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PTThe visual artist, dancer, and performer, Luana Vitra, was born in Contagem (MG). She studied Visual Arts, with a specialization in sculpture, at the Guignard School – UEMG, and earned her degree in Dance from the Free School of Arts. Among her major individual exhibitions are Três Guerras no Peito (Three Wars in the Chest), at the São Paulo Cultural Center – CCSP (2020), and Carregar o poema nas costas (Carrying the Poem on Your Back), at the Sesiminas Cultural Center Art Gallery (Belo Horizonte, 2019). The artist has participated in various residencies and laboratories, including at Frestas – Art Triennial in 2020. Also in 2020, she was awarded the EDP Arts Prize from the Tomie Ohtake Institute. Her work Contra feitiço (Counter-Spell) is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Luana Vitra
Luana Vitra. Heaven Is the Suture of a Falling Roof: Ground. Iron light boxes, cement, and iron grids, 2018. Exhibition “Três Guerras no Peito” (Three Wars in the Chest) São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP), 2020. Photo: Everton Ballardin.
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Installation View
Mercosul Biennial
The 11th edition of the Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial focuses on the Atlantic Triangle.
“Manglaria: raíces y sujeciones”
Reimagining the Colombian Pacific
The exhibition brings together diverse perspectives on the territory and the Afro and indigenous representations in Colombia.
Gropius Bau Berlin
C& Artistic Director Julia Grosse Announced as Associate Curator at Gropius Bau
We are so excited to share the news that Gropius Bau in Berlin hired Julia Grosse as Associated Curator.
events
Exhibitions
Una gota en el monte
Burning House (Hato Rey)
San Juan (Hato Rey), Puerto Rico
16 June - 30 July 2022
Exhibitions
Among Black Atlantic Cinemas
National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, United States
10 April - 17 July 2022
Exhibitions
Afro-Atlantic Histories
National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, United States
10 April - 17 July 2022
Talks / Workshops
Hortus Americanus
Wildpalms
Düsseldorf, Germany
01 June - 30 September 2022
Conferences
Arquivos de imagens de povos indígenas
Instituto Moreira Salles
online, Brazil
29 June - 30 June 2022
Exhibitions
everything slackens in a wreck
Ford Foundation
New York City, United States
01 June - 01 August 2022
Biennales
Kingston Biennial
National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ)
Kingston, Jamaica
26 June - 31 December 2022
Conferences
1° Fórum Latino-Americano de Cinema e Impacto Social
online
São Paulo, Brazil
22 June - 25 June 2022
Screenings
Bixaria Negra - O cinema de Marlon Riggs
IMS Paulista, IMS Rio, Galpão Bela Maré
São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
16 June - 30 June 2022
Exhibitions
Presença Negra no MARGS
MARGS
Porto Alegre, Brazil
14 May - 21 August 2022
Exhibitions
Águas de Araquém
Museu e Sala de Convenções “Nara Lúcia Nonato”
Ilha da Soleira, Brazil
11 June - 14 August 2022
Biennales
Bienal Internacional GLBTIQ+ Santo Domingo
Colegio Dominicano de Artistas Plásticos (CODAP).
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
01 June - 20 June 2022
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Installation View
Mercosul Biennial
The 11th edition of the Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial focuses on the Atlantic Triangle.
“Manglaria: raíces y sujeciones”
Reimagining the Colombian Pacific
The exhibition brings together diverse perspectives on the territory and the Afro and indigenous representations in Colombia.
Gropius Bau Berlin
C& Artistic Director Julia Grosse Announced as Associate Curator at Gropius Bau
We are so excited to share the news that Gropius Bau in Berlin hired Julia Grosse as Associated Curator.
Mãe Preta
Women and Resistance
Exhibition recounts narrative of black women who breastfed children of whites and reflects on Brazilian society.
Installation View
The Peruvian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale
Artist Herbert Rodriguez represents Peru with "Peace is a corrosive promise" featuring some of his political works from the tumultuous 1980s decade.
In Conversation with Baltazar Melo
Afro-Hybrid Images in Motion
In this interview, Mexican artist Baltazar Castellano Melo talks about his work, Afro-Mestizos and the Black communities in Guerrero, Mexico.
Installation View
Ayrson Heráclito: Yorùbáiano
Exhibition at Pinacoteca de São Paulo brings together 63 works by Bahian artist with themes that address colonial wounds.
In Conversation with Tiago Sant'Ana
"The Naturalization of Whiteness as a Life Parameter"
Artist and researcher uses materials such as sugar to discuss the naturalization and erasure of a colonial past.
Paulo Nazareth at the ICA Miami
Dismantling colonial power
The Brazilian artist offers a journey to understand the oppressive, exploitative nature of colonial history in his country.