Galerie Max Hetzler

Ernesto Neto

(Brazilian, b. 1964)

Ernesto Neto

animal nature, 2013

Ernesto Neto

Two spirits two life, 2013

Biography

Timeline

1964: Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
: Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Exhibitions

2013: 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, MAR – 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
: Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
: From Death to Death and Other Small Tales, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
: Espelho Refletido, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
: The Storyteliers: Narratives in Intercational Contemporary Art, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
: Echigo-Tsusmari Art Triennial, Tsumari, Japan
: 11th Bienal de La Habana Prácticas artísticas e Imaginários Sociales Havana, Cuba
: Panal/ The Hive Trienal Plo/Gráfica de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico
: 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)
: O Bicho Suspenso na Paisagem, Estação Leopoldina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
: Cuddle on Tightroppe, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (solo)
: Slow iis goood, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Não tenha medo do seu corpo, Galeria e Galpão Fortes Vilaça, 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
: Superbodies, 3th Triennial of Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design, Hasselt, Belgium
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 (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico (solo)
: While Nothing Happens, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea de Roma, Roma, Italy (solo)
: Quando a gente para, o mundo roda, Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
: Dengo, mam - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo (solo)
: Navedenga, MOMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2010: The Edges of the World, Hayward Gallery, London (solo)
: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
2009 - 2011: Intimacy, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
2009: Variations, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich (solo)
: Anthropodino, Park Avenue Armory, New York (solo)
: A Culpa Civilizada, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Nantes, FX (solo)
: Mitodengo, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
: Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (solo)
: i8, Reykjavik (solo)
: Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid (solo)
2008: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (solo)
2007: Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro (solo)
: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego (solo)
: Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary, Berlin (solo)
: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal, Japan
: Tropicalia, Barbican Art Gallery, London
: Sublme Embrace Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
: Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
: The Malmö Experience, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (solo)
2006: How to put it up, dulcieneia!, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich (solo)
: Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
: A Imagem do Som de Dorival Caymmi, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
: Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
: Contained, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
: Troca Brasil, Feldman Gallery & Project Space and A Gentil Carioca, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
: Hours Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, selected works from the Daros Latin-American Collection. Curator: Sebástian López, Irish Musem of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Mé-tissages, Museum voor Industriele en Textiel Gent, Belgium
: Fairy Tales Forever – Homage to H.C. Andersen, Aros Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
: Bresil = Foot Art, Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris
: Desenhos: A-Z (Drawings: A-Z), Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Porta 33, Funchal, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA (solo)
: Objetos, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
: Razão e Sensibilidade – Encontro com Arte, Casa Cor, São Paulo, Brazil
: 20 Desarreglos: Panorama del Arte Brasileira, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
: Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: 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
2005: Extreme Abstraction - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
: O Corpo onde não há, curated by Ligia Canongia, Festival d’Automne, Espace Topographie de l´Art, Paris, France
: 5th Bienal de Arte do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
: Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
: Tropicália, curated by Carlos Basualdo, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
: 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
: Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (solo)
: The encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - emerging resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
: Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Minas Gerais, Brazil (solo)
: Brasil: Body Nostalgia, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto, Japan
: Tilburg Triennial of Contemporary Art: Disorientation by Beauty, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Holland
: Casa - Poética do Espaço na Arte Brasileira, curated by Paulo Reis, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo
: Projeto Respiração, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
: The Snow Show, Kemi and Rovaniemi, Lapônia, Finland
: Artists and I, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland (solo)
: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (solo)
: Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (solo)
2004: Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (solo)
: Special installation for Project Room, Fundament Foundation - De Pont, Wilhelmina Park 1, Tilburg, Holland (solo)
2003: the silent cliff: the gate, the house, the garden, the people, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (solo)
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles (solo)
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (solo)
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (solo)
: Kunsthalle Basel (solo)
: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (solo)
: Yvon Lambert, Paris (solo)
: Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil (solo)
: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela (solo)
2001: Matrix, UC Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco (solo)
: Private Collections
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Washington D.C., USA
: Daros Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland
: Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
: MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
: Purchase Fund, Washington D.C., USA
: The Martin Margules Family, Miami, USA
: The Monsoon, London, England
: The American Fund for the Tate Gallery Collection, London, England
: Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Estocolmo, Sweden

Public Collections

: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela, ES
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FX
: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, ES
: Daros Latin America, Zurich, CH
: Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, ES
: Fundación Televisa, MX
: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
: 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