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Cristina Canale in her Berlin studio, in 2020. Photo by Luíza Baldan.

Cristina Canale (Rio de Janeiro, 1961) is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Biography

Cristina Canale studied drawing and painting at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, in Rio de Janeiro. In 1984, she took part in the iconic collective exhibition Como Vai Você, Geração 80?, establishing herself in the Brazilian art scene as one of the members of what would be known as the "Geração 80", alongside names such as Adriana Varejão, Angelo Venosa, Beatriz Milhazes, Daniel Senise, Leda Catunda, among others. In 1993, she permanently settled in Germany after receiving a grant to support artistic creation from the state of Brandenburg, which also guaranteed her an artistic residency at Schloss Wiepersdorf (Wiepersdorf Palace). That same year, she was also awarded a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauch Dienst (DAAD), which allowed her to develop her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Academy of Arts)—where names such as Joseph Beuys, Bernd & Hilla Becher, among others—under the guidance of Dutch conceptual artist Jan Dibbets, remaining there until 1995.

Untitled, 1991. Oil on canvas. 240 x 310 cm. Pinacoteca de São Paulo Collection.

Mother and Daughter II, 2007. Mixed technique on canvas. 140 x 165 cm.

Cristina Canale participated in the XXI Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, in 1991, and in the VI Bienal de Curitiba, in 2011. She held solo exhibitions at the Tomie Ohtake Institute, in São Paulo, in 2007, at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM-Rio), in 2010, and at Paço Imperial, in 2014. Some of her works are part of important art collections, such as the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection at MAM-Rio; São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP); Rio Art Museum (MAR); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; as well as at Figueiredo Ferraz Institut (IFF), in Ribeirão Preto/SP; at the Itaú Cultural Institut, in São Paulo, as well as other international collections, such as the Hall Art Foundation (Derneburg, Germany/Vermont, USA) and the Museum No Hero (Delden, Netherlands).

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