Rubiane Maia
Performance · Installation · Writing · Artistic Research
Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian artist based in the United Kingdom whose practice unfolds through long-term artistic research. Working across performance, installation, writing and site-responsive methodologies, she creates situations of encounter that explore perception, interdependence and the conditions through which knowledge emerges between bodies, materials and the more-than-human world.
The Tongue Bends Whenever It Faces What Is Unquestionable or What Has Been Cursed (Book-Performance, Chapter VI), 2023. Performance, 35th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil. Photo by Levi Fanan / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Black Board Diagram, 2026. Five-day site-responsive wall intervention (2.8 × 6 m), Instituto Ling, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Photo by VivaFoto
Between Cracks, Roots and Hidden Territories, 2025. Installation, Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Leka Mendes
Maturation, 2025. Diptych (photographs burned onto ceramic plates), 57 × 41 cm. Ceramic, photographic pigments and fire. Ceramic made in collaboration with Manuel Vason. Photo by Leka Mendes
In Search of Darkness, 2025. Site-responsive film installation & live performance, commissioned for the Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK. Photo by Manuel Vason
SPEIREIN, 2021. Ten-hour durational performance, PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the United Kingdom, London, UK. Photo by Manuel Vason
Plantation, 2025. Six-hour durational performance, CEREMONY Festival, Copeland Gallery, London, UK. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou
Coming from the Plants, 2025. Six-day durational performance, Marina Abramović & MAI in Dialogue with Joseph Beuys, Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany. Photo by Kirsten Becken
Magical Curves, 2022. Installation developed through performance, SALT + EARTH Festival of Landscape, Folkestone, UK. Photo by Manuel Vason
Baile, 2015. Site-responsive film created through ten-days durational performance, Cemitério do Peixe Residency, Brazil. Video still
About
Over more than two decades, Rubiane Maia has developed an international practice through performances, exhibitions, site-responsive projects, research residencies and institutional collaborations. Her work has been presented across museums, biennials, universities and public institutions, while long-term artistic research remains the central structure of her practice. Moving between Brazil and the United Kingdom, her projects investigate the relationships between bodies, landscapes, memory and material processes, creating artistic situations in which performance becomes both a methodology of enquiry and a space for shared experience.
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Selected publications and research documentsSelected Projects
A portfolio presenting a selection of performances, installations and long-term research projects.→ Open portfolio: English Version
→ Open portfolio: Portuguese VersionBook-Performance
Research portfolio documenting the ongoing performance-writing project.→ Open portfolio: English Version
→ Open portfolio: Portuguese Version
35th São Paulo Biennial · Folkestone Triennial · Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London · Live Art Development Agency (LADA), London · International Curators Forum (ICF), London · Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) · Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany · New York University Abu Dhabi (NYU Abu Dhabi) · Inhotim · SESC Pompeia... and other contexts dedicated to contemporary art, artistic research and performance.
Mentor, Flesh as Witness Residency, Milford House, Live Art Ireland / July 17th to August 17th, 2026.
Performance, Follow the Plants Research Assembly, Bio Art Society, Helsinki, Finland / August 26th to 29th, 2026.
Workshop, SALT + EARTH Festival of Landscape, Folkestone, UK / October, 2026.
Contact
For enquiries regarding acquisitions, please contact the artist's representing gallery:Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea (Brazil)
www.marlimatsumoto.com.br
[email protected]
+55 11 3875-5139.
For commissions or general enquires, please contact the artist studio directly at [email protected]