Bio
Maíra Wiener (1993) is a cultural manager, dramaturge and production manager, working within various configurations and structures. Her focus is on participatory, interdisciplinary, site-specific and process-based performative formats. In her works as artist she often deals with migration, identity, and associated experiences and allocations.
Institutions she worked with include the cultural office of Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar, coordinating Matchbox Rhein-Neckar (2020-2022) and programming Denkfest (2023); Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, as exhibition coordinator and coordinator of Reallabor für aktuelle Fotografie at Bundesgartenschau 2023 in Mannheim (BUGA); ID_Tanzhaus Frankfurt Rhein-Main as production manager.
Together with Anna Júlia Amaral, André Felipe and Gabriel Carneiro she created und curated DESVIO SÜD, a residency programm in Bochum for Latin American artists living in Germany. She also curated programme for Spross, a project of the town of Graben-Neudorf for encounters and culture.
As production manager she accompanied artists such as Mia + Eric (Calgary, CA), Companie M (Mannheim, DE), Lisa Bless (Heidelberg, DE) and Renan Martins (Heidelberg, DE/Barcelona, ES).
From 2019 to 2023 she lived in the town of Graben-Neudorf, in the rural area within the district of Karlsruhe, where she developed site specific projects reflecting on the interrelatedness between local and global issues. She developed a relationship to art in rural spaces as early as 2015: she led performative projects in the small town of Garopaba, Brazil, where she partly grew up.
Before her arrival in Graben-Neudorf, she worked mainly in Brussels, Frankfurt and Florianópolis, as a freelance director, dramaturge, actress and producer. She was a founding member to the groups Sujeito Coletivo Cênico and Coletivo Urucubaca, with which she worked between 2012 and 2016 in Florianópolis, developing plays and performances.
She completed Theatre Studies and Theatre Pedagogy at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, Brazil and a Master of Arts in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research at Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Hessische Theaterakademie and Université Libre de Bruxelles.
For her time in Brussels she was granted a DAAD scholarship.
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