Friday, May 1, 2026 | 1:00 PM (NY time)
Location: Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn, NY 11231 (map)
As part of RU’s Meet Over Lunch series, please join us for a lecture-performance by São Paulo-based RU curator-in-residence, visual artist, researcher, and educator Manuela Eichner.
At this occasion, Manuela will present the concluding phase of “Quem carrega a Chama? / Who Carries the Flame?” – a project marked by her extensive research on the renowned German artist Hannah Höch (1889–1978), a central figure in the development of collage both as a technique and as a critical approach to questions of gender, politics, and nature. “Quem carrega a Chama? / Who Carries the Flame?” brings together historical and contemporary perspectives, revisiting Höch’s ideas while tracing their resonance in the work of Brazilian artists today.
Since 2017, Manuela has been dedicated to investigating the traces left by this pioneer of feminist collage. Trips to Berlin (2018, 2023) allowed her to visit Höch’s home in Heiligensee and access the Estate of Hannah Höch at the Berlinische Galerie; now in New York, she is finalizing her research at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which holds a foundational collection of Hannah Höch’s work, particularly her influential Dada-era photomontages.
Manuela’s lecture-performance “Quem carrega a Chama? Who Carries the Flame?” completes a carefully constructed cartography of Hannah Höch’s life and artistic production, offering a deeper understanding not only of her trajectory but also of a key aspect of collage history: re-existence as a strategy of continuity, resistance, and reinvention.
Manuela Eichner is a Brazilian visual artist, researcher, and educator. Her multifaceted practice spans video, performance, and collaborative collage workshops, with a focus on building networks through partnerships with artist collectives, institutions, and cultural spaces. Through these collaborations, she fosters artistic experimentation and encourages forms of social participation. Central to her practice is an ongoing exploration of collage. Working with both traditional techniques and expanded approaches, Manuela experiments with a wide range of materials beyond paper, creating works that emphasize texture and depth while blurring the boundaries between collage and painting.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
