Galerie Max Hetzler

Ernesto Neto

(Brazilian, born 1964)

Ernesto Neto

animal nature, 2013

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Ernesto Neto

Two spirits two life, 2013

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Biography

Timeline

1964: Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1994 - 1997: Courses at the Museo de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
: Escola de Artes Visuais Pargua Lage, Rio de Janeiro
: Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Exhibitions

2014: At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
: Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany (solo)
: Gratitude, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA (solo)
: The Body that Carries Me, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
: The Unfettered Gaze. The Rasch Brothers and their Influences on Modern Architecture, Marta Herford, Herford (catalogue), Germany
: Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
: Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea
: Simple Shapes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris (catalogue), France
: do it Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
: Fruits of Passion: Collection from the Musée national d´art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, France / Japan
: The Five Senses, Scottdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottdale, USA
: Encuentros / Tensiones. Arte latinoamericano contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
: REMEMBER EVERYTHING, 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (cat.), Germany
: Permission To Be Global: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, traveled to MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (cat.), USA
: notes, stones and dots, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Olhando o céu, Palácio Phamphilij, Embaixada Brasileira [Brazilian Embassy], Rome, Italy (solo)
Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
O Abrigo e O Terreno. Arte e sociedade no Brasil, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ConcretraSonho, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
The Insides Are on the Outside I O interior está no exterior, Casa de Vidro Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo, Brazil
Travessias 2, Favela da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
30x Bienal, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
: Linha da vida Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
2013: Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina (solo)
: SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
2012: O Tridimensional no Acervo do MAC USP: Uma Antologia, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Não tenha medo do seu corpo, Galeria e Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Slow iis goood, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Cuddle on Tightroppe, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA (solo)
O Bicho Suspenso na Paisagem, Estação Leopoldina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
La Lengua de Ernesto Retrospectiva 1987 – 2011, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
Madness is part of life, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Superbodies, 3th Triennial of Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design, Hasselt, Belgium
Panal/ The Hive Trienal Plo/Gráfica de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico
11th Bienal de La Habana Prácticas artísticas e Imaginários Sociales, Havana, Cuba
Echigo-Tsusmari Art Triennial, Tsumari, Japan
The Storyteliers: Narratives in Intercational Contemporary Art, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Espelho Refletido, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
2011: Hiper Cultura Loucura en el Vertigo del Mundo, Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina (solo)
La Lengua de Ernesto Retrospectiva 1987 – 2011, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico (solo)
While Nothing Happens, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea de Roma, Roma, Italy (solo)
Intimacy, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
2010: The Edges of the World, Hayward Gallery, London, England (solo)
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA (solo)
Dengo, mam - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Quando a gente para, o mundo roda, Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
Navedenga, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2009: Variations, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Anthropodino, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA (solo)
A Culpa Civilizada, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France (solo)
Mitodengo, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy (solo)
2008: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
i8, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo)
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2007: Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA (solo)
Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006: How to put it up, dulcieneia!, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
The Malmö Experience, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (solo)
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Tropicalia, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
Sublme Embrace Art Gallery, Hamilton, Canada
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal, Tokamachi, Japan
2005: Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
O Corpo onde não há, Festival d’Automne, Espace Topographie de l´Art, Paris, France
5th Bienal de Arte do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Tropicália, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (solo)
Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Domaine de Kerguéhennec Centre D'art Contemporain, Paris, France (solo)
Exchange Brazil, Pacific Northwest College of art, Portland, USA
EducaçãO, Olha!, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deseos Fluidos: Brazilian and Cubans Perspectives Between Reality and Fantasy, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art, Space in Progress, Vienna, Austria
20 Desarreglos: Panorama del Arte Brasileira, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Objetos, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Imagem do Som de Dorival Caymmi, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Contained, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Troca Brasil, Feldman Gallery & Project Space and A Gentil Carioca, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA
Hours Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, selected works from the Daros Latin-American Collection, Irish Musem of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Mé-tissages, Museum voor Industriele en Textiel, Gent, Belgium
Razão e Sensibilidade – Encontro com Arte, Casa Cor, São Paulo, Brazil
Fairy Tales Forever – Homage to H.C. Andersen, Aros Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Bresil = Foot Art, Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris, France
Desenhos: A-Z (Drawings: A-Z), Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Porta 33, Funchal, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA (solo)
2004: Artists and I, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland (solo)
Special installation for Project Room, Fundament Foundation - De Pont, Wilhelmina Park 1, Tilburg, The Netherlands (solo)
Projeto Respiração, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Minas Gerais, Brazil (solo)
Casa - Poética do Espaço na Arte Brasileira, curated by Paulo Reis, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Tilburg Triennial of Contemporary Art: Disorientation by Beauty, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Brasil: Body Nostalgia, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Kyoto, Japan
The Snow Show, Kemi and Rovaniemi, Lapônia, Finland
The encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - emerging resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA (solo)
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
2003: the silent cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (solo)
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (solo)
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil (solo)
2001: Matrix, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA (solo)
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo)
2000: Pensamentos Emocionais, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Acontece num fim de tarde Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
: Sister Naves, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Ohio, USA (solo)
: Ernesto Neto / Andy Goldsworthy SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA (solo)
: Stella Nave, University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, UK (solo)
1999: Nhó Nhó Nave, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (cat.), USA (solo)
1988: Petit Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)

Public Collections

: Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna
: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
: Fundación Televisa, MX
: Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, ES
: Daros Latin America, Zurich, CH
: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, ES
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FX
: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela, ES
: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofiá, Madrid
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami
: Magasin 3, Stockholm
: Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
: Hara Museum, Tokyo
: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
: Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
: Tate Gallery, London
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: The Monsoon Collection, London
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
: Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: Museum of Contemporary Art, MOT, Tokyo
: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
: Denver Art Museum, Denver
: Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brumadinho, Brazil

Literature

2006: “News & Around: Ernesto Neto.” Tema Celeste no.114, March/ April 2006.
: Schütze, Bernard. “The Skin of Sculpture: Inside and Outside Ernesto Neto’s Multi-sensorial Installation Spaces.” Espace, issue 75, Spring 2006.
: “Ernesto Neto: The Malmö Experience.” www.dexigner.com, February 2006
: Davies, Serena. “Brazil’s psychedelic dream.” www.telegraph.co.uk, 21 February 2006
: Searle, Adrian. “Watch the birdy.” The Guardian, 21 February 2006
: Poli, Francesco. “Ernesto Neto.” Review, Tema Celeste, September/ October 2005
: “What to do – Forefront: Ernesto Neto.” www.indy.org, November 19, 2005
: “2005/2006 Museum Preview.” Art in America, Annual Guide Issue, December 2005
2005: de Almeida, Felipa. “Ernesto Neto: Sensory Experiences.” Sur la Terre, December 2005
: Montgomery, Jenny. “Indianapolis art museum gets with the times.” FortWayne.com, November 25, 2005
: Palfreyman, Dominic. "Basel on the Beach," Tate, Mar/Apr 03
2003: Myers, Holly. Making the most of his materials, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2003, p. E2
: Forde, Katherine "Ernesto Neto," Contemporary Issue 53/54 2003, P. 120-121
: Nuland, Sherwin "Artist Heal Thyself (and Then Everybody Else)," The New York Times, July 6, 2003, p. AR 25
: Angeline, John. "Ernesto Neto," Art Nexus, Vol 2, No. 49, 2003, p. 131-132
: Temin, Christine, "'Pulse' Takes Hands-On Approach to Healing," The Boston Globe, May 16, 2003
: Gonçalves, Lisbeth Rebollo, "Ernesto Neto: Sensation and Time," Art Nexus, No. 48, V.2, 2003, pp. 50-53
: Levin, Kim. "Ernesto Neto," The Village Voice," April 16-22, 2003, p. 93
: Westerbeke, Julia. "Ernesto Neto, 'the silent cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people,'" Time Out New York, April 17-24, 2003. P. 71
: Talya, Halkin. "Gallery-going," The New York Sun. March 27, 2003, page 16