Studies
2020 - currently 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)
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 exhibitions 2022 LOSS OF AURA — Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
2021 Árvore das Virtudes — Cooperativa Árvore, Porto
Maputo Fast Forward - Cosmopolíticas & Afrotropias (festival) — Maputo, MZ
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 — Mundano Gallery, Porto
THE THINGS WE BUILD — CACE, Porto
Positivo/Negativo — Almadas Gallery, Porto
Other participations2022 performative reading at Assembleia das Plantas — estufa dos Jardins do Palácio de Cristal, under the workshop of the artist Uriel Orlow.
Selected group exhibitions 2022 LOSS OF AURA — Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
2016 International Photography Festival - Encontros da Imagem, Braga
2022 LOSS OF AURA — Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
2021 Árvore das Virtudes — Cooperativa Árvore, Porto
Maputo Fast Forward - Cosmopolíticas & Afrotropias (festival) — Maputo, MZ
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 — Mundano Gallery, Porto
THE THINGS WE BUILD — CACE, Porto
Positivo/Negativo — Almadas Gallery, Porto
Other participations
2022 performative reading at Assembleia das Plantas — estufa dos Jardins do Palácio de Cristal, under the workshop of the artist Uriel Orlow.
Residencies
2022 [upcoming] 2SMART Residências de Investigação Artística -
with the team of Sciences and Environmental
Technologies of LEPABE
(Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy)
2022
(Grant) Bolsa de Criação Artística — Funchal, Madeira; as Coletivo Palma (06.02 — 04.05.2022)
2021 Cross-Cultural Collaboration, wendy.network (online; September)
2018 Guanlan Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, CN (February - March)
Publications [participations]
2022 “Contrast: A Fotografia no Ensino Superior”, Vol. II; Edições Scopio2021 “Observações em Torno do Tempo, a Terra e o Ar”, Paralaxe — Mundo
2020 Alix, #1 — If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
2019 Dose (#3) — a plant is
2019 Minimal Zine (Issue 01) — The World, The Moon and The Photograph (essay)
Interviews & Writings about the work
Cinco fragmentos sobre a génese de uma “[est]ética afirmativa” em contexto português — by Carolina Machado, published in Umbigo #80 (mar - maio, 2022)Interview with Catarina Braga — by Margarida Alves, in Umbigo Magazine (17.03.2021)
post-world — by Catarina Real in ARTE CAPITAL (PT) (21.06.2020)
Collections
Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, PortugalChina Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, China
Private collections (Shenzhen, China; Wuhan, China; Idaho, U.S.A.; Texas, U.S.A.)
ART PROGRAMMING // CURATING
Between 2016 and 2019, she lived in Shenzhen, China.
She was a member of ISZAF (International Shenzhen Artist Forum) where between 2017 and 2019, co-produced and organized several art projects: from collective exhibitions to publications and collaborations between independent art spaces and the local artists in the city.
Between 2018 and 2019 she worked in the cultural organization 白墙 FOTOSHOP where she was involved in the production and programming of several art and culture events in the city; of significant importance the second edition of the Shekou Photography Festival “跨界与凝视” — “Crossover & Gaze” (2019).
She was a member of ISZAF (International Shenzhen Artist Forum) where between 2017 and 2019, co-produced and organized several art projects: from collective exhibitions to publications and collaborations between independent art spaces and the local artists in the city.
Between 2018 and 2019 she worked in the cultural organization 白墙 FOTOSHOP where she was involved in the production and programming of several art and culture events in the city; of significant importance the second edition of the Shekou Photography Festival “跨界与凝视” — “Crossover & Gaze” (2019).
PALMA is an artist collective founded by me and Miguel Ângelo Marques, in 2021.
With common interests about plant lives and a work symbiosis, the collective explores the involvement of certain plant species in urban spaces.
With a theorethical-practical methodology, the collective develops its artistic production through a process of investigation into vegetal lives, materializing artistic objects that directs a communication of thinking with plants.
2013 - 2014
SOMBRA Cineclube in FBAUP with i2ADS.
Co-organizer of cinema cycles; writer of the films’ essays.