The exhibition Luiz Braga – Imaginary Archipelago presents 258 photographs, including 190 previously unseen works, offering an essayistic reading of the Pará-born photographer’s 50-year career. Rather than a retrospective, it highlights intimacy, everyday life, and attentive listening as the poetic core of the artist’s practice. Marajó and popular knowledge take center stage in these visual narratives. The show reveals Braga’s sensitive and singular gaze upon the deep Brazil.
After its presentation at the Spanish Pavilion during the 60th Venice Biennale, Sandra Gamarra’s project Pinacoteca Migrante now arrives at the National Library of Spain, in Madrid. Curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio, the exhibition proposes an inversion of the traditional logic of Western art galleries. Through a selection of museum landscapes from Spanish collections overlaid with texts, Gamarra articulates narratives that confront issues such as migration, racism, and extractivism. The exhibition places migration at the core of a reflection on how art history has been constructed and its connections to former colonies.
Luciano Figueiredo is featured in Von Stadt zu Stadt: Europäische Kunst im Dialog at Rathaus-Arthaus Weimar, in Germany. Representing the French city of Blois, the artist presents relief-like paintings on canvas and newsprint that engage Bauhaus forms through transparency, layering and the recomposition of signs. Bringing together works from six of Weimar’s partner cities, the exhibition explores identity and belonging in contemporary Europe.
Tiago Sant’Ana is part of the exhibition Brésil Illustré: l’héritage post colonial de J.B. Debret, at Maison de l’Amérique latine in Paris. The show creates a dialogue between Jean-Baptiste Debret’s 19th-century depictions of Brazil and contemporary interpretations by Brazilian artists.
In Refino #3 and Refino #4, Tiago Sant’Ana revisits the iconography of Black labor under colonial systems, using Debret’s work as a starting point to question and intervene in Brazil’s historiographies. In these works, sugar appears both as a medium that erases the reproduction of violence and as a trace that reveals the brutality of colonial processes, highlighting its lasting impact on social stratification. Between concealment and revelation, the artist conducts an archaeology of sugar and its enduring marks in the present.
Luiz Braga is featured in the current exhibition Cinco ensaios sobre o MASP — Histórias do MASP. The show presents 74 collection works alongside photographs and archival documents spanning more than seventy years of the museum’s history. Among these works, Rapaz e cão em Carananduba (1990) brings an Amazonian viewpoint into a visual narrative that reflects on how MASP built its collection, expanded its architecture, and became a key forum for public discussion of art in Brazil. The exhibition remains on view until August 3, 2025.
Luiz Braga is featured in Amazonie – La vie au bord du fleuve, one of three photographic shows forming part of Paris Plages during the Saison Brésil-France 2025. For fifty years, the photographer has documented riverside life in the Amazon, focusing on everyday scenes and popular culture; his expressive use of colour shapes this selection, highlighting local identity and diversity.
On view until August 31, the exhibition joins a programme that presents contemporary perspectives on the Amazon, Indigenous communities and environmental questions, bringing region-specific yet universal themes to Paris.
Curated by Luís Pinto Nunes, Kubikgallery invites Galeria Leme to take part in the group exhibition Ambient Threads, on the first floor of the Espaço Museológico Museu do Arroz, in Comporta, Portugal.
The show includes works by Ana Almeida Pinto, Flávia Vieira, Gabriel Giucci, Gonçalo Sena, Horácio Frutuoso, Isabel Carvalho, Mila Mayer, Mónica de Miranda, Pedro Barateiro, Pedro Paiva, Pedro Tudela, Raphael Tepedino, Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, Tiago Sant’Ana e Vasco Futscher.
German photographers Frank Thiel and Candida Höfer are featured in Después de todo. Fotografía en la Colección Helga de Alvear, on view at Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga, Madrid, as part of PHotoESPAÑA 2025. Gathering photographs that chart a century of European upheaval and renewal, the exhibition traces three historical moments—World War I, the post-1950 industrial crisis, and the fall of the Berlin Wall—to examine architecture, memory, and urban change.
Drawn from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Höfer and Thiel’s works focus on interiors, façades, and industrial sites, highlighting the tension between documentary record and constructed image in a continent that perpetually rebuilds itself.
Candida Höfer’s solo exhibition is on view at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. The show brings together large-scale photographs portraying interiors of public buildings, alongside more recent series in which the artist explores, among other elements, temporary lighting structures.
Höfer considers her photographs not as architectural records, but as portraits of spaces that reveal their function and cultural significance. With a career spanning over five decades, she is one of the leading figures of the Düsseldorf School. Her work has received numerous awards, including the Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, in 2024.
Candida Höfer is part of the exhibition Civilization: The Way We Live Now, at Kunsthalle München, Germany. The show features over 200 works by international photographers exploring how contemporary societies build, organize, consume, and connect.
Divided into eight thematic sections, the exhibition presents images that address topics such as housing, urban environment, labor, leisure, transportation, information flows, and collectivity. Candida Höfer’s photographs engage with these themes through meticulously composed images of architectural interiors that reflect contemporary social and cultural structures.
