Rivane Neuenschwander

Rivane Neuenschwander lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. She completed her initial artistic studies in 1993 at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil with a bachelor’s degree in fine art. She then studied at the Royal College of Art in London from 1996 to 1998, graduating with a master’s degree. In her sculptures, installations, and films or her drawings and textile works, the materials used by the artist – such as soap, chalk, eggshells, foam, fruit, sand, shells, powder, pigments, and water – refer to the transience of experience and the fluid boundary between presence and absence, permanence and impermanence, concept and material. Exchange and co-creation processes are central to the work of Rivane Neuenschwander. She subtly challenges the notion of authorship while focusing on shared experience and its aesthetic formalisation. Exploring themes such as psychoanalysis, nature and global impacts, language, geography, time, and social interactions, the artist addresses the pressing social issues of our time.

Rivane Neuenschwander’s installation Chove Chuva (2002) was on display in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, and she held a series of workshops with the same name as the first exhibition of the KinderKunstLabor: dream.lab. And not without reason, as the workshop series already dealt with the themes of dreams and dreaming. Elements from these creative processes with the children from St. Pölten can be seen in the exhibition.