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Mira Schendel

Mira Schendel Estate

Biography

Born

Zurich, Switzerland, 1919

Education

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Galería Luisa Strina, 'Transparencies', São Paulo, Brazil

2018

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 'Sinais/signals de Mira Schendel', São Paulo, Brazil

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Centro Cultural Itau and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, ‘Rehearsals for the Museum of Origins’, São Paulo, Brazil

Galpão, 'Para-raios para energias confusas', São Paulo, Brazil

2022

Museum im Kulturspeicher, 'Concrete Resistance. Constructivisms of the Global South', Würzburg, Germany

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 'Un acto de ver que se despliega. Colección Susana y Ricardo Steinbruch', Madrid, Spain

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 'Brasilidade: Pós Modernismo', Belo Horizonte, Brazil (travelling exhibition)

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 'Brasilidade: Pós Modernismo', Brasilia, Brazil (travelling exhibition)

Bibliography

Monographs

2015

Palhares, Taisa, 'Mira Schendel. Monotypes', Hauser & Wirth, Cologne: Snoeck, 2015 (exh. cat.)

2013

Barson, Tanya, and Taisa Palhares (eds.), 'Mira Schendel', Sao Paulo: Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, 2013 (exh. cat.)

Barson, Tanya, and Taisa Palhares (eds.), 'Mira Schendel', London: Tate Publishing, 2013 (exh. cat.)

Artist's Books & Writings

2012

Brett, Guy, Morais, Frederico + [et al.], 'Aberto fechado: caixa e livro na arte brasileira = The Enclosed Openess: Box and Book in Brazilian Art', [with text by Mira Schendel], São Paulo: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2012 (exh.cat.)

Publications

2024

Murphy, Maia, Clark, Olivia, Flint, Charlotte (eds.), 'Great Women Sculptors', New York: Phaidon, 2024, p. 270, ill.

Andrade Kobayashi, Megumi, 'Otras escrituras. Gestos, movimientos e inscripciones en el arte y la poesía contemporáneos', Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2024, pp. 189-228, ill.

2023

Cooke, Lynne (ed.), 'Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction', Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2023, p. 17, ill. (exh. cat.)
Morrill, Rebecca (ed.), 'Latin American Artists from 1785 to Now', London: Phaeton Press Limited, 2023, p. 289, ill.

Press

2024

Karg, Alexandra, 'Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked', on: thecollector.com, 21 July 2024, ill.

2023

Kas, Ligia, 'Mostra Coletiva Traz Grandes Nomes Das Artes Plásticas', on: siterg.uol.com.br, 8 May 2023