• Galerie Peter Kilchmann is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Fernanda Gomes. The exhibition marks the artist's first personal project in Paris in more than a decade, her second solo exhibition with the Galerie and will be presented across two venues: Galerie Peter Kilchmann and Peter Freeman, Inc.
     
  • An exhibition can be many things. It can be more than a collection of artworks. I like to make an...
    Installation view: Fernanda Gomes, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris, France, 2025. Photo: Aurélien Mole

    An exhibition can be many things. It can be more than a collection of artworks. I like to make an exhibition as a game of relations, a flexible ensemble of autonomous elements. It is a physical result of a mental state, something that can’t be repeated, or controlled. It is an imagined situation over an unpredictable reality, and also its opposite, the unpredictability of everything taking charge of the imagination.

    Fernanda Gomes

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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled (diptych), 2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled (diptych), 2025
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  • Installation view: Fernanda Gomes, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris, France, 2025. Photo: Aurélien Mole
    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled , 2025
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2015/2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2015/2025
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  • In August 2025, Fernanda Gomes settled in Paris to conceive her exhibitions simultaneously at Galerie Peter Kilchmann and Peter Freeman, Inc., approaching them as a single, interconnected project. True to her practice, the artist developed her work in direct response to the spaces that host it, gradually inhabiting each site over the course of several weeks. Her method, both intuitive and rigorous, unfolds slowly, guided by the relationships between forms, light, and architecture.
     
    Through a distinctive aesthetic vocabulary, Fernanda Gomes collects and assembles simple materials; pieces of wood left raw or painted white, canvas, paper, as well as seeds, matchsticks, and cigarette paper. Arranged with great precision, these often fragile and modest elements form delicate installations that invite close attention, where every detail contributes to a subtle balance between presence and withdrawal.
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled (diptych), 2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled (diptych), 2025
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled, 2025
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    • Fernanda Gomes, Untitled (diptych), 2025
      Fernanda Gomes, Untitled (diptych), 2025
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  • Installation view: Fernanda Gomes, Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris, France, 2025. Photo: Aurélien Mole (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view: Fernanda Gomes, Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris, France, 2025. Photo: Aurélien Mole (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view: Fernanda Gomes, Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris, France, 2025. Photo: Aurélien Mole (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view: Fernanda Gomes, Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris, France, 2025. Photo: Aurélien Mole (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view: Fernanda Gomes, Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris, France, 2025. Photo: Aurélien Mole (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view: Fernanda Gomes, Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris, France, 2025. Photo: Aurélien Mole (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Installation view: Fernanda Gomes, Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris, France, 2025. Photo: Aurélien Mole

  • Fernanda Gomes was born in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, where she lives. She has had solo shows at Pinacoteca...
    Fernanda Gomes was born in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, where she lives. She has had solo shows at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2019); Vienna Secession (2019); Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2018); Centre International d'Art et du Paysage, Vassivière (2013); Museu da Cidade, Lisbon (2012); Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (2011); and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (2006). Her work is in the collections of numerous museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Vancouver Art Gallery; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Tate Modern, London.
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