Vinicius Gerheim
Shapes, rhythms, vibrations, and sympathies compose relations of forces that encrypt their own existence. These are paintings that disrupt the boundaries of the public and private by managing the limits of language and of the self.
– Walla Capelobo, 2021
Born in 1992, in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Vinicius Gerheim is an artist whose production touches the intersections between sexuality and faith, in the field of the child's memory and its multiform narratives. In his work, he materializes images coming from the desire to transform lost sensations into language. To the artist, being a LGBTQIAP+ person allowed him, since the very beginning, to overthink patterns, norms and codes that limited his body. It is through painting that he amplifies his sensibility, reshapes these codes and gets re-enchanted by things that haven't been translated.
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Vinicius Gerheim | A Gentil Carioca | Rio de Janeiro, Brasil , 2021
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Geometria crepuscular
23 Nov 2024 - 1 Feb 2025 Rio de JaneiroThe group exhibition proposes a reflection on geometry in contemporary art, exploring an approach that moves away from formal and exact rigidity to incorporate more subtle, sensory and subjective aspects....Read more -
Vinícius Gerheim | Tororó
10 Aug - 26 Oct 2024 São PauloVinicius Gerheim, Boca, pena e folha, 2024; foto [photo] Pedro Agilson, cortesia do artista e A Gentil Carioca [courtesy of the artist and A Gentil Carioca] Vinicius Gerheim opens the...Read more -
Forrobodó
9 Sep 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Rio de JaneiroA Gentil Carioca is pleased to present Forrobodó, a group exhibition that marks the 20th anniversary of the gallery and celebrates the political, poetic, aesthetic and erotic potential of the...Read more -
Vinicius Gerheim | Brejo
10 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Rio de JaneiroA Gentil Carioca invites you to the opening of BREJO, solo exhibition by Vinicius Gerheim. In the exhibition, biomes from Minas Gerais’ Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest materialize ex-castrated bodies...Read more -
A Trama da Terra que Treme
21 May - 22 Jul 2022 São PauloJoão Modé | Construtivo [Paninho] , 2014 A Gentil Carioca is pleased to present A Trama da Terra que Treme. Curated by Victor Gorgulho , the show brings together works...Read more -
Vinicius Gerheim | Primeiras Estórias
14 Aug - 9 Oct 2021 Rio de JaneiroThe temporal phenomena between the large gap in living and dying are actions of our senses, of the sensations that embody the cycles, of the emotions that drive the perceptions...Read more
Born in 1992, in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Vinicius Gerheim is an artist whose production touches the intersections between sexuality and faith, in the field of the child's memory and its multiform narratives. In his work, he materializes images coming from the desire to transform lost sensations into language. To the artist, being a LGBTQIAP+ person allowed him, since the very beginning, to overthink patterns, norms and codes that limited his body. It is through painting that he amplifies his sensibility, reshapes these codes and gets re-enchanted by things that haven't been translated.
Graduated in Painting at UFRJ, Vinicius also attended open courses at EAV Parque Lage, both in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2014 he has participated in exhibitions in independent spaces and institutions such as Casa Daros, Centro de Artes Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação de Arte de Niterói, Casa França-Brasil, among others. In 2022, he inaugurated "BREJO", a solo exhibition at A Gentil Carioca in Rio de Janeiro. He participated in the group exhibition "A Trama da Terra que Treme", at A Gentil Carioca in São Paulo, and developed a solo for the gallery stand at Independent New York. In 2021, he held his first solo exhibition at the A Gentil Carioca.