Marina Rheingantz

Marina Rheingantz’s paintings are characterized by a profound engagement with color and gesture, from which shifting spaces and evocative atmospheres emerge. Working with thick patches of oil paint, she imbues her canvases with a tactile quality that suggests the weave of fabric and the textures of a landscape. Her compositions, while often stripped of overt representational traces, retain the structural framework of horizons and imagined depths.

Complementing her painting practice, Rheingantz has developed a significant body of textile works over the past decade, utilizing embroidery and intricate jacquard weaving. This parallel practice reveals strong analogies with her pictorial techniques, as she employs a rhythmic gesture that translates into surfaces animated by lines and patches of color, acting as both volumes and masses. This dialogue between painting and weaving is central to her artistic exploration.

Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Rheingantz’s work is featured in prominent public collections, including the Dallas Museum of Art and Instituto Inhotim. Her recent exhibitions, such as solo presentations at FRAC Auvergne and participation in the Gwangju Biennale, underscore her ongoing inquiry into abstraction, memory, and the transformative power of landscape.