Concrete Art / Neoconcretismo

It is beyond dispute that the Zurich Concretist Max Bill (1908–1994) made a significant impression on the Brazilian art scene in 1951, both with his first retrospective at Museu de Arte de São Paulo and his participation in the 1st São Paulo Biennial. Museum Haus Konstruktiv has already touched on this in a number of exhibitions. It is also evident, and well documented, that Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920–1988), one of the main representatives of the neoconcretismo movement that was initiated in 1959, made reference to Bill in the works she produced during the early 1960s. To this day, the actual extent of Max Bill’s influence on the beginnings of concrete art in Brazil, as well as the question of which other precursors were particularly important for neoconcretismo, are still the subject of art-historical discourse, which will be incorporated into the exhibition at Haus Konstruktiv.

23.10.2025–11.1.2026
Curated by Evelyne Bucher