I´m a researcher, artist, writer, mentor, lecturer and artistic tutor, editor and cultural worker, based in Brazil and Sweden. My work is a narrative, an attempt to reach the ritual, what remains of an engagement, a certain sensitivity that can go unseen. My language meshes architecture, visual arts and crafts, with a poetic, literary, philosophical, autoethnographic and decolonial grounds. My practice is embedded in the historic Luso-Brazilian Sobrado house, southern Brazil, confronting and engaging its colonial heritage via notions of atmosphere, ownership, private and public, vernacular and contemporary, emancipation and meaningfulness. Generating intimate convivialities and an affective practice within and beyond the house, in different spheres and systems of knowledge, I am concurrently active in other positions, constellations and environments, during 2021/2022 some being: PhD candidate HGK FHNW; tutor Decolonizing Architecture, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; lecturer Research Lab, Konstfack, Stockholm; curator/coordinator Autumn Open Studios, Spring Open Studios, co-editor Urgent Pedagogies, IASPIS, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international programme for Visual and Applied Artists; speaker Symposium Archival Interactions: Performing Intersectional Counter-Archives, Research Center for Material Culture and Maastricht University, Netherlands; speaker Home in a monument seminar, Estonian Academy of Arts; co-editor and contributor Architectural Dissonances, L´Internationale Online; and speaker Heritage and Decoloniality, Université de Genève – Geneva School of Social Sciences with University of Exeter.

BRA 1981. ITA 1991. ENG 1992-1995. BRA 1995-2001. USA 2001-2002. BRA 2002-2007.

Based in Sweden since 2008 / roberta@oprojeto.com / +46 – 70 887 7684

 

Education / Research

2022- HGK FHNW – MAKE/Sense; Basel/CH, Linz/AT

PhD candidate

2019-2020, KKH – The Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm

Independent researcher, Artistic research Decolonizing Architecture.

2018-2019, KKH – The Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm

Post-master Decolonizing Architecture. 60 ECTS – credits.

2017-2018, Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design; Stockholm

Post-graduate course Sites and Situations: Socially-engaged design and architecture. 30 - ECTS credits.

2008-2010, Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design; Stockholm

M.F.A. Craft. 180 ECTS – credits. 2010 Body of work: ”I am never what I have”; 2010 Dissertation: “Narratives on corporality, a small, personal collection”

2003-2007, UDESC – Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina; Brazil

B.A. Visual Arts. 288 ECTS – credits. Critical theory, art history, art philosophy, curatorial practices, creative processes. Dissertation: “Crossed notes: travel writings and meetings with contemporary art”.

2001-2002, UCLA - University of California Los Angeles, USA

Architecture and Interior Design Extension Program. 60 ECTS – credits.

Pedagogical / Curatorial / Coordination / Institutional

ongoing

KKH – The Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm

Tutor artistic research development, Decolonizing Architecture Post-Master course. 2020-ongoing.

Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design; Stockholm

Lecturer, Tutor artistic research development, Research Lab. 2021-ongoing.  

2021, IASPIS, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Artists; Stockholm

Project coordinator/curator, January-December. Outstanding projects: °Spring Open Studios 2021; °Autumn Open Studios 2021; °Request & Response: conviviality and reflexiveness - Collective thinking process and discursive program with/for residency fellows;

Co-editor, Urgent Pedagogies

2020, KKH – The Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm

Lecturer Decolonizing Architecture Post-Master course. September – October.

2018-2019, IASPIS, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Artists; Stockholm. Project coordinator, Applied arts. Outstanding projects:
°Urgent Pedagogies – Learning and Unlearning through Spaces of Exception; 4^th Design Biennial Istanbul ”A School of Schools”; °Pedagogical Turns in Practice – IASPIS with Decolonizing Architecture, KKH; °Collectively – a forum on the art of thinking, working and living together. Developed by Council, coordinated and commissioned by Iaspis, curated by Grégory Castéra with Raimundas Malašauskas, Claire Tancons and Kathryn Weir.

2018, Slöjd Stockholm Residens program, Stockholm´s County Museum. Project co-worker, Sep-Dec 2018

 

Conferences / Lectures / Workshops / Collaborations

2022, Linnaeus University; Sweden 

Speaker, Groundings Conference. December. 

2022, Research Center for Material Culture and Maastricht University; Netherlands

Speaker, Symposium Archival Interactions: Performing Intersectional Counter-Archives. June.

Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture

Guest lecturer, Home in the heritage site. Students, Tallinn Old Town and Estonian manor house owners

2021, Mobil Ung Salong (MUS) 2021, Uppsala Konstnärsklubben

Artist mentor to Sahar Al-Khateeb. August-November.

Université de Genève – Geneva School of Social Sciences with University of Exeter

Speaker, workshop Heritage and Decoloniality: The Geneva Exchanges. October.

GenEx Fund 2020-2021 Geneva/Exeter Collaborative Research Seed Grants.

2020, Swedish Arts Grants Committee International program for Visual and Applied Artists

Conversation partner to resident architect Joao Felipe Wallig. Open Studios September 2020. 

ICOMOS – Our Common Dignity Working Group; Estonia / online

Participant, Training course “Heritage Communities and Human Rights”: community-based heritage protection and the theory and application of human rights-based approaches in the heritage field.

KKH – The Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm

Workshop, engaging with first-year students at Decolonizing Architecture: A text collage - sharing from own cosmologies, ecologies, origins, processes: building common grounds, in conversation.

ACHS 2020 Futures; University College London (virtual)

Speaker, 5th Biennial / Stand-alone paper. Session Arts and Creative Practice.

2019, CAHE, Newcastle University; Great Britain.

Speaker, Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience. Session Contested Histories.

Stig Hedberg stipendium. Convivialities beyond site II, dialogue with Erik Langdalen (AHO - Oslo School of Architecture and Design); Budsjord, Norway.

KKH – The Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm. What does it mean to decolonize? Convivialities beyond site I, Discursive exhibition with Marcia de Sá Cavalcante Schuback, within public seminar “Decolonial Thinking and Decolonial Option” with Walter Mignolo, Madina Tlostanova and Stefan Jonsson.

KKH – The Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm. Lecture. Research week, theme: Unauthorized heritage.

2018, Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design; Stockholm

Guest senior lecturer, Research Lab: Craft and the Historic House.

Gallery Platina; Stockholm. Talk Origin, originality, feathers, colonial history, and who´s the Master, a conversation over necklaces, rainforests, artistic quality and the colonial legacy, with AJF ambassador MM Korolkovas och Projeto Nortear, Goeldi Museum, Scientific Station Ferreira Penna, Brazil.

Gallery Platina; Stockholm. Mediator. On Artistic quality: Beppe Kessler and Célio Braga.

2016, Museu Victor Meirelles and UNIESP; Brazil. Lecture. Art Jewelry and Corpus: what is that?

Svensk Form; Stockholm. Presentation. Between Sweden and Brazil: Art in Craft.

2014, SC Design Association; Brazil. Collaboration. Between Brazil and Sweden, a chair.

2012, Fria Teatern; Stockholm. Assistant scenographer to Anna Höglund, Bakom Dörren Mittemot.

2011, Stipendium Vadstena Akademien; Vadstena, Sweden

2008, Estrid Ericsson stipendium. Creole Jewellery from Bahia. Site Research

2007, Kunstmuseum Solothurn; Galeri SO, Felix Flury; Reto Emch; Switzerland

On-site Research: The artist studio, the gallery, the museum and the art school and how these environments influence the work made and exhibited.

2005, Museu Victor Meirelles; Brazil. Internship.

2001-2002, GCI Getty Conservation Institute, The Getty Center; Los Angeles, USA. Accompanying guest-scholar. Outstanding experience: San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona: American Latino Heritage and Heritage Values: Acoma Sky City, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico with Cornerstones Community Partnerships.

MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, USA. Collaborator in Mieke Bal´s Art Clips.

 

Publications

2022, Rejmyre Art Lab: project Tillflykt i Rejmyre. Commission, crafted text: “Practicing refuging in Rejmyre: my rehearsal, Or A transparent negative, positive space”.

2021, L´Internationale Online

Co-editor and contributor, ”Architectural Dissonances. Collaboration Oct 2020-Dec 2021. Release Dec 2021.

Artist-book Maria Johansson: Objects About. Commission. Text “On the topic of Ego Boundaries, the perfect object, and object one hundred thirty-eight: expansive, referred to as unreasoning”.

LOD metallformgivning, 20-year book; Stockholm. Commission, Text ”Skåpmat, hungry for soul”.

2019, Gallery Platina; Stockholm.

Commission. Exhibition text: The Years. The Tears. The Rainbow. The Endless Sea.

2018, Konstfack publishing. Collaborator and co-editor, A-Z Book socially-engaged design and architecture.

2017, Resurgence and Ecologist. Published article. ”Net gains”. Craft, art, environment. Issue May/June.

2016, Vävmagasinet. Published article. “Fishing Nets, Recycling from the Ocean”. Craft, art, environment. Issue December/January. Sweden. Global.

 

Exhibitions

2005-2018

KORU6, Imatra Art Museum; Finland / A Casa – Museu do Objeto Brasileiro; Brazil / Argentum; Vilnius, Lithuania / Pinakothek der Moderne; Munich, Germany/ HWK; Munich, Germany/ Gallery Naïve; Stockholm/ Konstfack, Stockholm/ Schmuck; Munich, Germany/ Studio 44; Stockholm/ Palacio Cruz e Souza; Brazil/ Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina; Brazil/ Museu Victor Meirelles; Brazil.