©image: Nici Wegener/Barbara Thumm Gallery
1935 - 2021
Born in Iquitos (PE).
The oeuvre of Peruvian-born artist Maria Teresa Burga Ruiz has ever since the 1960s occupied an important place within Latin-American art. Her work casts a critical eye upon the way that everyday human life is schematisized, categorized and controlled.
>Teresa Burga, Autorretrato. Estructura. Informe, 9.6.1972 [Self-Portrait. Structure. Report, 9.6.1972], 1972.Installation, installation with drawings, photos, documents, electrocardiogram results, phonocardiogram results, luminous object and sound., approx. 12 linear meters.
> Exhibition: Recent acquisitions. 14 August 2015 - 31 January 2016.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2013 [Acquisitions 2013].
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: The Measure as Self.