General Program
Almeida & Dale
For ARCO Madrid 2026, Almeida & Dale presents a selection of works by Brazilian artists from different generations, articulating diverse temporalities, geographies, and visual languages around the theme of memory.
Among the featured artists are Lidia Lisbôa, Marlene Almeida, Maxwell Alexandre, Rebeca Carapiá, and Heitor dos Prazeres, who participated in the 36th São Paulo Biennial, 2025–2026, with commissioned works and historical ensembles, highlighting the institutional relevance of their practices in recent years.
The presentation also includes artists who took part in the exhibition Complexo Brasil, held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, 2025–2026, such as Ana Elisa Egreja, Eleonore Koch, Jaider Esbell, Maxwell Alexandre, Montez Magno, and Rubem Valentim, reinforcing the dialogue between Brazilian artistic production and international circuits.
Ana Elisa Egreja recently held a solo exhibition at Almeida & Dale, 2025, while Sara Ramo has a forthcoming solo exhibition announced at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo in 2026. At the Collegium (Arévalo), an installation by Tunga, an artist represented by Almeida & Dale, proposes an immersive experience based on reflections, scent, and perceptual shifts, expanding the historical and symbolic dimension of the curatorial framework.
Dalton Paula continues to expand his international presence. In 2025, he presented Infâncias Negras, a solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery in New York (11 September – 30 October), marking his first show with the gallery and introducing a new body of paintings exploring memory, Black childhood, and cultural continuity. During the same period, his educational initiative Sertão Negro was presented through a project at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. Looking ahead, the artist is scheduled to present linha de resolução (an alignment of pictures) in São Paulo in July 2026, as part of the program of the gallery representing him.
Casa Triângulo
Casa Triângulo brings a selection of recent works by Brazilian artists exploring relationships between perception, landscape, symbolic construction, and memory through diverse formal and conceptual approaches. Two works by Sandra Cinto were sold during the fair, followed by Fernanda Galvão’s Wild Space Lettuce, 2026, reflecting the gallery’s engagement with a new generation of artists investigating the poetic and spatial dimensions of contemporary practice.
Albano Afonso develops a practice centered on the relationships between image, light, and perception, combining optical procedures and layered visual structures that challenge the boundaries between representation and abstraction. In 2025–2026, he participated in the group exhibition Asa de Chronos at Centro MariAntonia in São Paulo.
Fernanda Galvão investigates organic processes and material transformations through sculptural and pictorial forms that evoke growth, instability, and metamorphosis.
Lyz Parayzo’s work addresses questions of identity, body, and resistance, drawing on references to urban culture and the trans experience in Brazil. The artist participated in the 17th Lyon Biennale (2024–2025) and in the exhibition O início do mundo at Pinakotheke Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, in 2025.
In Sandra Cinto’s work, drawing and painting expand into immersive compositions that evoke imaginary landscapes and poetic atmospheres marked by movement and instability. In 2025, the artist reappeared in international auctions, notably with the sale of Vôo II, 2022, which achieved $63.500 at Sotheby’s Contemporary Day Auction in November 2025.
Sandra Cinto
Untitled II, from the series Prelúdio para o Sol e as Estrelas (après Mallorca), 2026
Acrylic on wood
27,5 x 15,5 x 2,5 cm cm
Sold
Fernanda Galvão
Wild Space Lettuce, 2026
Charcoal, dry pastel, oil bar and oil on linen
200 x 230 cm
Sold
Fortes D'Aiola & Gabriel
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents a selection of recent works by Brazilian artists that reflects the gallery’s consistent presence across major institutional exhibitions and international market platforms.
Among the international highlights, Ernesto Neto presented the large-scale installation Nosso Barco Tambor Terra at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2025, marking a major institutional project in Europe. Luiz Zerbini was included in the inaugural exhibition of the new Fondation Cartier space in Paris, reinforcing his longstanding international presence. Janaina Tschäpe has also maintained strong visibility abroad, with a painting sold for approximately $150.000 during Art Basel Paris 2025, underscoring sustained demand for her work in the European market.
In Brazil, Rivane Neuenschwander held the solo exhibition Tangolomango at Inhotim in 2024, further consolidating her institutional presence. Márcia Falcão participated in the 36th São Paulo Biennial, 2025–2026, representing an important recent milestone in her career.
Within the gallery’s own program, Cristiano Lenhardt and Luiz Zerbini presented recent works in the exhibition Observations at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel gallery in 2025–2026.
Luciana Brito
Galeria Luciana Brito is already prepared for another edition of the fair presenting works by Brazilian artists from different generations in a project that highlights the continuity and diversity of the gallery’s program.
Among the recent highlights, Caio Reisewitz participated in several international exhibitions, including Suspendre el Cel at the Fundació Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, 2024, alongside presentations in Brazil such as Delírio Tropical, held at the Pinacoteca do Ceará in 2025. His works are held in major collections, including the Fundación ARCO (Madrid), the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (France).
Regina Silveira presented the exhibition Modus Operandi in 2025 at the Instituto de Arte Contemporânea (IAC), São Paulo, bringing together works that reveal different stages of her long-standing investigation into perception and spatial illusion. The artist is also participating in La lechuza de Minerva, on view at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid untill May 10, 2026).
In 2025 works by Geraldo de Barros were presented in institutional exhibitions at the Museu da Imagem e do Som do Ceará and the Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul.
Luisa Strina
The Galeria Luisa Strina participates with Semear a água: quem tem medo da paisagem, a solo presentation by Juliana dos Santos.
The presentation coincides with a period of significant institutional visibility for the artist. In 2025–2026, dos Santos presented Temporã, her first solo museum exhibition, at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, on view through March 2026. Developed from an artistic residency, the exhibition centers on the transformation of natural pigments derived from the Clitoria ternatea flower, a key material in her practice. In 2025 the artist also participated in the 36th São Paulo Biennial.
Her recent institutional presence also includes participation in the group exhibition Trovoada, presented at Galpão das Artes, in Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, from January to February 2026.
Portas Vilaseca
Portas Vilaseca Gallery is participating with a selection of Latin American artists, including Brazilians Ayrson Heráclito and Nádia Taquary. The presentation coincides with a period of intense institutional visibility for both.
Following his participation in the Antioquia and Medellín International Art Biennials in 2025, Ayrson Heráclito was recently announced as one of the artists selected for this year’s Venice Biennale. Heráclito’s work is held in major international public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and Fundación TBA21, among others.
Taquary, in turn, presented the solo exhibition Ònà Ìrìn: Caminho de Ferro at Sesc Belenzinho, 2025–2026, an offshoot of a show previously held at the National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture in Salvador, in addition to participating in international exhibitions at institutions such as the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and El Museo del Barrio in New York, as well as the 36th São Paulo Biennial.
This body of work highlights the growing international presence of Brazilian artists whose research engages with memory, spirituality, and Afro-diasporic heritage in contemporary contexts.
Raquel Arnaud
The gallery brings together a presentation of Marina Weffort and Julio Villani in a dialogue structured around subtraction and accumulation as poetic strategies. Already on the first day of the fair, the gallery reported sales of works by Julio Villani.
While Weffort develops works grounded in processes of unraveling and revealing structural voids, recently presented in her solo exhibition Da curva, a reta at the gallery’s São Paulo space in 2025 and in the group exhibition O fiar: pontos, nós, corte at Casa de Cultura do Parque, Villani constructs his works through layering, erasure and accumulation, as seen in his 2025 solo exhibition L’eau rougie de la veine mémoire at RX&SLAG in Paris and in recent institutional exhibitions in Brazil, including shows A tela insurgente at Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz and Coleção Vilma Eid: Em cada canto Instituto Tomie Ohtake.
Together, the presentation establishes a shared field of reflection on fragility, resilience and impermanence, highlighting the complementary approaches of two artists whose practices engage with the material and temporal dimensions of contemporary art.
Superfície
The Superfície participates with a solo presentation by Ana Amorim, whose practice is centered on daily routines and the passage of time. Guided by clearly defined conceptual decisions, the artist records Mental Maps of the paths she takes each day and documents the flow of time through performances in which she counts seconds, days, and hours. Her own lived experience constitutes the primary material of the work, reflecting a practice in which art and life become inseparable. Having produced and preserved a vast body of work throughout her life, the artist only began making her works available on the market in recent years.
The presentation coincides with a period of renewed institutional visibility for the artist. In 2025, Amorim presented the major solo exhibition Mapas Mentais at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP), bringing together nearly four decades of work, including large-scale installations composed of daily records. That same year, she also presented a significant exhibition at the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. At the end of 2024, extending into 2025, the artist held a major solo exhibition, Counting Routines, at the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia in León, Spain, further reinforcing the international dimension of her trajectory.
Vermelho
The Galeria Vermelho comes a presentation centered on Brazilian artist Edgard de Souza. The selection highlights recent works that continue the artist’s longstanding investigation into the representation of the body and its symbolic and experiential dimensions.
The presentation coincides with a period of renewed institutional visibility. In 2025, works by Edgard de Souza were included in the exhibition Fullgás: Artes visuais e anos 1980 no Brasil, presented at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, and the group exhibition Liminal in Nature at the Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2025. and at independent institutions in Brazil.
Recent works by the artist were also presented internationally at Frieze New York 2025, where embroidered works on linen marked a new development within his practice.
Martins & Monteiro
Maria Monteiro, from Martins&Montero, noted that the gallery brought works by Genilson Soares and Lia D Castro, both of which were sold on the first day of the fair, with prices averaging around €12.000 each. She also highlighted that Genilson Soares currently has works on view at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, further reinforcing the artist’s growing institutional visibility.
Perfis Arte Latino-Americana
A Gentil Carioca
The A Gentil Carioca returns to ARCO with FUNFUN, a solo presentation of new works by Kelton Campos Fausto. The project draws on the symbolism of Òbàtálá, the Òrìṣà Funfun, exploring ideas of creation, spiritual formation and destiny through works that engage with Afro-diasporic cosmologies and material processes.
The presentation coincides with a period of growing visibility for the artist. In 2024–2025, Campos Fausto presented the solo exhibition Ègbé ọ̀run Ẹgbẹ́ àiyé at A Gentil Carioca in Rio de Janeiro, marking an important step in the development of their research into spiritual space and Yoruba cosmology. The artist has also recently participated at Dos Brasis: arte e pensamento negro in Sesc Quitandinha, 2024, reinforcing their presence within contemporary discussions on Afro-Brazilian identity and diaspora.
Galatea
Galatea makes its debut at ARCO Madrid with a solo presentation by Gabriel Branco, bringing together for the first time the artist’s paintings and photographs, two complementary bodies of work that define his practice.
The presentation coincides with a period of growing international visibility for the artist. In 2025, Branco participated in Art Basel Miami Beach with Galatea, marking one of his first major international appearances. That same year, he also took part in the group exhibition Contra Mapa – Sur tout ce qui s’embrasse at the Festival d’Arles, Arles, France. This was followed by the solo exhibition A luz sem nome at Galatea Salvador. The ARCO Madrid presentation represents his first international solo project, consolidating the artist’s emergence on the global circuit.
Quadra
With a solo presentation by Ana Cláudia Almeida, the starting point of the presentation lies in the relationship between freedom and hope, understood as forces that traverse the body, space and collectivity. Rather than emphasizing individual works, the project focuses on what emerges through their dialogue as a shared experience.
In 2025, Almeida presented Over Again, her first solo exhibition in New York at Stephen Friedman Gallery, featuring new installations, textile works and paintings. Earlier works were also shown in the exhibition Ana Cláudia Almeida & Tadáskía at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Quadra in São Paulo (2024–2025), consolidating the artist’s recent trajectory between Brazil and the United States.
Brazilian Art in the Spotlight of International Galleries
Zielinsky
Zielinsky Gallery presents at ARCO a selection that includes several Brazilian artists, among them Carolina Cordeiro, Cisco Merel, Pedro Torres, Valdirlei Dias Nunes, and Vera Chaves Barcellos. Their practices explore questions related to the body, geometry, memory, and systems of representation, bringing together different generations and perspectives within contemporary Brazilian art.
Among recent activities, Carolina Cordeiro participated in the group exhibition Adiar a ordem, presented at Galatea, São Paulo (2025), and also took part in Perquirere, held at Zielinsky Barcelona between November 2025 and February 2026. Meanwhile, Pedro Torres presented the solo exhibition Una breve quemadura at Zielinsky Barcelona, on view from February 27 to May 16, 2025, further consolidating his presence within the gallery’s international program.
Esther Schipper
Esther Schipper presents a group of artists including Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, whose practice explores the relationship between perception, ecology, and the boundaries between the human and non-human world. In recent years, the artist has gained strong institutional visibility. In 2024, he presented the solo exhibition A Leaf Shapes the Eye at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, featuring immersive installations, films, and sculptures investigating sensory experience and ecological systems. Mangrané has also participated in major international exhibitions, including the 33rd São Paulo Biennial,2018 and the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019.
Levy Gorvy
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Travesía Cuatro
Travesía Cuatro presents the brazilian artists Eleonore Koch and Ana Prata, bringing together two generations of Brazilian painting whose practices explore interiority, perception, and the poetic potential of everyday imagery. Koch’s work has recently gained renewed institutional attention, notably with the exhibition Eleonore Koch: Em Cena at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP) in 2024, which brought together nearly 190 works spanning her career.
Ana Prata, in turn, has presented several recent exhibitions, including the solo show Secret on the radio at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo in 2025. Her paintings, which move fluidly between figuration and abstraction, continue a research into the intimacy of domestic scenes and the material possibilities of painting.
Richard Saltoun
The presentation by Richard Saltoun Gallery brings together works by Maria Martins and Daiara Tukano, highlighting different approaches to myth, spirituality, and cosmology across generations.
Maria Martins, a key figure of Brazilian modernism associated with Surrealism, has recently gained renewed international attention through major institutional exhibitions, including her retrospective Maria Martins: Metamorphoses at the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2023–2024), which revisited her sculptural practice and its dialogue with mythology and transformation.
Daiara Tukano, an Indigenous artist and activist from the Upper Rio Negro region, has also seen growing international visibility. In 2025, she participated in institutional exhibitions addressing Indigenous cosmologies and environmental knowledge, including presentations linked to the 35th São Paulo Biennial (2023–2024) and subsequent international programs focused on Indigenous contemporary art.
Elba Benítez
The presentation by Elba Benítez Gallery brings together works by Claudia Andujar, Vik Muniz, and Ernesto Neto, three leading Brazilian artists whose practices span photography, sculpture, and immersive installation while engaging with questions of memory, ecology, and collective experience.
Claudia Andujar has recently received major international institutional recognition, notably with the retrospective The Yanomami Struggle at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris in 2023, which highlighted her decades-long collaboration with the Yanomami people and her role in advocating for Indigenous rights through photography.
Vik Muniz continues to maintain a strong global presence. In 2024 he presented the exhibition Vik Muniz: Rebus at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York in 2024, bringing together works that recreate iconic images through unconventional materials and explore perception, memory, and the circulation of images.
Meanwhile, Ernesto Neto has recently presented large-scale immersive installations in major institutions. Among recent projects is the exhibition Ernesto Neto: Nosso Barco Tambor Terra at the Grand Palais.
Francisco Fino
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Lombardi Kargl
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Neugerriemschneider
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Baró
Baró Galeria returns to ARCOmadrid 2026 highlighting Brazilian artists Rafaela Baroni and Bruno Novelli, alongside Portuguese artist Tiago Mestre. Their practices explore symbolic imagery, landscape, and material experimentation through distinct painterly and sculptural approaches.
Bruno Novelli has recently expanded his international visibility, with works presented in the opening program of the new Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain building in Paris (2025). Rafaela Baroni, part of a new generation of Brazilian painters gaining international attention, has recently exhibited in gallery and fair presentations across Europe and Latin America. Tiago Mestre continues to develop a sculptural practice engaging architecture and cultural symbolism, with recent exhibitions in international institutions and galleries across Europe.
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Presentation Of The "A" Awards For Collecting 2026
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