Cinthia Marcelle

Since the end of the 1990s, through her videos, sculptures, photographs, art installations, and performances, internationally acclaimed Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle (*1974) has been critically examining the established and hierarchical social structures upon which our daily lives are built. Marcelle uses collective action as the medium through which to break down rigid mechanisms and organisational forms and to renegotiate new ones. In the course of her career, she has developed a multifaceted and interdisciplinary oeuvre in which gestures, themes and materials are repeatedly applied using radically different methods and manifestations. Her work is a determined further development of the socio-critical art of Brazil in the twentieth century, which combined material experimentation with conceptual rigour and a unique collaborative approach The importance of Marcelle's oeuvre has already been recognised in countless project-specific solo exhibitions, as well as her involvement in group exhibitions by renowned museums and at a number of noteworthy Biennales - in 2017, for example, she performed in the Pavilion of Brazil at the 57th Venice Biennale. However, the exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) (2022) and then at the Museum Marta Herford (2023) will be the first large-scale overview of her work.