Working together for over a decade, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca produce videos and video installations in dialog with other artists and collectives. The duo has developed a research method according to documentary observation and investigation, constructing the direction, screenwriting, costumes, and soundtracks in collaboration with the protagonists of each project. This horizontal way of working is crucial for transmitting the frequently urgent, socially and historically determined content of their audiovisual investigation. In their approaches to modes of artistic making, social types and political friction are formative elements of discourse.

Their solo exhibitions include The tunnels we dig, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (2026); Swinguerra, LeCentquatre, Paris, France (2025); You Are Seeing Things, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Espelho do poder, SESC Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Fala da terra, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil (2022); One Hundred Steps, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands (2022); Five Times Brazil, New Museum, New York, USA (2022); One Hundred Steps, The Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland (2022); Swinguerra, ICA Boston – Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, USA (2022); Swinguerra, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France (2022) and Swinguerra, Brazil Pavillion – 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2018).

They have participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Bienal Internacional de Arte y Ciudad (BOG25), El Odeon, Bogotá, Colombia (2025); DIALOGUES: Woman Artists in the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico (2025); In Terms of Sport, New Taipei City Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2024); Ritual in Transfigured Time, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst, Belgium (2024); FUNK! Um grito de ousadia e liberdade, MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023); Moving Bodies, Moving Images, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2022); Dance! Movement in the Visual Arts 1880–2020, HAM – The Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (2022); One Hundred Steps, Manifesta 13 Marseille, France (2020); and 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza viva, São Paulo, Brazil (2016).

The duo has works in important public collections, such as CIFO – The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, USA; De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands; DSM, Heerlen, Netherlands; FUNDAJ – Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil; ICA Boston – Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, USA; IMS – Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil; MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil; Coleção Pirelli-Masp de Fotografia, São Paulo, Brazil; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Coleção PIPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; PAMM – Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France and The Arts Council Collection, Dublin, Ireland.