Concrete Art / Neoconcretismo

The fact that the Zurich Concretist Max Bill (1908–1994) made a significant impression on the Brazilian art scene in 1951, both with his first major solo show at Museu de Arte de São Paulo and his participation in the first São Paulo Biennial, has already been touched on in several exhibitions at Museum Haus Konstruktiv. It is also documented that Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920–1988), one of the main representatives of the neoconcretismo movement that was initiated in 1959, made direct reference to Bill in the some of her works. To this day, the actual extent of Max Bill’s influence on the beginnings of concrete art in Brazil and the question of which other precursors played a role for neoconcretismo in particular are still subjects of art-historical discourse, which is incorporated into the exhibition at Haus Konstruktiv.

23.10.2025–11.1.2026
Curated by Evelyne Bucher