Muriel Gallardo Weinstein (Santiago de Chile, 1980) is a Chilean–Italian interdisciplinary visual artist based in Berlin since 2014. She studied Visual Arts and Art Education, holds an MA in Visual Arts from the University of Chile, and an MA in Textile and Surface Design from the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. She has participated in renowned artistic residencies and programs such as Künstlerhaus Bethanien, GlogauAir, and Bloc. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including the Socle du Monde Biennial (Herning, 2021), An Endless Curve (Berlin, 2022), and Overflows (Basel, 2023). She has also developed commissioned projects for the 25hours Hotel One Central in Dubai (permanent installation) and for the Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin (ALL HANDS ON: Basketry, ongoing).

Exhibition Description: This selection of works unfolds in black and white, where the absence of color marks the moment of making. Each piece arises from the intimacy of gesture and the slow rhythm of manual processes, shaping a language built from essential materials that opens into layered meaning.

Graphite cross-hatching gives rise to deep surfaces of time, while precise cuttings in leather and bio-leather extend this exploration into other materialities. Drawing and cutting appear as diverse ways of embodying time, with surfaces that become metaphors of skin and identity. Absence and presence are held in balance, forming a rhythm where silence stands alongside form.

Across different periods and techniques, the works trace an ongoing inquiry into the meaning of time and the ways it might be embodied. They propose presence directly, inviting an encounter with the intimacy of making, where materiality becomes a field for imagining new ways of shaping space and time.