Rooted. Brasilianische Künstlerinnen / Female Brazilian Artists

The book Rooted. Female Brazilian Artists, accompanies the eponymous exhibition at Brainlab/Munich, which is open until the end of September 2025. The works of the 16 artists come from the collection of Sergio Linhares and Stefan Vilsmeier. The collectors present this selection hoping to illuminate important and difficult themes such as, among others, discrimination, displacement, and violence but also to remind of our shared rootedness in nature. Art has no obligation to comfort us; it can challenge, disrupt and remind us that our coexistence is fragile. The volume shows installation views along with close-ups of the individual works and it includes short texts for each artist along with an essay by curator Tereza de Arruda.

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Stefan Vilsmeier is a German entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder and CEO of Brainlab AG. Tereza de Arruda is an art historian and works as an independent curator. She was born in Sã o Paulo and studied art history in Berlin, where she has lived since 1989. She has been co-curator and advisor of the Havana Biennial since 1997 and of the International Biennial Curitiba since 2009.