For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory. Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack are collectively conceived with each project’s participants. This horizontal methodology challenges dominant representational forms by revealing tensions between popular cultural practices and hegemonic structures of visibility. Their work offers a critical reflection on the performative gesture and its social, aesthetic, and political reverberations.

Their solo exhibitions include The Tunnels We Dig, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2026); Swinguerra, LeCentquatre, Paris (2025); You Are Seeing Things, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2025); Espelho do poder, SESC Avenida Paulista, São Paulo (2025); Fala da terra, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2022); One Hundred Steps, De Pont Museum, Tilburg and The Model Arts Centre, Sligo (2022); Five Times Brazil, New Museum, New York (2022); Swinguerra, ICA Boston and FRAC Bretagne, Rennes (2022); RISE, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2019); and Swinguerra, Brazil Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019).

Group exhibitions and biennials include Collection Contemporary Art: 1975 – Present, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2026); Bienal Internacional de Arte y Ciudad, Bogotá (2025); In Terms of Sport, New Taipei City Art Museum (2024); Ritual in Transfigured Time, Netwerk, Aalst (2024); FUNK!, MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio (2023); Moving Bodies, Moving Images, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Dance!, HAM – The Helsinki Art Museum (2022); Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020); 5th Skulptur Projekte, Münster (2017); 20th Bienal Sesc VideoBrasil (2017); 35th and 33rd Panorama de Arte Brasileira, MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2017/2013); and Incerteza viva – 32nd Bienal de São Paulo (2016). The duo’s work is held in major public collections including MoMA, New York; CIFO, Miami; ICA Boston; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington; PAMM, Miami; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; De Pont Museum, Tilburg; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; and The Arts Council Collection, Dublin. In Brazil, they are represented in the collections of MASP, São Paulo; MAM São Paulo; MAM Rio de Janeiro; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; IMS – Instituto Moreira Salles; FUNDAJ, Recife and Coleção PIPA, Rio de Janeiro.