Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian visual artist based between Folkestone, UK and Vitoria, Brazil. She completed a degree in Visual Arts and a Master degree in Institutional Psychology at Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Her artwork is an hybrid practice across performance, video, installation and writing, occasionally flirting with drawing, painting and collage. In 2015, she took part at the Marina Abramovic workshop’s ‘Cleaning the House’ and participated at the exhibition ‘Terra Comunal – Marina Abramovic + MAI’, at SESC Pompéia, São Paulo with the long durational performance ‘The Garden’ for two consecutive months. In the same year, she produced her first short film ‘EVO’ in collaboration with Renata Ferraz, it was premiered at the 26th Festival Internacional de São Paulo and 22nd Festival de Cinema de Vitória. In 2016, she worked on the conceptual project titled ‘Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Desert and the Mountain’ which required her to travel to high landscapes of Uyuni (Bolivia), Pico da Bandeira (Espírito Santo/Minas Gerais, BRA) and Monte Roraima (Roraima, BRA/Santa Helena de Uyarén, VEN). In the same year she completed her second short film titled ‘ÁDITO’. Since 2018 she has been working on the creation of an ongoing project called ‘Book-Performance’, composed by a series of actions devised in response to specific autobiographical texts particularly influenced by personal experiences of racism and misogyny. Currently, she is part of the international collective of artist ‘Speculative Landscapes’ a group of four women which, since 2020, has been working on systemic questions about what else institutions can be, when shaped not from stories violence, segmentation and extractions in the territories.
“Antes que eu esqueça”, 2014, length: 08’09”
“Esboços de um Corpo Desconhecido (Díptico)”, 2014, length: 27’41”
“386 Passos Além”, 2015, length: 6’58”
“Baile”, 2015, length: 8’08”
“Preparação para Exercício Aéreo, o Deserto” (Rubiane Maia e Luísa Nóbrega), 2016, length: 10’01”
“Preparação para Exercício Aéreo, a Montanha” (Rubiane Maia e Manuel Vason), 2016, length: 10’01”
“Preparação para Exercício Aéreo, a Montanha” (Rubiane Maia e Manuel Vason), 2016, length: 23’31”
“VAIN II“, 2021. Duration 58’00”
“Há uma voz que diz, cala-te. Calem-se todos vocês que estão à beira do abismo.“, 2020. Duration 68’45”
“Trailer ÁDITO [English Subtitle]“, 2017. Duration 1’25”
EDUCATION
2000 to 2004 – Degree in Visual Arts at Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
2009 to 2011 – Master degree in Institutional Psychology at Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
ART RESIDENCY
2020
– Blue Skies Conversation (Remote). International Curators Forum [ICF], London, UK.
2019
– Performance Space / PAUSE & AFFECT 4, Folkestone, England, UK.
2016
– Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico.
– Programa Público de Performance Península (PPPP), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
– Museu Bispo do Rosário, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
– Edital Setorial de Artes Cênicas e Visuais SECULT/ES: Deserto de Sal (Uyuni, Bolívia); Pico da Bandeira (ES/MG, Brazil) e Monte Roraima (RO, Brazil).
2015
– Cemitério do Peixe: Morte e Magia nas Artes Visuais, Conceição do Mato Dentro, MG, Brazil.
2014
– Estação Cultural Mosteiro Zen Morro da Vargem Zenkoji, Ibiraçu, ES, Brazil.
2014
– NUVEM: Residência de Verão, Visconde de Mauá, RJ. Brazil.
– Galeria Casarão, Viana, ES. Brazil.
2013
– NUVEM: Residência de Verão e ENCONTRADA, Visconde de Mauá, RJ. Brazil.
– Seu Vicente, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Articultores: Proyectos Clandestinos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012
– CAL GRAS, Avinyó – Barcelona, Spain.
– Le6B – Fabrique à rêves, Saint-Denis, France.
2011
– Terra Una: VER Encontro de Arte Viva, Liberdade, MG, Brazil.
– PorNO PorSI, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
SOLO EXHBITIONS
2019
– Breathing Memories. Performance Space / PAUSE & AFFECT 4, Folkestone, England, UK.
2015
– An Apple and Two Chairs. Installation at Art and Technology Space SESC Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
– Amilcar de Castro ‘Na Dobra do Mundo’ / Diálogos Contemporâneos ‘Matéria-Linha’. Curator: Galciani Neves. MUBE-SP, Brazil.
2020/21
– VIX Estórias Capixabas. Curator: Júlio Martins. Museu de Arte do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– Séries Exclusivas [Collective Collectors]. Curator: Lara Brotas & Sandra Matias. Matias Brotas Contemporary Art, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2019
– Videografias do Corpo. Curadoria: Nicolas Soares. Galeria Homero Massena, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2018/19
– Mercedes Baptista: o corpo e a dança. Curator: Amanda Bonan, Analu Cunha e Marcelo Campos. Galeria Candido Portinari, UERJ, RJ, Brazil.
2018
– In Loqus: Mostra de Performance. Curator: Renan Marcondes e Villas. SESC Santo Amaro, SP, Brazil.
– Não me aguarde na retina. Curator: Diane Lima. ‘VALONGO’ Festival Internacional da Imagem, Santos, SP, Brazil.
– Representatives. Curator: Clara Rocha. Conference ‘Women in Transition’, Oxford, UK.
– Jerwood Staging Series ‘Sensational Bodies’. Curator: Adelaide Bannerman/Jessica Taylor. Jerwood Visual Art, London, UK.
– Territórios Internos. Curator: Natalie Mirêdia. Casa Porto das Artes Plásticas, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2017
– Negros Indícios. Curator: Roberto Conduru. Caixa Cultural, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
– Mulheres a Caminho. Curator: Fausto Gracia/Cecilia Stelini. AT AL 609, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
– Paradigma da Presença. Curator: Denis Rodriguez. Galeria Península, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
2016
– Das Virgens em Cardumes e da Cor da Auras. Curator: Daniela Labra. Museu Bispo do Rosário, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
– Marcus Vinícius. Curator: Júlio Martins. Galeria Espaço Universitário, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– PASSE/IMPASSE. Curator: Aurélien Le Genissel. Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
2015
– TERRA COMUNAL/MARINA ABRAMOVICH + MAI. Curator: Marina Abramovic/Paula Garcia. SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
– Modos de Usar. Curator: Júlio Martins. Museu de Arte do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– Teatro Estúdio. Curator: Herbert Baioco. Galeria Homero Massena, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2014
– Cúando.tú for mi leva. Curator: Júlio Martins. Galeria Espaço Universitário, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2013
– O Corpo é o Meio. Curator: Mariana Lorenzi. Laboratório Curatorial: SP Arte, SP, Brazil.
– 9th Kaunas Biennial UNITEXT. Curator: Virginija Vitkiene. National Museum of M. K. Ciurlionis, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2012
– Rito Resigno. Curator: Ana Cecília Soares/Júnior Pimenta. CCBNB, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
2021
– The Table. Layers of Time // Residential Workshop [as part of PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the UK], Folkestone, UK.
2020
– Vain. BlueProject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
– Vain. Performance Festival EPA ‘Entre Corpos Entre Telas. EEI / ArtRio Frieze, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– At Times We Need To Came Back Home. Slow Sunday Festival/Steakhouse Live’, London, UK.
2019
– Breathing Memories. Performance Space ‘PAUSE & AFFECT 4’, Folkestone, England, UK.
– Monument to a Body without Roots. Knotty Festival, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, England, UK.
2018
– There is a voice that says, shut up. Shut up all of you who are standing at the edge of the abyss, Book-Performance, Chapter II. Flexões Performáticas, CCBB, São Paulo, Brazil.
– This voice cuts me off, removing my feet from their place, Book-Performance, Chapter I. Jerwood Staging Series ‘Sensational Bodies’, Jerwood Space, London, UK.
2016
– The Table. Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Mexico.
– Cartas de Vento. Galeria Península, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
– Way of Tea. ‘Per-forma’ SESC Bom Retiro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
– Where everyone sees. ‘Ongoing’ – Embassy of Brazil in London, UK.
2015
– Banquete. ‘p.ARTE’, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
– Aerial Studies I, II e III. ‘Corpo Contínuo’ SESC Santana, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
– Span. ‘Performapa’ SESC Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
– Anamnese. ‘Performance em Encontro’ SESC Campinas, SP, Brazil.
2014
– Crossing. V Bienal de Performance DEFORMES, Santiago e Valdivia, Chile.
– Delirium. Mostra Performatus #1 – Central Galeria, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2013
– Decanto, até quando for preciso esquecer. Exchange Dublin, Ireland.
– Decanto, até quando for preciso esquecer. Espírito Mundo Portugal, Porto, Portugal.
– Decanto, até quando for preciso esquecer. Vênus Terra, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
– Decanto, até quando for preciso esquecer. Hacklab LIS-UFES, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2012
– Transferência. Talvez o nascimento das lágrimas. 2˚ BOOM Global Creative Action, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
– Transferência. Talvez o nascimento das lágrimas. 1˚ Venice International Performance Art Week, Veneza, Italy.
– Incubação. Transbordamento para corpo d’água. 11˚ Festival de Apartamento, Campinas, SP. Brazil.
– Interlúdio (vermelho-bicho). Sarau Literário Cronópio – UFES, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– Observatório. 2˚ Circuito de Performance Bode Arte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
– Caminho do Chá. Olhares sobre o Corpo, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.
– Labirinto. Espírito Brum Festival, Birmingham, UK.
– Travessia. Espírito Mundo Paris, France.
2011
– À Flor da Pele. 10° SPA das Artes, Galeria Janete Costa, Recife, PE, Brazil.
– Delírio. TRAMPOLIM Itinerante #6, CCBNB, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
– À Flor da Pele. TRAMPOLIM Itinerante #4, Castelinho, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
FILM FESTIVALS
2021
– My Battery is Low and It, getting Late . 24˚ Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes – Panorama, Sessão 1. Tiradentes, MG, Brazil.
2020
– Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Mountain. ‘Cine Esquema Novo (CEN) – Janelas Abertas. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
– Temporary Window. In light of Shadows. XV Mostra Produção Independente ‘Cinema Possível’ – ABD Capixaba. Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– Temporary Window. In light of Shadows. V Mostra Internacional de Dança Imagens em Movimento. Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
– Temporary Window. In light of Shadows. Seminário Poéticas – Arte em Tempo de Pandemia [UFES]. Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– Stones Across the Ocean – Hemisfério Norte, parte I. Seminário Poéticas ‘Arte em Tempo de Pandemia’ [UFES]. Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– EVO / ÁDITO. Cine Clube TVE. Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2018
– Janela Temporária. À Luz das Sombras. ‘ARQFILMFEST’ Arquitectura Film Festival, Santiago, Chile.
– ÁDITO. ‘FECIN’ Festival de TV e Cinema do Interior do Espírito Santo, Muqui, ES.
– ÁDITO. 13˚ Mostra Produção Independente ABD ‘Novos Rumos’, Cine Jardins, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– Temporary Window. In light of Shadows. ‘The Quarantine’ International Short Film Festival, Varna, Bulgaria.
– Temporary Window. In light of Shadows. Cine Rua 7 [Anatomia Mágica], Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2017
– Temporary Window. In light of Shadows. Performe-se: Fronteiras Borradas/Fronteiras Erguidas, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– Temporary Window. In light of Shadows. Expanding Bodies, Puebla, Mexico.
– ÁDITO. 21 Islands International Short Film Fest, Pregones Theater PRTT, NY, EUA.
– ÁDITO. 6˚ Cinerama: zonas de correspondências, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
– ÁDITO. 24˚ Festival de Cinema de Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2016
– Before I Forget. IV Mostra IP, Itinerante, Brazil.
– Before I Forget. TPA Torino Performance Arte, Galeria Moitre, Turin, Italy.
– Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Desert. 23˚ Festival de Cinema de Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– EVO. The World Festival of Emerging Cinema. Trinidad and Tobago.
– EVO. Vilnius LGBT Festival “Kreives”. Vilnius, Lithuania.
– EVO. XI Mostra Produção Independente/ABD Capixaba, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
2015
– EVO. 22˚ Festival de Cinema de Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– EVO. 26º Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de São Paulo (Kinoforum). São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
TEACHING WORKSHOPS/LECTURES
2021
– Cúpula de Horizontes / [Pré]formance. Online Workshop at Bica Plataforma, Brasil.
– Layers of Time. Workshop at Performance Space, Folkestone, Reino Unido.
2018
– ‘Telecinesia e Performance: o impossível para que algo aconteça’. Workshop at SESC Pompéia, SP, Brazil.
2016
– ‘La Mesa: laboratório de telequinesia’. Workshop at Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Mexico.
– ‘Imagem-Ação’. Workshop at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
– Ciclo de Pesquisas. Lecture at Casa Tomada, São Paulo, Brazil.
– Dança na Roda. Lecture at Teatro Carlos Gomes, Vitória, Brazil.
2010
– Eleve Coletivo. Workshop/Projeto de Extensão at Laboratório de Imagens da Subjetividade/UFES, Vitória, Brazil.
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING
2019
– Creative Exchange Lab (with Dorothée Munyaneza). IN BETWEEN TIME, Bristol, England, UK.
2016
– Toward a Poetic Image (with Manuel Vason). Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2015
– Cleaning the House (with Marina Abramovic). SESC-SP, Juquitiba, SP, Brazil.
2012
– Life & Art, Here & Now (with Alastair MacLennan). Performance Space, London, UK.
2007
– Poesia Visual (with Alckmar Luiz dos Santos). Festival de Inverno UFMG ‘Territórios Contemporâneos’, Diamantina, MG, Brazil.
PRIZES/GRANTS
2016
– 23˚ Festival de Cinema de Vitória: ‘Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Desert’. Honorable Mention: fotografia em diálogo com experimentação artística. Brazil.
2015
– Produção de Curta Metragem de Ficção: ‘ÁDITO’. SECULT/ES, Brazil.
– Setorial de Artes Visuais: ‘Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Mountain’. SECULT/ES, Brazil.
– Setorial de Dança: ‘Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Desert’. SECULT/ES, Brazil.
2014
– Produção de Curta Metragem de Ficção: ‘EVO’. SECULT/ES, Brazil.
2013
– Bolsa Ateliê de Artes Visuais: ‘À Primeira Vista’. SECULT/ES, Brazil.
– Publicação de Obras Literárias: ‘Autorretrato em Notas de Rodapé’. SECULT/ES, Brazil.
2010
– Crítica em Artes. SECULT/ES, Brazil.
“Multiple layers between time and life interest me, especially the ways in which bodies create and experience their daily micro-revolutions. Working with performance fascinates me for being a field of uncertain actions – meeting place / mismatch / reunion with yourself, with others, and with what is around: a way of being, to take ownership of life, and to take risks. In this sense, an intensity of crisis emerges, disputes, attempts and errors, unavoidable, exposing what happens in this incompleteness, in what is still bent or even fragmented. The rules change and the boundaries are not always safe. I seek to deal with all that is fragile, vulnerable, and even insurmountable in a dimension that sets off the delicate nature, unstable and transitory our human existence.
During this journey the things that touch me become reference: literature, cinema, street life, people, landscapes, and of course, the day to day life with its small particularities, the ‘invisible’ is redolent at events that enliven or overwhelm me. I keep looking for these images, trampling voices, these sensations that we capture almost by accident which could destabilize us. I’m attracted to the variety of balanced/unbalanced states that are able to cross the body, mind, emotions and our memory.”
