1921, Kozienice, Poland — 2017, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 

Frans Krajcberg was an artist and environmentalist. From the 1960s onwards, he began to create reliefs and sculptures using organic materials such as trunks, roots, branches and burnt leaves, as well as natural pigments. Krajcberg also produced photographs, paintings and prints depicting the environmental devastation caused by human action. He was one of the first artists to address ecological issues in his work, which has made him a world reference in environmental art.  

The artist took part in numerous group exhibitions inside and outside Brazil, including: ten editions of Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; 32nd Venice Biennale, Italy (1964); 1st Havana Biennial, Cuba (1984); and Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, at MoMA, New York, USA (1993). Since the early 1950s, he has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as: MAM Rio de Janeiro (1964); Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro (1980); among others. Recently, the anthological exhibition Frans Krajcberg: Por uma arquitetura da natureza celebrated the centenary of the artist’s birth at the MuBE, São Paulo, Brazil (2022) and Frans Krajcberg: reencontrar a árvore, at MASP, São Paulo, Brazil (2025) was part of the annual program dedicated to the Histories of Ecology. 

Krajcberg’s works are part of important collections abroad, such as: MoMA and Centre Pompidou, France. The Brazilian collections include: Casa Museu Ema Klabin; MAM Bahia; MAM Rio de Janeiro; MAM São Paulo; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; among others. 

1927, Nova Friburgo, Brazil – 2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil     

Lygia Pape produced works in various media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, cinema, and performance, exploring the space-time-body relationship. In the 1950s, she was part of the Grupo Frente, fundamental to the development of Concretism and Neoconcretism. From the 1960s onwards, her work focused on the active participation of the public and sensorial experience.  

Her works have been featured in recent solo exhibitions at institutions such as Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2023); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (2017); Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil (2012). Among the group shows, the Bienal São Paulo, Brazil, stands out (1955, 1957, 1959, 1989, 1998, 2010, 2021), as well as historical exhibitions like Nova Objetividade Brasileira (1967) and Projeto Construtivo Brasileiro na Arte: 1950-1962 (1977). Her works are part of international collections such as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Tate Modern, London, UK; MoMA, New York, USA; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil; among others. 

1920, Soma, Japan — 2001, São Paulo, Brazil  

Born in 1920 in Soma, Japan, Tikashi Fukushima worked as a technical draftsman at an aircraft factory in Tokyo when, at the age of twenty, he decided to move to Brazil in 1940. Toward the end of that decade, he attended studios and independent courses in Rio de Janeiro and began painting landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. His figurative production underwent significant transformations following his move to São Paulo in the 1950s, when he came into contact with Informal Abstraction. He then began producing abstract paintings with color palettes that recall the hues of the landscape at dawn, dusk, or night, evoking views of mountains, seas, and deserts. 

He had a solo show at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art - MAM SP, in 1961, with a critical text by Mario Pedrosa and a folder designed by Wesley Duke Lee. He exhibited regularly throughout his life and had a retrospective dedicated to his work at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo in 2001. His work is included in the collections of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, MAM SP and the USP Museum of Contemporary Art - MAC USP, in São Paulo; the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art – MAM Rio and the Roberto Marinho Collection, in Rio de Janeiro; as well as the Japanese Embassy, in Brasília; among many others.   

1913, Kyoto, Japan – 2015, São Paulo, SP, Brazil  

Tomie Ohtake was born in Kyoto, Japan, and arrived in Brazil in 1936. She began painting at the age of 39, encouraged by the Japanese artist Keiya Sugano. Throughout her extensive career, Ohtake produced paintings, watercolors, drawings, engravings, and sculptures, including large-scale public installations. Her works evoke the lightness and technical precision of Japanese art, with restrained chromatic schemes and balanced compositions. Her artistic approach emphasized the importance of empty spaces, the absence of ornamentation, and persistent engagement with pictorial research.    

 She participated in numerous solo exhibitions, group shows and art salons, both in Brazil and abroad, and has received several awards. Highlights include her participation in six editions of the Bienal de São Paulo; the 36th Venice Biennale (1972); the 1st Havana Biennale in Cuba (1984); and, recently, the 60th Venice Biennale, Italy (2024). Her work is in the collections of institutions such as MoMA, USA; SFMOMA, USA; MASP, Brazil; Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil; MAC USP, Brazil; MAM Rio, Brazil; Instituto Itaú Cultural, Brazil; Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Brazil, among others.    

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