Barbara Marcel is an artist and filmmaker interested in the cultural roots of nature and the troubled heritage of colonial imagery. Marcel graduated in Film Studies in Rio de Janeiro, holds an MA from the Art in Context Institute at the Universität der Künste Berlin, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as a research fellow of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Her work has been shown at the Berlinische Galerie; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile; Savvy Contemporary Berlin; Broad Art Museum, Michigan; CeNak – Zoological Museum Hamburg, Athens Biennale, among others.