Rio de Janeiro
Não tenha medo do seu corpo
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Cuddle on the Tightrope
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Slow iis goood
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2011
Ernesto's Tongue. Survey Exhibition 1987-2011
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, travelled to:
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City
While Nothing Happens
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome
2010
Intimacy
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
The Edges of the World
Hayward Gallery, London
Navedenga
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2009
Variations
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Drill Hall
Nova Iorque, Eua
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
A Culpa Civilizada
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
2008
...Ai...ai...
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
1/3
Fondazione Volume!, Rome
While nothing happens
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (catalogue)
Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid
2007
From Sebastian to Olivia
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
MIMOCA – Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
2006
O Abraço do Tempo...Jazz (with Carlos Belvilacqua)
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
From What We Are Made, Made, Of Of
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
How to put it up, dulcieneia!
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
The Malmö Experience
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (catalogue)
Forum 57: Luisa Lambri / Ernesto Neto
CMOA - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
In / Out
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Leviathan Thot
35. Festival d’Automne, Panthéon, Paris (catalogue)
2005
There is Nothing Else to Be Seen but the World
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Agora bolas
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Tractatus / Deuses
Sigmund-Freud-Museum, Vienna
O Corpo onde não há
34. Festival d’Automne, Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris
Domain de Kerguéhennec – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan
2004
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Four Artists and I
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte
Citoplasma e Organóides
Projeto Respiração, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
2003
The Silent Cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Ernesto Neto / Rivane Neuenschwander
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife
Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
2002
Les blocs du plaisir
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Passing Time, Passing Space
Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus
Art Gallery of New South Wales, New South Wales
Directions
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (catalogue)
Genealogy of Life
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart (catalogue)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (catalogue)
2001
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Horizonte de eventos
Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro (catalogue)
A paisagem do corpo / O corpo da paisagem
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (catalogue)
Matrix, 190: A maximum minimum time space between us and the Parsimonious Universe
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Only the amoebas are happy
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
O Casamento: Lili, Neto. Lito e os loucos
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janerio
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2000
Pensamentos Emocionais
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (catalogue)
Accontec num fim de tarde
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Sister Naves
Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Ohio
Ernesto Neto / Andy Goldsworthy
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe
Stella Nave
University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester
1999
Nhó Nhó Nave
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels
1998
poff, poff, poff
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrilo Gil, Mexico City
1997
Esculturas
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal, Brasília
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
1996
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
Espacio 204, Caracas
1994
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo (catalogue)
1993
Quase Desenhos
Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro
1992
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
1991
Galeria de Arte do IBEU, Rio de Janeiro
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
1990
Galeria Millan, São Paulo
Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro
1989
Galeria Macunaíma, FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro
1988
Petit Galerie, Rio de Janeiro
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Remedios: Where new land might grow
C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
1,5 Grad
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Course of Works
Hangar Y, Meudon
Works from the Pinoteca Collection
Pinoteca Contemporânea, Sao Paulo
Transformations. Works from the Collection of La Mobilière
Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
2022
Seiva
C. Galeria, Rio de Janeiro
Abundant Futures. Works from the TBA21 Collection
Centro Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía (C3A), Cordoba
The Art of Enchantment
MUZA the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Afago
SESC Quitandinha, Petropolis
Ties that Bind
The Church, NY
Brasilidade Pós Modernismo
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte
Subterranean
Amos Rex, Helsinki
2021
untitled (provisory)
Lugar comum, Salvador
Brasilidade Pós-Modernismo
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
‘Adam, Eve and the Serpent’. Works from the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Festival culturescapes
Verein Kloster Schönthal, Schönthal
The Wonderfulness of Memory
The Cukrarna Gallery, Ljublijana
Drôles de convergences
The Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Calder Now
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
1981_2021_Arte Contemporânea Brasileira na coleção Andrea e José Olympio
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Habito/Habitante
EAV, Rio de Janeiro
Time-out. Of Breaks and Moments of Awakening
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg
STILL ALIVE. Works from the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffman
Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Dresden
2020
Bodyscapes
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Return of the Real
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Songs in the Dark
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2019
Installationen aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg
Deichtorhallen - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Happy
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale
Moonlight
Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg
Desire: A Revision. From the 20th Century to the Digital Age
IMMA, Dublin
My Garden of Eden
Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
Hilando ideas, tejiendo arte
Instituto Valencia de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia
The Corcoran Legacy Collection
University Katzen Museum of Art, Washington D.C.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Past/Future/ Present: Brazilian Contemporary Art at MAM collection
Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
Vai Vem
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo
Where We Now Stand – In Order to Map the Future
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2018
Urban forest
Museum Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art of Sicily, Palermo
Suspension: A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture (1918–2018)
Palais d’Iéna, Paris
Arte Para Sentir
Caixa Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
Der Duft der Bilder – Werke der colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona
Kunst- und Kulturstiftung, Opelvillen Russelsheim
Spacemakers and roomshakers
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
TISSAGE TRESSAGE - quand la sculpture défile
Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Featured Works
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
2017
Sculpture, Painting and Video
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
Drawing: The Beginning of Everything
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Enjoy. Art meets Amusement
Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
Floating Worlds 14th Lyon Biennale
Various locations, Lyon
Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Art from the Museum of Modern Art São Paulo
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
BIENALSUR: International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America
Various venues, South America
Histórias da Sexualidade
MASP, São Paulo
Um dia todos fomos peixes
Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona
Out of Sight! Art of the Senses
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art and Space
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
Specchio Paulo Reis
DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela
Vive Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale
Arsenale and Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice
Sentido del Olfato
Galería Elvira González, Madrid
Cosmic spring. The garden of metamorphoses
Centre Pompidou-Metz
2016
Brasil, Beleza?!
museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague
Political Intent and Beyond Limits
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Generosity. The Art of Giving
National Gallery, Sternberg Pallace, Prague
Playground
Museu de Arte de São Paulo
ta.bu
Maison Pasticulier, Brussels
2015
Uma Coleção Particular
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo
Wie Raum wird
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Station to Station
Barbican, London
Made in Brasil
Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro
Possibilities of the Object. Experiments in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Belle Haleine - The scent of art
Museum Tinguely, Basel
Transfer Exercises: 9915 Collections
Centro de Arte, Alcobendas
2014
At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
The Unfettered Gaze. The Rasch Brothers and their Influences on Modern Architecture
Marta Herford, Herford (catalogue)
Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, travelled to:
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, 2015
Beyond and Between
Leeum, Samsung Museum, Seoul
Simple Shapes
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris (catalogue)
do it Moscow
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Fruits of Passion: Collection from the Musée national d´art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
The Five Senses
Scottdale Museum of Contemporary Art
2013
Permission To Be Global: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, travelled to:
MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (catalogue)
REMEMBER EVERYTHING
40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Encuentros / Tensiones. Arte latinoamericano contemporáneo
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Brasiliana. Installationen von 1965 bis heute
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue)
Antigravity
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
Sobre Papel / On Paper
Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres (catalogue)
El Arte del Presente. Colección Helga de Alvear
Centrocentro, Madrid
Spun. Adventures in Textiles. Material World
Denver Art Museum
Travessias 2
Arte Contemporanea na Mare, Rio de Janeiro
Shelter And Land: Art and Society in Brazil
MAR - Museo de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro
The insides are on the outside
Casa de Vidro by Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo
Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah
2012
Arte e sociedade no Brasil
MAR - Museu d Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Food
Musée Ariana, Geneva
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, travelled from:
ZKM, Karlsruhe
1st Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi
Sculptures
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
Open Spaces / Secret Places
Museum der Moderne, Mönchsberg, Salzburg (catalogue)
Fruits of Passion
Centre Pompidou, Paris
The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art
The Stenersen Museum, Oslo (catalogue)
SAMMEN / TOGETHER
Trondheim Kunstmuseum
Von Sinnen
Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel (catalogue)
Play With Me. Interactive Installations
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
Wide Open School
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
Es gibt... / There is...
b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur (catalogue)
11 Oncena Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
Abwehr. Überlebensstrategien in Natur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Alltag
Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon
Art Foundation Mallorca Collection. Special Edition
CCA, Andratx/Mallorca
El Panal / The Hive
Trienal Poli / Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico
Matters of Fact
Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson
SuperBodies
3rd Hasselt Triennial, Hasselt
Foreign Excursions
McKee Gallery, New York
2011
A Rua (The Street)
Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp, Antwerp
Kunst-Stoff. Textilien in der Kunst seit 1960
Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe
Ordem e progresso
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
Pandemonium
Göteborg International Biennial Of Contemporary Art
Spaceship Earth
Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun
Biomorph! Hans Arp im Dialog mit aktuellen Künstlerpositionen
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
Vestígios de Brasilidade
Santander Cultural, Recife
Private / Corporate VI
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin
2010
Art Foundation Mallorca
Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx/Mallorca
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Passages. Travels in Hyperspace
LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon
29th Biennale São Paulo, São Paulo
The New Décor
Hayward Gallery, London, travelled to:
The Garage, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Capturing Dimensions
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich
Communication Networks
City Art Museum, Ljubljana
connect:
A Gentil Carioca
ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin
Die 60s in Brasilien
Kunsthalle Wien
2009
AFTER UTOPIA - a view on Brazilian contemporary art
Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato
Sector plen air
art forum berlin 2009, Berlin
ANABASIS. RITUALS OF HOMECOMING
Ludwik Grohman Villa, Lodz
Don't stare at the sun
Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun
Brazil Contemporary - Contemporary art, architecture and visual culture
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Silent Writings
Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris
Violence
Haifa Museum of Art
2008
When Lives Become Form
MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Held together with Water
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture
Kunsthaus Graz
PRIVATE PASSIONS, PUBLIC VISIONS
MARCO, Vigo
Poetica da Percepcao
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Call it what you like!
Art Centre Silkeborg Bad
autoreverse
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Sammlung als Aleph – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Kunsthaus Graz (catalogue)
Psycho Buildings
Hayward Gallery, London
The implications of the image
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City
2007
Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra
Space for your Future
MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
To Be Continued...
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Melting Point
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Don’t Look
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley
Acting in Utopia
Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz
The Hours: Visual Art of Contemporary Latinamerica
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (catalogue)
Reverence
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill
Held together with water
MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Vienna (catalogue)
2006
Coleção MAMAN
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife
Surprise Surprise
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Carbonic Anhydride
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Seduções. Valeska Soares, Ernesto Neto, Cildo Meireles
Daros Exhibitions, Löwenbräu-Areal, Zurich
The Grand Promenade
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens, Athens
Chers amis
Domaine de Kerguéhennec - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan
Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Barbican Art Gallery, London; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (catalogue)
Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art
Art Gallery of Hamilton
3. Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata-ken
reverence
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill
Choque Cultural na Fortes Vilaça - Fortes Vilaça na Choque Cultural
Galeria Fortes Vilaça / Choque Cultural, São Paulo
Abrigo poético: Diálogos com Ligia Clark
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
2005
Troca Brasil
The Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
150 Works of Art
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)
Contained
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Drawing from the Modern: 1975–2005
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (catalogue)
Collecció Fundació La Caixa: 20 Years with Contemporary Art. New Acquisitions
Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona
Deseos Fluidos: Brazilian and Cubans Perspectives between Reality and Fantasy
TB A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
5th Bienal de Arte do Mercosul, Porto Alegre
Extreme Abstraction
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Educação, Olha!
A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
A Imagem do Som de Dorival Caymmi
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Fairy Tales Forever
AROS - Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus (catalogue)
J’en rêve
Fondation Cartier, Paris
Bresil = Foot Art
Galerie 1900–2000, Paris
Desenhos: A – Z / Drawings A – Z
Colecção Maderia Corporate Services, Porta 33, Funchal
20 Desarreglos: Panorama del Arte Brasileira
Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
2004
The Snow Show
Kemi / Rovaniemi, Lapland
Brasil: Body Nostalgia
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Perception of Space
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (catalogue)
Everything is connected he, he, he
Astrup Fearnley – Museum for Modern Art, Oslo
Polyphony: Emerging Resonances
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
The Real Royal Trip
Patio Herreriano Valladolid – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid
Bazar de Verão
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are Reinvented in the Internet Age
The Logan Collection, Vail (catalogue)
A Contemporary Woman: Disorientation of Beauty
De Pont - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg (as part of the manifestation Lustwarande 04)
Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston
The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
Bedford Gallery Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek
Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures
Boise Art Museum, Boise (catalogue)
2003
A Nova Geometria
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Nouvelle Présentation des Collections Contemporaines du Musée National d'Art Moderne
Centre Pompidou, Paris
A Simple Plan
James Cohan Gallery, New York
Dreams and Conflicts: Dictatorship of the Viewer
50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Imagination: On Perception in Art
Steirischer Herbst, Kunsthaus Graz
The Real Royal Trip
P.S.1 – Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
From Dust to Dusk: Art between light and dirt
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston (catalogue)
Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures
International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen;
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago;
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University (catalogue)
2002
Shape
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Forever
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
poT
2nd Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Matéria Prima, Novo Museu, Curitiba
Sleeping, Dreaming, Awakening
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba (catalogue)
Caminhos do Contemporâneo
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Retalhar 2002
Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo
The Drawing Center’s 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition Lottery
The Drawing Center, New York
Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures
Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond;
AXA Gallery, New York;
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (catalogue)
The Inside is the Outside
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Skin, Soul
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Archivo Pons Artxiboa
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturnuea, Donostia–San–Sebastian
Insieme / Together
Museo Nazionale di Archittetura, Ferrara
2001
Plateau of Humankind
49th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (catalogue)
Space-Jack
Yokohama Museum Art Gallery, Tokyo
Vantage Point
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (catalogue)
Surface
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
El Final Del Eclipse
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid;
Palacio de Los Condes de Gabia, Salas Caja General e Instituto de América, Granada;
Museo de Arte Extremeño e Iberoamericano, Badajoz
Espelho Cego
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
TRANS>editions
Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles
The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
Before Reflection Begins
List Art Center, Brown University, Providence
Bodyspace
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Brazil: Body and Soul
Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Bilbao (catalogue)
Short Stories
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
2000
Charles Long / Ernesto Neto / Siobhan Hapaska
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (catalogue)
OO
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
University Gallery, University of Essex, Essex (catalogue)
La Répétition: La Tête dans les Nuages
Villa Arson Nice – Le Centre d’Art, Nice
Sense and Sensuality: Body and Soul in Pictures
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
The Invisible Touch
Kunstraum Innsbruck
Investigações: O trabalho do artista
Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
Brasil 500 Anos
Artes Visuais, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
Carnegie International 1999/2000
CMOA - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Trace
1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
Desde el Cuerpo
Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
Os 90
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
SKIN
Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan
1999
Raumkörper: Netze und andere Gebilde
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (catalogue)
Amnesia
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati;
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá
The Best of Season
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Zero G: When Gravity Becomes Form
Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford
La Metamorfisis de las Manos
Irma Aresstizabal, Mar Del Plata
A Vuelta com los Sentidos
Casa de America, Madrid
Wonderland
Saint Louis Museum, Saint Louis (catalogue)
Drawings
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990–99
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
Versiones del Sur
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
1998
Arte Contemporãnea Brasileira no Núcleo Histórico
24th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo (catalogue)
11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Camargo Vilaça Bis 46
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Poéticas da Cor
Centro Cultural da Light, Rio de Janeiro
Puntos Cardinales
Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
Amnesia
Track 16 Gallery;
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Corpos em Trânsito
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
Contemporânea
Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
1997
Loose Threads
Serpentine Gallery, London
Bienal del Barrio
Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Carácas
Material Immaterial
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Así Está la Cosa: Arte objeto y instalación de Iberoamerica
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, México City
Best of the Season: Selected Works from 1996–97
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Die anderen Modernen
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Sueños Concretos
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota
Novas Aquisições
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
1996
Transformal
Wiener Secession, Vienna
Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Sin Fronteras / Arte Latinoamericano Actual
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
Pequenas Mãos
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Centro Cultural Alumni, São Paulo
Transparências
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Escultura Plural
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador
Summer Show
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
1995
The Drawing Center, New York
The Education of the Five Senses, White Columns, Nova Iorque Anos Oitenta: O Palco da Diversidade
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Country Code
Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York
The Five Senses
White Columns, New York
Entre o Desenho e a Escultura
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
Libertaris Libertinos
Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro
1st Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju
Mostra da Gravura
Solar do Barão, Curitiba
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
1994
Escultura Carioca
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro Espaço Namour, São Paulo A
Espessura do Signo
Carmeliter Kloster, Frankfurt/Main
1993
Brasil Hoy
Galeria Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogotá Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
1992
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
1991
Brasil, la Nueva Generación
Fundación Museu Bellas Artes de Carácas, Carácas
Panorama da Arte Brasileira Atual
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo Centro Cultural São Paulo
Formas Tridimensionais: a questão orgânica
Museu Municipal de Arte, Curitiba 6th Salão Paulista de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo
1990
Prêmio Brasília de Artes Plásticas
Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasilia
1989
11th Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Rio de Janeiro A
Ordem Desfeita
110 Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
O Pequeno Infinito e o Grande Circunscrito
Galeria Arco, São Paulo
1988
EAV-Processo n°738.765-2
IBAC – Brazilian Institut of Art and Culture, Rio de Janeiro
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs
Sternberg Press (Ed.): Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin: Aru Kuxipa | Sacred Secret, Berlin, 2016
Walther König / Kunsthalle Krems: Ernesto Neto, Cologne, 2015
Kornhoff, Oliver & Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. Haux Haux, Remagen, 2014
Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo (Ed.): Madness is part of Life, ernesto neto, Tokyo, 2013
Nasher Sculpture Center (Ed.): Cuddle on the Tightrope, Dallas, 2012
Center for Contemporary Art Cincinnati (Ed.): Ernesto Neto, Ostfildern, 2012
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO (Ed.): La lengua de Ernesto. Retrospectiva 1987–2011, Monterrey, 2011
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst (Ed.): Ernesto Neto, Intimacy, Oslo, 2011
Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim (Ed.): When people stop, the world turns, Rio de Janeiro, 2010
Hayward Gallery Publishing (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. The Edges of the World, London, 2010
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. Dengo Bala, São Paulo, 2010
Park Avenue Armory, Gregory A. miller & Co (Ed.): Ernest Neto, anthropodino, New York, 2010
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes / Fage (Ed.): Ernesto Neto: a culpa civilizada, Lyon, 2009
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea: Ernesto Neto 4, Milan, 2008
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art/ The MIMOCA Foundation: Ernesto Neto, Kagawa, 2007
Galerie Max Hetzler, Holzwarth Publications (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. From Sebastian to Olivia, Berlin, 2008
Editions du Regard / Festival d’Automne: Ernesto Neto, Leviathan Thot, Paris, 2006
Malmö Konsthal (Ed.): The Malmö Experience, Malmö, 2006
Kunsthalle Basel / Schwabe & Co. / Peter Pakesch (Ed.): Ernesto Neto, Basel, 2002
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Ed.): Ernesto Neto, Washington D.C., 2002
Cecilia Pereira (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. O corpo, nu tempo, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, 2002
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. Genealogy of Life, Stuttgart, 2002
Aarhus Kunstbygning (Ed.): Ernesto Neto. Passing Time, Passing Space, Aarhus, 2002
Others
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Ed.): Permission to Be Global. Latin American Art, Boston, 2014
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): REMEMBER EVERYTHING : 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, 2014
Hans Werrner Holzwarth (Ed.): Art Now Vol 4, Cologne, 2013
Schirn Kunsthalle (Ed.): Brasiliana. Installationen von 1965 bis heute, Cologne, 2013
Fundación Helga de Alvear (Ed.): Sobre Papel. On Paper, Cáceres, 2013
Selena Wendt (Ed.): The Storytellers. Narratives in Internationale Contemporary Art, Milan, 2013
Gabriele Schor (Ed.): Open Spaces. Secret Places, Cologne, 2012
Anette Hüsch (Ed.): Von Sinnen, Bielefeld, 2012
b-50 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum: Es gibt.../ There is..., Bielefeld, 2011
Black Dog Publishing / Schwartzman, Madeline: Seeing Yourself Sensing, London, 2011
Hayward Gallery Publishing / Ralph Rugoff (Ed.): The New Décor, Southbank Centre, London, 2010
Adriano Pedrosa; Rodrigo Moura (Ed.): Inhotim, Câmara Brasileira do Livro, Brasil, 2008
Bonham-Carter, Charlotte & David Hodge (Eds.): The Contemporary Art Book, Goodman/Carlton Publishing Group, London, 2009
Hayward Gallery Publishing (Ed.): Pyscho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture, The Hayward, London, 2008
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Ed.): Melting Point: Jim Lambie, Shibuya Kiyomichi, Ernesto Neto, Tokyo, 2007
Hatje-Cantz Verlag / Gabriele Schor (Eds.): Held Together with Water: Kunst aus der Sammlung Verbund, Ostfildern, 2007
Rosa Olivares (Ed.): 100 Latin American Artists, Madrid, 2007
Daros-Latinamerica AG, Zurich (Ed.): Seduções. Valeska Soares, Coldo Meireles, Ernesto Neto, Ostfildern, 2006
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Carbonic Anhydride, Berlin, 2006
ICA – Institute for Contemporary Arts (Ed.): Surprise, Surprise, London, 2006
Jordan Kantor: Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2005
AROS - Aarhus Kunstmuseum (Ed.): Fairy Tales Forever. Homage to H.C. Andersen, Aarhus, 2005
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (Ed.): Perspectives@25. A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Houston, 2004
Kent Logan; Dean Sobel: A New Modernism for a New Millenium. Abstraction and Surrealism are reinvented in the Internet Age, The Logan Collection, Vail, 2004
Jessica Morgan: Pulse. Art, Healing and Transformation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, 2003
Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa (Ed.): Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Milan, 2003
Sumi Hayashi: Sleeping. Dreaming. Awakening, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Kawamura, 2002
Uta Grosenick, Burkhard Riemschneider (Ed.): Art Now. 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millenium, Cologne, 2002
Barbara Clausen; Carin Kuoni: Thin Skin. The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures, New York, 2002
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (Ed.): The Inward Eye. Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Houston, 2001
Edward J. Sullivan (Ed.): Brazil. Body and Soul, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2001
Peter Weiermair (Ed.): Em busca da identitade. Auf der Suche nach Identität. Aktuelle Kunst aus Brasilien, Kraichtal / Salzburg / Bologna, 2000
Rochelle Steiner: Wonderland, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, 2000
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (Ed.): Nhó Nhó Nave, Houston, 2000
Kunsthalle Basel (Ed.): Raumkörper. Netze und andere Gebilde, Basel, 2000
Videos
Publications
REMEMBER EVERYTHING
Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2014
With texts by Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais
Edited by Jean-Marie Gallais
€ 45.00
Ernesto Neto: From Sebastian to Olivia
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2008
With letters written by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Leith, Dobrila Denegri, Franck Leibovici, Giovanna Zapperi, Hiromi Kitazawa, Tania Rivera and an essay by Sebastian Preuss
€ 45.00
Carbonic Anhydride
Haluk Akakçe, Darren Almond, Shannon Bool, André Butzer, Terry Haggerty, Mona Hatoum, Arturo Herrera, Ulrich Lamsfuß, Won Ju Lim, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Sarah Morris, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Yves Oppenheim, Thomas Struth, Kara Walker
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2006
€ 35.00
Selected Press
The Art Newspaper November 2022
Art Basel October 2020
Arterritory May 2020
hyperallergic February 2020
The Art Newspaper March 2019
Collectors Agenda July 2018
OPUS Kunstmagazin February 2015
The Wall Street Journal February 2014
Tagesspiegel February 2013
Weltkunst December 2012
Art in America May 2009
Berliner Zeitung October 2007
