Fernanda Figueiredo

Brazil, 1978


About

Fernanda Figueiredo was born in Limeira, in 1978, and lives and work in Berlin. Studied Architecture and Urbanism at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and Visual Arts at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo. In 2015, when she moved to Berlin, she started pursuing her solo career. Within that time, she had grown a deep interest in Latin American post/colonial theories, tropical exoticism and the role of painting in these narratives.

Among the national and international exhibitions in which she participated are the solo exhibitions "Um dia essa guerra vai acabar", at Galeria Oeste (São Paulo, 2008) and "Farbverschiebung, Kanzlei", noat Institut für Alles Mögliche (Berlin, 2018); and the group shows "Linha líquida", at Memorial da América Latina (São Paulo, 2009) and "Anonyme Zeichner Archiv", and Kunsthaus Kannen (Münster, Germany, 2019).

In 2014 she was a resident at Programa Rede Nacional Funarte Artes Visuais, at Fundação Nacional de Artes, and in 2017, at "Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt", in Germany.

Source: Kogan Amaro Gallery.

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