Lia Krucken researches migration movements and artists in displacement, with special focus on contemporary Afrobrazilian diaspora. She explores interdisciplinary approaches and dialogues between photography, drawing, painting and literature.
She has been joining ateliers and exhibitions since 1988, in Brazil, Italy and Germany. In the last decade she has been curating collective exhibitions and running workshops.
Lia Krucken joins Intervalo fórum de arte (Salvador), Insurgencias that is a collective of Latin American cultural activists (Berlin); and ECA (Coimbra, Berlin and Salvador).
Exhibitions and curatorial projects
2020-2021
Fri(c)ções: experimentos em fronteiras / Fricctions: experiments in frontiers
Curator of artistic residence (Ines Linke e Lia Krucken) at Intervalo Forum de Arte/UFBA/Goethe Institute, Brazil. Participants: Augusto Leal (Simões Filho/BA), Dayane Ribeiro (Santo Amaro/BA), Duo Furtacor (Vitória/ES, São Paulo/SP), Ella Franz Rafa (Rio de Janeiro/RJ), JeisiEkê de Lundu (Salvador/BA), Marlon de Paula (Belo Horizonte/MG), Pad Mateo (Jequié/BA), Potira (João Pessoa/PB), Zahra Alencar (São Paulo, SP) – https://forumdearteintervalo.wordpress.com/2021/08/04/residencia-artistica-_-online/
Insurgências/ Insurgences
international dialogues, Intervalo Fórum de Arte and Insurgencias network, with support of Culture Mobility Program, Berlim – https://insurgencias.net/home/2021_/
Verbetes Moventes
Curator of a collective book and its artistic process. Published by Duna Atelier / Laboratório Tiragem – Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2021. http://www.tiragem.ufba.br/verbetes/
Arte & política / Art & Politics
Curator of a talk series with Paulo Nazareth, Clarissa Diniz, Diane Lima, Cristina, Rubens Mano, Paulo Nazareth, Raphael Fonseca, Laís Machado, Diego Arauja, Iago Barreto e Maurício Lima. With Ines Linke at Intervalo Fórum de Arte, Goethe Institute Salvador, 2020 – 2021 https://forumdearteintervalo.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/arte-e-politica-com-paulo-nazareth
Densidade / Density
curator and artist in a visual arts and dance workshop, with Morena Nascimento, 2021
Do que é feito o encontro? / From what a meeting is made?
collective processes and exhibition at Duna atelier (Prêmio das Artes Jorge Portugal, Salvador, Bahia), 2020-2021
Fri(c)ções: cartografias em tempos de crise / Fricctions: cartographies in times of crises
Curator of artistic residence (Ines Linke e Lia Krucken) at Intervalo Forum de Arte/UFBA/Goethe Institute, Brazil. Participants: Edson Macallini (SC), Henrique Reis (BA), Julia Milward (DF), Lanussi Pasquali (BA), Lara Perl(BA), Laryssa Machada (BA), Morani Ààrô (RJ), Rafael Ramos (BA), Sarah Hallelujah (RS), Victor Mota (BA), 2020 – https://friccoesecartografias.wordpress.com
2019
Objetos com raízes (Objects with roots)
Nykaringana – histórias em trânsito (Histories in transit). Casa do Benin e Museu Afrobrasileiro, Salvador, Bahia
Meu tio Jaguar
installation at Atelier Aberto, College of Arts, Portugal, with André Feitosa
We, for example
installation invited by O mundo em trânsito (12.04 – 14.06), Motel Coimbra #4, exhibition at College of Arts Gallery, Portugal
Ritual for opening pathways
collaborative installation selected and funded by the 21thCultural Week of Coimbra University (06.04 – 14.06), Portugal, with André Feitosa
Diary of objects
invited by CAPC (Coimbra Plastic Arts Circle), as part of the 1,000,056º Art Birthday celebrations, Portugal, with André Feitosa
One piece of time
installation at exhibition The unknown artist, 1stedition, Aqui Base Tango, Portugal
2018
Joya: AiR (Artist in Residence) – Andalusia, Spain
On things that you can read with the body / Das coisas que você pode ler com o corpo
Project Insurgências, exhibition at Agora Center for Contemporary Practices – Berlin, Germany
Creative territories
project selected for exhibition at Brazilian House Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
“Alguém que queira ressuscitar por mim?”
exhibition at XX Cerveira International Biennial of Arts – Vila Nova Cerveira, Portugal
He and she / Ele e ela
video
exhibition at Motel Coimbra – XX Cerveira International Biennial of Arts – Vila Nova Cerveira, Portugal
The tree diary / Diário de árvore
Text and photo
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, with André Feitosa
Travel dialogues
The world as a warehouse – exhibition at Cultural Center of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Esfinge – Study of silence and space
Ocupação Cá Entre Nós, exhibition at OÁ Gallery, Vitória, Brazil, with André Feitosa
2017
From places to images
exhibition at Cas’a’screver, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2015
Territorialities – Residence as a guest artist at Cittadellarte, Pistoletto, Creative Europe Program, Italy
2014
Fellowship for research cooperation from DAAD – Germany
Reading the city center
exhibition funded by Cultural Center of Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Immaterial geography
exhibition funded by Cultural Center of Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Estético Convívio
exhibition at Cas’a’screver, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013
Genius Loci
exhibition funded by Cultural Center of Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Literary residence at Cas’a’screver, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2012
The spirit of the place: identity and traditions – workshop and temporary exhibition with M.A. students from the Art Academy of Palermo, Italy
2011
Artistic residence – engraving technics at Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano, Italy
2008
Livro do artista (a collective object), with Suzan Hirata, exhibition at Brazilian Consulate, Milan, Italy
Artistic residence with Carlos Fajardo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2007
Round table at La Biennale di Venezia, 52 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – Tribute to Joseph Beuys, Italy
2006
Exhibition at Espaço Oficinas – Centro de Cultura Integrada, Florianópolis, Brazil
Artistic residence – Japanese drawing with Susan Hirata, Florianópolis, Brazil
Atelier with Jayro Schmidt, Centro de Cultura Integrada, Florianópolis, Brazil
1990-1994
Atelier with Geny Marcondes, Núcleo Experimental de Arte, Taubaté, Brazil
Awards, grants and fellowships
- Guest-artist funded by Senate Department of Berlin, Department of Culture / Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, with Agora Center for Contemporary Practices, Germany, 2018
- Residence as guest-artist funded by Creative Europe Program of the European Union, Italy, 2015
- Fellowship for research cooperation from DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Germany, 2014
- Post-doctoral fellowship supported by Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology/CNPq, Italy, 2010-2011
- Doctoral fellowship supported by Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology/CNPq, Italy, 2003-2005
- Doctoral studies – AlBan –Scholarship for higher education for Latin America, European Union, 2003 (not used)
- Grants for research projects supported by Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology and Brazilian Ministry of Culture
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