Since the 1990s, Rivane Neuenschwander has built a practice rooted in everyday life, drawing on social exchange, memory, language, consumption, and the passage of time. Her installations often function as open systems, incorporating the actions of people, animals, or natural processes—including dreams, thoughts, desires, and forms of political expression—to explore how living systems are interconnected and constantly changing, while also reshaping the viewer’s experience of space through sensory elements. Across drawings, paintings, tapestries, and videos, she brings her visual language into dialogue with fields such as science, psychology, linguistics, and literature, addressing questions of perception, communication, and coexistence. By working with both human and nonhuman participants, her pieces often develop through collective processes, where the presence and contributions of others are not just a subject but a condition for how the work takes form.
Among her recent solo exhibitions are Dream.lab/Torino, (laboratorio di sogno), Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy (2026); Brasil de susto e sonho: um panorama na obra de Rivane Neuenschwander, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); dream.lab, KinderKunstLabor, Sankt Pölten, Austria (2024); O fardo, a farda, a fenda, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brasil (2023); Sementes Selvagens, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2022); Knife does not cut fire, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (2021); Rivane Neuenschwander, East Tank, Tate Modern, London, UK (2021) and O Alienista, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2019). She has also participated in the group shows Histórias Latino-Americanas, MASP, São Paulo, Brazil (2026); For Children. Art Stories since 1968, Haus der Kusnt, Munich, Germany (2025); On the Street Local, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (2025); Brasil futuro: as formas da democracia, Museu da República, Brasília, Brazil (2023); Emma Kunz Cosmos. A Visionary in Dialogue with Contemporary Art, Tabakalera, San Sebastián, Spain (2022); Fantasy and Experimentation: Latin American Art in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA (2021); Quarta-feira de cinzas/Epilogue, Rivane and Cao Guimarães, Tate Modern, London, UK (2021).
The artist’s work is featured in important public collections, including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Tate Modern, London, UK; MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; TBA – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Áustria; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, 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; MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, León, Spaim; MACBA – Museu d ́Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico; Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Fundación Arco, Madrid, Spain; ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany; Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal; Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain; MAMAM – Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil; Museu de Arte Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
