Bruna Kury

Bruna Kury (1987) is an anarchtransfeminist, performer, visual and sound artist. She focuses on creations traversing issues of gender, class and race (before the current compulsory heteronormative patriarchal cis-theme and structural oppressions – class warfare). She is currently researching sounds in post-porn and the creation of objects that are ramifications of performance work. She collaborates with the publishing houses “Monstruosas” and “Fera Livre” (Brazil). She participated in the artistic residencies Konvent (Spain), Capacete in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Comunidad (Argentina), Festival Anormal (Mexico), was part of the organization of the residency “Post-PornôPirata” in Fortaleza (Ceará, Brazil), Festival Libres y Soberanas aka “Performacula” in Quito (Ecuador) and was in the residency of “Pivô Research Ciclo II” (Brazil, 2020). Recent participation in the exhibitions Shifting Pleasures curated by Clarissa Aidar, Luise Arndt, Miriam Trostorf and Nela Kuhnová in Germany (2024), Visual cartographies for a writting LGBTI+, curated by Andrés I. M. Hernández at “Espaço Arte Vivo”, São Paulo (Brazil, 2023), “Entrañas – Els nostres cossos són camps de batalla”, curated by Henrique Lukas, Tau Luna, Ju Salgueiro and Margherita Fabbri at Centre LGBT Barcelona (Spain, 2023), “From flight to nostrils: breathing, arms wide, messages in the wind” at HOA Gallery, São Paulo (Brazil, 2023), La Carniceria at proyectoamil (Peru, 2022) During the pandemic she premiered two films, one commissioned by KuirPoetry and the other by SexualHealers (Germany).

EXHIBITIONS
2024
– Shifting Pleasures curated by Clarissa Aidar, Luise Arndt, Miriam Trostorf, and Nela Kuhnová in Germany
2023
– Visual Cartographies for LGBTI+ Writing, curated by Andrés I.M. Hernández at Espacio Arte Vivo, São Paulo, Brazil
– Entrails – Our Bodies are Battlefields, curated by Henrique Lukas, Tau Luna, Ju Salgueiro, and Margherita Fabbri at the LGBT Center of Barcelona, Catalonia
– From Flight to Breathing Through Nostrils, Wide Arms, Messages to the Wind at HOA Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
– ARSSEXUALIS: Under the Sheets curated by Sue Gonçalves, Chris TheRed, and Bruno Gonçalvez at Pinacoteca Barão de Santo Angelo UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2022
– We Are Here at SESC Pinheiros curated by Ateliê 397, São Paulo, Brazil
-TRANS_BORDA curated by Digg Franco and Danna Fitipaldi (Casa Chama) at IAB, São Paulo, Brazil
2021
– Saying No, curated by Adriana Rodrigues, Edu Marin, Érica Burini, and Thais Rivitti at ATELIE397, São Paulo, Brazil
– The Margin is Wider Than the Gap, curated by Talita Trizoli at Central Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
– The Day Before the Fall, commissioned by Clarissa Aidar. APEXART (SP-Brazil/London)
– Notes on Traveccaceleration curated by Ode. LUX MOVING IMAGE, London, UK
– KONTAKT ART RESIST in Berlin, Germany
2020
– MODÈLE VIVANT.E, curated by Linda deMorrir, Paris, France

RESIDENCIES
2022
– KONVENT in Barcelona, Spain
2020
– Tiração in Cidade Tiradentes, Brazil, São Paulo (2022) – integrated with PIVÔ in São Paulo, Brazil
– LAS PACHAQUEER RESIDENCE in Quito, Ecuador
2019
– MOTORHOME [PPPP] in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2018
– pósPORNOPIRATA in Fortaleza, Brazil
– integrated with Comunitaria in Lincoln, Argentina
– Namibia Collective in São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– CAPACETE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
– MUSEU DO SEXO HILDA FURAÇÃO in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

PUBLICATIONS
2024
– Privileges and Marginalities for NoGoods magazine from Norway
– Collaboration for the book Negros na Piscina. Organized by Diane Lima
2020
– DECONSTRUCTING WITHOUT FETISHIZING or How to Destroy the Structure of Hegemonized Pleasure. Vulgar Book. Organized by André Medeiros Martins
– Published in partnership with Linga Acácio, Mogli Saura, and Pedra Costa by FeraLivre Publishing “Post-Pornography as a Weapon Against the Machinery of Coloniality”
– ABOUT CONTACT AND COMMUNICATION AND THE OLD COLONIAL VIRU$. EHCHO.org Platform
– Àtúnbí, I wish we survive because we have already survived, with Walla Capelobo. Terremoto.mx
– I WISH WE SURVIVE BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE, with Walla Capelobo. GLAC Editions Blog
2019
– Coyote Chronicles. Padê Editorial

My artwork addresses the urgent need to challenge and deconstruct coloniality in our everyday lives, exploring issues of privilege and marginalization. I immerse myself in guerrilla tactics and information sharing as a means of confronting colonial cynicism, white innocence, and the tactics of whiteness that persist in our societies. Colonization has shaped and determined our lives, causing us to forget essential aspects of our collective memory. For this reason, I believe it is vital to work on decolonial memory and to preserve ancestral technologies that have been erased and made invisible, but which persist and resist. My work is committed to exposing how gender is also a colonial construction and how racialization is a strategy imposed by whiteness that seeks to perpetuate itself as the norm. These are two fundamental points in the perception of my art that drive me to question and confront. To give voice to these ideas, I draw from diverse artistic and philosophical sources such as anti-art, post-pornography/pornterrorism, queer art, biohacking/transhackfeminism, body ecology, anti-humanism, DIY punk, and the concrete/neo-concrete movement, among others. Through these influences, I seek to create a space where dominant narratives are challenged and make way for alternative and transformative perspectives. My goal is to dismantle the structures that perpetuate oppression and promote personal and collective liberation. I invite viewers to reflect on the social and cultural constructs that limit our experiences and to imagine a more inclusive and diverse future. My art is a tool of resistance and emancipation, embracing dissent and diversity as a source of strength and empowerment. With each work, I strive to sow seeds of change and contribute to the construction of a more egalitarian and colonial-free world.

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