Working together for over a decade, Bárbara Wagner (Brazil, 1980) & Benjamin de Burca (Munich, 1975) a produce videos and video installations in dialogue with other artists and collectives. The duo has developed a research method according to documentary observation and investigation, constructing the direction, screenwriting, costumes, and soundtracks in collaboration with the protagonists of each project. This horizontal way of working is crucial for transmitting the frequently urgent, socially and historically determined content of their audiovisual investigation. Even in their incursions into other modes of making, such as photography, painting or woodcutting, social types and political friction are still formative elements of the discourse presented. 

Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca solo exhibitions include Set to go, the Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland (2023); De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Holanda (2022); Five Times Brazil, New Museum, Nova York, USA (2022); One Hundred Steps, The Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland (2022); Swinguerra, ICA Boston – Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, USA; Bretagne, Rennes, France (2022); Swinguerra, Brazilian pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2019).

The artists have also participated in the group exhibitions Moving bodies moving images, Whitechapel gallery, London, England (2023); Dance! – Movement in the visual arts 1880-2020, HAM – The Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (2022); One Hundred Steps, Manifesta 13 Marseille, France (2020); Because the Night, Fotomuseum Winthertur, Winthertur, Switzerland (2018); 5th Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster, Germany (2017); Incerteza Viva, 32a Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Pavilhão da Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2016).