Dudu Quintanilha (Bauru, 1987) is a Brazilian-Argentinean artist based in Berlin. His work unfolds through experimental practices that trace the intersections of lived experience, imagination, and contemporary art. At the core of his practice is video installation, often arising from performance-based processes in which the camera does not merely document but actively shapes the situation. The performances he proposes explore subjectivity through concepts and embodied research that foreground care, affect, and the poetic dynamics of being together—while questioning fixed meanings, norms, and margins. Alongside video, Quintanilha works with photography, performance, and text, extending his interest in how images, gestures, and words carry personal and collective memory.

Collaboration plays a central role in his projects—whether through long-term processes with participants, often non-professional performers, or through conceptual and biographical explorations that invite others into the work. Rather than producing finished representations, his practice approaches art as a form of documentation—yet always in an experimental sense, where the act of recording remains porous, unstable, and open to transformation. In this way, his works hold space for intimacy, ambiguity, and the friction between what is lived and what is imagined. His interest lies in the boundaries between art and life: in how our experiences shape creative processes and their forms, and in how art can serve as a tool to expand the ways we experience life.

Quintanilha studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, where he received the Städelschule Sammlung Pohl graduate prize in 2021. In 2024, he was awarded the Günther Peil Stiftung scholarship (2025-2026), and in 2022, the Dokumentarfotografie Förderpreis 14 from Wüstenrot Stiftung. He has been a resident at Q21 MuseumsQuartier (2016) and BiP x Mousonturm (2022-2023).

His work has been exhibited at institutions including D’Haus (Düsseldorf), Folkwang Museum (Essen), Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart), PSM (Berlin), Galerie DREI (Cologne), Kunstraum Riehen (Basel), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, and Kanal – Centre Pompidou (Brussels), among others.

Quintanilha’s works are held in the collections of Sammlung Pohl, Folkwang Museum, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Colección Oxenford, and Instituto Torcuato Di Tella. He is represented by PSM (Berlin) and Mite Galería (Buenos Aires).