Dora Longo Bahia was born 1961 São Paulo, Brazil. Bahia, a multimedia artist, has worked with set design, illustration and performance art. In 1987, she earned a bachelor’s degree in artistic education from the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado. From 2000 to 2003. Since the 1990s, her works concern subject matters such as violence, sex and death.
She has a Ph.D in Visual Poetics from the University of Sao Paulo School of Communications and Arts, where she lectures. Of note among in her recent exhibitions, among other works, are: “Desastres da Guerra” (Disasters of War), at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, in Recife, and at the Figueiredo Ferraz Institute, in Ribeirão Preto, “140 Caracteres” (140 Characters), at the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, “Imaginários Contemporâneos” (Contemporary Imaginaries), at the Monterrey Technological Museum, Monterrey, “The Spiral and the Square”, at the SKMU Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway and the Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm, and “Video et Aprés”, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Bahia currently lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Dora Longo Bahia was born 1961 São Paulo, Brazil. Bahia, a multimedia artist, has worked with set design, illustration and performance art. In 1987, she earned a bachelor’s degree in artistic education from the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado. From 2000 to 2003. Since the 1990s, her works concern subject matters such as violence, sex and death.
She has a Ph.D in Visual Poetics from the University of Sao Paulo School of Communications and Arts, where she lectures. Of note among in her recent exhibitions, among other works, are: “Desastres da Guerra” (Disasters of War), at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, in Recife, and at the Figueiredo Ferraz Institute, in Ribeirão Preto, “140 Caracteres” (140 Characters), at the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, “Imaginários Contemporâneos” (Contemporary Imaginaries), at the Monterrey Technological Museum, Monterrey, “The Spiral and the Square”, at the SKMU Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway and the Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm, and “Video et Aprés”, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Bahia currently lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
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OFFSCREEN: 5th editionOctober 20–25, 2026OFFSCREEN Paris is a nomadic event that values contemporary, historic and avant-garde artists with image-based practices. With its distinct voice, it is a must-see highlight of Paris Art Week each October...
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Urara TsuchiyaPublicationUrara Tsuchiya is a limited edition book of works by Glasgow-based Japanese artist Urara Tsuchiya, in collaboration with photographer Ben Toms. This limited edition features new ceramic and costume works by Tsuchiya, photographed by Toms, with accompanying original texts by Tsuchiya.
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The Present as FoundOctober 2–23, 2026The divergent creative practices of this year’s Zvono Award finalists – Ljiljana Arsić, Isidora Branković, Mustafa Mlinarević, and Emina Veladžić – have shaped a media-heterogeneous, methodologically diverse, and conceptually multilayered exhibition.
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untame flow stay releaseAug 31 – Nov 29, 2026untame flow stay release presents artistic practices undertaken in response to unjust, environmentally toxic and ableist structures – systems that continue to suppress individuals and communities by individualizing violence...
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Irène ZurkindenAug 27 – Nov 28, 2026Coinciding with Kunsttage Basel, this August we present a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of Swiss artist Irène Zurkinden (1909–1987) at our Basel gallery. Zurkinden defied easy categorisation, developing a distinctive painterly language...
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Ulrich Seidl: On Life, Love, and DeathSep 19, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027Eye Filmmuseum presents Ulrich Seidl – Über das Leben, die Liebe und den Tod, the first exhibition – and the first complete film overview – of the renowned Austrian filmmaker in the Netherlands.
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Relic 4: Larry AchiampongOct 16 – Dec 12, 2026This autumn, Larry Achiampong will present his new film Relic 4 (2026) at KARST, revisiting the cinematic universe of the Relic Traveller project after a six-year hiatus. Exploring themes of fallen empire, class, and displacement...
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Venice Biennale 202661st International Art ExhibitionThe 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025) – will run from Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 (preview 6, 7, 8 May) at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues, and in various locations around Venice.
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In Our Time: R. B. Kitaj and BooksJun 17 – Nov 8, 2026
The exhibition presents Kitaj’s complete portfolio, rarely exhibited in its entirety, of fifty silkscreen prints, created between 1969 and 1970, titled In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part.
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Neues MuseumNuremberg, GermanyA 21st-century museum as a lively forum for cultural experiences, a place of inspiration, education, communication, and debate. Neues Museum strives to be a venue that brings together people, art, and architecture offering ever new experiences and perceptions.
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Angela Davis JohnsonArtistAngela Davis Johnson creates paintings, public art installations, and ritual performances to examine the technologies of black people, in particular black women/femme. She merges art and contemplative practices to generate works...
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The 90sOct 8, 2026 – Feb 14, 2027Guest curated by fashion industry game changer Edward Enninful OBE, whose lived experience of the decade informs the exhibition The 90s examines a defining period in which a groundswell of creativity changed
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Lotta Antonsson: I Am EverythingApr 25 – Nov 29, 2026One of Sweden’s leading contemporary photographers, Lotta Antonsson, is coming to Fotografiska with I Am Everything. In this exhibition, the artist explores themes of gender, identity, and objectification within a visual world
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Sarah Maple: Double LifeOct 3, 2026 – Apr 4, 2027Museum Arnhem presents Double Life, the first major solo exhibition in the Netherlands by British artist Sarah Maple (b. 1985). In her work, Maple explores what it means when different sides of her identity intersect...
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39th Panorama of Brazilian ArtSep 12, 2026 – Jan 24, 2027Entitled After It’s All Said, 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art, under the curatorship of Diane Lima, questions where artistic production has overflowed in the search to expand the limits of aesthetic representation through a radical exercise of imagination.
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Housekeeping in a Dangerous TimeApr 24 – Dec 31, 2026Housekeeping in a Dangerous Time looks into artistic practices that engage with the contemporary forces shaping intergenerational ties and the distinctions between life stages.
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40th Anniversary Archival PresentationMar 19 – Dec 20, 2026The MIT List Visual Arts Center traces its origins to the Hayden Gallery (founded in 1950), which brought artists and the MIT community together through diverse exhibitions and residency projects.
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Fritz ScholderApr 25 – Oct 25, 2026In a softly shimmering blue, then brown, then green, then gray, then pink, then green, then violet, then blue again, the colors of present day New Mexico landscapes are layered horizontally.
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