Marina Camargo is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans drawings, installations, sculptures, and videos. The use of multiple media reflects the pursuit of a shifting balance between concept and the formal configuration of each work.
In Marina Camargo’s work, the notion of displacement defines a modus operandi for dealing with the established order of the world: either as a physical displacement or as a conceptual shift (where the meaning of things is dislocated from its origin).
A significant part of her artistic research involves maps, through which fissures and distortions are provoked in established narratives and representations, not only formal distorting but also re-situating the relationship with space.
Cartographic, historical, and geographical references are often present in the basis of her projects, together with a search for an understanding of the representation of things.
Marina Camargo’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, such as the Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, Brazil), the Panorama of Brazilian Art (Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo), the Shanghai Biennial (Power Station of Art, China), and the Guangzhou Image Triennial (Guangdong Museum of Art, China), among others.
Her artworks are part of the collections at several institutions, including the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul (MARGS), Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP), Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul (MAC-RS), Museu de Arte Aloísio Magalhães (MAMAM), Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana, Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, Pinacoteca Barão de Santo Ângelo, Pinacoteca Aldo Locatelli, among others.
Originally from Maceió, Brazil, Marina has spent most of her life in Porto Alegre, where she earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in visual arts from the Institute of Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Currently, she lives in Berlin and Porto Alegre.
From the early years, her work has been marked by an expanded notion of drawing, in which drawing and thought are mutually constitutive and structure the work process itself.
Issues related to cartography began to interest her, especially during the period she lived in Barcelona (where she studied Visual Culture at the University of Barcelona, Spain), when physical displacement became a recurring theme in her work.
In 2010, Camargo received a DAAD scholarship and began her studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. During this period, her work focused on specific places, exploring different dimensions of landscape and its representations (such as the Alps, the Pampas region, and the Sertões of Brazil). She later completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (AdBK), earning a diploma.
Since 2015, she has been deepening her research on maps, creating an extensive body of work on representations of space, constituting a significant part of her work.
In her video works, Marina explores both narrative construction (through texts and research) and the recording of actions that dialogue with notions of drawing and performance.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2024 _ TRAS LA PIEL DEL MAPA _ Galería Zielinsky, Barcelona (Spain)
2023 _ A CERTA SOMBRA (A certain shade)_ Instituto Ling, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
2023 _ ONDE A TERRA DOBRA _ Superfície, São Paulo (Brazil)
2021 _ SHIFTING: DISPLACED_ (Seattle) Warehouse | Interloper, Seattle (USA)
2021 _ A MATTER OF DELETION AND OTHER DISAPPEARANCES _ Das Schaufenster, Seattle (USA)
2019 _ DER ORT DANACH / O lugar depois _ Universität zu Köln | Philosophikum, Cologne (Germany)
2018 _ ANTES, E AINDA AGORA _ Espaço Cultural ESPM Porto Alegre (Brazil)
2013 _ O AR ENTRE AS COISAS _ Centro de Artes Visuais UFPEL | A Sala, Pelotas (Brazil)
2013 _ REFLEXO DISTANTE _ Galeria Bolsa de Arte, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
2012 _ PLANISFÉRIO _ Galeria Zipper – Zip’Up, São Paulo (Brazil)
2009 _ MUNDOS PARALELOS _ Galeria Bolsa de Arte, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
2008 _ BIBLIOTECA _ Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil)
2008 _ ESPAÇAMENTO _ Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Curitiba (Brazil)
2008 _ PALAVRA PERDIDA _ Galeria Virgílio, São Paulo (Brazil)
2006 _ MUNDO _ Instituto Cultural Brasil-Espanha, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
2003 _ COLETAS CALIGRÁFICAS _ Instituto Cultural Brasil-Espanha, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
2002 _ OU O GRÁFICO DAS LETRAS _ Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre (Brazil)
Group exhibitions (selection)
2025 _ COSMOS – other cartographies, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo – Brazil
2024 _ CLAC – Circuito Latino-Americano de Arte Contemporânea, Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2023 _ 14th SHANGHAI BIENNALE, Power Station of Art, Shanghai – China
2023 _ 37th PANORAMA DA ARTE BRASILEIRA, SESC Sorocaba – Brazil
2023 _ ELF STELLEN SICH VOR, Humboldt-Bibliothek, Berlin – Germany
2022 _ 37th PANORAMA DA ARTE BRASILEIRA, MAM (Museum of Modern Art), São Paulo – Brazil
2022 _ EXiS Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul – South Korea
2022 _ DAS COISAS POLÍTICAS E AS POLÍTICAS DAS COISAS, MAMAM Recife – Brazil
2022 _ MAPPING THE CARTOGRAPHIC, Drugo More, Rijeka – Croatia
2021 _ ANTINOMIA, virtual exhibition / MAMAM, Recife – Brazil
2021 _ CLAC – Circuito Latino-Americano de Arte Contemporânea, CCMQ, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2021 _ BERLIN BRITZENALE, Berlin – Germany
2021 _ EXTREMOS ABSOLUTOS, Punto Gallery, Valencia – Spain
2021 _ INTERMINGLING FLUX: GUANGZHOU IMAGE TRIENNIAL _ Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou – China
2020 _ AKADEMIEGALERIEHOMEOFFICE _ AkademieGalerie München – Germany
2020 _ RETINA _ Zeiss-Grossplanetarium, Berlin – Germany
2019 _ GOSTEM OU NÃO _ MARGS, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2019 _ EU ESTOU AQUI AGORA _ FVCB, Viamão – Brazil
2019 _ SCIENCE FICTION FESTIVAL _ Deutsches Museum, Munich – Germany
2019 _ APRENDENDO COM MIGUEL BAKUN: SUBTROPICAL _ Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo – Brazil
2019 _ TECHNE _ Paço Municipal, Porto Alegre – Brazil; Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin – Germany
2019 _ FIRE FAÍSCA FUNKE _ Galeria Mario Kreuzberg, Berlin – Germany
2018 _ MINOR COSMOPOLITAN_ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin – Germany
2018 _ LOOP Discover Award _ Former Damm Factory, Barcelona – Spain; GlogauAIR, Berlin – Germany
2018 _ ATERRO _ Pinacoteca Ruben Berta, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2018 _ RSXXI Rio Grande do Sul Experimental _ Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2018 _ TORUS: SETE LADOS DE UMA PAISAGEM _ Galeria Mamute, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2018 _ LA IMAGEN ARDE / FESTIVAL BYTE FOOTAGE _ Centro Cultural Kirchner – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2018 _ AO LADO DELA, DO LADO DE LÁ _ UFBA Museum (Pará, Brazil); Mitte Media Festival (Berlin, Germany)
2017 _ ELOGIAMOS A CASA A PERDER DE VISTA _ Galeria Bolsa de Arte, São Paulo – Brazil
2017 _ AÃ _ FVCB (Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos), Viamão – Brazil
2017 _ DIE BLAUE NACHT_ St. Egidien Kirche, Nuremberg – Germany
2016 _ A CIDADE, AS RUÍNAS E DEPOIS [The city, the ruins and aftermath] _
Torre Malakoff, Recife – Brazil
2016 _ KOMPLIZEN _ HbK Saarbrücken – Germany
2016 _ DOCUMENTOS DE TRANSIÇÃO _ Galeria Península, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2015 _ ON PAPER _ Galería Area 72, Valencia – Spain
2015 _ TENDÊNCIA DO LIVRO DE ARTISTA NO BRASIL – 30 ANOS DEPOIS _ CCSP, São Paulo – Brazil
2015 _ A ARTE E A CIÊNCIA – NÓS ENTRE OS EXTREMOS _ Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo – Brazil
2015 _ FILMES E VÍDEOS DE ARTISTAS COLEÇÃO ITAÚ CULTURAL _ Fundação Iberê, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2015 _ FINISTERRE _ Sputenik the Window, Oporto – Portugal
2015 _ PROYECTOR 15 _ 8th International Video Art Festival, Quinta del Sordo,
Madrid – Spain
2015 _ IVAHM _ New Media Festival – Centro Neomudéjar, Madrid – Spain
2014 _ CIDADE GRÁFICA _ Itaú Cultural, São Paulo – Brazil
2014 _ O DESENHO COMO INSTRUMENTO _ SESC Pompéia, São Paulo – Brazil
2014 _ DAS SPIEL HÖRT ES AUF, WENN ES ZU ENDE IST _ Auswärtiges Amt –
Lichthof (Berlin)+Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden) – Germany
2013 _ CAMPO MAGNÉTICO _ Fundação ECARTA, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2013 _ O JOGO SÓ ACABA QUANDO TERMINA _ Sesc Quitandinha (Rio de Janeiro); Museu Nacional (Brasília); Palacete das Artes (Salvador); Anexo Zabala,
Banco da República (Montevideo, Uruguay); SESC Quitandinha (Rio de Janeiro)
2013 _ WALKING _ Paço das Artes, São Paulo – Brazil
2012 _ MAR DE TUBARÃO _ Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo – Brazil
2012 _ FILE Hipersonica São Paulo _ SESI, São Paulo – Brazil
2012 _ ACIREMA _ Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles – USA
2011 _ OS 10 PRIMEIROS ANOS _ Instituto Tomie Othake, São Paulo – Brazil
2011 _ SEHNSUCHT _ AABER Artspace, Munich – Germany
2011 _ 8. MERCOSUL BIENNIAL_ Mostra Além Fronteiras _ MARGS (Museu de Arte do RS), Porto Alegre – Brazil
2011 _ MOVING IMAGES _ ADBK, Munich – Germany
2011 _ PERCURSOS SIMULADOS _ Paço das Artes, São Paulo – Brazil
2011 _ LUGARES/REPRESENTAÇÕES _ FUNARTE, São Paulo – Brazil
2010 _ THE SOUTH PROJECT _ The West Wing, Melbourne – Australia
2010 _ DOIS PONTOS _ Museu Murillo la Greca, Recife – Brazil
2010 _ CONVIVÊNCIA ESPACIAL _ Fundação ECARTA, Porto Alegre; Museu Murillo La Greca, Recife – Brazil
2009 _ 7th MERCOSUL BIENNIAL_ Projetáveis, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2009 _ FILE RIO _ Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
2008 _ 15th SALÃO DA BAHIA _ Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador –
Brazil
2008 _ FILE _ SESI, São Paulo – Brazil
2007 _ PALAVRA FIGURADA _ Centro Cultural ESPM, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2007 _ PERCURSOS _ Galeria do DMAE, Porto Alegre – Brazil
2006 _ ATOS VISUAIS _ FUNARTE Brasília – Brazil
2005 _ USOS RITUALS – MÉS ENLLÀ DEL LENGATGE _ Centre Civic Can Felipa, Barcelone – Spain
Published books, contributions in catalogues (selection)
THOMAZ, A.; ESCOBAR, D.; CAMARGO, M. Lugares/Representações. Porto Alegre: [s.ed.], 2011.
Awards, grants, residencies (selection)
2025 _ Artist-in-residence at Swatch Art Peace, Shanghai, China
2023 _ Artist-in-residence at Duke Kunshan University, China
2019 _ Artist-in-residence at Skaftfell Art Center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2019 _ Açorianos Prize | Category: Solo Exhibition of the Year for “Antes, e ainda agora” (Secretaria da Cultura de Porto Alegre – Brazil)
2016 / 2017 / 2019 _ Nominated for PIPA Prize
2014 _ Açorianos Prize | Category: Artist of the Year (Secretaria da Cultura de Porto Alegre – Brazil)
2014 _ Açorianos Prize | Category: Highlight in Photography (Secretaria da Cultura de Porto Alegre – Brazil)
2013 _ Bolsa Estímulo à Produção em Artes Visuais (Incentive Grant for Visual Arts) – FUNARTE (National Foundation for Arts – Brazil)
2012 _ Artist-in-residence at Gasworks (Londres – UK) / IBERE CAMARGO Grant
2010-11 _ DAAD Grant for visual artists (AdBK-Munich – Germany)
2010 _ Prize FUNARTE de Arte Contemporânea [Collective Project: Lugares/Representações] – FUNARTE (National Foundation for Arts – Brazil)
2010 _ Prize Brasil Arte Contemporânea | Fundação Bienal de São Paulo e Ministério da Cultura (Brazil)
2010 _ Açorianos Prize | Category: Incentive Award to Visual Arts Production (Secretaria da Cultura de Porto Alegre – Brazil)
2008 _ Acquisition Prize – Centro Cultural São Paulo (Brazil)