Ernesto Neto produces sculptures and large-scale immersive installations, employing artisanal techniques such as crochet to compose flexible, interactive structures that activate our five senses, with the incorporation of botanical elements, spices and herbs. The artist weaves membranes and skins, nets and containers that use gravity and balance as compositional resources. His works always maintain a close relationship to nature, whether in the biomorphic physiognomy of his structures or the interconnected character of the elements that compose his spaces. Ernesto Neto’s multisensory environments are walked through and inhabited, forming meeting places for exchange and reflection. The public is not presupposed as a group of observers but received as a collective of active bodies and presences in the installations.
Among his recent solo exhibitions are Vonta de vi dada dada, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2026); Nosso Barco Tambor Terra, Grand Palais, Paris, France (2025); Nosso Barco Tambor Terra, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal (2024); CapiDançaBaribéNois, Oficina Francisco Brennand, Recife, Brazil (2023); SunForceOceanLife, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA (2021); Sopro, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; MALBA – Museum of Latin American Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2021) Mentre la vita ci respira – SoPolpoVit’EreticoLe, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy (2021); Water Falls from my Breast to the Sky, MCA – Museum Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (2019). The artist also participated in the group shows For Children. Art Stories since 1968, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2025); Helsinki Biennial, Vallisaari Island, Helsinki, Finland (2025); Remedios: Where New Land Might Grow, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía – C3A, Córdoba, Spain (2023); 1.5 Degrees, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany (2023) e Interstices, Elevation 1049, Gstaad, Switzerland (2023).
The artists has works in important public collections such the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; The American Fund for the Tate Gallery Collection, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, MOT, Tokyo, Japan; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA; Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Madrid, Spain; SFMoMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA; Qatar Museum, Doha, Qatar; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, Spain and Verbund Österreichische Elektrizitätswirtschafts, Vienna, Austria.
