ABERTO4 | LE CORBUSIER

5/13 - 6/8, 2025

After three editions held in São Paulo, ABERTO presented its fourth edition at Maison La Roche in Paris, marking its first international exhibition. The exhibition took place between May 13 and June 8, 2025.

Bringing together around 40 works of art and design by historical and contemporary Brazilian artists, several pieces were conceived specifically for the spaces of the house, in dialogue with its spatial organization, circulation, and color palette. The exhibition route followed the architectural logic proposed by Le Corbusier, based on the experience of movement, articulating volumes, light, and color throughout the spaces.

The art curation was carried out by Claudia Moreira Salles, Filipe Assis, and Kiki Mazzucchelli. For the first time, ABERTO also featured the special participation of Lauro Cavalcanti as guest curator of the exhibition.

Location

Maison La Roche

Designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret between 1923 and 1925, Maison La Roche is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Built for the collector Raoul La Roche, it currently houses the Fondation Le Corbusier. Considered one of the most emblematic works of the architects’ Purist period, the house reflects Le Corbusier’s pursuit of a fluid and integrated architectural experience, essential to the development of modernist language in the early 20th century. Its rigorous geometry, the articulation between function and aesthetics, and the experimental use of color make the house a three-dimensional manifesto of the principles of the modernist avant-garde.

For the first time in history, a Brazilian exhibition occupied the space, proposing an unprecedented encounter between Brazil and the architectural and aesthetic legacy of Le Corbusier.