Anna Maria Maiolino

Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most influential contemporary artists in Brazil. Born in Italy in 1942 and later based in South America, her multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, printmaking, poetry, film, performance, installation, and sculpture. Her work investigates identity, language, memory, desire, and the body through fragmentation and abstraction. Shaped by migration and Brazil’s military repression during the 1960s, Maiolino became associated with major movements such as New Figuration and New Brazilian Objectivity alongside artists including Lygia Pape and Hélio Oiticica. Since the 1980s, she has worked with malleable materials, creating forms connected to daily gestures, rituals, and sensory experience.