Maria Thereza Alves
Maria Thereza Alves is a Brazilian-born artist, writer, and activist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of ecology, colonial history, migration, and indigenous knowledge systems. Through research-based installations, drawings, films, and botanical investigations, she reveals how landscapes and natural environments carry the traces of political violence, displacement, and global trade. Her acclaimed long-term project Seeds of Change examines the movement of plants through colonial shipping routes, uncovering hidden histories embedded within port cities and ecosystems.
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Rue aux Laines 14, 1000 Bruxelles
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Martins&Montero is a contemporary art gallery created in 2024 from the merger of two established galleries, Sé and Jaqueline Martins. With spaces in São Paulo and Brussels, the gallery proposes collaborative curatorial strategies that foster exchanges between different generations and different cultural perspectives. Through a program made up of national and international artists at different points in their careers, interdisciplinary productions with diverse approaches co-exist and dialogue in a profound way.
In São Paulo, Martins&Montero is based in a large house built in the 1950s, whose mission is to host exhibitions, meetings and promote art in a human way, bringing the public closer to the artists’ production.
In Brussels, with a house located in the central part of the city, the gallery aims to expand its presence in Europe and develop a multidisciplinary program that promotes connections between its artists and Brazilian art practices in an international context.