Fernanda Brenner is the founding artistic director of Pivô in São Paulo and Salvador and the senior advisor for Latin America for Kadist Art Foundation. Based between São Paulo and Brussels, she has been working as a contributing writer and editor for Frieze Magazine since 2017, and her writings have been featured in several exhibition catalogues and art magazines.

Recent projects include Anna Maria Maiolino Je suis là. Estou aqui at Musée Picasso, Paris (2025), co-curated with Sebastien Délot, Patois/Patuá: Paulo Nazareth at Wiels, Brussels (2025), Luzia, Paulo Nazareth at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2024), co-curated with Diana Lima, Body House: Dialogues Between Carolee Schneemann, Diego Bianchi, and Márcia Falcão at Pivô, São Paulo (2024), I see no difference between a handshake and a poem at Mendes Wood DM, Paris (2023), Do You Believe in Ghosts? at the 24th Pernod Ricard Foundation Prize, Paris (2023), Peace, or Never at FHNW, Basel (2022), co-curated with Chus Martínez, Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Munõz (2021/2023) at Pivô and Argos, Brussels, Pol Taburet: Sweets for the Sweet (2023), Mariana Castillo Deball: To-day project (2023), It’s Night in America, Ana Vaz (2022), Vuadora, Paulo Nazareth (2022) co-curated with Diane Lima, República, Luiz Roque (2020), and Avalanche, Katinka Bock (2019) all at Pivô.

Her writings have been featured in several publications, including Artforum, Artreview,Textwork by the Fondation d’Enterprise Pernod Ricard, Elephant magazine, Art Agenda, Terremoto, Mousse, and Cahiers d’Art. She has also contributed to national and international institutional catalogs and monographs, including MASP, KW, Centre Georges Pompidou, CAC Passerelle, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Culturgest, Fridericianum, and MOCA Detroit. Additionally, Brenner has been consistently involved in mentorship programs, juries, and selection committees for institutions such as HISK in Belgium, Malmö Art Academy in Sweden, FHNW in Basel, and Visio in Florence.

As a future project, she is co-directing, with Pedro Marques, a feature-length documentary on artist Sonia Gomes, to be released in the second semester of 2025.