MARLENE STAMM
Marlene Stamm is from Vacaria (RS) and lives in São Paulo (SP). The artist works with painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture and site-specific interventions, using a hyper-realistic vocabulary to discuss absence and empty space. Her observations and poetic-plastic re-elaborations of everyday objects and private spaces enable a prominence of affections and memorabilia relationships. 

She particicipated in the 33rd São Paulo International Biennial as a guest artist for Mark Dion in the “Field Station Ibirapuera Park” project (2018). Among her main solo exhibitions, the following stand out: A house all yours, Casa Museu Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (2024), Abrigar-se, MAES – Museu de Arte do Espirito Santo, Vitória, ES, There is silence in everything, Centro Cultural dos Correios, São Paulo, SP (2023), Before the night comes, OMA Galeria. São Paulo, SP (2023), Espelho Labirinto, CCBB Brasília, Brasília (2022), Will it always be there? Galeria do Lago, Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro (2022), Formatto Galeria in São Paulo, Brazil (2019), Adhoc Galeria in Vigo in Spain (2015), Solo Projects from the Foco Latino América section at Arco Madrid (2014), Espaço T in Porto, Portugal (2014) and awarded in the São Paulo Cultural Center Exhibition Program (2012).

"In Stamm's works, one also notices the presence of a core element in his production: the self-disposition, almost obsessive, for repetitive, solitary and silent manual work, close to the trance of spinners and seamstresses, who point to micro- details of contingencies, which look at what no one sees. The aura of an introspective domesticity remains as another connection with Virginia Woolf's problems, as it is from this private, circumscribed space that both feed their production for the world, and assert their existence.

And it is in this worldly delicacy, of silences, deviations, and banalities, that the power of Marlene Stamm's work crystallizes: a gentle, but no less powerful, purging of what is called life."



Talita Trizoli

“Tables, benches, boxes, globes. And papers, books, letters and documents. Objects covered in dust and mold, stored, waiting, waiting. How long will they stand the test of time? Will they always be there? But then the artist's loving gaze falls upon them, illuminating and igniting memories. Marlene Stamm is interested in waste, welcomes the discarded, rescues the stories and affections imbued in each piece. By selecting them, among the many saved, the artist raises important questions about choices and transformations. In each recovered object there is a little bit of herself. All the small fragments, saved from oblivion, constitute its essence. The insignificant then becomes the sign of a profound sensitivity, establishing a communion between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator."


Isabel Portella

Current and future exhibitions

Solo show | september/2024 | Centro Cultural Correios | Rio de Janeiro


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