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; 4th
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.