Mauricio Dias, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964.
Walter Riedweg, born in Lucerne, Switzerland, 1955.
Dias & Riedweg work together since 1993.
Represented by Galeria Vermelho São Paulo; Galeria Filomena Soares Lisbon; Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain Paris and Sicardi Gallery Houston.
Selection of shows:
2024: O Avesso do Céu, Helmhaus, Zürich; Galerie Vermelho, São Paulo; Festivals: VideoEx 2024, Zürich; FUSO Lissabon und Azores; DOBRA – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro und Centro Cultural São Paulo; Rotterdam Independent Film Festival. Best documentary prize at Art House New York Festival, 2024.
2023: Chez-soi et d’autres lieux de fictions - Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris / Bienalsur - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro / Our house is a very fine House - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany / Love Languages, Museum of Fine Arts Houston / Dobra Festival de Cinema Experimental, MAM Rio / Centro Cultural São Paulo / Zum Photograph Prize Instituto Moreira Salles, Pivô, São Paulo / Drawing Now Art Fair, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris
2022: Loop, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Barcelona / Arco Madrid, Galeria Filomena Soares / VideoEx, Kunsthalle Luzern and Kunstraum Walcheturm Zürich / Art Genève, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Switzerland
2021: Em Casa - Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo / Frieze Los Angeles, Galeria Vermelho / Arco Madrid, Galeria Filomena Soares
2020: Away Back Here / Life Lines – Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich / DAZ Festival Digital Art Zurich / We never sleep, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt
2019: Cabeça Feita (Hair Work) – Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo / Casa Mario, Montevideo, Uruguay
2018: CameraContato – Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo & Biennale Images Vevey, Switzerland / Busan Biennial, South Korea
2017: Dias & Riedweg - MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome & Fondazione Musica per Roma, Italy / Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France / Sala de vídeo - MASP Museu de Arte de S. Paulo / Bienal Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015: Dias & Riedweg - Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro
2014: Retrospective show Dias & Riedweg - Kunstmuseum Luzern / Dias & Riedweg, Casa França Brasil Rio de Janeiro and Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
2013: Dias & Riedweg - Possible Archives, solo show at Kunsthal Nikolaj Copenhagen, Denmark
2010:Dias & Riedweg – Sicardi Gallery, Houston, US / Centro de arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla / Museo de Arte de Cadiz / CajaSol Jerez, Spain / Frye Museum Seattle, US
2009: Dias & Riedweg - Americas Society, New York, US; MUAC, Mexico DF, Mexico / Kunsternes Haus Oslo; Norway / Galerie Filomena Soares Lisbon, Portugal
2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany, 2007
2005: Dias & Riedweg, Le Plateau, Paris, France / Populism, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, National Museum of Modern Art Oslo; Kunstverein Frankfurt; Center of Contemporary Art Vilnius / Gwanju Biennale, South Korea
2004: Dias & Riedweg, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland / MoMA Tokyo and MoMA Kyoto, Japan / Liverpool and Shanghai Biennial; China
2003: Dias & Riedweg, MACBA - Barcelona, Spain / Biennale de La Habana, Cuba / Mercosul Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2001: Catherine David’s L’état des Choses, Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany / 25 th São Paulo Biennale, Brazil
2000: InSite, San Diego & Tijuana, Border US-Mexico
1999: Harald Szemann’s 49th Venice Biennale, Italy
1998: Paulo Herkenhof’s 24th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
1996: Homi Bhabha and Mary Jane Jacob’s Conversations at the Castle, Atlanta, US
works at:
Musée d’art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
Macba Barcelona
Museo Reina Sofia Madrid
Migros Museum Zurich
Kunstmuseum Bern
Kunstmuseum Luzern
Kiasma Helsinki
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
MOCA Los Angeles
MAM Rio de Janeiro
MAM São Paulo
MAM Bahia
MAR Museu de Arte do Rio
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes Rio de Janeiro
Museum of Art of Wales Cardiff
FRAC Ile-de-France
prizes:
Guggenheim Foundation New York
Pro Helvetia Swiss Council for the Arts
Artes Mundi UK Acquisition Prize
Video Brasil Jury Prize
Zum Photo Prize Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil