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Marina Bortoluzzi (Florianópolis, 1983) is an art curator, contemporary researcher and writer focused on the intersection of art, women and spirituality.

MA in Aesthetics and Art History at USP, São Paulo; with courses in contemporary art, curatorship, and collecting at the Centro Universitário Belas Artes, MAM - Museum of Modern Art and MASP - Museum of Art of São Paulo and by Node Curatorial Studies; BA in Advertising and Propaganda at UNISUL; Post-Graduation in Fashion Marketing, ESPM, Porto Alegre; and Specialization in Cool Hunting, at Polimoda, Florence - Italy. She has over 13 years of experience in research, curation, content and production of art projects. 

She was a speaker at South by Southwest in Austin -Texas in 2014; at Hacktown in Brazil in 2023; contributor to trend broadcasters such as WGSN, JWT Intelligence and Protein; and curated art exhibitions in Brazil, Russia, Germany and in the United States. She co-founded Instagrafite, one of the famous brands of public art in the world, and travel all over the globe with the company.

She is the founder and CEO of WOW - Women on Walls, a collaborative and worldwide platform focused on the recognition, funding and professional growth of women in the visual arts.

She is based in São Paulo, Brazil. Open to work worldwide.

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Comunidade Hilma af Klint
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Hacktown 2023
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Mulleres e Cultura Urbana
Crush Walls
Wynwood Walls
Mural Festival
Path Festival
SXSW 2014


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CURATED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

Mulheres que mudaram 200 anos


Caixa Cultural


São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador and Curitiba - Brazil

2023

The exhibition "Women who changed 200 years", was carried out by women about women, through a curatorial team made up of 6 curators from different subjectivities and experiences by curatorial direction of Marina Bortoluzzi and with an intersectional and transversal list of 36 women artists from all over Brazil, including Mônica Ventura, Maré de Matos, Renata Felinto, Keila Sankofa, among many others, collaborating with commissioned or reproduced works, materialized in paintings, illustrations, drawings, sculptures, photographs, embroidery, collage, videos, installations and flags about the active participation of women, around the period
known as Brazilian Independence.

The exhibition, worked in spiral time, aimed to immortalize the narrative that encompasses the protagonism of women who broke social and moral paradigms of the 19th century, and who contributed to the transformation of the last 200 years in Brazil, among them: Hipólita Jacinta de Teixeira de Melo, Bárbara Alencar, Maria Joaquina de Almeida, Madalena Tupinambá, with emphasis on the exhibition for Maria Leopoldina, Maria Quitéria, Maria Felipa and Nísia Floresta. The expography was divided into four sections: Rescue, Relevance & Resumption; Rizoma; Repaint History, and Thoughts.


WOW - Women on Walls 


Platform launch 

Worldwide

2022

WOW - Women on Walls is an open, collaborative and worldwide platform for learning, connecting and funding the recognition and professional growth of women in the visual arts.

The platform aims to map the potential of women in the arts, through a directory with the profiles of women working in the visual arts around the world, with their different realities, subjectivities and experiences.

Marina Bortoluzzi created Women on Walls in 2020 as a pilot project and transformed into a plataform in 2022. She and her female team produce art content every week and besides the whole purpose of the platform, WOW is also a prestigious publisher in the visual art industry.

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Linnkedin


Nada


Nathalia Gallego Sánchez
aka Gleo

A7MA, São Paulo - Brazil

2020



Álbum de Infância


William Mophos

Galeria Luis Maluf, São Paulo - Brazil 

2020


Botânica


Ju Violeta

A7MA, São Paulo - Brazil

2019



Janelas


Apolo Torres

Galeria Luis Maluf, São Paulo - Brazil

2018

Urban Nation Museum for Contemporary Art


Berlin, Germany

2017


Marina Bortoluzzi was part of the curatorial team responsible for the opening exhibition of this unique project: the first independent and non-commercial space for urban contemporary art.

With more than 100 artists, selected by Marina and all the others curators invited, Urban Nation Berlin made the impossible possible, and with the support of Berlin’s secretary of cultural affairs, Tim Renner, this initiative was congratulated because of its vision and ambition.

Located at Bülowstrasse 7 in Schöneberg, Berlin, Urban Nation was launched with artworks of artists like Invader, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Faith47, Icy and Sot, Herakut, Nychos, RETNA, Jaz, Seth Globepainter, Olek, Zezão, Speto, Panmela Castro, just to mention a few. Marina invited not only Latin American and Brazilian artists but also internationally recognized talents to the institution.

The museum continues to exist to this day.


We're all connected


Projekt M/10

Urban Nation Museum for Contemporary Art

Berlin, Germany

2016



“We are all connected; To each other, biologically.
To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson

They used to say that any two people are connected to each other via approximately six others. Thanks to social media, this distance has been halved in 2016: every person now knows every other person around 3.57 corners. But in fact we’re even more closely connected with one another – not only digitally, but also biologically and spiritually. In our “We’re all connected” exhibition, nine world-famous urban contemporary artists have interpreted many of the dimensions of this interrelatedness.

Faith47, Franco Fasoli aka Jaz, 2501, Axel Void, Speto, Panmela Castro, Olek, Robosexi and Nunca

The Invisible Wall


Artmossphere
II Biennale of Street Art

Moscow, Russia

2016


Artmossphere is the only Russian biennale that introduces general public to the most prominent street artists from all over the world and boosts the development of the local street art scene.

Marina Bortoluzzi was one of the invited curators of the second edition, in 2016, responsible for bringing Brazilian artists to the exhibition, like Alex Senna, Paulo Ito and Claudio Ethos, that showcased aside with worldwide famous artists and collectives, including L’Atlas, The London Police, Domo Collective, Lil Hill, Remi Rough, Finok, Jessie and Katey, Jaz,  Johannes Mundinger, Nespoon and Miss Van.