www.aarea.co is a curatorial platform founded in 2017 that commissions and exhibits artworks designed especially for the internet. aarea’s activities also extend into a public curatorial program, courses, seminars, and projects in partnership with other art institutions. Founded by Livia Benedetti and Marcela Vieira, aarea is the first internet native art institution in Brazil and has been developing projects in institutional partnerships, such as Bienal de São Paulo, Jeu de Paume (Paris), CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco), Pivô, Sesc, Pro Helvetia (Switzerland), Salón Nacional de Bogotá (Colombia), among others. aarea has held courses, lectures, and educational activities in places such as the University of São Paulo, Université Rennes II (France), Federal University of Amazonas, Sesc, and the British School of Creative Arts.

Guest curators Pivô Research 2020 Cycle I and edition #4 of Pivô Satélite (2022) .

https://www.alexandrebrandao.com/

Alexandre Brandão uses different media such as drawing, sculpture, video, objects and installation. His practice mixes up natural and cultural process, combining chance, time, physical and chemical process with handmade methods of production. Selected group shows include “In Memoriam” (Rio de Janeiro, 2017); “66º Salão Paranaense” (Curitiba, 2017); “Bolsa Pampulha 2015/2016” (Belo Horizonte, 2016); ”Some False Moves” (New York, 2015); “Taipa Tapume” (São Paulo, 2014); “18º and 17º “Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea SESC Videobrasil” (SP, 2013 e 2011); “Bienal de Filmes de Arte de Colônia” (Germany, 2005). Holds the solo shows “Experiments with chance” (Paris, 2016), “Floor” (São Paulo, 2015); “Effect with no cause” (São Paulo, 2013) and “Almost shadow” (São Paulo, 2012). In 2010 was granted in the 5^th Interamerican Video art Biennial (Washington DC) and in 2014 was granted with the ICCo/SP-Arte Residency Fellowship at the Residency Unlimited, New York.

http://www.celestrip.com

Artist graduated in photography, emphasis in direction and movies production. Her work investigates the construction of memory, latinamerican history and borders between ficcion and document, through works that discuss photographic media and archival material.

 

 

http://dalilagoncalves.com/novo/pt/trabalho Degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (2005) Master’s Degree in Visual Arts Education (MA) from the The Faculty of Fine Arts and Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto (2009). Selected for the second edition of the Photography Course Programme Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation (2008). From 2010 to 2011, Dalila worked at Ignasi Aballí’s studio in Barcelone (under the scholarship programme Inov - Art, Portuguese Ministry of Culture). Selected in 2017 for the Artist-inResidence Programme KulturKontakt Austria. Residence Inclusartiz, Rio de Janeiro 2014. She exhibits regularly in Institutions and Galleries in different countries of Europe and South America. (Selected Exhibitions), Alcobendas Contemporary Art Center (Madrid 2018); Fondation Hippcréne and Centrequatre , Paris (2017), Tabacalera, Madrid (2016); Gulbenkian Foundation’s CAM, Lisbon (2014); La Conservera”, Center of Contemporary Art , Murcia, Spain (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art (Roskilde), Denmark (2014); SUBTE Center, Montevideo, Uruguay (2014); Triennial of Contemporary Art – “Beauforto4”, Belgium (2012) (Selected Art Fairs) Arco Madrid (solo Show); ArteRio, SPArte (solo show), ArtBO, Zona MACO e ArtLima. Vienna Contemporary; Artissima (Turim, Italy); Untitled Miami art fair.

https://www.dorasmek.com.br/   Graduated in Body Arts from PUC-SP (Dance and Performance), is an M.A. student in Visual Arts from UNICAMP. Develops researches in performance, video, sculpture and objects. Has shown her works in spaces such as CCBB, VERBO at Vermelho Gallery, SESC Bom Retiro, Belenzinho and Pompeia, Andréa Rehder Contemporary Art Gallery, Casa de Cultura da América Latina (CAL), Elefante Cultural Center and at C Gallery. Held the Frankfurter Positionen Festival, Germany and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels. Was a member actress at Teat(r)o Oficina between 2011 and 2012.

He studied Site-Specific Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2014-2016) and graduated in Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. Engl works with spatial interventions and three dimensional objects. Recent exhibitions and residencies in Sao Paulo include „Untertage“ at FAAP and Studio Pharus.

https://guiponde.com/

Education: 2016, Goldsmiths, Masters in Fine Art; 2010, Escola des Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. Selected solo exhibitions include: The Sacred Assembly of The Another Other, Berlin (2017) The Otherness As A Game, Unison Hackney, London (2016); Fragile,Fondazione Bartoli Felter, Italy (2015). Selected group exhibitions include: Skinscapes, Unit1 Gallery, Notting Hill, London (2018); Raise All Spirits, Mr. Tears Members Club, London (2017); Alma 1884, Hackney, London (2017); Video Kills-Saint James Church, Hackney, London (2016); Paralelus, Public spaces, Leipzig, Germany (2016); Abyssal Zone - Goldsmiths Final Show, London (2016); The Characters, Interim Show, Goldsmiths, London, UK (2015); Love Without Capital, The Showroom, London, UK (2015); Studio Session 3, Goldsmiths Gallery, London (2015); Onze Douze’ at Galeria Joá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014); IT-Galeria Porto-Niteroi, Brazil (2014); Verdades-Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013)

http://www.hannahlees.com/ She completed a Post-Graduate Diploma at Chelsea College of Art, London, UK (2011) and completed a Foundry Residency at the Royal College of Art, London, UK (2012). Selected Exhibitions: Nicholas Kirkwood Presents Hannah Lees, Nichlas Kirkwood, London, UK (solo); Smoke, Reading Rooms, Melbourne, AUS (solo); The Trees That Yield, Whitstable Biennale, UK (solo); British Council UK/ID Exchange Residency, Bakudapan, ID; The Sleeping Procession, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK (group); The Turning of Existence into its Opposite, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK (solo); Turner Contemporary & the British Museum Commission: Hannah Lees, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (solo).

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.

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.

https://marceldarienzo.com/ Marcel Darienzo explores the intersection between visual arts, theatre, dance, performance, video and music through works that discuss self representation. Darienzo worked in different roles – from artist to researcher or curator – in institutions such as ICA, Tenderpixel, Assembly Point, Tate Modern, Enclave LAB, Nahmad Contemporary London, Ladrón Galeria at Mexico City, Manifesta 11 in Zurich, Takt in Berlin, SESC, Museum of Brazilian Art, Select Magazine and Luciana Brito Gallery.

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).

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.

http://www.rodrigoarruda.com/ Rodrigo Arruda is an artist graduated from the University of São Paulo. His works are part of the collections of Museu de arte do Rio, Ribeirão Preto Art Museum, Santo André City Hall, Collection KERN, Berlin. Held exhibitions in Brazil, United States and Germany in institutions such as: Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo, São Paulo Cultural Center, Museum of the State of Pará, Oswald de Andrade Cultural Workshop, Ribeirão Preto Art Museum, SESC Ribeirão Preto, Ateliê397, Sancovsky Gallery, among others. In 2015 was an invited researcher at Ohio State University and in 2018 was granted by the acquisition proze of Santo André Art Saloon.

http://milbracosdosol.tumblr.com At the moment, develops installations in different media departing from the exploration of sound, poetic uses of the materials, as well as the use of digital tools.

Held groups shows in art spaces such as Auroras, Mendes Wood DM, Ateliê397 and two solo shows at Surface Gallery in São Paulo - reticências (2016) and Eyes and yes (2018).   Her paintings depart from the representation of landscapes, images and elements of the world, which are broken up and fragmented through different supports, in short brush strokes, thin stains of paint or colored paste. A possible representation of the action of the winds on the landscape, or on the things that are in the world.  

www.yorgospetrou.com   Yorgos Petrou’s practice examines what connects individuals to specific places and employs performance, photography, and sculpture to investigate how those become sites of memory, legend, and trauma. In 2017 his work Landmarks was exhibited in Planétes, the inaugural exhibition of Cultural Capital of Europe Pafos curated by Elena Parpa. His work has also been included in Identalterity at the 5th Biennale of Thessaloniki. He participated in screenings and group exhibitions at the Freud Museum - London, Modern Art Oxford, S1 Artspace and Site Gallery - Sheffield, ICA - London, Galeria Vermelho - São Paulo, Insitu Space for Contemporary Art – Berlin, and Wolstenholme Creative Space - Independents Liverpool Biennial.