Maria Thereza Alves
©image: Juan Llaguno
° 1961
Born in Brazil, lives in Berlin (Germany).
Maria Thereza Alves was born in Brazil and moved to New York at a young age. She has worked for the International Indian Treaty Council in New York City (where she met her partner Jimmie Durham). She was a founder of the Brazilian Information Center, working in defense of human rights of indigenous peoples, and co-founded the Partido Verde (Green Party) in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1981.
She has exhibited her artworks worldwide and often collaborates with Jimmie Durham.
>Jef Lambrecht, Guy Bleus, Maria Thereza Alves, Guy Rombouts, Monica Droste, Jacques Lizène, Luc Deleu, Johan van Geluwe, Facteur Cheval (expo), 1986.Poster, paper, ink (printing), 50 x 40 cm.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Savage, 1991.Performance.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Virginia/Veracruz (Madrid), 1992.Performance.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Virginia/Veracruz (London), 1992.Performance.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Virginia/Veracruz, 1992.Performance.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Europe, 1994-2011.Photography, digital photographs.
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>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Nothing Works Out Right (Except Sometimes Almost), 1994.Text.
>Julian Villaseñor, Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, The Man Who Had a Beautiful House, 1994.Video, dvd, 00:07:27.
>Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, 13, Rue Fenelon, 1995.Video, 00:30:00.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Enough!, 1995.Video, 00:02:40.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Self-Portrait as Rosa Lévy, 1995-2006.Photography, ink, paper, variable dimensions.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Collected Stones, 1995-2002.Video, dvd, 00:24:13.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Stoning the Refrigerator, 1996.Video.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, HTV, 1996.Video, pal, 00:02:30.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, A Heavy Stone, 1996.Video, pal, 00:01:00.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, A Stone from Metternich's House in Bohemia, 1996.Video, pal, 00:00:30.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Incident at Middelburg, 1996.Video, pal, 00:01:12.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Un projet à Lille, 1996-1997.Video.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Pink Granite at Work, 1997.Video, pal, 00:01:00.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, A stone Asleep in Bed at Home, 2000.Video.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, The Pursuit of Happiness, 2002.Video, 35 mm, dvd, 00:12:00.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Tocetea, 2003.Video, dvd, 00:00:26.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, A Sculpture in Two Dimensions, 2004.Video, 00:00:30.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Smashing, 2004.Video, 00:92:00.
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>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Inadequate Response, 2005.Text.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Self-Portrait Pretending to Be a Stone Statue of Myself, 2006.Photography, ink, paper, variable dimensions.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Maria Thereza Alves as Terminator, 2006.Photography, ink, paper, 80,7 x 60,7 cm.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Self-Portrait Pretending to Be my Mother as Played by Isabel Perera, 2006.Photography, ink, paper, variable dimensions.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Maria Thereza Alves, 2006.Photography, ink, paper, variable dimensions.
>Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Grünewald, 2006.Video, 00:13:55.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Inadequate Response, 2007.Book, ink, paper, 20 cm x 15,7 cm, 80 p..
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Painted Self-Portrait, 2007.Photography, acrylic, marker, ink, colour photograph, 83 x 60.5 cm.
>Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Museum of European Normality, 2008.Installation.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Euroman, 2008.Photography, ink, paper, 81 x 61 cm.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Haim Steinbach as Played by Haim Steinbach, 2008.Photography, ink, paper, 81 x 61 cm.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Towards Light.Video.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Brazilian Bloodstone.Video.
>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Nature Morte.Video, pal, 00:00:45.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - Der Verführer und der Steinerne Gast [The Libertine and the Stone Guest]. 03 March 1996 - 30 April 1996.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - Pierres rejetées.... 30 January 2009 - 12 April 2009.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: Visite Roeselare – The Green Line. 05 May 2016 - 19 June 2016.
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> Ensemble: Against Belief, Against Architecture.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Jimmie Durham.
> Ensemble: ARCHIEF JEF LAMBRECHT.
> Ensemble: Books on and by Jimmie Durham.
> Ensemble: Drawings, Display and other 2D Work.
> Ensemble: ESTATE JEF LAMBRECHT.
> Ensemble: humor & tragedie [humour & tragedy].
> Ensemble: Installations and Public Space.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1980 - 1993.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.
> Ensemble: JIMMIE DURHAM ENSEMBLE.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham @M HKA.
> Ensemble: La Lanterne de Lantin.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: Performance, Video and Self-Portraits.
> Ensemble: Stoning.
> Ensemble: Writing.