Brazilian art in Berlin: rhythm beyond the soundtrack

Rhythm need not be heard to be experienced. A programme curated by Tereza de Arruda across KORNFELD’s Berlin spaces in early 2026 used the idea to connect light, painting and the body. WAYFARER Brazil’s January account approached Carnival as a cultural reference rather than simply a festive backdrop.

At KORNFELD Galerie, Dieter Jung’s Life of Colors brought holography and painting into a study of perception. Colour, optical interference and apparent movement asked viewers to change their position and attend to the difference between a surface and the depth it seemed to contain.

The group exhibition Rhythm & Soul at 68projects brought together Brazilian artists working in painting, drawing, objects and prints. The archive described a field of contrasts: popular traditions and urban experience, collective celebration and social resistance. Rhythm connected these different subjects without making Brazilian art appear to have one uniform voice.

At 69salon, OBastardo’s Rhythm & Skin presented portraits developed through a Berlin residency. Graphic structures, patterns and Afro-Brazilian references gave the painted body a role as a bearer of memory and identity.

The three presentations ran through 26 February 2026. Read together, they proposed a relationship between individual perception and collective culture, while keeping their media distinct. The programme’s value was in that difference: holographic light and painted faces could share a curatorial question without becoming illustrations of the same answer.

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Adapted from the WAYFARER Brazil archive, first published 2026-01-19. English adaptation: 6 October 2026. This is an archival account, not a report of a new visit. Exhibitions, collections and menu details are described in their original context, not as current availability.