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.
