Rivane Neuenschwander Born: 1967 in Brazil Lives and works in Brazil Education 1996-98 MA, Royal College of Art, London 1988-93 BA, Fine Art, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil One–Person Exhibitions (selected) 2009 New Museum, New York, NY 2008 South London Gallery, London Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2007 Coisa de Ninguém. Coisa de Todos, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Forum 60: Rivane Neuenschwander, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Black Box: Rivane Neuenschwander, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington 2006 Other Stories and Stories of Others, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2005 Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany 2004 Currents 93: Rivane Neuenschwander, St Louis Art Museum, Gallery 337, Missouri 2003 Eu Desejo o seu Desejo, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Superficial Resemblance, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Aloisio Magalhaes Modern Art Museum, Recife, Brazil 2002 To/From: Rivane Neuenschwander, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue) Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2001 Spell, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue) The Americas Society, New York, NY (brochure) Artpace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas, TX 2000 Syndrome, IASPIS, International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm, Sweden (brochure) Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1999 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 1997 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 1996 Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil 1992 Itaú Galeria, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Itaú Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil Group Exhibitions (selected) 2008 All-Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany 2007 The Geopolitics of the Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), curated by Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes. Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Organizing Chaos, PS1 MOMA, Long Island City, NY MAM Collectors Council Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, FL The Shapes Of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Everstill, Huerta de San Vicente, Granada, Spain (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist) Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 6ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2006 The Show Will Be Open When The Show Will Be Closed, Kadist Art Foundation and various locations, Paris, France (curated by Adam Carr) Tropicalia, Barbican Art Centre, London; touring to Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal; Bronx Museum, New York, NY (curated by Carlos Basualdo) Water, Water Everywhere..., Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VI Stopover, FRI-ART Center of Modern Art, Fribourg, Switzerland Sinais ne Pista, Museu Imperial de Petrópolis, Brazil 9th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba 2005 Experiencing Duration, Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Ecos y Contrastes, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica Colleció Fundació La Caixa – 20 anys amb l’art contemporani, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain Tropicalia, touring exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Urban Cocktail, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Here Comes the Sun, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden Always a Little Further, 51st Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 5th Biennal de Arte do Mercusol, Porto Alegre, Brazil Water Event, The Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway Desenhos: A-Z, Porta 33, Madeira, Portugal Old News, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Los Angeles, LA New Work – New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Rampa: Signaling New Latin American Art Initiatives, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ 2004 Artist's Favourites, ICA, London Never Never Landscape, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany Cinema e Arte, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal Pasaje & Memoria (Landscape & Memory), La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Brasil: Body Nostalgia, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; touring to National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (dys)function, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden Paralela 2004, São Paulo, Brazil 2003 A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Plunder- Culture as Material, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee From Dusk to Dusk- Art between Light and Dirt, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark MAMAM - Museu de Arte do Recife, Recife, Brazil Frankenstein, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Ethan Sklar) Delays and Revolutions, Venice Biennale, Italy Land Land! Helen Mirra, Rivane Neuenschwander, Katja Strunz, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2002 poT, II Liverpool Biennal of Contemporary Art, Liverpool Rotativa – Fase 2, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Haunted by Detail, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Vivências, The New Art Gallery of Walsall, Walsall Extreme Protection, Nit Niu 2002, Cala Sant Vicenç de Pollença, Mallorca, Spain Eye of the Beholder, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee 2001 Panorama de Arte Brasileira, São Paulo Contemporary Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil Trans Sexual Express, Centro D'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, TX Absences, Oslo, Norway 2000 Friends and Neighbours, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland Space Experiences: Homage to the Space, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan The Quiet in the Land 2: Projeto Axi, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil No es Solo lo que Ves: Pervirtiendo el Minimalismo, Queen Sofia National Art Museum, Madrid, Spain Brasil+500, Mostra do Redescobrimento, São Paulo, Brazil Bienal de Gravura, Porto Alegre, Brazil 1999 Au-Delà, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany Cotidiano/Arte Objeto Anos 90, Instituto Cultural Itaú, São Paulo, Brazil Looking for a Place, 3rd International Site Santa Fé Biennial, Santa Fé, NM Trace, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool Luminous Mischief, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Calming the Clouds, Oslo, Norway Powder, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 1998 Bili Bidjoka, Los Carpinteros, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY XXIV São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil The Garden, catalogue, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark; touring to Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Edsvik Konst & Kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden; Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark 1997 II Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa V International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey Material Immaterial, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Arco Contemporary Art Fair, Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid, Spain Antarctica Artes com a Folha, Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil 1996 Cercanias, Geto Gráfico, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Latino America 96, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1995 Os náugragos, Sala Corpo de Exposições, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Amanhã, Hoje, Faap, São Paulo, Brazil A Infância Perversa, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Solar do Unhão, Salvador, Brazil Rubinho-Neuenschwander-Freire-Barachini, Centro de Artes UFF, Niterói, Brazil Guaicurus, Galpão do Centro Cultural da UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Hic Manebimus Op Time, Galeria de Arte Manoel Macedo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 1994 A Imagem Não Virtual, Casa Triãngulo, São Paulo, Brazil Abjeto, Centro Cultural da UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Acervo 94, Casa Triãngulo, São Paulo, Brazil A Identidade Virtual, Ouro Preto, Brazil 1993 Estandartes, Parque Municipal, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Certa Fotografia, 2o Mês E A V da Foto, Parque Laje, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A Linha no Espaço, Museu Mineiro, Belo Horinzonte, Brazil 13o Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas da Funarte, Brazilian Institute of Contemporary Art, Brazil 1992 Utopias Contemporâneas, Palácio das Artes Belo Horizonte, Brazil 1991 15.000 kg, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Bibliography (selected) 2007 Jones, Kristin M. ‘Rivane Neuenschwander’, Frieze, Issue 104, January-February ‘Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, catalogue cover, pp. 25-26, 96-101 Sheets, Hilarie M. ‘Waves of Light’, ArtNews, March Kunitz, Daniel, ‘Blossoms, Bubbles & Beauty’, The New York Sun, 29 March, p. 21 2006 Fuenmayor, Jesús, ed. ‘Arte da América Do Sul, Ponto de Viragem 1989’, Colecçâo de Arte Comtemporânea Público Serralves 08 Smith, Roberta, ‘Other Stories and Stories of Others’, The New York Times, 22 September, p. E31 Linden, Liz, ed. The Best Surprise is No Surprise, JRP Ringier, Zürich, Switzerland 2005 ‘Rivane Neuenschwander, Ici lá-bas aqui acolá’, Rona Editora, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Hughes, Jeffrey, Art Papers, March/April Haq, Nav, Magasin 3, Autumn, Stockholm, Sweden ‘Artists Salute Artpace’, Artpace San Antonio, Benefit Auction at Christie’s, New York, NY Burghart, Tara, ‘Tropicalia exhibit features art for all the senses’, The Indianapolis Star, November 6 2004 Currents 93: Rivane Neuenschwander, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Taylor, Betsy, The Enquirer, 23 December, Cincinnati, OH Friswold, Paul, Riverfront Times, 8-10 December, St. Louis, MO 2003 ‘Land Land! Helen Mirra, Rivane Neuenschwander, Katja Strunz’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland Birnbaum, Daniel, ‘Feast for the Eyes', Artforum, May, pp. 142-146 Cordeiro, Veronica, 'Rivane Neuenschwander', Art Nexus, no. 47, vol. 1, pp. 100-102 2002 ‘Rivane Neuenschwander, to/from’, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN ‘Vivencias, Dialogues between Brazilian Artists from 1960's to 2002’, The New Art Gallery, Walsall Hoffmann, Jens, 'Ethereal Materialism', Flash Art, October, pp. 90-92 Timmons, Matthew, 'Rivane Neuenschwander at Walker Art Center', Pulse, 11 September Miskowiec, Jay, 'Brazilian artist brings her maps of Experience to the Walker', La Prensa de Minnesota, 26 September-2 October, p. 4 Review, Artforum, May Review, Wall Street Journal, 2 August Review, Sculpture, September Kanjo, Kathryn, ARCO, Autumn, no. 25, p. 6 Schwabsky, Barry, review, Artforum, April, p. 147 'In the line of beauty', Sunday Herald Tribune, 3 March Coomer, Martin, Review, Time Out, 20-27 February, p. 51 Buhr, Elke, 'Orangenalphabet', Frankfurter Rundschau, 10 December, p. 21 Kunstzeitung, No.6 5, January, p. 7 2001 ‘Absences’, Riksutstillingar, Norway ‘Rivane Neuenschwander, Spell’, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Hansson, Annika, Make Magazine, issue 90, December, p. 90 Clark, Robert, The Guardian Guide, 23 December-5 January Review, Visual Arts, 11 January Review, The Slate, January Daly, Catherine, review, The Sunday Times, 14 January Hierholzer, Michael, 'Ein Labyrinth aus Pappe und Orangen', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 8 December Hoffman, Jens, 'Powerful Circles, Rivane Neuenschwander’, The Americas Society, New York, NY 'Rivane Neuenschwander, Shazia Sikander, Tony Villejo: Artpace', Sculpture, vol. 20, no. 8, October, pp. 77-78 ‘Rivane Neuenschwander: Galeria Camargo Vilaça', Art Nexus, no. 40, May-July, pp. 125-156 Preview, Art Review, December-January 2000 ‘Rivane Neuenschwander’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil and Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Moroney, Mic, IVenus, December Dunne, Aidan, 'Art bubbles with Originality', Visual Art, December Hartigan, Marianne, 'All at a snails pace', The Sunday Tribune, 9 December Suely, Rolnik, 'Truce for the soul’ in ‘The Quiet in the land 2: Everyday Life, ‘Contemporary Art and Projecto Axe’, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil 1999 ‘Powder’, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO ‘Rivane Neuenschwander’, Untitled, no. 19, Summer, pp. 32-3 Kent, Sarah, Time Out, 19-26 May, p. 43 1998 ‘Rivane Neuenschwander, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Fortes, Marcia, 'Bili Bidjocka, Rivane Neuenschwander', Frieze, September/October, pp.101-102 ‘Cream: 10 curators, 10 writers, 100 artists’, Phaidon Press, London 1997 Lagnado, Lisette, ‘Rivane Neuenschwander, Immersion in Time’ in ‘5th International Istanbul Biennial’, pp. 162-63 Herbert, Martin, ‘Rivane Neuenschwander’, Time Out 28 May, p. 47 Fioravante, Celso, ‘Vazio Escultórico’, Vogue Brasil, May ‘Material Whirl’, State of the Arts, April, p. 8 Murria, Alicia, ‘Arco y Latinoamerica’, Art Nexus magazine, no. 24, April-June, pp. 105-107 Papastergiadis, Nikos, ‘Material Immaterial’, Art/Text, August-October Genocchio, Benjamin, ‘Material Immaterial’, Look-Art Gallery Society of New South Wales Magazine, March Genocchio, Benjamin, ‘Concrete Poetry’, World Art, no. 12 ‘Material Immaterial’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Smee, Sebastian, ‘Smells Like Art’, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 14 Murria, Alicia, ‘Arco y Lationoamerica’, Art Nexus magazine, no. 24, April-June, pp. 105-107 ‘Material Whirl’, State of the Arts, April Fioravante, Celso, ‘Vazio Escultorico’, Vogue Brasil, May Smee, Sebastian, ‘Asking the Right Questions’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 99, May Bifulco, Adriana, ‘Formigas que Viram Arte’, Jornal da tarde, 2 July Fioravante, Celso, ‘Aristas Brasileiros vao a Australia’, Folha de São Paulo, 23 January ‘ARCO ‘97’, Casa Triângula, February, p. 100 ‘Brasileiros Conquistam o Mundo’, Celso Fioravante, Folha de São Paulo, 10 February 1996 Fioravante, Celso, ‘Rivane Exibe o Seu Barroco Minimo’, Folha de São Paulo, 2 July Guimaraes, Cao, ‘Rivane Neuenschwander’, Casa Triângula, exhibition folder Santiago, Alberto, ‘Casa Triangulo Mostra as Delicadezas de Rivane’, Shopping News, 6 July Claudio, Ivan, ‘Objeto Nao Identificado’, rivista IstoE, 17 July Fioravante, Celso, ‘Antartica Artes com a Folha Seleciona 62 Artistas’, Folha de São Paulo, 1 August ‘Escolhidos-Antartica Artes come a Folha’, ediçao especial Folha de São Paulo, 22 September Fioravante, Celso, ‘Antartica Escolhe os Seus Premiados’, Folha de São Paulo, 2 October ‘Raridade’, Um ano em 15 Minutos-Retrospectiva Revista da Folha, 29 December 1994 ‘Rivane Neuenschwander’ in ‘Abjeto’, Centro Cultural da UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, pp. 7, 20, 21, 28, 29, 33 Projects and Awards 2004 Shortlisted Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 2003 Bursary Vitae de Artes 2002 Honourable Mention, UFMG University, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2001 Resident Delfina Studios, London ArtPace residency, San Antonio, TX 2000 IASPIS residency, Stockholm, Sweden 1999 ‘The Quiet in the Land 2: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and Projeto Axé’, art residency organised by France Morin, Bahia, Brazil 1996 Antarctica Artes com a Folha, São Paulo, Brazil 1993 Prêmio Marc Ferrez de Fotografia, ‘Ex-Votos’ - (Objeto Fotográaficos), Brazilian Institute of Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil