Aycoobo Wilson Rodríguez (La Chorrera, Colômbia, 1967), Calendário, 2024. Guache e tinta de caneta sobre papel algodão, 100 x 110 cm. Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand. Doação Regina Pinho de Almeida no contexto da Biennale di Venezia, 2024-25. Foto: Eduardo Ortega
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Histories of Ecology
Group exhibition at MASP brings together more than 200 artists, activists, and social movements from 28 countries. The exhibition explores ecology as a network of relationships between living beings and the world they inhabit, bringing into dialogue the work of communities, territories, and ecosystems.
Curated by André Mesquita and Isabella Rjeille, Histories of Ecology connects local and global issues by facilitating dialogue between Brazilian and international artists. This curatorial approach moves away from the conception of nature as something separate from society or from the understanding of human beings as hierarchically superior.
"It’s common for ‘environment’ and ‘ecology’ to be treated as synonyms. However, we chose ecology to encompass a system of relationships between humans and more-than-humans: animals, plants, rivers, forests, mountains, fungi, and minerals. We cannot think of nature as separate from humanity,” says André Mesquita, curator at MASP.
The exhibition moves between different fields of knowledge, such as ancestral, communal, local, and planetary, and seeks to broadly approach the concept of ecology from various perspectives: Web of Life; Geographies of Time; On Becoming; Territories, Migrations and Borders; and Inhabiting the Climate.
Histories of Ecology is on display at MASP until February 1, 2026.
MASP
Avenida Paulista, 1578.
São Paulo/SP, Brazil
Visiting hours: Tuesdays, from 10 am to 8 pm (free entry until 7 pm); Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 6 pm (entry until 5 pm); Fridays from 10 am to 9 pm (free entry from 6 pm to 8:30 pm); Saturdays and Sundays, from 10 am to 6 pm (entry until 5 pm).
Installation view, Histories of Ecology, MASP. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
Installation view, Histories of Ecology, MASP. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
Marcela Cantuária (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 1991), Margarida Alves, 2020. Oil on canvas, 161 × 120 cm. Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, gift Alfredo Setubal and Rose Setubal, in the context of the exhibition Brazilian Histories], 2022. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
Installation view, Histories of Ecology, MASP. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
Installation view, Histories of Ecology, MASP. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro (Vitória, ES, 1996), Untitled, from the series Corpoflor (Bodyflower), 2016-em processo. Digital Photo, 80 × 60 cm. Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York. Photo: Courtesy Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro and Mendes Wood DM
Installation view, Histories of Ecology, MASP. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
Rosana Paulino (São Paulo, SP, 1967), Tentativa de criar asas, do Caderno de possibilidades de voo (reais ou imaginárias) ou Caderno de figuras aladas [Attempt to Create Wings, from the Sketchbook of Flying Possibilities (Real or Imaginary) or Sketchbook of Winged Figures], 2000. Dermatographic pencil, graphite and pastel on paper], 23,6 x 32 cm. Private collection. Photo: Filipe Berndt
Installation view, Histories of Ecology, MASP. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
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Frestas – Art Triennial
2nd Bienal das Amazônias
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travelers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
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Flooded Memories
Roots: Beginning, Middle, and Beginning
