Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1974.
Lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Marcelle uses video and photography to document the effects that her interventions have on the usual order of things. Marcelle’s work is particularly inspired by the chaos and turmoil of possibilities found in everyday life. She tries to gain a distance from this chaos and re-organise the disorder formally. Her actions create situations that challenge our notions of conventional behaviour by introducing humorous coincidences and connections.
Marcelle’s work has been part of significant group exhibitions including the Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2015), Museum of Modern Art (MAM RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013), the second New Museum Triennial, New York, USA (2012), Tate Level 2 Gallery, London, UK (2012), the Biennale de Lyon, France (2007), Panorama da Arte Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil (2007) and Madrid, Spain (2008) and the IX Bienal de la Habana, Cuba (2006).
In 2010, Marcelle was one of the four finalists of the first edition of PIPA Prize. The works ‘Cruzada’ and ‘Interseccão’, were exhibited at the Finalists Exhibition in MAM-Rio and donated to the permanent collection of the Museum.
Cinthia Marcelle has been awarded several international awards such as the Future Generation Prize from the Victor Pinchuck Foundation in 2010 and the TrAIN artist in residency award at Gasworks, London, UK in 2009.
Solo Exhibitions
2014
– “Dust Never Sleeps “, Secession, Vienna, Austria.
– “Cruzada”, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway.
– “Cinthia Marcelle e Tiago Mata Machado”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
2013
– “475 Volver”, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia
– “Zona Temporária”, Sala A Contemporânea, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil [CCBB RJ], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/
2012
– “Cinthia Marcelle + Tiago Mata Machado: O Século”, Rochester Art Center, Rochester , USA.
2011
– “Com–contra–de–desde”, Galeria Bendana Pinel, Paris, France.
– “See to be seen”, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine.
– “A – ante – após – até”, Galeria Silvia Cintra+Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “Zero de Conduta”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
2009
– “This Same World Over”, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK.
– “”To come to”, Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK.
2008
– “Fonte193, Confronto, Volta ao Mundo”, Tower Room, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
2007
– “(Um caso difícil)”, Box4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2006
– “Trajetórias 2006”, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Galeria Baobá, Recife, Brazil.
2005
– “Unus Mundus “, The Concert, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
– “V Mostra do Programa de Exposições”, Centro Cultural São Paulo [CCSP], São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Temos direito ao vetor. O que tangencia apenas vem./ Eu vou dizer de novo. / Temos direito ao vetor. O que tangencia apenas vem”, Léo Bahia Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2004
– “Bolsa Pampulha”, Museum of Art of Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “Solto, Cruzado e Junto: Cinthia Marcelle, Marilá Dardot e Sara Ramo”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
2002
– “Aonde Anda minha Tereza? (com Sara Ramo)”, Centro Cultural da UFMG, Horizonte, Brazil.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
– “Imagine Brazil”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible”, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
– “Beleza?”, Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP), São Paulo, Brazil.
2014
– “Do Objeto para o Mundo”, Coleção Inhotim, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “Afetividades Eletivas”, Centro Cultural Minas Tênis Clube, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– Lo Schermo Dell’Arte Film Festival, Florence, Italy.
– “Huna, Hunak: Here/There”, Al Riwaq Exhibitihion space Doha, Qatar.
– “Stiftelsen 3,14”, Bergen, Norway.
– IV Semana dos Realizadores, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “Re-Pública”, Galeria do Lago, Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “Over View”, Nijmengen, Netherlands.
– “Alliance Française”, New Delhi, India.
– “Luminaria: International Arts Festival”, Texas, USA.
– “Horizontes Transversais”, SESC Palladium, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Programa Vanguardia, Havana, Cuba.
– “Do Objeto para o Mundo”, Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– “Made by… Feito por Brasileiros”, Hospital Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Singularidades/Anotações: Rumos Artes Visuais”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Arte e Sociedade no Brasil 2”, Museum of Art of Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “Verbo 2014. Mostra de Performance Arte (10ª ed.)”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Slow Future”, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
– “Nervous Systems: Languages of Wonder and Denial”, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
– Coletor, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Cine 104 Mostra: o cinema de BH”, 104, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “Nervous Systems: Languages of Wonder and Denial”, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
– “10 Anos do Prêmio Aquisição”, Sala Tarsila do Amaral, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “By the sweat of your brow”, Urban Explorers Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
– “Imagine Brazil”, MAC Lyon, Lyon, France.
– “Many Places at Once”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA.
– “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Art”, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA.
– International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2013
– “EXPO 1: Rio”, Museum of Modern Art [MAM RJ], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “FotoBienal MASP”, Museu Oscar Niemeyer [MON], Curitiba, Brazil.
– “Escavar o Futuro”, Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “ExpoProjeção 1973-2013”, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Imagine Brazil”, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway.
– “51st New York Film Festival”, Lincoln Center, New York, USA.
– “The Eye on Time: Works from Adrastus Collection”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Cidade do México, Mexico
– “30 X Bienal: Transformações na Arte Brasileira da 1ª à 30ª edição”, Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Mom, Am I Barbarian?”. 13ª Bienal de Istambul, Istanbul, Turkey.
– “Se o tempo for favorável”, 9ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
– “I Bienal MASP Pirelli de Fotografia”, Museum of Art São Paulo [MASP], São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Mitologias por Procuração”, Museum of Modern Art [MAM SP], São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Mixed Message Media”, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA.
– “Blind Field”, Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, USA.
– “Emergency Pavilion: Rebuilding Utopia [Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia]”, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice, Italy.
– “Agoraphobia”, Space for Contemporary Turkish Art [Tanas], Berlin, Germany.
– “Biennale Cuvée”, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria.
– “Brasil Vívido”, Sotheby’s, New York, USA.
– “Expo 1: New York Dark Optimism”, PS1, New York, USA.
– “5th Auckland Triennial: If you were to live here…”, Auckland, New Zealand.
– “Together/Apart”, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
– “Sísifo: O heroísmo do absurdo”, ArteActual [FLACSO], Quito, Ecuador.
– “The Insides are on the Outside / O interior está no exterior”, Casa de Vidro e SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil.
– Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
– “Exposição de Verão – 10 Anos”, Galeria Silvia Cintra+Box4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “Automóvel”, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland.
– “Coletiva”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Blind Field”, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, USA.
– “Circuitos Cruzados: o Centre Pompidou encontra o MAM”, Museum of Modern Art [MAM SP], São Paulo, Brazil.
2012
– “Sob Constante Ameaça”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul (MACRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
– “En Suspensión”, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain.
– “Through the surface of the pages”, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Cambridge, USA.
– “Shoot the Shooters”, Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine [SANFIC 8], Santiago, Chile.
– “Collection Platform 3: Forever Now”, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine.
– “Virada Cultural 2012”, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “The Redeeming Institution”, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Cidade do México, Mexico.
– “Infinite Jest”, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland.
– “The insides are on the outside / O interior está no externos”, Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Objects and Disintegrations”, Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Gdanska, Poland.
– “The Ungovernables”, New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, USA.
– “The Spiral and the square”, SKMU Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway.
– “The Spiral and the Square”, Trondheim Art Museum, Trondheim, Norway.
– “No Lone Zone”, Tate Modern, London, UK.
2011
– “An Other Place”, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA.
– “Os Primeiros Dez Anos”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Mitologias”, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
– International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ( IDFA ), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
– “Panoramas do Sul”, 17° Festival Interancional de Arte Contemporânea Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Mapas Invisíveis”, Caixa Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “The Spiral and the Square. Exercises on translatability”, Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
– “Um Outro Lugar”, Museum of Modern Art [MAM SP], São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Jogos de Guerra”, Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice”, Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice, Italy.
– “Tudo é”, Esattoria della Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
– “Geração 00”, A nova fotografia Brasileira, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Porque sim”, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “MOCA Hiroshima”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
– “O Sismógrafo”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “29ª Bienal de São Paulo: Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar[itinerâncias]”, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2010
– “Arroz com Feijão”, Projeto Brasil Arte Contemporânea, Miami, USA.
– “Future Generation Art Prize”, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine.
– “New Acquisitions for the Collection MAM BA”, Museum of Modern Art [MAM BA], Salvador, Brazil.
– “Rumos Cinema e Vídeo Experimental”, Itaucultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “1 de cada 1”, Galeria Box4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “Prêmio PIPA”, Museum of Modern Art [MAM RJ], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “29ª Bienal de São Paulo: Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar”, Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “20 anos do programa de exposições”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Jogos de Guerr”, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Paradas em Movimento: Wonderland – Ações e Paradoxos”, Centro Cultural São Paulo [CCSP], São Paulo, Brazil.
2009
– “7ª Bienal do MERCOSUL: Grito e Escuta”, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
– “Tenth Show”, Bandana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France.
– “SALON LIGHT – livros e flores – feira de artes impressas”, Cneai + Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “No jogo da imagem: vídeo e arte contemporânea”, Cine Humberto Mauro, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “Artérias e Capilares”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Everything, then, passes between us”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Die Brücke, Cologne, Germany.
– “The Communism of Forms”, Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), Toronto, Canada.
– “This Same World Over”, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK.
– “Meeting Point”, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
– “Nova Arte Nova”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil [CCBB SP], São Paulo, Brazil.
2008
– “Container Art”, Parque Villa Lobos, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Nova Arte Nova”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB-RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “É claro que você sabe do que estou falando?”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Turistas, volver”, Galeria Carminha Macedo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “Contraditório – Panorama da Arte Brasileira”, Sala de Exposições Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.
2007
– “Bienal de Lyon: The 00s – The History of a Decade that has not yet been named”, Lyon, France.
– “Coleção 8”, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Contraditório – Panorama da Arte Brasileira”, Museum of Modern Art [MAM SP], São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Extra (Ordinary)”, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
– “10 Dias de Arte Conceitual”, Museum of Modern Art [MAM SP], São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Filmes de Viagem”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Accidents: a selection of recent Brazilian Videos”, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Bucarest, Romania.
– “Poder e Afetividade”, Galeria Box4 , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2006
– “9ª Bienal de Havana: Dinâmicas de la Cultura Urbana”, Havana, Cuba.
– “MAM (na) OCA”, Museum of Modern Art [MAM SP], São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Singular e Universal”, Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Arquivo Geral”, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “Video MAP”, Museum of Art of Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “SITU/AÇÃO: Aspectos do Documentário Contemporâneo”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Videometry”, Off Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
– “Coletiva Vídeos”, Galeria Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2005
– “Bienal de Performance: M:ST”, Mountain Standat Time Performative Art Festival, Calgary, Canada.
– “Além da Imagem”, Espaço Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “Educação, olha!”, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “V Mostra do Programa de Exposições”, Centro Cultural São Paulo [CCSP], São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Transmutação”, Léo Bahia Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2004
– “Coletiva”, Léo Bahia Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “Posição 2004”, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “Exposição de Verão”, Silvia Cintra Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2003
– “Segundo Concurso Complexo Pampulha”, Museum of Art of Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “Manifestação Internacional de Performance”, Casa do Conde, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1999
– “Quem você pensa que é?”, Galeria da EBA, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1998
– “XI Integrarte”, Centro Cultural da UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
– “Itinerantes”, Escola Guignard, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1997
– “Projeto Rumos Visuais do Itaugaleria”, Penápolis, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Daqui a um Século”, Centro Cultural da UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Grants and Residencies
2010
– AIR – Artist Residences Around the World
2009
– “Cinthia Marcelle”, TrAIN/Gaswork, Residencies, London, UK.
2003 – 2004
– “Bolsa Pampulha: Projeto de Criação em Artes Plástico”, Visuais, 27º Salão Nacional de Arte de Belo Horizonte, Museum of Art of Pampulha (during 12 months), Brazil.
2003
– Resident Artist in the Cidade do Cabo, South Africa through the Programa Very Real Time coordinated by the artist Gregg Smith
1998 – 1999
– Grant CNPq/UFMG, Brazil , with the research project “Confusão dos Sentidos” (throughout 12 months).
Awards
2010
– Future Generation Art Prize Main Prize Winner, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine.
2007
– MAMAM no Pátio, Performance, Recife, Brazil.
2006
– International Prize for Performance, Trento, Italy first place (performance: Gray Demonstration).
2005
– Acquisition Prize: V Mostra do Programa de Exposições, Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP), São Paulo, Brazil (video: Unus Mundus – Confronto)
Collections
– Museum of Modern Art Bahia (MAM BA), Salvador, Brazil.
– Museum of Modern Art [MAM-SP], São Paulo, Brazil.
– Pinacoteca of the State São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
– TATE Modern, London, UK.
– Royal Library Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
– Instituto Inhotim (CACI), Brumadinho, Brazil.
– Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Museum of Modern Art (MAM RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine.
– Francois Pinault Collection, France.
– Daros Foundation, Suíça, Brazil
– Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Michigan, USA.
– Cisneros, Miami, USA.
– Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil.
