Dudu Quintanilha

Dudu Quintanilha (Brazil–Argentina, lives and works in Berlin) is a contemporary artist whose interdisciplinary practice combines performance, video, photography, and text. His work investigates the intersection of art, care, emotions, and ethics, developing experimental processes that connect bodies and ideas within the international contemporary art field. He studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main under Willem de Rooij and Gerard Byrne, receiving the Städelschule Sammlung Pohl Prize upon graduation in 2021. In 2024, he was awarded the Günther Peil Stiftung fellowship, and in 2022 he received the Dokumentarfotografie Förderpreis 14 from the Wüstenrot Stiftung. He was an artist-in-residence at Q21 MuseumsQuartier (2016) and received the Residenzförderung BiP in collaboration with Mousonturm (2022). His work has been exhibited at institutions and venues including Folkwang Museum (Essen), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf), Kunstraum Riehen (Basel), PSM (Berlin), Galerie DREI (Cologne), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Mite galería (Buenos Aires), and Kanal – Centre Pompidou (Brussels). His works are included in public and private collections such as Sammlung Pohl, Sammlung Folkwang Museum, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, the Oxenford Collection, and the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella Collection.