Dudu Quintanilha (Bauru, 1987) is a Brazilian-Argentinian artist based in Berlin. His work develops through experimental practices that trace intersections between lived experience, imagination, and contemporary art, questioning what implies to perform oneself. His videos and video installations are often the result of performance-based processes in which the camera does not merely document, but actively shapes the situation. The pieces he proposes explore subjectivity through bodily investigations that foreground care, affection, and the poetic dynamics of being together, while challenging fixed meanings, norms, and margins. Photography and text expand his interest in how images, gestures, and words are charged with both personal and collective memories.

Collaboration plays a central role in his projects, whether through processes involving collaborators—often non-professional artists—or through conceptual and biographical explorations that invite others to become part of the work. Moving away from the production of finished representations, his practice approaches art as a form of experimental documentation. The act of recording remains porous, unstable, and open to transformation, making room for intimacy, ambiguity, and the friction between the lived and the imagined. His interest lies in the boundaries between art and existence, analyzing how our experiences shape creative processes and how art can serve as a tool to expand our everyday lives. Quintanilha was a co-founder, alongside Anita Silvia, of the group Mexa in São Paulo, and of the collective Cooperativa Guatemalteca in Buenos Aires, together with Renata Lopzupone, Leopoldo Estol, Laura Codega, and Paula Massarutti.Quintanilha studied in Buenos Aires at IUNA and Di Tella University and 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).