Victoria Miro Opens "Modernisms" with New Adriana Varejão Paintings
Victoria Miro has launched an exhibition called "Modernisms," showcasing new artworks by Adriana Varejão. Inspired by her involvement in the Brazilian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, the exhibition runs through November 22, 2026. While the pavilion features tiles emphasizing Baroque and religious motifs, "Modernisms" celebrates Brazil's modernist movement and its ties to both historical and modern tile art. Over the past thirty years, Varejão has examined Portuguese tiles' influence on Brazil's cultural landscape, creating a diverse iconographic collection that bridges her work presented in Venice with her artistic endeavors in London.
Key facts
- Victoria Miro opened "Modernisms," an exhibition of new paintings by Adriana Varejão.
- The work was conceived in direct dialogue with Varejão's participation in the Brazilian Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
- The Venice Biennale presentation runs until 22 November 2026.
- The pavilion's tile paintings draw inspiration from Baroque and religious tilework of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- The paintings in "Modernisms" shift the investigation toward Brazil's modern period.
- The exhibition represents a temporal leap from colonial tilework to modernist tiles.
- It also marks a shift from a tradition inherited from Portugal to a visual language Brazil reinvented and made its own.
- For more than three decades, Varejão's research has primarily focused on Portuguese tiles that arrived in Brazil during the colonial period.
Entities
Artists
Institutions
- Victoria Miro
- Brazilian Pavilion
- La Biennale di Venezia
Locations
- Brazil
- Portugal
- Venice
- Italy
- London
- United Kingdom