Eduardo Berliner

Overview

Eduardo Berliner tenses the painting and the image to question the authenticity of memory and direct experience. The artist’s main relationship to the physical world alters his perceptions of daily surroundings, allowing his paintings to become manifestations of tacit assumptions and misunderstandings. The landscape, architecture, residues of culture and human relationships are reconfigured through personal narratives, memories and the painting process itself. Berliner’s humanistic renderings of living things, scenes from the natural world, plant forms, animals and people, revealed shared relationships contingent on unlikely occurrences. They attest to the slippage between invention and memory, between indifference and trauma.

Works

Biography

Eduardo Berliner (1978, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

Selected solo exhibitions: A Forma dos Restos, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); Corpo em Muda, curated by Priscyla Gomes and Felipe Kaizer, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2016); A Presença da Ausência, curated by Marcio Doctors, Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2015); Pinturas, curated by Hans-Michael Herzog, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sala A Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013); Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2010).

Selected group exhibitions: 1981/2021: Arte Contemporânea Brasileira na Coleção Andrea e José Olympio Pereira,curated by Raphael Fonseca, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2021); Com Título e Sem Título, Técnicas e Dimensões Variadas, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil (2019); Utopia de Colecionador o Pluralismo da Arte, curated by Ricardo Resende, Fundação Marcos Amaro, Itu, Brazil (2019); Projeto Cavalo: Quadrivium 8 patas, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); Bestiário, curated by Raphael Fonseca, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2017); Os Muitos e o Um: Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, curated by Robert Storr, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2016); A Cor do Brasil, curated by Paulo Herkenhoff and Marcelo Campos, MAR - Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016); Dark Mirror: Lateinamerikanische Kunst Seit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2015); E se quebrarem as lentes empoeiradas?, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2015); Pangaea II: News Art From Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London, England (2015); 30ª Bienal de São Paulo, curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, São Paulo, Brazil (2012).

Awards: finalist for Prêmio Pipa, Brazil; Prêmio CNI_SESI Marcantônio Vilaça, Brazil.

Public collections: MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; K 11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China; Daros Latinamerica AG, Zurich, Switzerland; Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand/Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Coleção Banco Itaú S.A., São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

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