BIO
Transdisciplinary researcher and multimedia artist, Andressa Cantergiani lives between Berlin Porto Alegre. She holds a PhD in Visual Poetics from PPGAV-UFRGS [BR], a Master's in and Semiotics from PUC/SP [BR], and a BA in Performing Arts from DADFRGS [BR]. She participated the Touring Performing Arts program at the UDK - Berlin of the Arts [DE] and completed a Sandwich Doctorate at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Hochschule Hannover [DE]. Andressa is member of Insurgencias.net in Berlin [DE] and was a researcher for Weltoffenes Berlin in 2022. She has held residencies, projects, and exhibitions in various spaces worldwide, including the Brücke Museum Berlin [DE], NGBK/Berlin [DE], Iberê Camargo Foundation [BR], MAC/RS [BR], and Bispo do Rosário in RJ [BR]. Her works are part of private collections and public at MARGS-RS, MAC-RS, and AMARP-RS. She was awarded the NALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) - Adventures Grant 2022 [DE] and nominated for the Pipa Prize 2023.

“Initially trained in theater, Andressa Cantergiani (Caxias do Sul, 1980) makes the body the driving force behind her work, as a theme, a social site, and the materialization of her poetics. Beginning with performance and moving through a variety of media and proposals, she has dedicated herself to new languages made possible by the use of technology. Her recent work can be understood through the lens of time-based art, or artistic production based on time. In other words, works of art that depend on time, duration or presentation. This includes video, film, and audio works that have a duration; installation works that need to be experienced in space over time; and works that function only during the time they are displayed, such as web art and other productions based on computers and/or mediated by technological devices”
Bruna Fetter, Curator of current solo show MAC/RS
" Tearing apart the social fabric is never out of context. The issue is personal, yes, loneliness when placed publicly can be understood as a consequence of the structure. She has the courage to expose her features to welcome and be welcomed. There is a poetry in her work that only a few intelligences can promote. "
Keyna Eleison
CV
PhD in Visual Arts PPGAV
UFRGS | Rio Grande do Sul | 2020
Sandwich Doctorate Hoschschule Hannover
University of Applied Science and Arts Hannover | Germany | 2019
Performance Art Summer School UDK
Berlin University of the Arts | Germany | 2017
Extension in Public Administration of Culture
UFRGS | 2015
Curatorship, Art and Education Laboratory
PUCRS |2014
Master's Degree in Communication and Semiotics
PUC-SP | 2008
Bachelor's Degree in Performing Arts DAD
UFRGS | Rio Grande do Sul | 2004
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