Mabe Bethônico

Mabe Bethônico is an artist, researcher, and professor. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the 17th Biennale Architettura 2021 in Venice, the 27th and 28th São Paulo Biennials, Kunstverein München, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Pinacoteca São Paulo, Il Min Museum in Seoul,  Centre de la Photographie Genève, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and Nottingham Contemporary. In 2005 and 2019, she participated in the Panorama da Arte Brasileira at the Museum of Modern Art São Paulo. She has been a member of World of Matter, an international group of artists and theorists engaged in research on “raw materials” and their complex ecologies [http://www.worldofmatter.net/]. The project was exhibited at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, HMKV in Dortmund and Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery in Montreal, and others.

With a master’s and PhD from the Royal College of Art in London, she has been teaching at ENSP – Arles since 2023 and at HEAD–Genève since 2018. In 2013, her postdoctoral research project titled “One Traveller after Another,” conducted at the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva with support from CNPq, the National Research Council of Brazil, was awarded four Brazilian prizes. Her research particularly focuses on questions related to the Anthropocene, postcolonial issues, and various aspects of extractivism (especially mining).

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