Is a performer, visual artist, writer and filmmaker based in Berlin citizen of the world. She works across a range of media and modalities – often with the body and voice – dealing with presence, physicality, and communication. Unspoken contracts, colonial violence, official archive, personal fictions, and plantation memories – these are a few of the elements that find their way into her work. How to perform an official archive is one way of talking about what I do, whether I am making a video, a performative text, a sound work or a performance. Translation is the method I use to prepare for an encounter; it is not just a process of reformulating a message from one language into another. Translation is an intensive labor, context-dependent process, as well as a form of critical fabulation.
2014 MFA in Visual Art, Performance Art Department of Visual Art University of Bahia—Thesis Exhibition: “merci beaucoup, blanco! experiment, photography and performance”—Faculty Mentor Professor Ricardo Biriba-Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
2013 MFA in Dance Department of Dance University of Bahia - Thesis Exhibition: “merci beaucoup, blanco! experiment, photography and performance”—Faculty Mentor Professor Fabiana Dultra Britto-Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
2001 BA Communication of the Arts of the Body Department of Semiotic and Comuniccation Studies—Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo—Faculty Mentor Professor Miriam Rinaldi—São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
2025 Research Fellowship Büchsenausen—Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria.
2024 Research Fellowship Zum Magazine and Moreira Salles Institut—Sao Paulo Brazil.
2023 Research Fellowship Zum Magazine and Moreira Salles Institut—Sao Paulo Brazil.
2021 Research Fellowship Villa Romana And Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz Max Planck—Florence, Italy.
2019 Research Fellowship Ecos do Atlântico Sul do Goethe-Institut (São Paulo/BR) e The Social Justice Institute—GRSJ da University of British Columbia (Vancouver/CA).
SEMINARS / LECTURES
Drª. Denise Ferreira da Silva—After It's All Said. LECTURE. New Carlsberg Foundation research center Art as Forum. University of Copenhagen. April 2021.
Drª. Denise Ferreira da Silva—Tangible Possibility. SEMINAR. ICA Miami Research Center. ICA Miami’s Climate +Culture Summer Intensive, Miami, Jan/Apr 2021.
Drª. Valeria D’Ambrosio—Cleptocrazia. LECTURE SERIES. Take Away Bibliographies, VILLA ROMANA, Firenze, 13,14,15,16,17 and 18 September 2021.
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi—Artist Talk/Extracted Voices. SYMPOSIUM. LATEX: Critical Inflections on (NEO)Extractivism in Latin America.ICI Berlin- Institute for Cultural Inquiry, 27 and 28 September 2021.
CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
Political Imagination After Covid: Life, Race, Technology, Abolition. CONFERENCE. The Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theory. Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory. Bologna, 2 July, 2021.
Chiara Figone, muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi and Paz Guevara
Dancing in debris. INVOCATIONS FOR THE PHOENIX TO FIND ITS FORM IN US.WORKSHOP. SAVVY CONTEMPORARY. BERLIN, GERMANY, JULY 23rd,AUGUST 22TH,2021.
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi , Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro and Odaraya Mello—Letters About The End Of The World—body survival writing cure. WORKSHOP. MASP—Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand. São Paulo, Brazil 14 and 15 September, 2019.
EXHIBITIONS
Open Studio JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE.Collective Exhibition. muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi ARTIST.ABOLITION GARDEN INSTALLATION. INTUITION FREES IMAGINATION (NEON) + DRAWINGS OF ACQUARELL ANDOTHER MATERIALS. Maastricht, Netherlands, 2024.
Though it's dark , still I sing /34th Bienal de São Paulo.Collective Exhibition Curated by Jacopo Crivelli and Paulo Miyada. muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi with Jota Mombaça (ARTIST). DRAWINGS . 2021 Spell became invisible. Foundation Bienal of SP, SAO PAULO, Brazil.September 4rd- December 5th 2021.
Open Studio VILLA ROMANA.Collective Exhibition. muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi ARTIST. MONUMENT. ABOLITION GARDEN, Study of living monuments ,soil, construction debris, 3 fences from iron in Trident format and 20 types ofplants. Florence, Italy, 2021.
Open Studio VILLA ROMANA.Collective Exhibition. muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi ARTIST.INSTALLATION. INTUITIONFREES IMAGINATION (NEON) + DRAWINGS OF ACQUARELL AND OTHER
MATERIALS.Florence, Italy, September 4, 2021.
Open Studio VILLA ROMANA. Collective Exhibition. muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi ARTIST.PERFORMANCE.DIVE IN THE DARK,Florence, Italy, September 4, 2021.
TRIENAL FRESTAS SESC SOROCABA. Collective Exhibition. Curated Beatriz Lemos, Diane Lima, Thiago de Paula Souza. muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi ARTIST. INSTALLATION. THE UNPAYABLE DEBT. SOROCABA, SÃO PAULO,BRAZIL, August 5, 2021.
PUBLICATIONS
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi and Jota Mombaça—Carta à leitora preta do fim dos tempos, no livro A dívida impagável de Denise Ferreira da Silva (p. 15). Edição: Oficina de Imaginação Política e Living Commons, 2019.
Jess Oliveira—Performance e tradução em A dívida impagável, performance audiovisual de Michelle Mattiuzzi, por Revista DR—Dossiê Vibrações do inaudível, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2020.
Fabiana Lopes—Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi: Radical Wanderings, Gestures of Terror and Fugitivity in Flesh, Cadernos Pagu—Dossiê Imaginações rebeldes: disputas e derivações da artepensamento feminista, 2020.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Rodrigo Severo dos Santos
Corpo embranquecido: a performance negra como lugar de visibilidade dos corpos insurgentes, Revista interFACES nº29, v. 1—Imagens, Representação e Imaginários sobre o Brasil, 2019 (p. 28-31).
Bianca Leite
O deslocamento do corpo livre na obra das artistas Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi e Zaneli Muholi, por SP-Arte 365, 2019.
PAINTINGS
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi. Series INTUITION FREES IMAGINATION. 3 pieces. Aquarell colorful in cotton paper 300g/m2—30,5X45,5. VILLA ROMANA, Firenze, Italy, 2021.
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi. Series LAKES. 3 pieces. Aquarell colorful in cotton paper 300g/m2- 14,8cm X 21cm. Berlin,Germany, 2021.
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi and Jota Mombaça. Series 2021 Spell to become invisible. Abstract Drawings. Charcoal on cotton paper, 300g/m2—150 x 315 cm. Johannesburg, South Africa, 2019.
PERFORMANCE
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi. Dive in the dark. Performance Series I. Charcoal, Soil on cotton paper, 300g/m2—150 X 315 cm. VILLA ROMANA, Firenze, Italy, 2021.
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi and Jota Mombaça. Series 2021 Spell to become invisible.Performance. Charcoal on cotton paper, 300g/m2—150 x 315 cm. Johannesburg, South Africa, 2019.
ARCHITECTURE
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi. Abolition Garden. MONUMENT. With aromatic plants and root: Lavandula Angustifolia, Mentha Rotundifolia, Santolina chamaecyparissus, Ruta Graveolens, Origanum Majorana, Origanum Basilicum, Origanum Grego A Palla, Origanum Basilico Viola, Origanum Basilico Genovese, Salvia Sp, Capelvenere, Aloisia Triphylla, Pelargonium Graveolens, Mentha Pirita, Sanseveria, Aloisia Thymus Silver, Aloisia Cymbopogon citratus, Calendula officinalis, Ipomea Batatas and Taro. Study of living monuments ,soil, construction debris, 3 fences from iron in Trident format and 20 types of plants. VILLA ROMANA, Florence, Italy, 2021.
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi. Serie Intuition frees imagination.NEON LIGHT.
Letters 30 cm — 282 cm x 40cm.ARCHIVEBOOKS, Milan, Italy, 2021.