Mira Schendel

Mira Schendel (Zurich, 1919 – São Paulo, 1988) was a major 20th-century Brazilian artist. Exiled in Sarajevo during WWII, she emigrated to Brazil in 1949. In São Paulo, she developed a unique body of work influenced by philosophy, phenomenology, and language, using materials like rice paper, talc, and brick dust. Best known for her monotypes, which blend multilingual text, and works like Droguinhas and Ondas paradas de probabilidade, she exhibited at the São Paulo Biennial (1965, 1969) and internationally. Linked to thinkers like Vilém Flusser and Mário Schenberg, her practice spanned drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, marked by deep poetic and conceptual force.