VENICE.- Galer韆 Traves韆 Cuatro announced that the project RedSkyFalls by Portuguese artist Alexandre Estrella has been elected to officially represent Portugal at the upcoming 61st Venice Biennale, in 2026.
Ana Baliza and Ricardo Nicolau will be in charge of curating the exhibition, and Marco Bene will be the curator of the public program.
The next Venice Biennial will be held under the theme “In Minor Keys,” curated by Koyo Kouoh, who passed away in May this year. The biennial will present a transformative vision of art as resistance, introspection, and joy in the face of the environmental crisis and will be held from May 9 to November 22, 2026, with a preview on May 7 and 8 in the Giardini, the Arsenale, and other venues in central Venice.
The work of Alexandre Estrela (1971, Lisbon, Portugal) investigates the essence of images, expanding spatially and temporally across different media. In his videos and installations, Estrela examines the subject’s psychological responses to images and their interaction with matter. Each work evokes synesthetic experiences—visual and auditory illusions, as well as aural and chromatic sensations—that function as perceptual traps, guiding the viewer toward multiple conceptual meanings. Through this strategy, Estrela questions the constitutive elements of perception, splitting vision into more sensorial dimensions and opening it toward the unseen and the unheard.
Recent solo exhibitions include: INTERVALO, CIAGJ Guimaraes, Portugal, 2025; ViewSonic, Traves韆 Cuatro, Madrid, 2024; A Natureza Aborrece o Monstro, Culturgest, Lisboa, 2024; Flat Bells, The Marie-Jos閑 and Henry Kravis Studio, MoMA, New York, 2023; Mickey Mouth (+ Ren Bertholo), Uppercut, Lisboa, 2023; A Third Reason, Rialto6, Lisboa, 2022; Forgotten Sounds of Tomorrow, Galeria Bruno Mur韆s, Lisboa, 2022; D韆 El閏trico (+ Jo鉶 Maria Gusm鉶), Traves韆 Cuatro, CDMX, 2021; and All and Everything, Tamayo Museum, CDMX, 2020.
His work is included in the permanent collections of Fundaci髇 La Caixa (Spain); The Museum of Modern Art (USA); Fundaci髇 Museo de Arte Reina Sof韆 (Spain); Colecci髇 Inelcom (Spain); Museo Tamayo (Mexico); Collection Centre Pompidou, (France); Funda玢o Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal); Museu Nacional de Arte Contempor鈔ea — Museu do Chiado (Portugal); Funda玢o Telecom (Portugal); Funda玢o Serralves (Portugal); Ant髇io Cachola Collection (Portugal); MAAT — Museum of Art Technology and Architecture (Portugal); Taguchi Art Collection (Japan); Collection Teixeira de Freitas (Portugal); Maria Jo鉶 and Armando Cabral Collection (Portugal); Pedro Barbosa’s Private Collection (Brazil); among others.
