07 Mar – 31 May 2026
São Paulo, Brazil
aberto.art
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For its fifth edition, ABERTO will take place at Casa Bola, Eduardo Longo’s spherical residence in São Paulo, opening the architect’s private home to the public. The itinerant exhibition series, which previously occupied Le Corbusier’s Maison La Roche in Paris, continues its focus on architecturally significant houses as settings for contemporary art and design.
Built between 1974 and 1979, Casa Bola rises as an eight meter diameter sphere set above a concrete base. From the street, the reflective volume appears suspended, its curved ferrocement shell catching light in soft tonal shifts. A narrow stair traces the perimeter before leading into a continuous interior shaped by the same material throughout. Constructed by hand over a mesh of recycled steel tubes, the house integrates walls, furniture, lighting, and fixtures into a single spatial system where surfaces bend and partitions tilt.
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