Artist Statement
I work as a performer and multimedia artist researching materiality, within its ecological reverberances in the Anthropocene. I am interested in the friction between past and present. While focusing on topics of hybridity in late stage capitalism, to trace connections between biopolitical control and industrial dynamics.
The construction of my work beggins with a practice of arquiving urban materials. Which are second hand fragments - that were industrially produced - such as; textiles, metal and plastic. Sourcing them from comercial spaces like recycling centers, often, flea markets or organically collecting from people in my community and interrupted areas around the city.
My background as an industrial designer influences my approach with material. Every surface that comes into the work triggers questioning. And, each question takes form as a line in my research web. Knotting, through tensioned layers (in which circumstances was this element built? what were the machines involved? how will it be absorbed by the soil?).
Influenced by Haraway's writings on cyborgism and Latour’s contextualization of climate crisis emergence. I reflect on (natural/synthetic) surfaces as repositories of living memory, and delve into their prosthetic quality as extensions of the human body. In performances, I combine soft sculpture and fluid costume with embodied movement as tools to blurr these boundaries.
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Luiza Furtado,
*1999, Florianópolis, Brazil. Lives and works in Vienna
(+43) 676 6212978 / luizafurtado.art@gmail.com / www.luizafurtado.com / instagram / vimeo
Education
(2021 - 2027)
Spatial Strategies Class, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Diploma).
(2016 - 2021)
Industrial Design, PUC, Rio de Janeiro (Bachelor).
Exhibitions
(2026)
"Ephemeral forms of presence" Kunstverein Baden, Baden.
"In the fold of the sack" Exhibit Studio, Vienna.
"Group chat" Vinzenz, Vienna.
(2025)
"Dating Aliens" Les Nouveaux Riches room at Parallel, Vienna.
"What if..." Exhibit Studio, Vienna.
“Grüne Wasche Wien” Kunsthaus Hundertwasser Museum, Vienna.
“Santa Maria Paraffina - myth, trope, glitch” VBKÖ, Vienna.
(2024)
“In the still of the Night” Exhibit Studio, Vienna.
"Wild am Brillantengrund" Hotel am Brillantengrund, Vienna.
“Fragility of Being” Das Weisse Haus, Vienna.
“Soundscapes of Intersectional Encounters” Exhibit Gallery, Vienna.
(2023)
“Colligated Arteries” House of Inciting Passion - Vienna Art Week, Vienna.
“Miradores de la Viuda: Viscosities of Mourning” MARKK, Hamburg.
“Weaving Spinal Voids” Parallel, Vienna.
“Santa Maria Parafina” MOM Art Space, Hamburg.
“Patchwork” Young Curators Club, Vienna.
“Sextilles” Garage Grande, Vienna.
“Darkness Project” Prater woods, Vienna.
“Water Lilly Growing” Wasserturm, Vienna.
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” AAA Collections Gallery, Vienna.
“Fragments as Casts for a Dystopic City” BCMA Gallery, Berlin.
(2022)
“What are you looking at” Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna.
“Contextual painting class” Parallel, Vienna.
“Hyper R” Never at Home, Vienna.
“April fools show” Vienna.
(2021)
“Como não subir uma escada” Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro.
“Crosta” colaboration with Rio Lima at Charim Factory - Vienna Art Week, Vienna.
“Casulo - video of the month” Das Weisse Haus, Vienna.
“Outside in Festival” The Coronet Theatre, London.
“Inside out program” The Coronet Theatre, London.
Performances
(2025)
“Surge” INDEX Festival, VBKÖ, Vienna.
“Schulerinas” INDEX Festival, Im Flieger, Vienna.
“Hibris 01” Das Weisse Haus, Vienna.
(2024)
“Tymball Caves” Exhibit Gallery, Vienna.
“Hybrid Viscera” Schillerpark, Vienna.
“Nothing is something like everything” by Michikazu Matsune. Impulstanz, Vienna.
(2023)
“Entering the Web” Parallel, Vienna.
“Miradores de la Viuda: Viscosities of Mourning” MARKK, Hamburg.
“The sea room” Gemalde Galerie, Vienna.
(2022)
“Homesick Festival” by Michikazu Matsune, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna.
“Sede Ossea” House of Losing Control - Vienna Art Week, Vienna.
“Agulha e Memoria” Alfred Institute, Tel Aviv.
“The School of Mountains and Water” by Amanda Pina, Tanz Quartier Wien, Vienna.
“Archeology of Whispers” U.B Akbild, Vienna.
“Coluna” SKINS Festival, Dschungel Theatre, Vienna.
Grants and Residencies
(2025)
Schüle - through slippery times, Residency, Im Flieger, Vienna.
Förderung Stipendium, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
(2023)
Platznehmen II - Art in public space, Grant, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
(2022)
Finalist ExtraVALUE Art Award, Das Weisse Haus/ Erste Bank, Vienna.
(2021)
How to operate in chaos, Casa da escada colorida, Residency, Rio de Janeiro.
Studio view, 2025. Les Nouveaux Riches @Daniel Lichterwaldt