Shows (S for solo show, G for group show)
Pluriversal Recapturings – Riconquiste pluriversali. (S) La Moncalvina, Canelli AT, Italy, 2026.
Opening: July 11, 2026, 6pm
Dates: The project Pluriversal Recapturings will be open to the public from 12 July, 2026 and will be permanent.
Pluriversal Recapturings has been made possible through the support of Fondo Unico Nazionale per il Turismo (FUNT), established by the Italian Ministry of Tourism, and Regione Piemonte, with the curatorial coordination of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.
Conceived specifically for the site of La Moncalvina in Canelli, the work emerges from the encounter between Alves’s research and one of Europe’s most significant cultural landscapes, recognised by UNESCO as an outstanding example of the interaction between human activity and the natural environment. The work thus becomes part of Canelli’s public space as a permanent marker of the UNESCO anniversary and as an invitation to view the landscape not merely as a heritage to be preserved, but as a living, open, and evolving ecosystem.
After Memory. Echoes in the Future Perfect Tense. (G) Curated by Lisa Deml, Nathalia Lavigne and Víctor Fancelli Capdevila. Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, 2026.
Dates: July 10 – October 11, 2026
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Fabriquer un Jardin. (G) Le Point du Jour – Centre d’Art Éditeur, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France, 2026.
Dates: July 5 – October 18, 2026
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Admiranda e Arcana Naturae. (G) Curated by Giulia Pollicita. MUSA – University Museum of Sciences and Arts Naples, Italy, 2026.
Dates: July 2 – September 30, 2026
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Before the Eclipse. Archaeologies of Art in Mexico. (G) Curated by Maco Sánchez Blanco and Andrea Torreblanca. Museuo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2026.
Dates: June 10 – October 18, 2026
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Seeds. Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures. (G) Curated by Sophie Haslinger. KunstHausWien - Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna, Austria, 2026/2027.
Dates: April 10, 2026 – February 14,2027
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The Exhibition is part of Klima Biennale Wien 2026.
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.