Viewing Beatriz Milhazes: Além do Horizonte

London’s cultural calendar kicks off this week, and Beatriz Milhazes’s latest exhibition at White Cube Mason’s Yard, Além do Horizonte (“Beyond the Horizon”), is a vibrant and colourful way to start the new year. A survey of new work by one of Brazil’s most celebrated contemporary artists runs at White Cube until 17 January 2026 bringing together an ambitious selection of recent paintings, collages and a large site-specific installation that together demonstrate Milhazes’s singular approach to abstraction and ornamentation.

Milhazes is internationally renowned for her dense, rhythmic compositions that fuse influences from Brazilian culture with European modernism, producing exuberant surfaces rich in colour and pattern. In Além do Horizonte, she expands on investigations first seen at the 2024 Venice Biennale, drawing on an eclectic archive of references—from mid-20th-century print culture and indigenous Brazilian design to European decorative traditions and her own studio materials. Works such as Pictures of the Floating World (2025) and Olokun – Goddess of The Sea (2025), illustrate Milhazes’s distinctive mono-transfer technique, wherein painted motifs are transferred from transparent plastic onto canvas.

Além do Horizonte not only highlights Milhazes’s ongoing exploration of colour and panoramic pattern but also positions her work as a dialogue between cultural histories and contemporary abstraction, affirming her place as a pivotal figure in international art today.