Education
2007 – 2011
-Bachelor’s degree at FHNW Basel, Switzerland
-Institute of Arts – Class of Jürg Stäuble, Dr. Roman Kurzmeyer and Muda Mathis
2009 – 2010
-Erasmus at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany
-Institute of Arts – Class of Birgit Brenner and Class of Christian Jankowski
2004 – 2006
-Internship as assistant of photography, Brazil and Switzerland
1999 – 2003
-Bachelors’ degree at University of Taubaté, Brazil
-Institut of Communication – Public Relations
Solo Exhibitions
2016
-‘The Horse Who Drank Beer’, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York, USA
2013
-‘New Friends’, CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil
-‘Gringo’, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
-‘Tropical’, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany
2012
-‘Not the New, Not the Old, But the Necessary’., Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
-Hotel Palenque at Gasconade, Milan, Italy (Swiss Institute‘s Bureau for Art Nerds)
-‘Problems’ – Kunstraum Kreuzligen, Kreuzligen, Switzerland (together with Raphael Linsi)
2011
-‘Backwall Projeckt’ – Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
-‘Outsiders’ – SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland
-‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ – Deuxpiece, Basel, Switzerland
2010
-‘Curated Sculpture #1’ – Korridor bei Parrotta Contemporary Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2016
-‘Prière de Toucher’, Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland
-‘Courtesy of SALTS’, SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland
-NADA Miami, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, Miami, USA
-‘Tableau’, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York City, USA
-‘FULL HOUSE’, Shanaynay, Paris, France
-Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
-Art Môtiers 2015 , Art en plein air, Môtiers, Switzerland
-‘Moves and Countermoves’, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, USA
-Jac Leirner, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
-‘Hairy Ploter’, TOVES, Copenhagen – Denmark
-‘Nimm‘s mal easy’ – Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
2014
-Screening (with Sonia Kacem), Deuxpiece, New York City, USA
-‘A two-dimensional surface without any articulation is a dead experience’, BeatTricks Gallery, Milan, Italy
-‘Union’, Union Pacific Gallery, London, UK
-‘Absence of the evil is the evil of absence’, Residency Unlimited, New York City, USA
-‘Tell Me What I See, When I Look Into Your Eyes’, BolteLang, Zürich, Switzerland
2013
-‘Come, all ye faithful!’, Florian Christopher, Zürich, Switzerland
-‘Give me Shelter’, GGG Atelierhaus, Basel, Switzerland
-‘Mitologias por procuração’, Museum of Modern Art (MAM-SP), São Paulo, Brazil
-‘Wet-on-Wet’, Gallery Florian Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, Germany
-Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
-‘Club des Sous l‘Eau’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
-‘The Sunday Curators’, SWG1 Gallery, Glasgow, UK
-‘THE BODY IS THE MEDIUM’, Curatorial Lab, SP-ARTE, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
-‘Les Urbaines Art Festival’, Lausanne, Switzerland
-‘LOT’, Cul de Sac, London, UK
-‘Post Studio Tales’, Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany
-‘Platform 12’, Kunstwollen, Zurich, Switzerland
-‘If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe’, Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen, Switzerland
2011
-‘Mitologias I Mythologies’, Cité des Arts, Paris, France
-‘Cantonale Berne Jura’, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
-‘Cantonale Berne Jura’, Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, Switzerland
-‘Regionale 12’, Kunstraum L6, Freiburg, Germany
-‘How to Work (more for) Less’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Switzerland
-‘Floor Wall Piece’, Von Bartha Garage, Basel, Switzerland
-Swiss Art Awards (Kiefer Hablitzel), Basel, Switzerland
-‘7’, Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany
2010
-‘Regionale 11: Village Cry’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
-‘Rundgang 2010’, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, Germany
-‘Blokkade’, Universal Cube, Leipzig, Germany
-1. Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
-‘Regionale 10’, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
2008
-‘The line is a lonely hunter’, New Jersey, Basel, Switzerland
Awards / Scholarship
2016
-Artist in Residence, Swiss Institute Rome, Rome, Italy
2014
-Artist in Residence, IAAB Exchange Program, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2012
-‘Werkbeitrag’, Kunstkredit der Stadt Basel, Basel, Switzerland
-Artist in Residence, Post Studio Tales, Berlin, Germany
-Peter-Hans-Hofschneider-Prize, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
2011
-Artist in Residence, IAAB Exchange Program, Cité des Arts, Paris, France
-GGG Atelierhaus, 2 years subsidized atelier by the GGG Basel Foundation
2010
-1st prize for publication on contemporary art, Biennial Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil
-1st prize for Brazilian artist exhibiting abroad, Biennial Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil
-Patronage for young swiss artists, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Curatorial Projects
2014
-‘on going Postcodes:Kind;, Coletor, São Paulo, Brazil
-‘Postcodes: Soft’, Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
-‘Wet-on-Wet’, Gallery Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012
-‘the work found me;, Gallery Samy Abraham, Paris, France
2011
-‘If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe’, Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen, Switzerland (together with Reto Thüring and Isabel Halene)
2009 – 2011
-‘the forever ending story’, (ongoing project), (in collaboration with Raphael Linsi, Claudio Vogt with Tilmann Schlevogt)
www.theforeverendingstory.com
0ct.2009 – feb. 2010
-Deuxpiece, (in collaboration with Noëmi Denzler)
www.deuxpiece.com
2008
-Wirtshaus im Schalter, (in collaboration with Raphael Linsi)
www.schalter.tk
2007
-Wirzhaus, (in collaboration with Raphael Linsi und Luiz Albisser)
www.myspace.com/wirzhaus
