Stephan Doitschinoff, also known as Calma, is a Brazilian painter and muralist. His street alias Calma means “calm” in Portuguese and “soul” in Latin. He was born Stephan Prado Marcondes Doitschinoff in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1977. Doitschinoff’s work is both on the streets and in galleries and institutions. As the son of an Evangelical minister, Doitschinoff absorbed religious and spiritual imagery as a child while also being taught Eastern religions, sacred art, and alchemy by his grandmother. Stephan incorporates his childhood experience, symbolic and coded language, folklore and religious elements, and his beliefs about the intersections of religion, spirituality, society, and humanity into his delicate paintings. In doing so, Doitschinoff creates a skillful blend of Afro-Brazilian ritual practices, Baroque religious elements, and Pagan symbols.

Doitschinoff develops works in painting, sculpture, video, installation, and performance. Doitschinoff was awarded “Most Promising Artist” by the APCA (Sao Paulo Art Critics Association) and has had exhibitions in institutional spaces including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, San Diego Contemporary Art Museum, Fondation Cartier, São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM), The XXII Curitiba International Biennial/Brazil and more. Doitschinoff has had two books published by the German Publisher Gestalten: CALMA, the Art of Stephan Doitschinoff (2008), and CRAS (2012). He has works in important private collections and public collections, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art – IMMA (Dublin, Ireland). Doitschinoff has also taught courses and lectured across Brazil and around the world in locales including Lisbon, Portugal, Prague, Czech Republic, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Kyiv, Ukraine.