Renata Har
1981 —
Renata Har
São Paulo, 1981.
Renata Har
1981, lives and works in São Paulo.
Born in São Paulo in 1981, after beginning her studies in her hometown, Renata joined Christian Boltanski’s atelier at École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she finished her masters degree.
Using everyday elements that normally tend towards the mundane, her work reflects on the imminence ofdisappearance and the brutality of impermanence. In exploring the slender space between what we see and what remains unnoticed, Har creates an ambiance of latent instability that tells stories of memory, identity and invisibility.
Weaving the semantic threads that connect one object to another, one material to another, one signifier to an- other, the volatility of human life emerges as well as and the timeless presence of things and feelings in such life. There is a sense of tension and expectation, a constant reminder, that art is about continuing processes rather than reifying artifacts.
Har’s recent solo exhibitions include ‘Like a Type of Wind’ ,Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel (2020), ’Alabastro’, Silvia Cintra+Box4,Rio de Janeiro (2017) ’Behold’, L’Atelier-ksr, Berlin (2015), ‘On different silences’, La Maudite, Paris (2014), ‘Sparkling Ashes’, Team Titanic, Berlin (2013). The artist has participated in group ex- hibitions at the 10th Bienal do Recôncavo, Bahia, Brazil (2012), Wabi Sabi at Mendes Wood DM , São Paulo (2012), and (NON) at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2014). Recent international group exhibitions include ‘unexpected others’, L’Atelier-ksr, Berlin (2016), ‘Cooking with John(s), an exhibition project with Conglomer- ate tv, at Peles Empire, Berlin (2018), Condo, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo (2018), ’Touch, Vorspiel/Transme- diale’, Berlin (2017),’ Under Construction Gallery’, Paris (2017), ‘Festival Berges de Seine / Oi Brasil’, Berges de Seine, Paris (2014)
Her work has been nominated for Prix Keskar (2011) and Cifo Prize (2018/19). Renata is also part of art collective Agora since 2012 when she moved to Berlin, with whom she performed at Alimentarium Museum, Vevey, Switzerland (2018), Instituto Cervantes, Berlin, Germany (2014) , Kunsthalle Osnabrücke, Germany (2017) and Cervantes Institute in Berlin (2013)