Archiv: Künstler

Cristiana Tejo

Cristiana Tejo (Recife, 1976) holds a PhD in Sociology (UFPE), co-manages NowHere project and space, an experimental initiative for research, dialogues, and practices in Contemporary Art, which is based in the center of Lisbon and co-curates Residency Belo Jardim, in the Agreste region of Pernambuco/Brazil. She has been a curator for over 20 years. She is a researcher at the Institute of Art History at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and was a researcher for the academic project Artists and Radical Education in Latin America: 1960s and 1970s. She coordinates the artists residency at the Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística, in Lisbon, and has been dedicated to projects aimed at international exchange between Brazil and Portugal, the professionalization of artists and thinking about the field of art curatorship from a decolonial perspective. She published and co-organized the Visual Artist Guide – Insertion and Internationalization, edited by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil in partnership with UNESCO (2018). She is an art adviser to the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo. She lives and works in Lisbon.

Dárida Rodrigues

Dárida Rodrigues (São Paulo, 1970) is a multimedia artist dedicated to audiovisual installations and performances. Exploring the phenomena of expansion of consciousness in face of the capture of subjectivity in contemporaneity and using voice, temporality and oneiric visions in a poetic relational dimension, her practices investigate ways to operate in the (re)integration between culture and nature. Researcher in the PhD program on Performing Arts and Moving Image – University of Lisbon, with the project Oracle. Onirical scores and Insurgency, funded by FCT, PT. Holds a Master in Multimedia Art – Performance and Installation at the University of Lisbon, 2019. Studied Set Design at NFTS-UK, 2001 and has a bachelor degree in Film at FAAP SP. Also acts as art director and production designer for film and audiovisual projects.

Duda Affonso

Duda Affonso (1992) is a Portuguese-Brazilian conceptual artist who works in a transdisciplinary manner. Her research explores bodies, structures, movement, and both endogenous and exogenous images conceptually, through a speculative retro-futuristic perspective, across various mediums such as cinema, photography, installation, performance, and text. She holds a master›s degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices from FBAUP (PT) and a bachelor›s degree in Cinema from IESB (BR), with a specialization in Digital Photography from NYFA (BR). Currently, she is conducting research on the intersection between studies of the imaginary and cinema studies as a recipient of a scholarship from the FCT (PT) for a PhD in Comparative Modernities: Literature, Arts, and Cultures at the University of Minho in Braga (PT).

Jon Kraja

Jon Kraja  graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Albania and  began his art career in the 1990s after the fall of communism in Albania, producing surprising concepts in set design and gestural, large-scale abstract and figurative painting. Kraja’s practice is characterized by constant research and experimenting with new materials and media.

Central to his artistic philosophy is a fascination with the unknown and the transformative power of lifeless objects. His works invite viewers to contemplate the deeper meaning and utility of everyday life, provoking introspection and evoking a sense of wonder.

His life is a delicate equilibrium, forged in the fragrance of linseed oil in his grandfather Master Kole Shiroka’s studio, and the scent of grassy  fields from his childhood, driven by a desire not to score goals, but to create  spectacle.  For the artist  painting is pain, love, and emotion.

He lives each day as if it’s his last, yet tomorrow always comes, and he begins again with the same thought.

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Thomas Rösch

1957 in Singen geboren, 1980 bis 1985 Studium an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart 1985 bis 1987 Studium der Kunstgeschichte und Linguistik an der Universität Stuttgart 1988 Kulturförderpreis der Stadt Singen 1991/1992 Stipendium der Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg 1996 Promotion mit einer Arbeit über Jacques Derrida (Kunst und Dekonstruktion)

Barbara Ina Frenz

*1961 in Zürich / Schweiz. Studierte ab 1982 Neuere Dt. Literatur (5 aktive Semester), Geschichte, Philosophie u. Kunstgeschichte (Magister 1989) in Frankfurt am Main, promovierte 1996 über mittelalterliches Gleichheitsdenken u. war von 1989-1999 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin a. d. Universitäten Frankfurt u. Würzburg (2 Buchpublikationen).

2000 beendete sie ihre Uni-Laufbahn u. gewann mehr inhaltliche Unabhängigkeit als Forschende. Seit 2001 arbeitet sie als Texterin, zugleich freie Autorin von Lyrik u. Studien z. Geschichte d. Jazzmusik. Ihre 2015 veröffentlichte Biografie über den Musiker u. Poeten Henry Grimes war 2016 nominiert für die Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. 2019-2021 war sie Beiträgerin auf der Lyrik-Plattform Fixpoetry.

Ihre heterogene Schreibpraxis – Werbe-/Informationstext, Lyrik, sozial-/kulturgeschichtliche Studien – lebt sie als ein offenes Experiment mit (Nicht-)Autorschaft und »texte générale«, in dem sich gesellschaftliche und ihre Lebensbedingungen widerspiegeln. Das Verfassen von Lyrik versteht sie als eine forschende Tätigkeit, ihre Lesungen macht sie häufig im Kontext visueller Kunst.