Official Poster 2026

Keeping its tradition of uniting sport and culture, Rio Open presents the official poster for its 12th edition, signed by Rio-born artist Marcos Chaves. The original work, created especially for the tournament, offers a new perspective on the clay court and reinforces the event's role as a space where tennis engages with Brazilian contemporary art.

The artist Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1961, Marcos Chaves is one of the most relevant names in contemporary Brazilian art. Since the 1980s, his practice has developed through appropriation and intervention, moving across different media such as objects, photography, video, drawing, words, and sound. Throughout his career, he has participated in major international biennials and exhibited at prestigious institutions in Brazil and abroad, such as MASP, MAM Rio, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.

The artwork Titled Crux, the piece created for Rio Open 2026 is part of the Justapostos series and begins with the deconstruction of the clay court, reorganizing it into multiple planes and perspectives. The result is an image that scrambles space, play, and orientation, inviting the viewer to experience tennis from a new point of view.

"'Crux' scrambles the clay court and reintroduces it as an instrument of plastic-spatial disorientation. Here, the game is another. The lines stop imposing boundaries—always necessary for the articulation of play—and find resonance in the movement inherent to its dynamics. The line is an index of movement. The balls, placed on the planes following the outline of the stars of the Southern Cross constellation, not only punctuate the space but also intertwine the tournament's importance in the region with the constellation's well-known historical role in aiding navigation—establishing a symbolic bridge between past and present while projecting into the future," explains Marcos.