Catarina Braga (b. Guimarães, 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portugal.
In her artistic practice, the artist investigates how technological mediation shapes our relationship with nature, addressing planting processes and image making processes, exploring the role that images play in the interactions we establish between the cultural and the natural world.
Her work is characterized by the multiplicity and the crossing of several media such as
installation, video, photography, text, publication, ceramics; oftentimes exploring how the objects of the work transit between the digital online space and thephysical space.
2020-2022 M.A. in Fine Arts — Intermedia, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (PT)
2012-2016 B.A. in Fine Arts — Multimedia, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (PT)
2014-2015 Erasmus Programme — Conceptual Art, Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna (AT)
AWARDS
2022 Prémio Arte Jovem 2022 - Fundação Millennium BCP
For any inquiries and collaborations send me an e-mail to:
catarina.i.b9 @ gmail . com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Produced Affections — Affected Production, Museu de Alberto Sampaio, Guimarães
2020 post-world — online exhibition at Dentro Gallery, Porto
2019 The World is not the World, Banana Jam Gallery, Shenzhen
(SELECTED) GROUP EXHIBITIONS2023 Post-Index — Mnemonic Pavillion, Viana do Castelo
2016 International Photography Festival - Encontros da Imagem, Braga
2023 Post-Index — Mnemonic Pavillion, Viana do Castelo
Linhas de Vento - Percursos artísticos na natureza — Museu de Aveiro / Santa Joana
Field Theory: Artistic Research in Light, Air and Matter — oMuseu, Porto
家屋，邻人与借来的叙事 / The Flow of Represented Stories — Granary Art Museum, Shenzhen
2022 Linhas de Vento - Percursos artísticos na natureza — Galeria Municipal
de Matosinhos
Matos em Festa — Cais da Ribeira de Ovar
Prémio Arte Jovem 2022 — P31 / Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisboa
Entre tanto — Convívio, Guimarães
Assembleia das Plantas (performative reading, under the workshop of
artist Uriel Orlow) — greenhouse of Palácio de Cristal, Porto (GMP)
LOSS OF AURA — Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
2021 Árvore das Virtudes — Cooperativa Árvore, Porto
Maputo Fast Forward - Cosmopolíticas & Afrotropias (festival) — Maputo
Exposição Satélite — Maus Hábitos, Porto
2020 a releitura do mundo — Espaço Mira, Porto
2019 RETURN — Arbre Art Center, Shenzhen
A Fluid Space — Great Art Space Gallery, Shenzhen
Art Revelation — Artcloud Art Center, Shenzhen
Against the Sameness — Great Art Space Gallery, Shenzhen
2018 Artist Is Present — Artist Is Present Gallery, Shenzhen
Shenzhen International Art Fair ‘18
2017 Staged — 1933 Space, Shanghai
As Fotografias e o Resto #02 — oMuseu, Porto
2016 International Photography Festival - Encontros da Imagem, Braga
Athens Photo Festival - Photobook Exhibition — Benaki Museum, Athens
Jardim do Éden — Centro Hospitalar Conde Ferreira, Porto
ALREADY MADE — oMuseu, Porto
Onde o vento vai dar a volta — Galeria Mundano, Porto
THE THINGS WE BUILD — CACE, Porto
Positivo/Negativo — Galeria Almadas, Porto
RESIDENCIES2023 Hiperlocal / Hyperlocal, Mnemonic Pavillion, at Parque Ecológico Urbano Viana do Castelo
2022 2SMART Residências de Investigação Artística, with the team of Sciences and Environmental Technologies of LEPABE, FEUP
COLLECTIONS
Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, PT. (2022).
2023 Hiperlocal / Hyperlocal, Mnemonic Pavillion, at Parque Ecológico Urbano Viana do Castelo
(01.06 — 29.07.2023)
2022 2SMART Residências de Investigação Artística, with the team of Sciences and Environmental Technologies of LEPABE, FEUP
(11.10.2022 — 28.02.2023)
2021 Cross-Cultural Collaboration, wendy.network
(online; 01.09 — 02.10.2021)
2018 Guanlan Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, CN
(30.01 — 03.03.2018)
COLLECTIONS
Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, PT. (2022).
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China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, CN. (2018).
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Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, PT. (2016).
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Private collections (China; U.S.A.; Portugal)
BIBLIOGRAPHY2023 Field Theory: Artistic Research in Light, Air and Matter. Edições i2ADS/FBA.UP. (pp. 67-74; pp. 77-80; pp. 96-101 & pp. 152-161). Porto.
2023 Field Theory: Artistic Research in Light, Air and Matter. Edições i2ADS/FBA.UP. (pp. 67-74; pp. 77-80; pp. 96-101 & pp. 152-161). Porto.
2022 Pós-Pós-Natureza — A Mediação Tecnológica entre Seres Humanos, Plantas e Imagens de Plantas. (FBAUP, Porto).
(Master’s thesis, Fine Arts — Intermedia, FBAUP).
2021 Contrast: A Fotografia no Ensino Superior (Vol. II). Edições Scopio. (pp. 224-229). Porto.
Observações em Torno do Tempo, a Terra e o Ar. Paralaxe. (pp. 16-17 & p. 175). Porto.
2020 ALIX - Jornal de Estudos de Fotografia e Cinema (#1). Edições i2ADS/FBA.UP. (pp. 10-15). Porto.
2019 Dose (#3). (pp. 02-07). Porto.
Minimal Zine (Issue 01). (pp. 106-108). Barcelona.
INTERVIEWS & WRITINGS ABOUT THE WORK2022 Cinco fragmentos sobre a génese de uma “[est]ética afirmativa” em contexto português —