Dias & Riedweg

1955
Birth of Walter Stephan Riedweg in Lucerne, Switzerland
Studies at the Musik-Akademie of Lucerne, at the Scuola di Teatro Dimitri de Verscio and in workshops at the Performance Studies Departement of the New York University, United States
1964
Birth of Mauricio de Mello Dias in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Studies at the Federal Univesity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Schule für Gestaltung Basel, Switzerland and in workshop at the Printmaking Workshop of New York City, United States
1993
Dias & Riedweg begin their collaboration
Live and work in Basel, Switzerland, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & Paris, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2018
CameraContact, Curiosa, Paris Photo, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
CameraContato, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
Funk Staden, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
Other time than here. Other place than now, MACRO – Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy
Rien presque rien, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2016
WEG ZURÜCK DA, Artyourself, Sursee, Switzerland
2015
Nada Absolutamente Nada, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
Histórias Frias e Chapa Quente, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
Histórias Frias e Chapa Quente, Governo do Rio de Janeiro, Secretaria de Estado de Cultura & Casa França–Brasil apresentam, Brazil
Kleine geschichten von bescheidenheit und zweifel, kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2013
Amparo y Desamparo, Fotograma 13, Montevideo, Uruguay
Possible Archives, Kunsthal Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Até que a rua no separe, centro municipal de arte Hélio Oiticica
, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Estranhamente Passivel, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
DIAS & RIEDWEG - ESTRANHAMENTE POSSÍVEL, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
CoRPo SaNTo, Museum Sammlung Prinzhorn
, Heidelberg, Germany
2011
Intervalo, Ciclo de Arte Contemporaneo y Flamenco: Dias & Riedweg, Cajasol, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Peñas de Pena CajaSol, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
2010
Cold Stories, FIAC Art Fair, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Parties of Sorrow, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, United States
2009
Periferia de tus Ojos, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Paraísos Possíveis, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Une chose > Sa place Autre place < Autre chose, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Ambassade du Brésil, Paris, France
Moving Truck & Recent Works, Argos, Festival des Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
… and it becomes something else, Americas Society, New York, United States
Sentidos sem direccão e outras direcções de sentido, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2008
Elsewhere at the same time, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Vleeshal, Netherlands
Funk Staden, Embassy of Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007
Gravidades, Galerie do Lago, Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Funk Staden/Voracidade Máxima, Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Frieze Art Fair, Promenade (Series « Lenticulares »), Galerie Filomena Soares, London, United Kingdom
October in Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom
2006
Juksa Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway
2005
Cabra Criada, Galerie Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
Le Monde Inachevé, Le Plateau, Paris, France
Camera Foliã, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2004
Possivelmente falemos do mesmo, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2003
Possivelmente falemos do mesmo, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2002
O Outro Começa quando nossos Sentidos encontram o Mundo, CCBB-Centro cultural Banco de Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2001
Tandoor, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000
Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
Centre Culturel Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2020
Life lines, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
DA Z - DIGITAL ART ZURICH, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
WE NEVER SLEEP, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
United we rise, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2019
A Ship will not come, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
Awarded Artworks from the Collection Video Brasil, MACRO - Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy
Arte Naïf - Nenhum museu a menos, EAV - Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
À Nordeste de Quê?, SESC 24 DE MAIO, São Paulo, Brazil
OSMOSCOSMOS, Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
2018
Divided We Stand, Busan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
Festival Images Vevey, Visual Arts Biennale, Vevey, Switzerland
Histórias da Sexualidade, Museu de Arte de São Paulo [MASP], São Paulo, Brazil
2017
Bienalsur, Museo de los Inmigrantes / MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Trienal Frestas sesc São Paulo, SESC Sorocaban São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Nuestro deseo es una revolución. Imágenes de la diversidad sexual en el estado español (1977–2017), CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
Ser e Estar–Vídeos da coleção berardo, Museu Berardo, Lisboa, Portugal
Dentro, MAR Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alltag in der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland
Lugares do delírio, MAR Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nomad Spirit, Central Museum of Mongolian, Ulanbator, Mongolia
2014
Histórias Mestiças, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Stories About Place, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
inSite: Cuatro ensayos de lo public, sobre otro scenario, Sala de Arte Público Siquiros, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Du Sud au Nord, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain c/o Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
1825 Days, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Brasiliana: Installations from 1960 to the Present, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2012
Nikolaj Kunsthal, Arts Festival Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Danemark
From The Margin to The Edge, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
1st Montevideo Biennial, Gran Hall de la Casa Central, Banco República del Uruguay, Uruguay
L'artiste en ethnographe, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
En Alternant de 1 a 100, Bâtiment d'art Contemporain de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
The Subjective Object, Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Opening Exhibition at MAR, (Collection permanente du 22 juillet 2012), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Spiral and The Square, Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Pinta London, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, London, United Kingdom
2011
Art Rio, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Rua (de straat), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
The Spiral and the Square, Exercises in Translatability, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Meu Meio, Sesc Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil
Werkbeitrag, Kunstkredit, Basel, Switzerland
Videocriação, Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ordem e Progresso, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
2010
Paralela, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
Devotionalia, Collection du Museo Nacional de las Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Cultural São Paulo, Brazil
New Acquisitions, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jogos de Guerra, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil
The Traveling Show, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
2009
Islands + Ghettos, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Everywhere, Sexual, Diversity Policies in Art, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Tragicomedia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
Medium Religion, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Seville, Spain
Maspalomas, 2e Biennale des Canaries, Spain
Brazil Contemporary – Contemporary art, architecture, visual culture and design, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tragicomedy, Museo de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
2008
Lugares Comunes, Centro José Guerrero, Grenade, Spain
Empire, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, United States
Seja marginal, seja herói, Galerie Vallois & Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
Trópicos, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Vertrautes Terrain, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Parangolé - Fragmentos desde los noventa en Brasil, Portugal e España, Museo Patio Herreriano & Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
Mimétismes, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
Peripherical Look and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Acervo, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
2007
Os Tropicos - Die Tropen, CCBB-Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Festival MIX BRASIL, São Paulo, Brazil
Por um Fio, Passage des Arts, São Paulo, Brazil
Top of Central Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
16e Festival International d’Art Electronique, Videobrasil, Brazil
12e Documenta de Kassel, Germany
Biennale de Valence, Spain
2006
FestivalMørke Nu, Bodø, Norway
Kunstkredit, Basel, Switzerland
Paralela, São Paulo, Brésil
6e, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Aktuelle Videokunst aus Brasilien, KunstWerk Berlin, Germany
6e Lofoten International Arts Festival, Svolvaer, Norway
Luft.Holen, Unikum, Klagenfurt, Austria
Satellite of Love, Witte the With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Artes Mundi Awards, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2005
Jogo da Memória, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Populism Project, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany ; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway ; Šiuolaikinio meno centras, Vilnius, Lituania
Citizens, Gallery PM, London, United Kingdom and Gallery City, Leicester, United Kingdom
2004
4th International Art Biennial of Liverpool ,Galerie Fact & Tate, United Kingdom
5th International Art Biennial of Shanghai, China
Body & Nostalgia, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
National Museum of Modern Arts, Kyoto, Japan
Emoção Artificial, 2e Biennial of Electronics Arts, Instituto Cultural Itaú, São Paulo, Brazil
Kunstprojekte Riem, Munich, Germany
I need you, Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
Brazil - body nostalgia, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
Witte de With & Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2003
Mostra I Rio Art Contemporain, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
8th Biennial of Havanna, Cuba
4th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2002
25th Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil
Arte Cidade 4/Zona Leste, São Paulo, Brazil
Rotativa e Paralela, Galerie Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2001
10th Panorama of Contemporary Arts and Danse of Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
Antagonismes, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
L’Etat des Choses, Kunst Werke Berlin, Germany
Rotativa - Fase 1, Galerie Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Rede de Tensão, 50 years of the São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
2000
Insite 2000, Tijuana, Mexique et San Diego, United States
Arguments, Geneva Contemporary Art Center, Switzerland
Rede de Tensão, 50 years of the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
Mama Insite 2000, directed by Ivo Mesquit, at the border of Mexico and United States
My Name on Your Lips, Centre Culturel Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
On the spot, Bern Railway Station, Switzerland
Brasmitte, dirigée par Nelson Brissac Peixoto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Total Global, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Kunstwerke Berlin 2000, directed by Catherine David, Berlin, Germany
Atatürk Kulturzentrum - Istanbul Biennial Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
Centre Culturel Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

AWARDS, SCOLARSHIPS AND RESIDENCES

2012
Kunstkredit Basel, Werkbeitrag, Basel, Switzerland
2010
First Prize, Feria de Arte Madrid Foto, Madrid, Spain
2007
First Award, 16th International Festival of Electronic Art, Videobrasil 2007, São Paulo, Brazil
2006
Werkbeitrag Kunstkredit, Bâle, Switzerland
2005
Blue Orange Art Award, BVR, Berlin, Germany
Artes Mundi – International Visual Arts Award of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2004
Sérgio Motta Art Award, Sâo Paulo, Brazil
First Award of Basel, Switzerland
SSAC Commission, London, United Kingdom
2002
The John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New-York, United States of America
2001
DAAD Stipendium, Berlin, Germany
2000
2000 Art Vitae Foundation Scholarship, São Paulo, Brazil

PUBLICATIONS

2019
Ledroit Romaric, Le traitement de l’altérité chez Dias & Riedweg, master thesis at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
2014
Fanni Fetzer, Chantal Pontbriand, Dieter Roelstraete, Dias & Riedweg, JRP Ringier, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland (exh.cat.)
Dias & Riedweg : Histórias frias e chapa quente, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (exh.cat.)
2012
Solange Farkas, Stella Carrozzo, Estranhamente Possível, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil (exh.cat.)
Javier Codesal, Robin Held, Peñas de Pena : Flamenco Series Intervalo, Fundación Cajasol, Seville, Spain (exh.cat.)
2011
Beatriz Pimenta Velloso, Dias & Riedweg, Alteridade e experiência estética na arte contemporânea brasileira, Apicuri, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Glória Ferreira, Entrefalas, Zouk, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Eduardo de Jesus, Arte e novas espacialidades : Relações contemporâneas, Galeria Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (exh.cat.)
Gabriela Rangel, SITAC VIII : Puntos ciegos, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo A. C., 8th international symposium on contemporary art theory, Mexico City, Mexico
Dieter Roelstraete, A rua : Rio de Janeiro & The Spirit of the Street, M HKA Ludion, Antwerp, Belgium
2010
Felipe Chaimovich, Ecológica, MAM–SP, São Paulo, Brazil (exh.cat.)
Dias & Riedweg, Interterritorialidade e atemporalidade da imagem em movimento, SPCRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Novas aquisições 2007–2010, MAM–RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (exh.cat.)
2009
Paulo Herkenhoff, Arte & Ensaios, nº 18 UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
100 Video artistas, Exit Publicaciones, Madrid, Spain
… and It Becomes Something Else, Americas Society, New York, United-States (exh.cat.)
Aguinaldo Farias, Paraísos possíveis, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (exh.cat.)
Holland Cotter, …and It Becomes Something Else, Art in Review - New York Times, New York, United-States
Carol Boubés, Dias & Riedweg : Fiac 2009, Art Presse, Paris, France (exh.cat.)
Katia Maciel, Transcinemas, Contra Capa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Taiyana Pimentel, Dias & Riedweg : Tragicomedia, Cajasol y Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporâneo, Seville, Spain (exh.cat.)
Paolo Bianchi, Trance in den Tropen, Kunstforum International vol. 195, Berlin, Germany
Boris Groys, Peter Weibel, Medium Religion, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Gregor Jansen, Thomas Thiel, Vertrautes Terrain, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008
David Barro, Paolo Reis, Parangolé — Fragmentos desde los 90: Brasil, Dardo, Valladolid, Spain
Maaretta Jaukkuri, Daniel Hora, Same Time Else Where, Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, Norway (exh.cat.)
Roland Groenenboom, Funk Staden, Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands (exh.cat.)
Consuelo Lins, Daniel Hora, Dias & Riedweg : Funk Staden, Revista Cultura e Pensamento, Ministry of Culture of Brazil, Brazil
2007
Suely Rolnik, Funk Staden, Kassel, Germany (exh.cat.)
Susanne Jaegger, Maximum Voracity, Kassel, Germany (exh.cat.)
2006
Maaretta Jaukkuri, The Story Killers, Artes Mundi International Awards, Cardiff, United-Kingdom (exh.cat.)
Nathalie Delbard, Dias & Riedweg : Le Monde Inachevé, Revue Parachute nº 122, Montreal, Canada
2005
Valérie da Costa, Transfiguration de l’espace social, Revue Mouvement nº 36/37, Paris, France
Guy Brett, Le Monde Inachevé, Le Plateau/Festival d’Automne, Paris, France (exh.cat.)
Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Populism, Lukas & Sternberg, Berlin, Germany (exh.cat.)
Grupo Recolectivo : No estábamos hechos para los mismos caminos…, Goethe–Institut, Córdoba, Argentina
2004
Dias & Riedweg, Catherine David, Suely Rolnik, Dias & Riedweg : Possiblemente hablemos de lo mismo, Actar & MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Luciano Figueiredo, Câmera foliã, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (exh.cat.)
Suely Rolnik, Alterité à Ciel Ouvert, Revue Multitudes vol. 15, Paris, France
2003
Gloria Ferreira, Entretién avec Dias & Riedweg, Parachute Art Contemporain vol. 111, Montreal, Canada
Ignácio Averos, Dias & Riedweg : Mera Vista Point, Quaderns, Barcelona, Spain
Dias & Riedweg, Devotionalia, 8th Biennale of Havana, Havana, Cuba (exh.cat.)
Alfons Hug, The Chimborazzo Delirium, 4th Biennale of Mercosur (exh.cat.)
2001
Catherine David, Klaus Biesenbach, L’Etat des Choses, Kunst–Werke, Berlin, Germany (exh.cat.)
2000
Catherine David, Dias & Riedweg : O outro começa onde nossos sentidos encontram o mundo, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (exh.cat.)
Dias & Riedweg, Der Anderer beginnt da, wo unsere Sinne der Welt begegnen, Museum Für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Switzerland
Dias & Riedweg, Alles andere interessiert mich, Stella Rollige & Eva Sturm, Vienna, Austria
Dias & Riedweg, 2000 : Viu?, Veredas, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Centro Cultural Belém, Coleção Joe Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Colección Bergé, Madrid, Spain
Fonds régional d'art contemporain (Frac) Île-de-France, France
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Kunstkredit Basel, Bâle, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Kunststiftung Heute, Bern, Switzerland
Musée National d’art Moderne (MNAM) - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain
Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Coleção Pedro Barbosa, São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, California, United-States
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil
Videothek, Bâle, Switzerland
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

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