Artists
Brazil
Alexandra Ungern
#Frontera
22.02.21 15.03.21
BIO
Alexandra Ungern
1967 Recife, Brasil
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brasil
STUDIES
2011 | Bachelor of Arts: Visual Culture, Webster University, Vienna, Austria
2004 | Visual Arts, Escola Panamericana de Arte, São Paulo, Brasil
EXHIBITIONS
2021 | 1ª Exhibitions Online of Visual Arts Gallery Ibeu, Brasil
2020| Tombamento, Itajaí Gallery, Brasil
2017 | Laços, Tato Gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2016 | Inteam, Savaria Múzeum, Szombathelyi, Hungría
2014 | Die Fliegen [Las moscas], Metro station MASP / TRIANON and Metro São Bento, Public Works, São Paulo, Brasil
RESIDENCIES
2021 | Frontera, Juntos a la distancia, Proyecto ´ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 | W artistic residency Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil
2016 | D’Clinic Artistic Residence, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
AWARDS
2020| Prize for the occupation of the Galleries of Itajaí, Brasil
2015 | Gallery Award Fernanda Milani – Teatro Polytheama, Jundiaí , São Paulo, Brasil
2014 | Special references from the jury- 10º. Contemporary Art Hall of Marilia, Galeria M. De Artes, São Paulo, Brasil
OTHERS
Public collections:
2008 | La sombra de un origen, políptico, MUnA, Museo Universitario de Uberlândia, Mina Gerais, Brasil
2008 | Two Aruanas, Ross Business School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Related Activities
Exhibitions
#4 | FRONTERA: results
Artistas en diálogo
15.03.21
Frontera was the theme that we took as the practical and conceptual framework for the fourth session of the new online program Together Apart. This site compiles the results of the cohort in Spanish that worked from February 22 to March 15, 2021 with 22 artists from Argentina, Aruba, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, the United States, Mexico and Portugal.
Through 4 encounters we collectively and individually created ideas and artworks which explored a non-binary approach of the topic. The participant artists also had the possibility to dialogue with international artists invited to present their contributions and explorations in relation to the topic (Roberto Celis and Daniela Rivera). For this session we also gave priority to moments of peer review or collective feedback and to open discussions which drifted through issues of art and therapy, art and research, participatory art, the complexity of artistic collaboration and how collective practice appears to be a right to claim even more in moments of isolation.
Frontiers as geopolitical frontiers, as cultural, bio-political; frontiers as limits and as separations within the artistic disciplines, frontiers as hegemonic considerations of our bodies and identities.
Through different theoretical readings and artistic references, and through the proposals of each of the participant artists, we identified the importance of liminal states, the non-binary, we assumed the difficulty of inhabiting the in-between but also recognized that art practice is what allows us to live in ambiguous states and to constantly raise questions. We also explored other practices as breathing techniques, meditation and knowledge and skills sharing as methods to break through discriminative or isolating frontiers.
Through poetry, film, online performances, video art and the creation of a network for artists through the method of “participatory asset mapping”, the artists from this cohort created in search of commonalities in their migrant’s everyday experiences, resonances among the natural conditions of the places they live in, the links among their identities and psychological researches and in search of practical collaborations to continue working in the future.
DANIELA RUIZ MORENO | Curator-in-residence
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