Berna Reale works with installations and performances. She studies art at the Universidade Federal do Pará and has participated in many solo and collective exhibitions in Brasil and in other countries, as well as in biennales: Venice Biennale “É tanta coisa que nem cabe aqui”, brazilian representative at the 56th Venice Biennale, 2015; Third Beijing Photo Biennale CAFA art Museum – (China, 2018); Please Come Back, MAXXI (Rome, Italy),2017; “34o Panorama da Arte Brasileira” (São Paulo, Brazil), 2015; Artists Engaged? Maybe, Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal), 2014; Foto Bienal Masp, MASP (São Paulo, Brazil), 2013; Liège Photography Biennale (Belgium), 2006; “Bienal de Cerveira” (Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal), 2005.
She has presented the solo exhibitions: “GULA” – Galeria Nara Roesler 2018; “Eccoci!”, urban intervention project done in 2015 in Venice, Italy; “ Uber uns” – Kunsthaus in Wiesbadem, Germany 2017; “Deformation” Bergkirche in Wiesbadem, Germany 2017; “Vão” – CCBB in São Paulo 2017; “Vapor”, in 2014 at the Galeria Millan (São Paulo, Brasil), and “Vazio de Nós”, in 2013 at the “MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio” (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Amongst group exhibition, the ones that stand out are: “Singularidades/Anotações – Rumos Artes Visuais 1998-2013”, Itaú Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil), 2014; “Amazônia – Ciclos da Modernidade”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), 2012; “From the margin to the edge”, Somerset House (London, England), 2012.
She was contemplated for the 5th edition of the Prize “CNI SESI SENAI Marcantonio Vilaça” for Visual Arts (2015) and received the Grand Prize of the Art Pará Salon (Belém, PA, 2009). Reale was selected for the two editions of “Rumos Visuais – Itaú Cultural” (2011 and 2013/14), the last one with the project “Precisa-se do Presente”, done in BRICS counties (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), in 2015. She was a PIPA 2013 finalist.Winner of PIPA Online 2012. Nominated for the PIPA Prize 2014 and 2019.
Problems concerning power relations and their potential to engender violence have, in recent years, been her main focus. In 2010, Reale became a criminal expert at the Center for Scientific Expertise in the State of Pará and lives close to many diverse issues of crime and social conflicts.
Solo Exhibitions
2019
– “While You Laugh”, Nara Roesler Gallery, New York, USA
2018
– “Grito mudo”, Sem Título Arte, Fortaleza, Brazil
– “GULA”, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– “Lecture/Performance & Screenings – Berna Reale”, Dimensions Variable (DV) and Miami Dade College Museum of Art + Design (MDC MoAD), Miami, USA
– “Vão”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – São Paulo (CCBB-SP), São Paulo, Brazil
– Deformation, Bergkirche, Wiesbaden/HE, Germany
– Berna Reale – Über uns / About Us, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden/HE, Germany
2016
– “Singing in the Rain”, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Salt Lake City, USA
2015
– “Eccoci”, 56th Venice Biennial, Italy
2014
– “Vapor”, Gallery Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
– “Vazio de Nós”, Museum of Art of Rio, Brazil
– MMXIII, Prêmio Pipa, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008
– Laboratório de Arte, Cultural Space Casa das Onze Janelas, Belém, Brazil
2005
– “Sema e Soma”, Casa da Pólvora, João Pessoa, Brazil
2004
– Kunsthaus, Wiesbaden, Germany
2001
– “Acordo composto”, Gallery Theodoro Braga, Belém, Brazil
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
– “Entre ruína e construção”, Instituto PIPA, Villa Aymoré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Mulheres na Coleção MAR”, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– III Beijing Photo Biennial – Confusing Public and Private, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA Art Museum), Beijing, China
– I Artist Film Showing, Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro (ECPS), São Paulo, Brazil
– Brasile. Il cotello nella carne/ Brazil. Knife in the Flesh, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea Milano (PAC), Milan, Italy
– “Achados e Perdidos”, PIPA Institute, Villa Aymoré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “fiz um vídeo pra que vc entenda de uma vez por todas”, Divisão de Artes Plásticas da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (DAP/UEL), Londrina, Brazil
2017
– “Coração”, Galeria de Arte Ananin, Museu de Arte UNAMA, Universidade da Amazônia (UNAMA), Ananindeua, Brazil
– “Contraponto” – Coleção Sérgio Carvalho, Museu Nacional do Conjunto Cultural da República (Honestino Guimarães), Brasília, Brazil
– “How to Remain Silent?”, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
– “Só nazica”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Espaço Cultural Casa das Onze Janelas, Belém do Pará, Brazil
– Espaço Cultural do Sistema Fiepa, Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Pará (FIEPA), Belém do Pará, Brazil
– Video Art in Latin America, II Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (PST: LA/LA), LAXART, West Hollywood, USA
– “Feito poeira ao vento” – Fotografia na Coleção MAR, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Modos de ver o Brasil”: Itaú Cultural 30 anos, Oca – Pavilhão Gov. Lucas Nogueira Garcez, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Please Come Back: Il mondo come prigione / The World as Prison?”, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI), Rome, Italy
2016
– Clube de colecionadores de Gravura e Fotografia do MAM São Paulo, CZO Art Space, Cartel 011, São Paulo, Brazil
– Video Art in Latin American: Selections from Brazil, I Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (PST: LA/LA), Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
– LUPA: ensaios audiovisuais, Museu de Arte e Ofícios (MAO), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– Video oediV, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
2015
– “É Tanta Coisa que nem Cabe Aqui”, Pavilhão do Brasil, 56a Venice Biennale, Italy
– “Da pedra Da terra Daqui”, 34º Panorama da Arte Brasileira, MAM São Paulo, São Paulo. Brazil
– Rumos, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Singularidades/Anotações: Rumos Artes Visuais 1998-2013”, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Novos talentos: Fotografia Contemporânea no Brasil, Caixa Cultural of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Interaktion Brasilien in Sacrow”, Schloss Sacrow, Potsdam, Germany
– Mostra Nacional Brasileira – Política, XIII Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ’15) – SharedSpace: Music Weather Politics, Prague, Czech Republic
– Vencedores 5º Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça, Espaço Cultural Marcantonio Vilaça, Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU), Brasília, Brazil
2014
– “Singularidades/Anotações: Rumos Artes Visuais 1998-2013”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Duplo olhar”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– “FotoBienalMasp”, Museum of Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
– “Cães sem plumas”, Museu of Modern Art of Aloisio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
– “Artistas comprometidos? Tavez”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2013
– “Boletim”, Gallery Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Arquivo Vivo”, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
– “FotoBienalMasp”, Museum of Art of São Paulo, Brazil
– “Cães sem plumas”, Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
– “From the Margin to the Edge”, Somerset House, London, England
– “Amazônia – Ciclos da Modernidade”, Cultural Centre Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Convite a Viagem – Rumos Artes Visuais 2011/2013”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
– “Cartografias”, SESC São Paulo, Brazil
2006
– Biennial de Fotografia de Liege, Belgium
2005
– 13th Biennial de Cerveira, Vila de Cerveira, Portugal
2003
– “Evidências”, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Germany
Awards
2015
– Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça para as Artes Plásticas – winner
2014
– Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça para as Artes Plásticas – selected
2013
– Prêmio Investidor Profissional de Arte (PIPA) – finalist
2012
– Prêmio Inverstidor Profissional de Arte (PIPA) Online – finalist
2009
– Grande Prêmio do Salão Arte Pará, Belém, Brazil – winner
Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cultural Space Casa das Onze Janelas, Belém, Brazil
Museum of Art of Belém, Brazil
Museum of Art of Rio, Brazil
Historic Museum of the State of Pará, Belém, Brazil
