July 2012 - Video Art in Brazil

- Video Art in Brazil -

Presented by Ana Magalhães (MAC São Paulo)

on July 25th 2012, 7 p.m. at the auditorium at Kunstmuseum Bonn:


Art historian Ana Magalhães gives us a panorama of video art in Brazil, from its beginnings in the 1970s to the present. From the context of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, she will present the most important aspects of Brazilian artistic scene in those years. MAC had a significant role in the development of video art in Brazil, as a great estimulator of this new medium in its initial phase.

We will see some extracts of videos by Letícia Parente, Anna Bella Geiger and other video artists from Brazil. A particular aspect to be considered is the fact that the rise of video art in Brazil coincided with the instauration of the military dictatorship in 1964. In such a repressive context, art was much censored, especially video art and other recording media, considered to be dangerous and likely to be used for documentation purposes.

With german introduction and translation.

In cooperation with German-Brazilian Society.

Prof. Dr. Ana Gonçalves Magalhães studied Art History and History at the University Campinas and received her PHD in 2000 in Art Critique and History in the field of Fine Arts at the Academy of Communication and Art (ECA) at the USP. 2001 she was assistant in the cultural department of the city of Campinas and is in the committee of the foundation of the Biennale São Paulo. 2008 she accepted office as a professor for Modern Art History at MAC at USP.

Main focus: modern art, art of the 19th century, brasilian art.