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Amanda Gatti_2024

credit: Pedro Mendes, 2024

STATEMENT

As an artist, my practice explores the tension between body, space, and object, proposing artistic interventions that investigate the boundaries between the ephemeral and the enduring, the public and the private, and the real and the imagined. Through performance, installation, photography, and video, I seek to understand the body as a mediator in these relationships, questioning how we occupy, and are occupied by, the spaces around us. The body also acts as a tool for interacting with the environment, with spaces being treated as temporary landscapes in a constant state of change. Objects, often collected in urban contexts, serve as extensions of both body and architecture, revealing cycles of abandonment, reuse, and transformation. By incorporating discarded objects into my work, I explore what remains and what is lost in the transience of our interactions with the material world, inviting viewers to reassess their relationships with spaces and objects while engaging in a dialogue about the boundaries between them.

BIO

 

Amanda Gatti (1996, Brazil) is an artist and researcher working primarily with performance, photography, video, and installation. She holds a Master's degree in Performance and Visual Culture from Reina Sofía Museum/UCLM (Spain, 2023), and a Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Production from PUCRS's School of Communication, Arts, and Design (Brazil, 2018), with an exchange program in Art History at UJA (Spain, 2017).

 

Her work has been presented in exhibitions and festivals, in various cities across Brazil, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. Including: CentroCentro, Madrid (2024), Antonio Pérez Foundation, Cuenca (2023), Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid (2023), DT Scenic Area, Madrid (2023), Art Gene, Cumbria/UK (2022), Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana, Porto Alegre/Brazil (2022), Astro, Berlin (2022), Forum Social Mundial, Porto Alegre/Brazil (2016), among others.

Amanda has received funding and scholarships from institutions such as the Brazilian National Arts Foundation, the Secretary of Culture RS-Brazil, Santander Universities, the Iberescena Program, and SESC. In 2021, she was awarded Second Prize at the Mov.Cidade Festival.

In addition to her artistic production, Amanda extends her practice by facilitating actions and workshops that foster the creation of critical and experimental spaces through a collaborative approach. She also collaborates with her partner, Pedro Mendes i in their itinerant project PÁR, a platform for critical and experimental practices across cinema and contemporary art.

 

She currently lives and works in Madrid, where since 2024 she has curated and managed the film club "Cine-Ciudad," in addition to working as a coordinator-producer at MAYRIT BIENAL - an event that merge design, architecture, and contemporary art through a series of displays across the city of Madrid.

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AMANDA GATTI

Born in 1996 / Porto Alegre, Brazil

Brazilian-Italian

Based in Madrid/Spain

WebsiteInstagram

amandagattik@gmail.com

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

                                                                                                    

(2023) Museo Reina Sofía, UCLM (Spain)
Master in Performance & Visual Culture

(2019) PPGAC UFRGS (Brazil)

Visiting Student - MFA, Discourses and Practices of Artistic Creation

(2015 - 2018) School of Communication, Arts and Design, PUCRS/BR

Bachelor in Audiovisual Production

(2017) Scholarship Santander Universities, UJA (Spain)

Exchange Program in Art History

(2016 – 2017) Research Scholarship FAPERGS

Quantified cinema: data visualisation as a support for the analysis of audiovisual content
with Prof. Dr. Roberto Tietzmann

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(Since 2024) Founding member, PÁR

Itinerant project that creates platforms for critical and experimental practices in cinema and contemporary art

Currently in Madrid, Spain

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(2020 - 2023) Founding member, Collective Território de Rupturas

A remote investigation about the relationship between art and daily life

Brazil, Europe

 

(2014) Collaborating Artist

The performer's creation process: the search for organicity based on "contact improvisation"

Coordinated by Marcia Berselli, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

(2013) Collaborating Artist

Exploring a "Political Poetics" in Contemporary Public Space Performance

Coordinated by Evelise Mendes, UFRGS,Porto Alegre, Brazil

(2013) Member-researcher, Urban Intervention, Cia Stravaganza

Practical investigation in public spaces, Porto Alegre, Brazil

SITE-SPECIFIC EXHIBITION

2023     Inventario, Lavapiés (Madrid) supported by Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

PERFORMANCES

2025     La Plasti Ciudad Del Cuerpo, CRUCE, Madrid, Spain Soon!

2025     Nos.Otros Work, Teatro Pradillo, Madrid, Spain Soon!

2024     La Plasti Ciudad Del Cuerpo, Acción Spring(t) Congress UCM, Madrid, Spain

2023     Escaparate, DT Scenic Area, Madrid, Spain

2023     La Plasti Ciudad Del Cuerpo, Fundación Antonio Pérez, Cuenca, Spain

2023     Nos.Otros Work, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

2019      Carne Viva, Ocidente, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2019      Who's Next?, Ocidente, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016      Escape-Epacse, Casiere, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016      Eros Blue, Clube Silêncio, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2015      Radio-Activity, Acervo Independente, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2015      Radio-Activity, Clube Silêncio, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2015      Spring with me #2, Rua dos Andradas, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2013      Spring with me #1, Praça da Alfândega, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2013      Trash Island, II Gestão Urbana Sustentável, Palácio Farroupilha, Brazil

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS

2025     Semana Mágica, La Llave Colectica, CRUCE, Madrid, Spain Soon!

2024     La ciudad visible, la ciudad en juego (collab Monika Rikic), CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain

2023     Vanilla Underground REDUX (collab Pedro Mendes) Notodofilmfest, Madrid, Spain

2023     Estudios Abiertos, MPECV, Teatro Pradillo/Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

2022     R4ch4dur4 (Territorio de Rupturas), Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2022     Tourist in your own home (Territorio de Rupturas), Astro, Berlin, DE

2022     No More Hot Air (Territorio de Rupturas), Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, UK

2021      Yellow Cage (collab Pedro Mendes), #6 Mostra Sesc Cinema, Brazil

2021      Yellow Cage (collab Pedro Mendes), #14 Mostra Play The Movie, Pernambuco, Brazil

2021      Exit BR Platform (Territorio de Rupturas), Europe

2021      Video art festival, #6 Timeline:BH (Territorio de Rupturas), Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2021      Digital Notes (Territorio de Rupturas), Art Gene, England, UK

2021      Mov.Cidade Festival (Territorio de Rupturas), Espírito Santo, Brazil

2021      #3 Imaginários Urbanos Festival (Territorio de Rupturas), Fortaleza, Brazil

2021      Arte Postal Digital (Territorio de Rupturas), University of Pelotas, Brazil

2021      TRELA (Territorio de Rupturas), University of Pelotas, Brazil

2021      2055 (Territorio de Rupturas), UFBA, Bahia, Brazil

2020     Musicircus (Territorio de Rupturas), Kino Beat Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2020     SPMAV - Visual arts research seminar (Territorio de Rupturas), UFPel, Brazil

2018      #5 International Contemporary Art Fair, Museo Provincial Jaén, Spain

2017       Prémio Facultad Exhibition, Universidad de Jaén, Spain

2016      Escape, Casiere, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016      Esquizo Estudo (collab Mariah Philippe), #3 Lumiar Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2014      Bueiros, Núcleo Urbanóide, Porto Alegre, Brazil

SELECTED COLLABORATIONS — PERFORMANCE, FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY

2022     My body is not your country (collab Marta Bonito), Camden People's Theatre, London, UK

2022     Body Polyphonies (Manuela Albrecht), Trinity Laban Dance Faculty, London, UK

2021      Vanilla Underground, experimental short film (Pedro Mendes), United Kingdom

2020     Amarelo Cárcere (EN: Yellow Cage), experimental short film (Pedro Mendes), Brazil

2018      Andorra (Nina DeLudemann), Goethe-Institut, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016      Undressing the Prejudice (Falos&Stercus), Forum Social Mundial, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016      Persona, photo performance (collab Gustavo Razzera), Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016      Flowers, short film (Vado Vergara), Pocilga Filmes, Brazil

2015      Esquizo Estudo, short film (collab Mariah Philippe), Brazil

2015      Os quintais de Porto Alegre, Funarte Artes na Rua, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2015      The Building (Gabriela Boccardi), Sala Alziro Azevedo, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2014      A Inauguração (Evelise Mendes), Festival de Teatro de Rua de Porto Alegre, Brazil
2014      Cegos (Desvio Coletivo), Palco Giratório SESC, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2013      A Inauguração (Evelise Mendes), UFRGS/Largo Glênio Peres, Brazil
2013      Ilha dos Amores (Falos&Stercus), Poa Em Cena Festival
, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2013      Padox dans la citè (Compagnie Dominique Houdart), Festival de Teatro de Rua POA, Brazil

2013      Pingos e Pigmentos (Rita Aquino), Palco Giratório SESC, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2013      Circuito Intervenção Urbana (Cia Stravaganza), Palco Giratório SESC, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2012      Invisible Cities (Daniel Colin), Teatro Tulio Piva, Porto Alegre, Brazil

RESIDENCIES


2023     Azala Kreazio Espazioa, Lasierra, Spain

2018      Odin Teatret, Brasília, Brazil

2018      Imitating The Dog (Performance and Technology), CCMQ, Brazil

2013      Falos & Stercus, Porto Alegre, Brazil

AWARDS / GRANTS

2021      2nd Prize, Mov.Cidade Festival, Espírito Santo, Brazil

2021      Iberescena Program 2020/2021, Brazil-Portugal

2021      Grant, Secretary of Culture of the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

2020     Grant, FAC Digital RS/Aldir Blanc Law,  Brazil

2017      Prémio Facultad Fotografía, Universidad de Jaén, Spain

2017      Santander Universities Scholarship, Spain

2016      FAPERGS Research Scholarship, Brasil

PUBLICATION

Article "Deriva Transversal - Where cities meet"

Book "Imaginários Urbanos: desobediências poéticas"

ISBN: 978.65.5556.194.4

Edition: 2021 / Fortaleza, Brazil​

WEB ARCHIVE

ARTEA Archive / Artists, Spain

CURATION / JURY / PRODUCTION / MEDIATION

2024     Coordinator/Producer, MAYRIT BIENAL, Madrid, Spain

2024     Founder/Curator, Cine-Ciudad film club, Madrid, Spain

2023     Mediator, Escarbar a Oscuras, BBAA UCLM, Cuenca, Spain

2021      Manager/Mediator, Borders Territory of Investigation (Virtual), SEDAC RS/BR

2019      Jury, Açorianos de Dança Awards category "New media", Porto Alegre, Brazil

2019      Producer, #21 National Congress of Architecture, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2019      Production Assistant, #6 Kino Beat Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2018      Production Assistant, #5 Kino Beat Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2017      Production Assistant, #4 Kino Beat Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016      Curator/Mediator, All women in cinema Festival, Casa Peirô, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016      Curator, Audiovisual em Curso, Cine Esquema Novo Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil​

2016      Management, III Encontro TECCINE, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2015      Producer/Mediator, MOUC Festival, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2015      Management, II Encontro TECCINE, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

FACILITATION

 

2023     Guest facilitator, Clube de Zanzantes, PPGAC UFRGS, Brazil/Spain

2022     Guest facilitator, Arqueologias Afetivas, Póvoa de Santa Iria, Portugal

2021      Facilitator, Becoming Action: Body & Memory #virtual, São Paulo, Brazil

2021      Facilitator, Becoming Action: Body & Memory #virtual, Rodamoinho, Farroupilha, Brazil

2019      Facilitator, Povera Collage & Animation, Centro Cultural UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2017      Facilitator, Tree of Life Movements, National Philosophy Marathon, PUCRS, Brazil

2016      Facilitator, Povera Collage & Animation, Casa Peirô, Porto Alegre, Brazil​​

TALKS / ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS / INTERVIEW

2024     Acción Spring(t) Congress, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

2023     Escarbar a oscuras, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, Spain

2020     O artista-produtor masterclass, Companhia de Solos, virtual, Brazil

2017       Speak Out! International experiences, PUCRS, Brazil

2017       #185 PUCRS Magazine, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016       Born in Flames / Pipoca de Bolso, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016       17th Scientific Initiation Salon (SIC), PUCRS, Brazil

LANGUAGES

Portuguese*, Spanish, Italian, English

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