(this page was last updated in December 2019)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1977.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Represented by Gallery Inox and Zipper Galeria.
PIPA 2013 and 2017 nominee.
The work of Celina Portella permeates the universe of the plastic arts and dance. This artist establishes dialogues among architecture, cinema, performance and finally sculpture, characterizing her research in the fields of representation of the body and its relationship with space. Frequently using her own body as a subject for experiments, Celina blends almost craft-like practices in videos, photographs or photo-objects that challenge the characteristics of each support and the perceptions of the observer.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2017:
“Dois pesos e duas medidas”, 2016. Duration: 15″ “Público”, 2017. Duration: 1’51″ “Deságua de beber”, 2014. Duration: 1’30” “Deságua na paisagem”, 2014. Duration: 1’30” “365º”, 2014. Duration: 6’08” “Auringa, ahorita y ahora”, 2014. Duration: 8’40” “Cena Familiar”, 2012. Duration: 2’16” “Vídeo-Boleba”, 2011. Duration: 0’56” “Nós”, 2011, 3’45” “Movimento²”, 2010. Duration: 3’14” “Derrube”, 2009. Duration: 9’53” “Movimentos Detenidos”, 2008. Duration: 3’21”
The installation “Cena Familiar” consists of video projection and people. In everyday actions, members of a family snap into and disengage continuously in their own images. The live interaction with the video also gives the work a performance character and proposes reflections about the question of time, the idea of permanence x movement. Held by Celina Portella at the Festival Panorama 2012, at the EAV Park Lage Stables, Rio de Janeiro.
The “Video-Boleba” installation shows two boys playing marbles. When they disappear from the picture frame by the side edge of the screen, the balls break out the real. The scene started in the image is extended to the space next to the public giving continuity to the virtual space displacement in the material plane. “Video-Boleba” is the result of a project by Celina Portella selected by the invitation to support the Research and Artistic Creation of the Secretary of State for Culture of Rio de Janeiro in 2011.
“Nós” is an action between the body and its multiples projected in real scale. The interaction between body and image proposes simple and dynamic movements, resulting in varied compositions between the “characters”.
The projection / action performed by Celina Portella lasts approximately 13 minutes.
The “Movimento²” project displays videos where the body moves interacting with the frame edges and time determining the movement of the display screen. In the “object videos” 1, 2 and 3, the screens are fixed and the relation with the space differs by the variation of the dimensions of the body contained in the videographic frame. In the “video objects” 4 and 5 the screen moves horizontally and vertically in a way linked to the image, generating a connection between virtual and real space action.
The 5 video installations of the Celina Portella Plastic Artist were created at the LABMIS residence of the Image and Sound Museum, São Paulo.
Urban intervention work carried out during residences at CRAC Valparaiso – Chile, in April / May 2008.
She has been nominated for prizes such as the Bolsa ICCO/SP-Arte 2016; Prêmio de Aquisição EFG Bank & Art-Nexus, at SP-Arte (2015) and the Prêmio Pipa (2013 and 2017). She was awarded prizes at the XX Bienal Internacional de Artes Visuales de Santa Cruz in Bolivia (2016), and the II Concurso de Videoarte da Fundaj in Recife (2008).
She was awarded fellowships under the following Programs: Programa de Estímulo à Criação, Experimentação e Pesquisa Artística SEC + Faperj (2016); the I Programa de Fomento à Cultura Carioca em Artes Visuais (2013); the Bolsa de Apoio à Pesquisa e Criação Artística by the State Culture Bureau (2012), and the Núcleo de Arte e Tecnologia da EAV Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro (2010).
She completed artistic residencies at the Bag Factory Artists’ Studios in Johannesburg, South Africa; the Center International d’Accueil et d’Échanges des Récollets in Paris; the LABMIS at the Museu da Imagem e do Som in São Paulo; and the Galeria Kiosko in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia, among others. She has implemented projects and displayed her works at many institutions and galleries in Brazil and abroad, including: SESC São Paulo, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, EAV Parque Lage, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, MAC Santiago de Chile, Uj Art Gallery, Galeria Inox, Zipper Galeria, Galeria Kiosko, A Gentil Carioca. Noteworthy among the group shows in which she has participated: Frestas Trienal de Artes at SESC Sorocaba, São Paulo (2017); the III Mostra do Programa de Exposições Centro Cultural São Paulo (2012) and the Nova Arte Nova exhibition at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (2009). As a
dancer and co-creator, she has worked with choreographers Lia Rodrigues e João Saldanha.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Celina currently lives in São Paulo. She studied design at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) in Rio de Janeiro and graduated in plastic arts from the Université Paris VIII.
Education
1998-2001
– Degree in Fine Arts at the Université St. Denis, Paris VIII, Paris, France
1994-1997
– Degree in Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2019
– “Reunião”, Celina Portella, Caixa Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
2018
– “Subtrações”, Projeto Zip’Up, Galeria Zipper, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Foto objetos”, Museu Casa Sônia Menna Barreto, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– “Dobras”, Galeria Inox, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– “Puxa”, Gallery Inox, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
– “Movimento²”, Municipal Art Centre Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Deságua”, gallery A Gentil Carioca Lá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
– “Dublês”, School of the Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Cena Familiar”, installation/performance, Panorama de Dança 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
– “Vídeo-Boleba”, III Showing of Exposition Programme Cultural Centre São Paulo, Brazil
2011
– “Celina Portella–Installations”, Dança em Foco, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “Para espectadores remotos”, School of the Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009
– “Auringa”, Gallery Kiosko, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Group Exhibitions
2019
– “Memoria Seletiva”, Villa Aymoré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018
– “Trans”, Uj Art Gallery, Johanesburgo, South Africa
– “Memento Mori”, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johanesburgo, South Africa
– “What Knot not”, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johanesburgo, South Africa
– “De Sangue e ossos”, Galeria Matias Brotas, Vitória, Brazil
– “FILE”, CCBB, Belo Horizonte, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
– Frestas Trienal de Artes, Sesc Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Politics of dreams”, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France
– “FILE”, Centro Cultural Vale Maranhão and CCBB, São Luís and Brasília, Brazil
2016
– “Dublê de Corpo”, Galeria Carbono, São Paulo, Brazil
– XX Bienal Internacional de Artes Visuales De Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
– Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica, Galeria de Arte Sesi-SP, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Gabinete de Curiosidades”, Galeria Oriente, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– TRIO Biennial, Cultural Centre Bank of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “O tempo e os tempos”, Gallery Carbono, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– “Esboço para uma coreografia”, Gallery Central, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Efígies”, Ateliê da Imagem, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Paisagens Inventadas”, Eixo Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
– “Verbo 2013”, Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Tal 013 SUPERNOVAS”, Tal Tech Lab, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Retrato: Autorretrato”, MUV Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Blokini”, event Alalaô, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
– “Abre Alas”, gallery A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011
– “Corpo incógnito: água viva”, Gallery AmareloNegro Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010
– Show Labmis, Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo, Brazil
– Show Sesc of Arts 2010, São Paulo, Brazil
– Show Sesc Art 24 hours, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009
– “Territórios de Afetos”, Foundation Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
– Mostra Vídeocidades, Project Image Thought, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– Atelier 397, São Paulo, Brazil
– 60th Salon of April, Fortaleza, Brazil
2008
– 15o Salon of Bahia, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
– “Nova Arte Nova”, Cultural Centre Bank of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil
– “Beneath the bridge”, Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, New York, USA
– Carlos Garaicoa Open Studio 2.0 and ARCO, Madrid, Spain
– “Coletiva”, gallery A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2007
– “Mac Vazio”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Niteroi, Niteroi, Brazil
– Strip Film Festival, Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, France
– “Moves 07”, Manchester, England, UK
– Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2006
– “Lusovideografia”, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Jardim das Delícias”, Gallery do Lago, Museum of the Republic, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– 1st Biennial of Performance y Arte Acción Deformes, Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, Chile
2002-2008
– “Intérprete-criadora”, Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Awards and Grants
2018
– Bag Factory Residency, Joanesburgo, South Africa
2017
– Indicação ao Prêmio PIPA, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2016
– “Dublê de Corpo”, Galeria Carbono, São Paulo, Brazil
– XX Bienal Internacional de Artes Visuales De Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
– International Electronic Language Festival, Galeria de Arte Sesi-SP, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
– Acquisition Award EFG Bank and ArtNexus magazine, São Paulo Arte, Brazil
2013
– Considered for the I Program of Promotion of Carioca Culture in Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– PIPA Prize Nominee, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
– Grant for research and artistic creation from the Secretary of the State of Cultura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010
– Residency at Labmis, Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo, Brazil
– Grant for research at Núcleo de Arte e Tecnologia, School of the Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009
– International Residency at Centre Récollets, Paris, France
– International Residency at Gallery Kiosko, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2008
– II Videoarte Contest, prize from Foundation Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
– Grant from 47o Salon of Visual Arts of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
– Residency at SPA das Artes, Recife, Brasil
– Residency at CRAC, Valparaiso, Chile
2007
– “Duplicata”, project commissioned and subsided by Dança em Foco, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006
– “Passagem”, project commissioned and subsided by Rumos Itaú Cultural , São Paulo, Brazil
Collections
– Fundación Otazu, Navarra, Spain
Video produced by Matrioska Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2013:
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