From 21 to 29 September 2026, Fundación Botín will host in Santander the workshop Gardens of Delirium, led by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa. The artist proposes an immersion into her artistic practice, which is deeply rooted in the earth and the cycles of nature.
This workshop is structured as a space for visual, philosophical and poetic explorations focusing on gardens, squares, parks and natural environments in and around Santander, exploring their microcosms and memories. Participants will engage in processes of observation, reflection and creation in natural spaces, accompanied by photographic and audiovisual documentation of the activities.
The workshop is closely linked to the exhibition Of Day or Night, an exhibition that connects early research and work from the 1990s with ambitious formal developments of those investigations in the present decade. It will take place at Centro Botín in Santander from 10 October 2026 to 28 March 2027.
Solange Pessoa (born 1961 in Ferros, Brazil) lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Since 1993, for more than two decades, she was a professor at The Guignard University of Art of Minas Gerais (UEMG), making a significant contribution to Brazil’s artistic and academic communities. In 1996–1997 she received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Her solo exhibitions at institutions include Outras escalas – Desenhos, vídeos, instalações, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2026), Catch the Sun with Your Hand, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2025); Pilgrim Fields, Tramway, Glasgow (2025); Solange Pessoa, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2023); Longilonge, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa (2019); Metaflor-Metaflora, Museu Mineiro, Belo Horizonte (2013); Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2008); Museu da Inconfidência, Ouro Preto (2000); Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (1995); and Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (1992). She has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, notably Arts of the Earth, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2025); More than Human, Design Museum London (2025–2026) and Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (2026); ERASURE, Goodwood Art Foundation (2025); Exposition Générale, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (2025); Collector #3, Jardin Botanique de Bordeaux and La Petite Escalère (2025); Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles, Barbican Centre, London (2024) and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2025); The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice
International Biennale, Venice (2022); Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Living Worlds, Fondation Cartier, Lille (2022); Invenção de Origem, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2018).
