Leda Catunda

1961, São Paulo, Brazil

I liked the idea of creating a kind of visual constellation - a composition where forms, marks, and textures could meet, overlap, and begin a new conversation. I brought together paintings and drawings from different moments in my practice, combining fragments that had never before existed within a single image. The result is a dense and layered print: full of detail, and vibrant colour, with a slightly abstract quality that feels almost like an alphabet of shapes. I wanted the fan to hold that same sense of tactile vitality as it becomes something light, and in motion. On fabric, these forms take on another life - they begin to breathe differently, to open and close, and to reveal themselves through movement.

Ventaglio

Tropical

Collection

2026

Ventaglio turns toward Leda Catunda’s tactile language, where material, colour, and touch become meaning. Catunda is a Brazilian artist celebrated for works that blur the line between painting and object. Working with textiles and everyday domestic materials, she treats the “support” as substance – stuffed, stitched, draped, and reworked, bringing a sense of circularity and resourcefulness to the act of making. Her visual world shifts between mass culture and craft, abstraction and pop, producing works that feel playful, sensuous, and materially sharp. In the context of Ventaglio, her approach makes the fan feel vividly alive – an object where the surface becomes a story.

Selected Solo exhibitions

Leda Catunda: I like to like what others are liking, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2025–26)
Favorita, Emanuela Campoli, Paris (2025)
Paisagem Selvagem, Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro (2024)
Leda Catunda: EUFORIA, Fondazione ICA Milano, Milan (2023)
Leda Catunda: Geography, Bortolami, New York (2022)
Judy Chicago & Leda Catunda, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo (2022)
Leda Catunda & Alejandra Seeber, MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (2021)
Projeto Parede | Paisagem Moderna, MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo (2019)
I Love You Baby, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2016)
Leda Catunda 1985–2015, Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Fortaleza (2015)
Leda Catunda e o Gosto dos Outros, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo (2015)
Pinturas Recentes, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (2013)
Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2009)
Leda Catunda – Obras Recentes, Galeria 111, Lisbon (2008)
MAC Dragão do Mar – Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza (2007)
Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York (2004)
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (2003)
Paço das Artes, São Paulo (1999)
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (1997)
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo (1996)
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (1992)
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Americana, Americana (1990)
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (1987)
Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro (1985)

Selected Group exhibitions

Fullgás – Artes Visuais e Anos 1980 no Brasil, CCBB – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2024)
Rituals of the Everyday, Collegium, Arévalo (2024)
PLAY, FITE – Biennale Textile, Clermont-Ferrand (2024)
El Dorado. Un Territorio, The Americas Society, New York (2023)
El Dorado. Un Territorio, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (2023)
Rayuela, el orden falso, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid (2023)
Re-Materialized: The Stuff That Matters, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan (2023)
Utopias e Distopias, MAM BA – Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador (2022)
A Máquina do Mundo: Arte e Indústria no Brasil 1901–2021, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo (2021)
1981–2021 Arte Contemporânea Brasileira na Coleção Andrea e José Olympio Pereira, CCBB – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2021)
Casa Carioca, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro (2020)
Pinacoteca: Acervo, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo (2020)
Destination Latin America, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge (2019)
Passado/Futuro/Presente: Arte Contemporânea Brasileira no Acervo do MAM, MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo (2019)
Afinidades Afetivas – 33ª Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2018)
Oito Décadas de Abstração Informal, MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo (2018)
Destination Latin America, South Bend Museum, South Bend (2018)
Troposphere: Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing (2017)
Metrópole: Experiência Paulistana, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo (2017)
Histórias da Sexualidade, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo (2017)
Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Brazilian Art from the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix (2017)
Everything You Are I Am Not: Latin American Contemporary Art from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Mana Wynwood, Miami (2016)
Destination Latin America, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, New York (2016)
Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2014)
30x Bienal, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2013)
Sob o Peso dos Meus Amores, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre (2012)
Haptic, Tokyo Wonder Site – Institute of Contemporary Art and International Cultural Exchange, Tokyo (2008)
MAM na OCA, OCA – Pavilhão Gov. Lucas Nogueira Garcez, São Paulo (2006)
Paralela – Uma Exposição de Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Pavilhão dos Estados, São Paulo (2006)
Onde Está Você, Geração 80?, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Brasília (2004)
Bienal do Mercosul, Fundação Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2001)
Mostra do Redescobrimento: Brasil +500 Anos, Associação Brasil 500 Anos Artes Visuais, São Paulo (2000)
Der Brasilianische Blick, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (1998)
Material Immaterial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (1997)
Latin American Women Artists 1915–1995, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Art Institute, Miami (1996)
Bienal Brasil Século XX, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (1994)
XXII Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (1994)
Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York (1993)
Viva Brasil Viva, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm (1991)
U-ABC, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1989)
Modernidade, Museum of Modern Art of Paris, Paris (1987)
XVIII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (1985)
Como Vai Você, Geração 80?, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro (1984)
I Bienal de Havana, Havana (1984)
Pintura como Meio, MAC USP – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (1983)
XVII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo – Vídeo Texto, São Paulo (1983)

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