Laura Lima
Laura Lima (born April 29, 1971 in Governador Valadares , Brazil ) is a Brazilian artist . She lives and works in Rio de Janeiro . In 2014 she received the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art from the Maastricht Bonnefantenmuseum .
Life
Laura Lima studied philosophy and fine arts in Rio de Janeiro. Since the late 1990s she has participated in international festivals and group exhibitions. Since 1998, her work can also be seen in solo exhibitions in well-known art halls. She is co-founder and artistic advisor of the artist gallery A Gentil Carioca in Rio de Janeiro.
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One focus of Laura Lima's artistic work is the human body. She is interested in social relationships and exploring everyday human behavior. She has the dramaturgies she has developed performed by participating actors without appearing herself. Laura Lima's works range between performance and sculpture. She explores the boundaries between reality, illusion and fiction.
“Laura Lima's works are experimental arrangements that sound out the degree between the everyday and the absurd, between fiction and dream, imaginary and real, performance and sculpture. The central object of her artistic practice is the human body: as a medium, as a concept, as the driving force of social relationships, its gestures, behavior, embodiments. […] Laura Lima's works move on a terrain of strangeness and contradictions. In doing so, they question our perception of the everyday and show the absurdity that is inherent in the apparently real itself. "
In 2000, the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo was the first to purchase a work by a contemporary Brazilian performance artist.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1998 Projeto Digestão , Centro Cultural São Paulo , Brazil
- 2000 Laura Lima Traveled with RhR to Reina Sofia Museum and the City of Madrid. Museo Reina Sofía , Madrid
- 2000: Puxador , Escola de Crítica (Lisette Lagnado), São Paulo, Brasil.
- 2000: Project Rooms , ARCO Madrid
- 2002: Homem = Carne / Mulher = Carne e Costumes - Man = Flesh / Woman = Flesh & Costumes , Museu de Arte da Pampulha , Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- 2002: Costumes , Mala Galerija, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2003: Costumes Loja / Costumes Shop , Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2004: Instâncias - To Age , Chapter Art Center , Cardiff, Wales
- 2004: Ball Laura Lima , A Gentil Carioca, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2005: Paisagem / Landscape , Museu do Estado de Pernambuco , Recife, Brazil
- 2006: 27th São Paulo Biennial 2006
- 2008: Fuga , A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
- 2009: Corpos Estranhos , MAC Paulo São
- 2009: PADEDEU - Jarbas Lopes, Laura Lima , Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
- 2010: Communication Networks , City Art Museum Ljubljana
- 2010: A Gentil Carioca. An art space in Rio de Janeiro , ifa gallery Berlin
- 2011: Manchester Art Gallery
- 2011: Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm
- 2011: Biennale in Lyon
- 2012: Ruhrtriennale in Essen
- 2013: Art's House in Melbourne, Australia
- 2013: Bar Restaurant , Migros Museum , Zurich
Awards
- 2014: Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art
literature
- Sara Arrhenius and Heike Munder (eds.): Laura Lima. Bar restaurant. JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03764-344-0
Web links
- Ana Sanchez-Colberg: Laura Lima. The Body Humbled , in: culturebase.net, March 22, 2006 (accessed March 18, 2014)
- Suzanne Kappeler: Meditative Order, Creative Chaos , in: NZZ , December 18, 2013 (accessed March 18, 2014)
- Laura Lima on kunstaspekte.de
- Laura Lima . In: Enciclopédia Itaù Cultural (Brazilian Portuguese)
Videos
- Interview - Laura Lima at the Biennale de Lyon, 2011 (English with French subtitles)
- Laura Lima. For the Love of Dissent / MUAC, Mexico City, 2013
Footnotes
- ↑ Bonnefanten Award 2014 for Laura Lima: Brazilian artist Laura Lima wins biggest international award for visual art in the Netherlands , in: bonnefanten.nl , Maastricht February 15, 2014 (accessed March 18, 2014).
- ↑ NN, news aktuell Press portal: LAURA LIMA. Bar Restaurant , September 30, 2013 (accessed March 10, 2019).
- ^ NN, Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa): A Gentil Carioca. Laura Lima ( Memento of March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed March 10, 2019).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lima, Laura |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Governador Valadares , Minas Gerais , Brazil |