Shows (S for solo show, G for group show)
Land and Soil. (G) K21, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2025/2026.
Dates: November 29, 2025 – April 19, 2026
Opening: November 29, 2025, 18-20h
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3rd Helsinki Biennial – Shelter. (G) Curated by Kati Kivinen and Blanca de la Torre. Vallisaari Island, Helsinki Art Museum’s Tennis Palace, and Esplanade Park, Helsinki, Finland, 2025.
Dates: June 8 – September 21, 2025
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Recent or Upcoming Publications (Monograph, Texts or Interviews by Alves)
Germinating. Text by Maggie M. Cao about Maria Thereza Alves' Seed works, in: Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies. Published by The University of Chicago Press 2025.
Nanganja: About What. Text by Brook Garru Andrew and Jessica Neath about Maria Thereza Alves' work "A Casa de Maria (Maria's House)", in: Marramarra: Indigenous Artists Making History Visible. Published by NewSouth Publishing, Sydney 2024.
Exercises in Decolonizing One’s Imagination ~ Weaving Common Ground Part 1. A Talk with Maria Thereza Alves by Wilma Lukatsch, transcript publishing, Bielefeld 2023.
The Text is published in the Anthology "Künste dekolonisieren. Ästhetische Praktiken des Lernens und Verlernens / Decolonizing Arts. Aesthetic Practices of Learning and Unlearning" which is based on a Lecture Series by the Research Training Group „Das Wissen der Künste / The Knowledge in the Arts“ at University of the Arts in Berlin.
further information about the book
„Wo ist für dich der Ort der Indigenen? “– Dekoloniale Kunstwissenschaft als Verortungspraxis kolonialen Nicht-Wissens / "Where is the place of the Indian for you?" - Decolonial Art Science as a Practice to Localizie Colonial Ways of Not-Knowing. Text by Wilma Lukatsch about Maria Thereza Alves' work "Um Vazio Pleno / A Full Void" from 2017, transcript publishing, Bielefeld 2023.
The text is published in: "An den Rändern des Wissens. Über künstlerische Epistemologien / The Margins of Knowing. On Artistic Epistemologies".
further information about the book
Interview with Maria Thereza Alves by Giovanni Aloi & Michael Marder. The original contribution is part of the comprehensive reader: Vegetal Entwinements in Philosophy and Art. Published by MIT Press, 2023.
Silvia Bottinelli in conversation with Maria Thereza Alves. The conversation is part of the book: Artists and the Practice of Agriculture Politics and Aesthetics of Food Sovereignty in Art since 1960 by Silvia Bottinelli. Published by Routledge, 2023.
Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change. Edited by Carin Kuoni and Wilma Lukatch. Published by Amherst College Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School. Designed by Common Name. 2023.
The first monograph of Alves’s historic project, Seeds of Change is edited by Carin Kuoni and Wilma Lukatsch and features essays by the artist as well as Katayoun Chamany, Seth Denizen, Jean Fisher, Yrjö Haila, Richard William Hill, Heli M. Jutila, J. K?haulani Kauanui, Lara Khaldi, Tomaž Mastnak, Marisa Prefer, and Radhika Subramaniam.
The book can be ordered through Amherst College Press or
Vera List Center for Arts and Politics.