KATHARINA SIEVERDING — Portuguese-Language Artist Card, Fotolinguagem, MAM Rio / MAM São Paulo, c. 1973

Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro / Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil, c. 1973. Single artist card, 15.5 × 10.5 cm. Offset-printed on light stock; black-and-white image to recto; Portuguese biographical text and exhibition history to verso.

Likely issued in connection with Fotolinguagem, organised by Iole de Freitas and shown at MAM Rio and MAM São Paulo, 1973 — an early international point in Katharina Sieverding’s career.

Neither a standard invitation nor a later museum survey card, it operates more narrowly: image, biography, exhibition history, circulation. The Portuguese text is the key detail. Sieverding was not Portuguese but German, and the language situates the card within her Brazilian context, when she was included in Fotolinguagem as a Düsseldorf-based artist associated with the post-Beuys field of photography, self-staging, and identity construction entering another institutional system through translation.

The card reduces that movement to its necessary parts: a portrait, a list, a place of residence, a sequence of appearances. Administrative, almost neutral, but exact. It carries the artist as information — a small paper relay between artist and institution, a concise record of entry.

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear, faint corner softening, minor age toning consistent with period paper ephemera. Original period item.