Shows (S for solo show, G for group show)
Land and Soil. (G) K21, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2025/26.
Dates: November 29, 2025 – April 19, 2026
Opening: November 29, 2025, 18-20h
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Perspectivas Transoceânicas: Ecos e Miragens. (G) Curated by Yudi Rafael & Carlos Quijon, Jr. Almeida & Dale Art Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2025/26.
Dates: November 8, 2025 – February 7, 2026
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O Spleen e a Flor – Flowers of Evil. (G) Martins & Montero Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2025/26.
Dates: October 30, 2025 – January 24, 2026
Bifurcations végétales. (G) Curated by Étienne de France & Clovis Maillet. La Traverse, Alfortville, France, 2025.
Dates: Septmeber 26 – December 13, 2025
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--> The accompanying event THE VEGETAL BIFURCATIONS ENCOUNTERS will take place on November 26 and 27, 2025, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP). Part of the France-Brazil 2025 Season program, the event proposes a dialogue between visual arts, archaeology, anthropology, architecture, and the agroecological knowledge of indigenous peoples, farmers and peasants, focusing on the multiplicity and conflicts linked to the notion of agriculture. From different perspectives and ways of composing with plants and other non-human beings, these encounters seek to question, deconstruct, and rethink a univocal history of agricultural practices, a central theme for contemporary social, ecological, and political challenges. Alongside the ENCOUNTERS event the exhibition Bifurcations végétales opens at MAC USP on November 25, 2025 at 6.30pm.
Beaten Earth. Writings of Composting / Tierra Batida. Escrituras Del Compostaje. (G) Curated by Fran Estepa. C3A – Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain, 2025/26.
Dates: September 19, 2025 – January 4, 2026
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Tamed Nature / Getemde Natuur. (G) Curated by Bart Tritsmans, co-curated by Hülya Ertas and Dennis Pohl. De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium, 2025/26.
Dates: September 17, 2025 – February 1, 2026
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Roma is BIENALSUR: Invocations. Contact Ecologies. (G) Curated by BIENALSUR, Benedetta Casini. Ambasciata del Brasile – Galleria Candido Portinari, Rom, Italy, 2025.
Dates: November 12 – December 12, 2025
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Recent or Upcoming Publications (Monograph, Texts or Interviews by Alves)
Selection of “This is Not an Apricot” and the Poem "The Umbragiade". in: Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2025), p. 190-207.
read Ecozon@ Journal including the contribution of Maria Thereza Alves
Seeds of Change. An interview of Giovanni Aloi with Maria Thereza Alves. in: antennae. The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Issue 67, Summer 2025, p. 161-171.
read antennae Issue 67 including the interview with Maria Thereza 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.