Bruno Baptistelli’s work stems from a conceptual practice that unfolds across installations, objects, paintings, photographs, and videos. His production is deeply informed by psychoanalytic concepts, which serve as a guiding thread for his investigations into the political and social signs embedded within the urban landscape. Through a subjective and personal approach, the collective universe is continually reinterpreted in projects that reflect on how the elements shaping spaces influence people’s relationships with their surroundings.
Baptistelli holds a degree in Visual Arts from Unicamp (Campinas, 2018) and is also one of the founders of GDA (Galeria de Artistas), an experimental space based in São Paulo, run in collaboration with Carolina Cordeiro.
His main solo exhibitions include 4.000 D.C., Luisa Strina (São Paulo, 2023); Memento, 55SP (São Paulo, 2022); Outro, GDA (São Paulo, 2021); Blues, um trabalho um texto (São Paulo, 2019); For a While, Artkartell Projectspace (Budapest, 2017); and Narrativas cotidianas, Funarte – Galeria Fayga Ostrower (Brasília, 2015).
Notable group exhibitions include ENERGIA — Artistic Presence in the Belgian-Brazilian Landscape, TheMerode (Brussels, 2025); Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, a traveling show initiated at the Art Institute of Chicago (2024) and set to travel to MACBA (Barcelona, 2025), Barbican (London, 2025), and Kanal – Centre Pompidou (Brussels, 2026); El Dorado: Myths of Gold, Americas Society (New York, 2024); The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, a traveling exhibition initiated at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2023); Histórias brasileiras, MASP (São Paulo, 2022); Enciclopédia negra, Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2021); IMS Convida, Instituto Moreira Salles (2020); and Histórias afro-atlânticas, MASP and Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, 2018).
His work is part of major collections, including: MASP (São Paulo), Pinacoteca de São Paulo (São Paulo), Instituto Moreira Salles (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz – IFF (Ribeirão Preto, SP), and coleção moraes-barbosa – cmb (São Paulo).