Gabriela Mureb (1985) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. She is a visual artist, holds a PhD in visual languages from PPGAV/UFRJ, and is a professor at the Department of Visual Arts – Sculpture at UFRJ.

Starting from an interest in the relationships between body, technical objects, and the world, her work unfolds mainly through the construction of machines and the appropriation of industrial artifacts, in works that move between sculpture, installation, performance, video, and sound pieces—often engaging the body through the sensory impact of vibration, noise, heat, and movement.

She participated in the 5th Triennial of the New Museum, NY (2021), the 13th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre (2022), and the residency program AIR-M Ebenböckhaus, Munich (2023). Her solo exhibitions include Cavalo-vapor (2025) at Central Galeria, São Paulo, and Crash, Florida13, Munich (2023). Her recent group exhibitions include Seeing Through Stone, University of California, Santa Cruz (2024); Artista de Artista, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2023); and CRY ME A RIVER, Simian, Copenhagen (2023). She has taken part in sound art festivals such as Novas Frequências (Rio de Janeiro, 2021), Antimatéria (2018, Rio de Janeiro), FIME (São Paulo, 2017), and Multiplicidade (Rio de Janeiro, 2017). She was among the artists selected by the Rumos Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Program and the 65th Salão de Abril. Her work is part of the collection of the Museu de Arte do Rio and she is represented by Central Galeria.

Untilted (2025) is part of a series of sculptures the artist has been developing with used automotive exhaust system parts collected from mechanical workshops and scrapyards in Rio de Janeiro. This production began in 2023 through a residency in Munich, where she made a film documenting the dismantling of a vehicle at a BMW recycling factory. In 2025, this research unfolds in the series Circuito, made solely with used exhaust pipes. These materials, remnants of a decaying technical system—the combustion of fossil fuels—are welded together at their “mouths,” forming a closed circuit, like a mechanical ouroboros.