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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present ‘Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space’ from 16 October 2025 to 22 February 2026. The exhibition is an in-depth exploration of the visual language of Portuguese-born French artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992). Organised into eight thematic sections, the exhibition explores key moments in Vieira da Silva’s career from the 1930s to the late 1980s. Particular attention is paid to her interest in architectural space, in which she blurred the boundaries between real and imaginary urban landscapes and transcended formal references to Portuguese visual culture and avant-garde movements such as Cubism and Futurism.
The idea of space is a central theme in Maria Helena Vieira da Silva’s work. Her compositions, with their labyrinthine structures, chromatic rhythms and fragmented perspectives, capture the essence of a world in constant flux.
Vieira da Silva dissolved the boundaries between real and imaginary urban landscapes and went beyond formal references to Portuguese visual culture and avant-garde movements such as Cubism and …
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Image above: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. La Chambre à carreaux, 1935. Oil on canvas, 60.4× 91.3 cm. Tate, accepted by the British government in lieu of taxes, with additional support from the Nicholas Themans Trust, 2014. © María Helena Vieira da Silva, VEGAP, Bilbao 2025.
