(this page was last updated in August 2024)
Jordão, Brazil, 1983.
Lives and works in Jordão, Brazil.
Represented by Carmo Johnson Projects
PIPA Prize 2024 nominee.
Cleiber Bane’s works aim to transcribe the traditional ritual songs of the Huni Kuin people into images. These songs evoke Yube, the cosmic anaconda, master of the Nixi Pae (a vine with psychotropic powers) and various “human” entities of the forest.
Cleiber Bane is a member of the MAHKU group – Movement of Huni Kuin Artists – formed in 2013. The works created by the artists in this group are both a means of communicating with the outside world and a vector for consolidating the cultural and territorial autonomy of the Huni Kuin people. Today, the group continues its trajectory on the international contemporary art scene.
Website: instagram.com/cleiberpinheiro & instagram.com/mahkumovimento
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Cleiber Bane’s works aim to transcribe the traditional ritual songs of the Huni Kuin people into images. These songs evoke Yube, the cosmic anaconda, master of the Nixi Pae (a vine with psychotropic powers) and various “human” entities of the forest.
Cleiber Bane is a member of the MAHKU group – Movement of Huni Kuin Artists – formed in 2013. The works created by the artists in this group are both a means of communicating with the outside world and a vector for consolidating the cultural and territorial autonomy of the Huni Kuin people. Today, the group continues its trajectory on the international contemporary art scene.
Bane is the son of Ibã Sales, guardian of the traditional knowledge and songs (huni meka) of the Huni Kuin people, passed down from his father before him. Under his father’s guidance, Bane was the first, in 2009, to transcribe the ritual songs of the psychotropic Nixi Pae vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) into drawings. His works are a means of communicating with the outside world and a vector for consolidating the cultural and territorial autonomy of the Huni Kuin people.
For thousands of years, the life and culture of the Huni Kuin have been defined by symbiotic relationships with the complex ecosystem that surrounds them. “Sell canvas, buy land” is MAHKU’s land restitution initiative that made it possible to buy ten hectares of forest in 2014. This land is home to the Independent MAHKU Centre, a place for the preservation of the forest and the ancestral knowledge that guides the collective’s research.
Bane has taken part in several Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain exhibitions, from 2012 with Histoires de voir to recently in 2022 in Lille in the Les Vivants exhibition. The MAHKU group recently benefited from a major exhibition at MASP in São Paulo (24 March to 4 June 2023).
Selected group exhibitions
2024
– “La Bienalle di Venezia”
2023
– “Histórias Indígenas”, MASP (Museu de arte de São Paulo), São Paulo, Brazil
– Bienal de São Paulo, SP
– “Rêver la Terre”, Espace Frans Krajcberg, Paris, França
2022
– “Les Vivants (Living Worlds)”, Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, .
– “Nakoada: estratégias para a arte moderna”, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio De Janeiro (MAM-RJ), Brazil
2021
– “Moquém_Surari: arte indígena contemporânea”, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP), São Paulo, Brazil
– “Sweat, Haus der Kunst”, Munich, Germany
2020
– “Véxoa: Nós sabemos”, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Vaivém”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brésil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília And Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2019/2020
2019
– “ReAntropofagia”, Centro de Artes da UFF, Niterói/RJ, Brazil
– “Eldorado”, Maison Folie Moulins, Lille, France
– “Turismo Exótico Espiritual”, Espaço Saracura, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil
2017
– “Avenida Paulista”, MASP, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
– “35o Panorama da Arte Brasileira: Brasil por multiplicação”, MAM, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
2014
– “Histórias Mestiças”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo/SP, Brazilhttps://www.pipaprize.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=106638&action=edit#category-add
– “Made by… feito por brasileiros”, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
– “MIRA – Artes Visuais Contemporâneas dos Povos Indígenas”, Centro Cultural UFMG, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil, 2013/2014
2012
– “Histoires de Voir, Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Individual exhibitions
2024
– “Venda tela”, compra terra [Sell painting, buy land], Musée ilnu de Mashteuiatsh, Quebec, Canada
2023
– “Mirações”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brasil
2022
– “MAHKU: Vende tela”, compra terra, SBC gallery of contemporary art, Canada, Montréal
– “MAHKU: Cantos de Imagens”, Casa de Cultura do Parque, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Yube Inu, Yube Shanu”, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Garzón, Uruguay, Bane Cleiber Huni Kuin – MAHKU (Huni Kuin Artists Movement)
2018
– “Através da poética do MAHKU”, Galeria de Arte da UFAM
2014
– “Nixi Paewen Namate – O sonho do nixi pae”, Sesc Rio Branco, Brazil
Murals
– “Central pavillion’s facade”, La Bienalle di Venezia 2024
– “Kapewe Pukenibu”, The ladder-ramp is a bridge, Museu de Arte de São Paulo,
– “MASP Museum Ladder-ramp”, individual exhibition Mirações [Vision], 2023
– “Yube Inu, Yube Shanu”, Exhibition “Re-construir juntos”, Museu Paranaense (MUPA), Curitiba, Brasil, 2022
– “Rashuaka, Exhibition “Sweat””, Haus der Kunst, Munique, Alemanha, 2021
– “Yame Awa Kawanai”, CURA – Circuito Urbano de Arte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2021
– “Yube Inu, Yube Shanu”, Projeto Parede / Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil, 2017
– “Hawe Dautibuya”, Sesc Palladium, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 2017
– “Huni meka”, Secretaria de Educação e Cultura, Jordão, Acre, Brasil, 2017
– “Huni meka”, USACH, Universidade de Santiago, Chile, 2016
– “Huni meka”, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brasil, 2015
– “Sounds of Light”, em colaboração com a artista Naziha Mestaoui. Exposição
– “Made by… Feito por brasileiros”, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brasil, 2014
Films
– “O sonho do nixi pae – o Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin”, Direção: Amilton Pellegrino de Mattos, 46min, 2015
– “O espírito da floresta”, Direção: Amilton Pellegrino de Mattos, 43min, 2012
Selected articles / essays / reviews
– “Vende tela, compra terra” e outras formas de atuação política do Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin (MAHKU), de Daniel Dinato, 2021
– The visionary art of MAHKU, de Amilton Pellegrino de Mattos, 2019
– Os caminhos do MAHKU (Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin), de Daniel Dinato, 2018
– Por que canta o MAHKU – Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin?, de Amilton Pellegrino de Mattos e Ibã Huni Kuin, 2017
– Bane Cleiber Huni Kuin – MAHKU (Huni Kuin Artists Movement)
Institutional collections
– Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brasil
– Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
– Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
– Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
– Denver art museum, Denver, USA
– Sesc Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brasil
“ Exposition « Les Vivants » | Bane”, 2022. Duration 0’51”
