Mariana Carolina Wuethrich (born in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss-Brazilian contemporary painter and multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Wuethrich received her BA from Hamburg Akademie fuer Mode & Design and studied at the Art Students League of New York. Her artworks have been exhibited internationally. 2018 She exhibited her work twice at the One World Observatory at the One World trade center. Wuethrich’s work reveals the hidden natural patterns that are common across physical and non-physical matter. Thanks to the use of an earthy color palette and hypnotic geometric compositions, Wuethrich awakens a vivid sense of the “natural” within the observer. Drawing from her multicultural background (Brazilian, Swiss and Italian) she crafts a visual language that is at once expressive and structured.
Her paintings are the result of careful meditations on the “Ursprünglichkeit” (roughly “the original essence”) that is captured through rhythms of colors and instinctively placed brush strokes.
Wuethrich’s study of music, dance, psychology, philosophy and theosophy, also influence her visual vocabulary.
Nature and the way it intersects with anthropomorphic space is a constant source of inspiration, as it’s the relationship between the observer, the work of art and the exhibition space.
ART EXHIBITIONS
Solo and two person exhibition
September 23 - November 23, 2023: Untitled - Basel - “Seeds: Garden memories and visions of the past present and future” Mariana Carolina Wuethrich
March 6 - September, 2019: ANIMA MUNDI, Solo exhibition by Mariana Carolina Wuethrich, Consulate Generale of Switzerland in New York.
2018: 148 Franklin New York, "Balancing the Pea" Amy Williams, Mariana Carolina Wuethrich
Group Shows
June 27 July 27, 2024: Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC -The Principle of Convergence
June 26 - July 26, 2019: 440 Gallery, NYC - LIGHT. A Juried Exhibition. Jurors: Lauren Hirshfield & Kat Ryals.
September 2018: World Trade Center Observatory, NYC, Kairos Society - Mariana Carolina Wuethrich, Amy Williams, Fiona Westphal, Gail Flanery, Richard Barnett
April 2018: World Trade Center Observatory, NYC, Kairos Society
2017: 8th Annual Small Works Show, Manhattan Borough President's Office
2016: Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC - "Emotional Disorder or Cultural Discontent - Ford Crull, Cristina Guadalupe Galván, Gilbert & George, Augustus Goertz, Jenny Holzer, D. Dominick Lombardi, Mariana Carolina Wuethrich and Adja Yunkers.
2016: Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC - "Linea Lingua Universalis" - Grimanesa Amorós, Augustus Goertz, Ray Parker, Jonathan Peyser, Michel Seuphor, Mark Tobey, Tam Van Tran, and Adja Yunkers - Introducing: Mariana Carolina Wuethrich
2016: World Money Gallery, NYC - "Voyeurism", NY
2015 - 2016: 440 Gallery, NY - 11th Annual Small Works Group Show - Juror: Amy Williams
2015: The Empire Hotel-NYC
2014 - 2015: Hotel Gallery Teufelhof in Basel, Switzerland - "Mixed media" https://www.teufelhof.com/de/teufelhof/kulturelles/vergangene-ausstellungen/
2013: Open House: Mariana Carolina Wuethrich & Felix Stern - St.Alban- Vorstadt Basel, Switzerland
2013: Art & fashion exhibition at muba fair in Basel, representing women in the arts Basel at "Tag der Frau" interview with TeleBasel
Auctions/ Charity auctions
2018 Magic Wheelchair NY https://www.magicwheelchair.org/
Bibliography
2019 ANIMA MUNDI Interview Consulate General of Switzerland New York: http://swisscgny.tumblr.com/post/183250806398/mariana-carolina-wuethrich-anima-mundi?fbclid=IwAR0JWyaEioDezw01-lvFjqn9_7J2gJSGcF99ulEa6OgA0D046Zd4Zq4-D9U
2016 Robin Cembalest, ' WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE: MARIANACAROLINAWUETHRICH, “UNDERWATER,” 2014, ACRYLIC & COFFEE" Blog. April 11th.
2013 Tag der Frau (Women's rights organization), Messe Basel muba: "Pressebericht über die Veranstaltung Tag der Frau am 02.03.2013 in der muba -Tag der Frau der muba im neuen Kleid." - Talk Tag der Frau Katja Reichenstein im Gespräch mit Mariana Carolina Wüthrich -„Frau und Kunst zwischen Kult, Kultur und Kommerz“. Press release by Edeltraud Schmitz-Angelini. March 2nd.
2013 Tag der Frau (Women's rights organization), 'Kurzbiografie', 28.th February.