VENICE.- Galería Travesía 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, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, 2024; A Natureza Aborrece o Monstro, Culturgest, Lisboa, 2024; Flat Bells, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, MoMA, New York, 2023; Mickey Mouth (+ René Bertholo), Uppercut, Lisboa, 2023; A Third Reason, Rialto6, Lisboa, 2022; Forgotten Sounds of Tomorrow, Galeria Bruno Murías, Lisboa, 2022; Día Eléctrico (+ João Maria Gusmão), Travesía Cuatro, CDMX, 2021; and All and Everything, Tamayo Museum, CDMX, 2020.
His work is included in the permanent collections of Fundación La Caixa (Spain); The Museum of Modern Art (USA); Fundación Museo de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain); Colección Inelcom (Spain); Museo Tamayo (Mexico); Collection Centre Pompidou, (France); Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal); Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea — Museu do Chiado (Portugal); Fundação Telecom (Portugal); Fundação Serralves (Portugal); António Cachola Collection (Portugal); MAAT — Museum of Art Technology and Architecture (Portugal); Taguchi Art Collection (Japan); Collection Teixeira de Freitas (Portugal); Maria João and Armando Cabral Collection (Portugal); Pedro Barbosa’s Private Collection (Brazil); among others.
