Joana Vasconcelos (artist)
Joana Vasconcelos (born November 8, 1971 in Paris ) is a Portuguese contemporary artist.
Life
Joana Vasconcelos was born in Paris in 1971. At the age of eighteen she began studying fine arts at the Ar.Co art school in Lisbon, which she graduated in 1996.
Since 1994 she has exhibited her works regularly, first in Portugal and later worldwide, for example in Paris, London and San Francisco.
She first attracted international attention in 2005 with her exhibits at the Venice Biennale .
She won several art prizes, for example the 2006 award The Winner Takes It All from the Berardo Foundation in Lisbon.
In 2009 the documentary Joana Vasconcelos: Coração Independente was released by Midas Filmes , in which director Joana Cunha shows Ferreira Vasconcelos and her team at work. In 2010 a documentary about Vasconcelos was broadcast on ARTE as part of the “Artists Up Close” series.
Joana Vasconcelos lives and works in Lisbon .
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Vasconcelos' work mainly includes installations and sculptures , as well as videos , photographs and performances .
She works with a team that supports her because a lot of her work is very complex to produce.
One of her most famous works is the seven-meter-high sculpture Nectar , which is located in front of the entrance to the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon. It consists of iron and glass bottles and shows the viewer how something great can be created from ordinary everyday materials - a theme that is often found in Vasconcelos' works.
Another work that made her famous is the installation Jóia do Tejo , which adorned the facade of the Torre de Belém in 2006 .
In addition to modern conceptual art , Vasconcelos also uses old handicraft techniques such as crochet or sewing, often in combination with one another. For example, furniture, musical instruments or sculptures are spanned with crocheted nets. Other manual techniques such as welding are also used.
Vasconcelos' works often express her identity as a woman and Portuguese. In 2005 she caused a sensation at the Venice Biennale with the construction A Noiva , which was five meters high and consisted of 25,000 tampons. Another example is her early series of sculptures Independent Hearts , in which gigantic hearts spin on a chain while Portuguese folk music is played. Her more recent works include oversized pumps welded together from steel pots . One of these designs, Marilyn , fetched £ 500,000 at auction in London.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2004: Arte Portugues y Espanol de los 90 , CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- 2005: EMERGENCIAS , MUSAC Leon
- 51st Venice Biennale 2005 , Venice Biennale
- INICIATIVA X - 2005 , Arte Contempo, Lisbon
- 2006: Paradiso & Inferno , Mario Mauroner, Salzburg
- 2007: Joana Vasconcelos , Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
- Existencias , MUSAC Leon
- Coleccion Josep Civit: La vida privada , CDAN Huesca
- 2008: L'Argent , Frac Ile-de-France, Paris
- 2009: MUSAC - Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell. , Mücsarnok Art Gallery Budapest
- Júlio Pomar & Joana Vasconcelos: À la mode de chez nous , Center Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian Paris
- Garden of Eden # 2 , Es Baluard
- 2010: Un chef-d'œuvre existe une fois pour toutes , FAUX MOUVEMENT, Metz
- Joana Vasconcelos: I Will Survive , Haunch of Venison, London
- Loft , Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris
- Sem Rede , anthological exhibition on Vasconcelos' work over the past 15 years, Museu Colecção Berardo, Centro Cultural de Belém , Lisbon
- 2011: Contemporary Eye: Crossovers , PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY Chichester
- The World Belongs to You , Palazzo Grassi, Venice
- 2012: Joana Vasconcelos. Versailles , Versailles Palace
- 2013: Trafaria Praia , Venice Biennale
- Lusitana 2013 , Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- 2014: Joana Vasconcelos: Time Machine , Manchester Art Gallery
- 2016/17: Joana Vasconcelos: Textures of Life , ARoS_Aarhus_Kunstmuseum (ARoS)
- 2017: Joana Vasconcelos , Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg (first and so far only exhibition in Germany, with installation Pin de Vinho in the spa gardens of Bad Homburg )
- 2018: I'll Be Your Mirror , Guggenheim Museum Bilbao , including new Egérie , “Muse”.
Scholarships and Awards
- 2000: Young Artist EDP Prize , Lisbon
- 2003: Tabaqueira Fund for Public Art , Lisbon
- 2006: The Winner Takes It All , Berardo Foundation, Lisbon
literature
- Paulo Cunha e Silva: Joana Vasconcelos. São Mamede do Coronado, Bial, 2009
- Deborah Robinson: Joana Vasconcelos. The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2007, ISBN 978-0946652860
Web links
- Literature by and about Joana Vasconcelos (artist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- joanavasconcelos.com (Portuguese / English)
- dw.de: Video about Joana Vasconcelos' exhibition in the Palace of Versailles , contribution by the TV magazine Euromaxx
- kunstaspekte.de: Exhibition list
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- ↑ a b Joana Vasconcelos, modernedition.com
- ↑ Joana Vasconcelos - visual artist ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Sarah Blum, 2009, arte
- ↑ Joana Vasconcelos , Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, 2007 ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Joana Vasconcelos, Garden of Eden # 2 ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. esbaluard.org, accessed January 6, 2013.
- ↑ Joana Vasconcelos: I Will Survive , Haunch of Venison, London, 2010 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Joana Vasconcelos no CCB
- ↑ Joana Vasconcelos, Lusitana 2013 tamuseum.org.il, accessed on February 12, 2014.
- ↑ Joana Vasconcelos: Time Machine manchestergalleriestimemachine.org. Retrieved July 20, 2015
- ↑ en.aros.dk: Joana Vasconcelos. Textures of Life , accessed November 8, 2016
- ^ Badische Zeitung: Gigantic: Joana Vasconcelos in Bilbao - Boulevard - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on June 30, 2018]). Gigantic: Joana Vasconcelos in Bilbao - Boulevard - Badische Zeitung ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vasconcelos, Joana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |