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São Paulo, Brazil, 1989.
Lives and works in Roubaix, France.
PIPA 2019 nominee.
Janaina Wagner develops her research in several media, such as film, photography, books, drawing, installations, scenography, and painting. The neuralgic point of her work are the relations of limit, control and containment that the human establishes with the world. Currently a PhD student at Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains (FR), Wagner has participated in several artist residencies, such as Gasworks (EN), FID Campus – Festival International de Cinema de Marseille (FR), Bolsa Pampulha (MG), Red Bull Station (SP), Phosphorus (SP), Casa Tomada (SP), Anarcademia, (W139, Amsterdam), and NES Skagaströnd, on the rural coast of Iceland. Among the main exhibitions, the individual ones With burning love – (Villa Belleville, Paris), Criatura (Oficina Cultural Oswald Andrade, SP), and Decupagem/ Crônica de um final anunciado (MARP, SP) stand out; and the group shows Ensaio de Tração – Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 10 Semana de Cinema do Rio de Janeiro, Bestiário – Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP, Permanências e Destruições – Torre H (RJ), Hipótese e Horizonte – Observatório (SP), 4o Prêmio EDP nas Artes – Instituto Tomie Ohtake (SP). Janaina lives and works between São Paulo and Paris.
Website: janainawagner.com
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2019:
“Criatura”, 2016. Duration: 10’7″
“Progresso”, 2014. Duration: 3’59”
“Terreno”, 2014. Duration: 9’15”
Residencies
2021
– Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
– VISIO, Firenze, Italy
– Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France
2019
– FID Campus – Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille, Marseille, France
2018
– Curry Vavart, Paris, France
2017
– SPEAP, Programme d’Expérimentation en Arts Politiques, SciencesPo, Paris, France
– PIMASP, Programa Independente do Museu de Arte de São Paulo, MASP, Brazil
2016
– RAM, Residência Artística Mutuca, Altamira, Brazil
– Bolsa Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2015
– Red Bull Station, São Paulo, Brazil
– Casa Tomada + Fresh Milk Barbados, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– Residência Phosphorus 2014, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
– COMO Clube, São Paulo, Brazil
– NES, Skagastrond, Iceland
2012
-Anarcademia, X139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011
– Projeto Experiência, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Solo exhibitions
2018
– “With burning love”, Villa Belleville, Paris, Francce
2017
– “Floresta”, Museu do Esquilo, Ibiuna, Brazil
2016
– “Criatura”, Oficina Cultural Oswald Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
– “Decupagem/Crônica de um final anunciado”, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, MARP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Selected group exhibitions
2021
– “Thinking Beyond: Moving-images for a post pandemic world” – Manufattura Tabacchi, Firenze, Italy)
– “Super-Natural” – Olhão, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Fuso Festival” – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
– “Cuando no hay sombra es mediodía”, Nube – Kiosko, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
– “A natural history of ruins” – Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
202020
– “Simultan Festival XV” – Unseen, Timisoara, Romania
– “Emma Goldman Anarchist Film Festival”, New York City, USA
– “Casa Carioca” – MAR Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “The Vampire Squid From Hell” – Hot-Bed, Philadelphia, USA
2019
– “Beginning of a Century” – Jaqueline Martins Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “The Vampire Squid from Hell” – Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, USA
2018
– International Conference on Landscape and Cinema, Universidade de Letras de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
– “BIT – Biennale de l’Image Tangible”, Plateforme, Paris, Francce
– 10 Semana de Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– NES Artist Residency – “10 years alumni video exhibition”, Skagaströnd, Iceland
– Festival Mondes Possibles, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, France
– “TRELA”, Ateliê 397, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Insitution”, Festival Hors Piste, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2017
– “Ensaio de Tração”, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Bestiário”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, CCSP, São Paulo,Brazil
– “Mágica”, 13º Festival VERBO de Performance, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Falência”, Galeria Cavalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “De carne e ferro”, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Les entrées extraordinaires”, Atelier W, Paris, France
– VIII Prêmio Diário Contemporâneo de Fotografia, Casa das Onze Janelas, Belém, Brazil
– “Um Piano na Selv”, Periscópio, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– “Bad Video Art Festival”, A3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
– “Mon cher Magma”, Atelier W, Paris, France
– Bolsa Pampulha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– “Mutuca”, Museu de Arte da Mutuca, Altamira, Brazil
– “Permanências e Destruições”, Torre H, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Esforço-Desempenho”, Athena Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– “Hipótese e Horizonte”, Observatório, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Galeria Transitória”, Red Bull Station, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Despoxição ou rearranjo”, Tofic House, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Concrete Matter”, Warm, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Como diz o outro”, Nice Cópias, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Ciclo de Pesquisas Casa Tomada”, Casa Tomada, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– “Primeira”, Warm, São Paulo, Brazil
– 4º Prêmio EDP nas Artes, Instituto Tomie Ohtake São Paulo, Brazil
– “Phosphorus”, Phosphorus, São Paulo, Brazil
– 39º SARP, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, MARP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
– “Estado de Suspensão”, Coletor, São Paulo, Brazil
– 32th Coopy RIghtOTs – 8. Salon, Hamburg, Germany
– 13º Salão de Arte Nacional de Jataí, MAC Jataí, Jataí, Brazil
– “aber-tura”, Coletor, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
– XV Salão de Artes Visuais de Natal”, FUNCARTE, Natal, Brazil
– 13º SNAI, Salão Nacional de Artes de Itajaí, Fundação Cultural de Itajaí, Itajaí, Brazil
– 20º Salão de Artes Plásticas de Praia Grande, Complexo Cultural Palácio das Artes, Praia Grande, Brazil
– The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
– “Sangue Latino: 12º Festival de Arte Serrinha”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Equivocábulos”, MAB, Museu de Arte Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil
– NES Open Studios, NES, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2012
– “Anarcademia”, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
– “Rapidinha”, Ateliê 397, São Paulo, Brazil
– “TAZ Tu”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil
– “MIS-SIM”, Museu da Imagem e do Som de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Scenographies
2019
– “Les Étoilles de Notre Ciel”, Cie BrutaFlor, Cartoucherie, Theatre du Soleil
2018
– “Giovanna, fille de Modigliani”, Cie Claire-Sophie Beau
– “Antigona”, Cie BrutaFlor, Un festival à Ville Real, France
Prizes
2014
– 39º SARP, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, MARP, Ribeirão Preto, SP [Acquisitive Prize]
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