about me
foto: Indira Dominici
*1984, Frankfurt, Germany
Silvie Eidam explores, through oil painting and video rituals, the relationship between humans, nature, and other species, seeking to understand how humanity’s disconnection from the more-than-human world manifests in the damage affecting the world today.
Silvie was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and currently lives in Brazil. Her grandfather, the painter Wilhelm Eidam, encouraged her artistic practice from an early age. She studied with local artists Andrea Simon and Beatrix Pohle-Stiehl before continuing her education in Fine Arts at the University of Brasília and Goldsmiths College, University of London.
She was awarded the Swiss GEK Trust Scholarship for five consecutive years and received financial support from a collector to complete her Masculinidades series. In 2019, she received the Vera Brant Contemporary Art Award, and in 2023, the Transborda Brasília ’23 Award.
She has participated in group exhibitions in Brazil and Germany since 2005 and has held three solo exhibitions between 2017 and 2023.
Currently, Silvie investigates the possibilities of embodied communication with the more-than-human.
EDUCATION
2011 - BA in Fine Arts, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
2008 - BA in Fine Arts and History of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 - Transborda Brasília ’23 Award, Brasília, Brazil
2019 - Vera Brant Contemporary Art Award, Brasília, Brazil
2016 - Collector-funded support for the Masculinidades series
2007–2011 - GEK Trust Scholarship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Momentum Mori, Alfinete Galeria, Brasília, Brazil
2017 - Out of Place, Galerie Offspace IMBRADIVA, Frankfurt, Germany
2017 - Masculinidades, Elefante Centro Cultural, Brasília, Brazil
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - Água e Pitaya, Galeria Trama, Fundação Athos Bulcão, Brasília, Brazil
2025 - Mulheres Artistas: Acervo em Expansão, Museu Nacional, Brasília, Brazil
2024 - Pintura como Cor, DeCurators, Brasília, Brazil
2023 - Transborda Brasília ’23, Caixa Cultural, Brasília, Brazil
2023 - Mulheres que Mudaram 200 Anos, Caixa Cultural, Brasília, Brazil
2023 - AQUI ESTOU – Corpo, Paisagem e Política, Museu Nacional, Brasília, Brazil
2022 - 40Antenas, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, Brazil
2022 - Circulandô, Hill House and Alfinete Galeria, Brasília, Brazil
2020 - Lavamos Carro, Alfinete Galeria, Brasília, Brazil
2019 - Doações 2019, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
2019 - Sobrefalas, Galeria Casa, Brasília, Brazil
2019 - Bsb Plano das Artes, Elefante Centro Cultural, Brasília, Brazil
2019 - Vera Brant, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, Brazil
2018 - (Re)invenções, Elefante Centro Cultural, Brasília, Brazil
2018 - Onde Anda a Onda III, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Brasília, Brazil
2017 - Museumsnacht, PENG, Mainz, Germany
2014 - Projeto Lacuna, Alfinete Galeria, Brasília, Brazil
2013 - Projeto Lacuna, Museu Nacional, Brasília, Brazil
COLLECTIONS
Palácio do Planalto
Museu Nacional da República, Brasilia, Brazil
Private Collections in
Brasília, Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Frankfurt, Germany.
Hanau, Germany.