Grupo EmpreZa

“Verborragia”, 2016, video, duration 19’35”

“Candango”, 2014, video, duration 7’32”, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“Sehão”, BSB, video, duration 20’01”

“Terra Comunal”, 2015, video, duraration 6’21”

“Impenetráveis” [“Impenetrables”], 2012, video, duration 16’44”, Cuiabá, Brazil

“ITAUÇU”, 2009, 2’35”, São Paulo, Brazil

“Arrastão na Paulista”, 2009, video, duration 9’22”, São Paulo, Brazil

“Como Chama”, 2009, video, 15’26, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

“Sehão”, 2005, video, duration 14’17”, Metz, France

“Sopa de Letrinhas”, 2005, video, duration 2’47”, Goiânia, Brazil

Grupo EmpreZa was formed in 2001 in the Goiania, Brazil. The Group believes in art as a vehicle for a political expression potentially transformative, that art transforms because art “moves”. Art has what the ancient Romans called movere, which is the ability to move people. If art moves, that is because it is a power and power transforms. In this case, the transforming movement occurs earlier, inside the mind, inside the spirit, as “commotion”. Art has the power to co-move, to make the spirits co-move (to move together). The movements of the spirit, of course, appears later, in the movements of the bodies. This is politic. By this, Grupo EmpreZa’s poetic research has its interests in the use of the body of the performer, as a political sign in its relations with the immanence and the externality; and in the relations of a body with other bodies, of a meat with other meats (people’s and thing’s).
* Empresa with an “S” means company in Portuguese.

Current members: Aishá Kanda, Babidu, Helô Sanvoy, Marcela Campos, Paul Setúbal, Paulo Veiga Jordão, Rava e Thiago Lemos.

Former members: Alexandre pereira, Bia Miranda, Christiane Frauzino, Fábio Tremonte, Fernando Peixoto, Keith Richard, Mariana Marcassa, Rafael Abdala e João Angelini.

Solo Exhibitions
2014
– “Eu como Você 2001-2014”, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2007
– “Eu Como Você 2001-2007”, Galeria Frei Confaloni, Goiânia, Brazil

Group Exhibitions
2018
– Um acervo em construção, exhibited works: “Como Chama”; “Ente”; “Vila Rica”, Centro Cultural UFG, Goiânia, Brazil; Museu de Artes Plásticas de Anápolis, Anápolis, Brazil
- Verbo SLZ – Mostra de filmes e vídeos, exhibited work: “Vila Rica (2009 – 2017)”, Verbo, São Luís, Brazil
– 12º Ateliê Aberto Pivô, exhibited works: “Leviatã” ; “Sua Vez”, Pivo Arte Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– “Experiência n.14 – Gestos, Intervalos, Reversos”, exhibited works: “Tapa-tapa” e “A Mesa”; PPGARTES/UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Contraponto – Coleção Sérgio Carvalho”, exhibited work: “Maleducação”, Museu Nacional, Brasília, Brazil
– “Corpo de batalha”, Jornada de Arte e Política, exhibited work: “Frango na Relva”, VIS/UNB, Brasília, Brazil
– “Serão performático, Grupo EmpreZa”, Casa da Cultura da América Latina, exhibited works: “Defumação”; “bombas”; “Castigo”; “apelação”; “Leviatã”; “Contrato” and “Cintada”, CAL/UNB, Brasília, Brazil
– “Jardins Art Night”, exhibited work: “Queima roupa”, Epicentro jardins, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Serão Pós-greve”, Movimento Fuga, Brasília, Brazil
– “OSSO”, Plea exhibition in order to garanty Rafael Bragas’s defence rights, exhibited works: “Sua Vez” e “O baile”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
– 13º mostra de performance arte verbo, exhibited works: “Defumação”, “Vila Rica” and “Contrato”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Mostra Performatus #2”, exhibited work: “Antropofagia”, SESC Santos, Santos, Brazil
– “SeHão; Defumação”, public intervention occurring simultaneously to “Performatus #2”, Santos, Brazil
2016
– “DAdASpring”, exhibited works: “Serão: Como Chama”; “É que esse tempo também é corpo” and “Réquiem da vaca”, Cabaret Voltaire, Goiânia, Brazil
– “Dark Mofo”, exhibited work: “Bodystorm”, Dark Mofo, Hobart, Tasmaania, Australia
– “A cor do Brasil”, exhibited work: “Vila Rica”, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– 5º Prêmio CNI SESI SENAI Marcantonio Vilaça, exhibited works: “Lapidado”, “Mariposas” and “Toda Obra Será Perdoada #2”, MAC USP, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Singularidades/Anotações: Rumos Artes Visuais 1998-2013”, exhibited works “Registro”, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Terra Comunal Marina Abramovic + MAI”, exhibited work: “Vesúvio”, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– “Singularidades/Anotações: Rumos Artes Visuais 1998-2013”, exhibited work: “Registro”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Do Valongo à Favela”, exhibited work: “Candango”, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “TATU Futebol Adversidades e Cultura da Caatinga”, exhibited work: “Não vai ter título!”, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
– “Performance Corpo Política”, “Trindade” performance, Rodoviária do Plano Piloto, Casa da Cultura da América Latina, Brasília, Brazil
– “Diálogos Desenho”, exhibited work: “Vitruviano”, Museu Universitário de Arte, Uberlândia, Brazil
– “INCORPORA, Encontros Virtuais em Performance”, exhibited wors: “Boeducação”, live streem performance
2012
– 31° Arte Pará, exhibited work: “Impenetrabilidade”, Museu Histórico do Estado do Pará, Fundação Rômulo Maiorana, Belém, Brazil
– Prêmio Jovem Arte Mato-grossense, exhibited work: “Impenetráveis”, Palácio da Instrução, Pavilhão das Artes, Cuiabá, Brazil
– 18° Salão Anapolino de Artes, exhibited work: “Sala de Vídeo”, Galeria Antônio Sibasolly, Anápolis, Brazil
– “Rito Resigno”, exhibited work: “Antropofagia”, Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Fortaleza, Brazil
– “Circuito Arte.mov”, exhibited work: “Sala de Vídeo”, Museu Zoroastro Artiaga, Goiânia, Brazil
– “ROÇAdeira: Encontros performáticos em lugares improváveis”, exhibited work: “Cravate”, Labiríntimos, Goiânia, Brazil
– “A Cidade é o Lugar”, exhibited work: “Arrastão – Goiânia”, MAC Goiás, Centro Cultural Oscar Niemeyer, Goiânia, Brazil
2011
– Festival Performance Arte Brasil, “Mar & Eros” performance, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Caos e Efeito: Contra-pensamento Selvagem”, exhibited works: “Antropofagia” and “Jóias”, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “1277 Minutos de Arte Efêmera”, exhibited works: “Apelação” and “Vila Rica”, Faculdade de Artes Dulcina de Moraes, Brasília, Brazil
– “Performance: Corpo, Política e Tecnologia”, exhibited work: “Candango”, Faculdade de Artes Dulcina de Moraes, Brasília, Brazil
2009
– “Rumos Artes Visuais Itaú Cultural / Trilhas do Desejo”, exhibited work: “Itauçu”, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Espaço/Tempo”, exhibited work: “Como Chama”, UNB, Brasília, Brazil
– “Segunda Manifestação Internacional de Performance (MIP 2)”, exhibited works: “Como Chama”, “Vila Rica”, “Sehão” and “Maleducação”, Espaço 104, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
– “Rumos Artes Visuais Itaú Cultural / Espaço em Relação – Fluidez e Simultaneidade, “serão Itauçu” performance, Museu de Arte Moderna de Salvador, Salvador, Brazil
– “#8.Art – 8º Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia”, exhibited works: “Seja Marginal, seja herói!” and “Velário”, Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil
– “Rumos Artes Visuais Itaú Cultural / Trilhas do Desejo”, exhibited work: “Itauçu”, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008
– “Fora do Eixo”, urban interventions, Brasília, Brazil
– “Retrocoletiva, mostra coletiva”, exhibited work: “Sangue Bom”, Galeria Frei Confaloni, Goiânia, Brazil
2007
– “Abre Alas”, exhibited works: “Sopa de Letrinhas”, “Sua Vez”, “Carma Ideológico”, “Antropofagia”, “Sementeiro” and “Sehão” (Metz), Galeria Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Verbo Festival de Performance”, exhibited work: “O+” performance, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, SP
2006
– “Elétrica Eclética”, exhibition of performatic registries, Complexo das Artes, UnB, Brasília, Brazil
– “Est-ce une bonne nouvelle, Le corps a l’œuvre – Quelques approches du corps dans la création contemporaine de ces dernières années”, organizated by Véronique Barani Association, exhibited works: Video regestry of “Sopa de letrinhas”, “Sua vez”, “Carma ideológico” and “Antropofagia”, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art Limoges, Aubusson, France
– “Circuito Distinto”, exhibited works: video art “Exercício de Paisagem – 7 de Julho – Paris”, Museu de Arte de Belém, Belém, Brazil
– “Verbo Festival de Performance”, exhibited work: “Como Chama” performance, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Fiat Mostra Brasil”, exhibited work: Vídeo installation “Salve, salve!”, Fundação Bienal, São Paulo, Bazil
– “Unimultiplicidade”, exhibited work: “Serão Performático Como Chama”, Galeria Frei Confaloni, Goiânia, Brazil
2005
– “Circuitos em Vídeo”, exhibited work: “Sua vez” performance, Ateliê de Criação Artística, Curitiba, Brazil
– 29º Panorama da Arte Brasileira, exhibited work: “Sua Vez” performance, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Complexo das Artes”, exhibited work: “Descarrego” performance, UnB, Brasília, Brazil
– “Mercado Cultural”, exhibited work: Performance and video art “Sementeiro”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
2003
– “Latinidades: Ciclo Manifestações”, exhibited work: video registry of performances, SESC Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Brazilian Screening: Video exhibition with over 30 art collectives in Brazil”, Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam, Netherlands
– “30 Días de Experiencia de Accion”, exhibited work: “Intervenções ideológicas através de arte-postal”, Faculdade de Belas Artes de La Habana, Havana, Cuba
2002
– “MAPA 2: II Mostra de Arte Performática”, exhibited works: “Com o Oriente” and “Roubaram o Apito do Juízo Final” performances, Goiás City, Brazil
2001
– “MAPA 1: I Mostra de Arte Performática”, exhibit works: Performances and public interventions, “Requiem da Vaca”, “Endemias Cotidianas” and “Carma Ideológico”, Goiás City, Brazil

Residencies
2019
– Fábrica Grupo EmpreZa, Fábrica de Arte Marcos Amaro, Itu, Brazil
2015
– “Marina Abramovic: Cleaning the House”, Terra Luminous, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– “Eu como Você”, Sala “Sua Vez”, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011
– “Manutenção do ERRO” project, performance, public intervention and video performance, ERRO Grupo QG, Florianópolis, Brazil
2008
– “Brazil at ARCO 08: Encuentros de colectivos Brasil-España”, QG do GiA, Matadero, Madrid, Spain
2005
– “Açúcar Invertido”, “Serão performático” project, Rés-do-chão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Açúcar Invertido 4”, Brazil’s year on France, “D’où venons-nous? Qui sommes- nous? Où allons-nous?”, Faux Mouvement, Metz and Galeria EOF, Paris, France
2004
– “As a Satellite: Açúcar Invertido”, Rés-do-chão, organaized by The Americas Society, “Cavalgada em Manhattan” [Cavalcade in Manhattan] project and public interventions, Andy Warhol’s Foundation, New York, US
2003
– “Rés-do-Chão”, performance, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Casa de Passagem”, “Tele-Performances” project and public intervention, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2002
– “Casa da Grazi”, “Serão Perfomático” project, Centro de contracultura de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Açúcar Invertido/Rés-do-chão”, “Serão Performático” project, FUNARTE/Rés- do-Chão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Multimidia
2010
– “VERBO 2010, 6º Edição da Mostra Anual de Performance Arte, Série Verbo, DVD e Portfolios”, published by Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
2007
– “Eu como você – 2001/2006”, Catalogue raisonné published by Livros Voodoo, Goiânia, Brazil

Prizes and Honorable Mentions
2015
– Prized Artist at the 5º Prêmio CNI SESI SENAI Marcantonio Vilaça, MAC USP, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
– Great Acquisition prize for “Impenetrabilidade”, 31° Arte Pará, Museu Histórico do Estado do Pará, Fundação Rômulo Maiorana, Belém, Brazil
– Great Acquisition prize for “Impenetráveis”, Prêmio Jovem Arte Mato-grossense, Cuiabá, Brazil
2010
– Honorable Mention by “Edadrebil” on the 5th Festival de Atibaia Internacional do Audiovisual/SINDCINE, Atibaia, Brazil
2009
– Best Director for “Pedra Mole, Água Dura” on the 3º Mostra Perro-Loco: Festival de Cinema Universitário Latinoamericano, Goiânia, Brazil
– Best Director of expermental video for “Pedra Como Passagem”, 9º Goiânia Mostra Curtas, Goiânia, Brazil
2006
– Great Acquisition prize for the video installation “Salve, Salve!”, Fiat Mostra Brasil and Fundação Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil