“I think I’ve lived my entire life in labyrinths. It’s my way of seeing the world” — Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

“From April 12 through September 15, 2025, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space, a comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to one of the most unique and original artists of the twentieth century, organized by Flavia Frigeri, art historian and curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London. After Venice, the exhibition will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from October 15, 2025, through February 22, 2026.

Through a selection of about seventy works—on loan from leading international museums, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Guggenheim New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Tate Modern, London, as well as renowned galleries such as Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, and cultural institutions such as the Comité Arpad Szenes-Viera da Silva, Paris, and Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva Foundation, Lisbon—the exhibition provides an in-depth exploration of the evolution of the visual language of Portuguese-born French artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992). Highlighting the important relationship between abstraction and figuration in her work, the exhibition explores key moments in Vieira da Silva’s career from the 1930s to the late 1980s.” — Peggy Guggenheim Collection 

Installation views of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space at Peggy Guggenheim Collection, April 12 through September 15, 2025. Photos: Matteo De Fina.

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, published by Marsilio Arte, with essays by curator Flavia Frigeri, artist Giulia Andreani, writer and essayist Lauren Elkin, and art historian Jennifer Sliwka

Title image: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Figure de ballet (Ballet Figure), 1948, oil and graphite on canvas, 27 x 46 cm . Courtesy Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris-Lisbon © Maria Elena Vieira da Silva, by SIAE 2025.

Images courtesy Peggy Guggenheim Collection.