Mariana Carolina Wuethrich
Swiss-Brazilian artist exploring the connections between nature, memory & identity through painting & multidisciplinary work, reflecting the rhythms of life.
MessageMariana Carolina Wuethrich is a Swiss-Brazilian contemporary painter and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the relationships between natural structures, ancestral memory, and human perception. Born in Basel, Switzerland, Wuethrich studied at the Hamburg Akademie für Mode & Design and the Art Students League of New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
A key moment in Wuethrich’s practice was her solo exhibition ANIMA MUNDI at the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York (2019), where she presented a series of works focused on the inner life of nature and the invisible connections that shape our environment. The exhibition reflected her ongoing engagement with ecological themes and marked her presence within the Swiss cultural community abroad.
Her recent solo show, Seeds: Garden memories and visions of the past, present and future (Untitled - Basel, 2023), continued her exploration of natural cycles and symbolic landscapes. Using an earthy palette, layered compositions, and geometric rhythms, Wuethrich’s paintings evoke what she describes as Ursprünglichkeit - an original essence or primal state of being.
Wuethrich’s work is informed by her multicultural heritage - Brazilian, Swiss, and Italian - and shaped by studies in music, dance, psychology, philosophy, and theosophy. In 2024, she participated in the LABVERDE - Speculative Ecologies residency in the Amazon rainforest, where she further investigated the role of art in ecological reflection and inquiry.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Lichtundfire Gallery (NYC), 440 Gallery (NYC), the World Trade Center Observatory, and Hotel Gallery Teufelhof (Basel). At the core of her practice is a sustained interest in the dialogue between nature, embodied experience, and the spatial context of art.
Statement
Mariana Carolina Wuethrich (born in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss-Brazilian contemporary painter and multidisciplinary artist. 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.
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.
Mariana Carolina Wuethrich (born in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss-Brazilian contemporary painter and multidisciplinary artist. 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.
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.