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Educated at Marina de Caro´s studio, Ana Gallardo´s seminar and Artistic Investigation Centre (CIA). In 2017, Andrés participated in Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park – Artist in Residence Program, Japan. In 2016, he received the National Endowment for the Arts Grant and the Oxenford Grant. He received Mecenazgo Cultural in 2014, 2015 and 2016. And in 2013 he received the Metropolitan Found. Already held the solo exhibitions such as “SABOTAGE”, at OSDE Foundation (Argentina), “ECUÁNIME”, at Sputnik Gallery (New York), “REVOLUTION FROM MAGIC”, at Una.Casa and “TEMPORAL”, at Arte x Arte Gallery (Buenos Aires); and the group shows “(extract): IT ISN´T THE SOUNDING RIVER IT´S THE SWAMP”, at Maria Casado Gallery (Beccar), “LIKE A SPARKLE”, at Casa Nacional del Bicentenario (Buenos Aires), “HUMAN SCALE” at EAC URUGUAY, “ABOUT CHANGE” at World Bank (USA), among others. Art Prices: KLEMM, ITAÚ, UADE and ROSARIO NATIONAL ART PRICE. Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

www.matiasarmendaris.com Armendaris holds a MFA in the Painting and Drawing Department from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He graduated with a BFA in drawing and printmaking from Emily Carr University in 2015. He has exhibited in solo and group shows internationally in Canada, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Slovenia, Argentina and The United States. His work uses sculpture, drawing, printmaking, writing and installation. During his residency at Pivô Research, he works in collaboration with the artist Hanya Belia in the project “asma”, focused in the fusion of opposites, plural creation, hybrid identities, queering energies and multiplicity.

https://carolinacaliento.wordpress.com Caliento holds a MFA from the University of São Paulo. Was a resident artist in the projects Open Studio Videobrasil at Casa Tomada and Rapaces – Tiempo y Lugar, Espira La Espora Institute, Nicaragua. Organized the residencies Projeto CABRA – Centro América, Brasil, Latin American artists exchange, at CEIA/BH and Hotel Laboratory (Grupo Hóspede/ Culture Department of the State), a center of researches about the urban transformations at Largo da Batata. Received the grants 1º Videobrasil Open Studio Grant/ Casa Tomada, in 2011; Incentive Award, 34° Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Saloon; Acquisition Grant at Art from ABC Saloon, 2003. Her works are part of the collections of Videobrasil, Pinacoteca São Bernardo do Campo and Pinacoteca Piracicaba. Holds the solo shows REFUGOS, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, in 2016 and ABYSSES, Paralelo Gallery, in 2012.

www.ericaferrari.com Artist and researcher. MA student in Poetics from the University of São Paulo (ECA USP) and graduated in Fine Arts by the same institution, emphasis in sculpture. Associated researcher at Fórum Permanente and LabOUTROS at FAU USP. Recently, Ferrari has made objects and installations departing from the relations between architecture, space and history. Selected shows include “Estratigrafia” Paço das Artes, “Totemonumento” Leme Gallery, “Provocar Urbanos” SESC Vila Mariana, “Estudo para Monumento” Funarte São Paulo, “Interaktion”, Berlin and the “32º Biennial of Graphic Arts”, em Liubliana, Slovenia.

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Gabriella Garcia (1992) is a self-taught artist whose practice transits between sculptures, painting and installations. Her work deals with the relationships that uncover the game played by opposing pairs:  solid and ethereal, volume and two-dimensional, condensed and volatile. Gabriella's works circulate between galleries, fairs, festivals and music album covers. She participated of Brazilian group shows such as “Together”, at 55SP Gallery (São Paulo), in 2016, "The Immense Lazyness" at Sancovsky Gallery (São Paulo) in 2018,  and international shows such as “You know you can buy it”, at B32 ArtSpace (Maastricht, Holland), in 2015, “Collagism: a survey of contemporary collage”, at Strathroy Caradoc Museum (Ontario, Canada), in 2016 and “Like me as you do”, at  Scandinavian Collage Museum (Rennebu, Norway). In 2016 Gabriella held the solo show “Chaos Balance”, at Recorte Gallery (São Paulo). Recently participated in the residency at Pivô Arte e Pesquisa institution and also presented her first solo show "#FFFFFF" in Berlin at Aesthetik 01 Gallery curated by Kristina Nagel. Lives and works in São Paulo

https://www.instagram.com/giulia_puntel/ Giulia Puntel has a degree in Plastic Arts by Guignard School (UFMG). Puntel investigates paintings and cinema to create her figurative works. In 2017, held the group show “Exercício”, at Jaqueline Martins Gallery (São Paulo), curated by Marcio Harum. Lives and works in São Paulo.

Graduated in visual studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, emphasis in arts, theory and practice. Held the group shows Arte Londrina 1 and 2; III Itamaraty Prize for Contemporary Art; La Usurpadora; Correspondences: Janina McQuoid and Leonardo Stroka; Programme of exhibitions of Ribeirão Preto Art Museum; Outdoor II – Continental Love at Warm Gallery and Smash at Boatos Fine Arts. Solo shows include Um sorriso é uma espada, Boatos Fine Arts 2015, Miruca, Boatos Fine Arts, 2016 and Mais uma e você está ciao ciao Bambina, 2018 at Galeria Pilar.

http://cargocollective.com/lyzparayzo Theatre student at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Lyz is graduated in visual arts by Parque Lage’s Visual Arts School (EAV). In 2017, was nominated for the PIPA award and selected as one of the residents of the project “Art and Activism in Latin America” (Despina – Rio de Janeiro). In the first semester of 2018, concluded the artistic residency at Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP). Lyz is trans, non-binary and develops a research that investigates possible and impossible performative poetics of the body and its respective material and subjective residues. Already held solo and group shows and participated in events such as VERBO Performance Art Festival, at Vermelho Gallery (São Paulo), “Histories of Sexuality”, at MASP (São Paulo), the opening of Sesc 24 de Maio; “Mostra Performatus 2”, at SESC Santos; 2a gran Bienal Tropical (Porto Rico), “Imersões”, at Casa França-Brasil (Rio de Janeiro), “Encruzilhada”, at Parque Lage’s Visual Arts School (Rio de Janeiro), “Abre-alas 13”, at A Gentil Carioca Gallery (Rio de Janeiro), “A Urgência de Cada Um”, at  Largo das Artes (Rio de Janeiro) and “Descamada”, at Behring Factor (Rio de Janeiro). Lyz is represented by TATO Gallery (São Paulo). Lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

http://cargocollective.com/martinlanezan/ Martin Lanezan has a degree in Arts from Universidad Nacional de Artes (UNA), in Argentina. Since 2008, already held solo and group shows in Argentina and abroad. In 2008, was granted 1st place in Proyecto A Gallery’s Selection Award and in Barrio Jovem arteBA’s Premio En Obra, in 2012. His paintings, embroideries and objects reflects his interest in rural mythology and popular beliefs. Since 2014, lives and works in São Paulo.

Artist and researcher, Setúbal is also a member of the collective Grupo EmpreZa. PHD in arts and visual culture from Federal University of Goiás. His work deals with the relations between the body, its uses, ways of control, abusive and power relations in contemporary society. Selected exhibitions: “Demonstration by absurd” Tomie Ohtake Institute – SP. 2017 – “The flags of revolution” Joaquim Nabuco Foundation – PE, “13° Verbo” Vermelho Gallery– SP. 2016 – “Dark Mofo” Museum of Old and New Art – Australia, “Behind the sun” HOME – England, “Damage and Excess” –Andrea Rehder Gallery– SP, “The color of Brazil” Museum of Art of Rio – RJ. 2015 – “Fire warning” Elefante Cultural Center – DF, “Communal Earth: Marina Abramović + MAI” Sesc Pompéia – SP. 2014 – “Grupo EmpreZa: I eat you” Museum of Art of Rio – RJ.

oskarschmidt.de Selected solo exhibitions include Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig (2018); Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin (2017/18); Museum Gunzenhauser Chemnitz (2017); Fotomuseum Winterthur (2016); Neues Museum Weimar (2013/14); Goethe-Institut, Washington D. C. (2010) and C/O Berlin (2009). He has recently participated in group exhibitions at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2018); National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina (2017); C/O Berlin (2017); Center for Creative Photography, Tucson (2016); Aperture Foundation, New York (2014); Marburger Kunstverein (2013); Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2011); Zabludowicz Collection London (2010/2013).

http://www.rodrigo-hernandez.net/ Hernández deals with many languages such as drawing, painting, sculpture and installation in works that join formalism and the social history of the images and materials he uses. His residency at Pivô will outcome in an exhibition composed by objects directly produced in the space and others displayed as an installation at the institution’s second floor. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe and at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He was awarded with a residency at Laurenz-Haus Stiftung in Basel and at Cité International des Arts. His recent solo exhibitions include: Shadow of a Tank, Art Basel Statements; Plasma, Madragoa; Every forest madly in love with the moon has a highway crossing it from one side to the other, Kurimanzutto; El pequeño centro, Museo Universitario del Chopo; among others.

Thomaz Rosa is graduated in visual arts from the University of the State of São Paulo and was an artist-in-residency at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, Portugal. In 2017, he held the solo shows “UNWELT” at Boatos Fine Arts, BFA Gallery and “Solo Project” at São Paulo Art Fair. He also took part in the group shows “Four Points”, Duas de Letra, Café Galeria at Porto, Portugal (2013); “Movel Up”, University do Porto, Portugal (2013); “Diligence”, conclusion course exhibition at UNESP; “A selection of the Brazilian artists Marcelo Cipis and Thomaz Rosa’s works”, Boatos Fine Arts, BFA, Milan, Italy (2016); “Circumscriptio, Compositio, Receptio Luminum”, Boatos Fine Arts, São Paulo, SP (2016); “Eight artists”, Galeria Mendes Woods DM, São Paulo, SP (2016), curated by Bruno Dunley and Lucas Simões, “Independent Régence”, Brussels, Belgium and “Yesterday, it was a long day”, curated by Guilherme Teixeira at Ribeirão Preto Art Museum.

Artist graduated by the University of São Paulo. He explores the interactions between color light and color pigment through sculptures and installations that mix plastic materials and lighting with LED. The works relate representations of landscapes, fiction and cenography. Participated in group shows in institutions such as Latin America Memorial, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, Tomie Ohtake Institute, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Zipper Gallery, Roberto Alban Gallery, among others. Held the solo show The Apparatus at the programme of exhibitions at Paço das Artes.