New Beatriz Milhazes Artist's Edition Launching on 20 September

Following the success of her summer retrospective Maresias in 2023, Turner Contemporary is pleased to present Bolha de Sabão [Soap Bubble], 2024, a new Collage Edition by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. This is the third artist edition to be published by Turner Editions, proceeds of which will provide essential support for the gallery’s future exhibition and learning programmes, enabling free access to art for all.  

Widely recognised as one of the leading abstract artists working today, Milhazes is known for creating intensely colourful, large-scale abstract paintings and collages that celebrate a myriad of influences from nature and architecture to art history. 

For Turner Contemporary, Milhazes has created an exclusive handmade collaged edition in an edition of 40 works. Comprising 44 individual cut papers, the petal and leaf forms, together with the highly charged colour palette, resonate with the tropical fauna found in the botanical garden close to her studio. Milhazes has long incorporated natural forms into her work, increasingly taking inspiration from her local environment in Rio – from the surrounding rainforest to the Atlantic coastline – to centre her compositions on the cycles of renewal found in the natural world.

Collage has been integral to Milhazes’ practice since the outset of her career in the 1980s, when she first incorporated paper cut-outs, fabric and lengths of ribbon into her paintings. The introduction of her unique monotransfer technique (the layering of individual dried painted motifs on canvas) in 1989 allowed her to continue the principle of collage but with painted forms of her own making. In 2003, Milhazes returned to creating collages using papers and materials she collects, with several featured in her exhibition at Turner. By layering and combining varied materials – from sweet wrappers to shiny packaging and decorative marbled papers, Bolha de Sabão [Soap Bubble], 2024 embodies a visual journal reflecting Milhazes’ travels and daily life. 

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Beatriz Milhazes was born in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she lives and works. She represented Brazil at the 50th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2003) and she has also participated in the São Paulo Biennial (1998, 2004); and the Shanghai Biennial (2006). In 2024 she returned to Venice where she created a special project for the Applied Arts Pavilion, a collaboration between La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 

Milhazes has been the subject of solo exhibitions including Turner Contemporary, Margate (2023) – which toured to Tate St Ives (2024); Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai (2021); MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2020); Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2014/2015); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2021); Fondation Cartier, Paris (2009) and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2001).