Andrea Brandão, Rua de Santa Justa, 60, 5ºEsq, 1100-485 Lisboa_+351919100715 (LIS)[email protected] _
http://drea.klingt.org
Born in Portugal, 1976. Works and lives in Lisbon
Develops work in the field of drawing, performance, installation and art intervention. Her interest is the small, the
inconspicuous, and the private. Her work is applying a minimum shift to normality, which still provokes radical new
perspectives.
Education
> Advanced Course of Fine Arts at Ar.Co, Lisbon, 2007
> Complete studies plan in Fine Arts at Ar.Co (centro de arte e comunicação Visual), Lisbon, 2003 - 2007
> Attends dance classes with Sophia Neuparth at Centre in Movement (Cem), Lisbon 2003 - 2005.
> Drawing course at Fine Arts National society SNBA, Lisbon, 1999 - 2001.
> Graduate degree in Industrial Design at Architecture University of Lisbon (FA-UTL); training period with designer Marco S.
Santos at Protodesign studio, 1995 - 2000
Collective Exhibitions/ festivals
> Dance festival “Dança para quatro estações”, 5a mostra de dança contemporânea de Sintra, co-organização Re.al e
Chão de Oliva, Casa de Teatro de Sintra, 2009
> Reheat festival -180º im sommer, Kleylehof (Austria); Collective art exhibition Pôr-a-Par, Lisbon (PT) - 2008
> Reheat festival - Utopie und Sommer, Kleylehof (Austria); VTape,- collective video show, Hospital Julio de Matos - Espaço
Polivalente; Collective exhibition Iniciativa X, Arte Comtempo and Decrescente Fértil, Plataforma Revolver gallery , Lisbon
(PT) - 2007.
> Exhibition Jovens Criadores 2006, Montijo (PT); Ar.Co summer exhibition, 2006
> Super 8 Film Festival; Festival X, Lisbon - 2005
> Portuguese Video show; Video and Performance Festival “Novas Periferias”, Lisbon, 2004
Exhibitions
> “um outro mundo/ another world”, installation, at Kunstraum nr5, Vienna 2009 (support by Instituto camões)
other projects
> “feet and a half” (“palmo e meio”), performance, dance festival “quatro estações”, Sintra, 2009
> ”Sexyfood Project”, photography - Collective exhibition “Urban Art for the Intervention”, Lisbon, 2005
> ” Dictionary”, Super film 8, 4' - short story film TV program “Onda Curta” special emission, 2005
> ”The Man who wanted to smoke”, short story (published at nº2 V_Ludo magazine), 2001.
Professional experience/ artist in residency
> Project “do Chão e da luz” (working title) – Artist in residencie (AIR) at Binaural, Nodar, Portugal (5 a 26 Out.) and MoKS,
Mooste, Estónia (1 to 31 March), 2009
> Performer in “Um mergulho – pensamento, poesia e corpo em acção” (on going performance) by Vera Mantero at São
Luís Theater, Alkantara festival, Lisbon, 2007.
> Performer in "sexyMF", performance/ installation (for 12 performers) creation by Ana Borralho and João Galante, at Graça
Brandão Gallery, Lisbon, 2006
> Interpreter in “Trio Multiplicado" by Tiago Guedes, “Como eu e tu” program at Camões Theatre, Lisbon
> Project “Case Study #1” and “Case Study #2” (scope of the Alkantara Festival). Real time Composition investigation
Andrea Brandão, Rua de Santa Justa, 60, 5ºEsq, 1100-485 Lisboa_+351919100715 (LIS)[email protected] _
http://drea.klingt.org
workshop, directed by João Fiadeiro at atelier RE.AL, 2006
> Project “Imprime!” performance/ installation of Sofia Neuparth, presented in WAY (Where Are You) Festival under the
subject Home Sweet Home, at LUX discothèque, Lisbon, 2006
nominations
> Portuguese nomination for the Prize " Uniao Latina Jovem Criação no Domínio das Artes Plásticas", 2007.
Grants and support
> Internationalization support from Instituto Camões (to Austria and Estonia), 2008 and 2009.
> DanceWeb Europe scholarship recipient in the frame of Impulstanz Festival, Vienna, Austria with the support of Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007.
> Socrates/Erasmus scholarship recipient (International exchange student program) at Industrial Design course at Milan's
Polytechnic at Architecture University, Italy, 1999
training / workshops
> Workshop with Tetsuo Kogawa (build a micro fm transmitter) and Patrick McGinley (field-recordings) within RadialX, radio
festival, Lisbon; Workshop with Peter Michael Dietz (movement research), Madalena Vitorino (choreography/ composition)
and Nuno Bizarro (Feldenkrais tecnique), within Forum dança Summer training, Lisbon, 2008
> Workshop (sculpture) with artist Leonor Antunes; Workshop (sculpture) with artists Pedro Paiva e João Maria Gusmão,
2007
> Workshop (5 days) of Body-Mind Centering e contact improvisation with K.J. Holmes at Forum dança, Lisbon, 2006.
> Workshop (20 hours) “Body and Voice” with orientation of Lucia Lemos and Sophia Neuparth at Cem, Lisbon, 2005
> Workshop composition/dance (20 hours) of “Critical Zone: An introduction to the Method of Composition in Real Time”
directed by João Fiadeiro at Forum dança studio, Lisbon, 2005
> Attends the Drawing course at Ar.co, 2004 – 2005.
> Attends the Painting course at Arco, 2004 - 2002.
> Workshop (4 days) “Mobile Emotions and Internet Broadcasting, directed for Igor Stromayer, at Cem, 2004
> Workshop (4 days) of performance with Juan Casellas in the Center of artistic experiences (nextArt), 2004
> Video workshop (45 hours) with director Laurent Simões at the Center of Arts and Visual Communication (Ar.Co), Lisbon,
2003.
> Invited (trial period) at Fabrica - Benetton Research and Development Communication Center at the Industrial design
department, Italy, 2002
> Workshop (3 days) “Interrelationships” with graphical designer Peter Rea, at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy, 2002.
> Workshop (3 days) “the World of plastics” with sculptor Nuno Gonçalves Ferreira, in the Museum of Modern Art of Sintra,
2001.
> Workshop Technique of Contemporaneous Movement - choreographic Composition (10 days) directed by João Cerqueira
Junior, “5º International course of dance and Theater” - Cultural Center of Belém, Lisbon, 2001.
> Workshop Cunningham techniques - open level (10 days) directed by Margarida Bettencourt, “4º International course of
dance and Theater” - Cultural Center of Belém, Lisbon, 2002.
> Workshop with the designer Ian Grout, Milan, 1999.
> Part of Group Theater of the University of Architecture, Lisbon; Theater Workshop promoted by the Theater Group of the
University of Architecture, 1998 - 1999
> Collaboration work in radio program “Projector” music in cinema, at Radio station of University of Architecture, 1997 1998.
> Course of printing technique (Serigraphy) promoted by the Institute of the Youth of the city of Faro, 1991.
Andrea Brandão, Rua de Santa Justa, 60, 5ºEsq, 1100-485 Lisboa_+351919100715 (LIS)[email protected] _
http://drea.klingt.org
other professional experience
> Cultural animation” Hora do Conto”, Fnac auditorium – Cascais, Portugal, 2003.
> Teacher at Antonio Arroio artistic High school, Lisbon, 2001 - 2002.
> Production work of the exhibition Odyssey “Amadora 2002, 13º Comics International Festival”, Portugal.
> Collaboration for the event “Experimenta Design 2001” (International biennial at the ambit of the design culture).
> Collaboration in stage settings “Amadora 2000, 11º International Comics Festival”, Portugal.
> Collaboration (production) for the event “Portuguese Design 2000” at Milan International furniture salon; Executive
production of “Freeze-Frame (7 designers - 7 spaces) exhibition at CCB (Cultural Center), Lisbon
> Collaboration in stage settings/ cenography “Amadora 99, 10º International Comics Festival”, Portugal.
other knowledge
> Language: English written and spoken. Good comprehension of Spanish and Italian.
> Computer: PC and Mac. Internet; text ,image (photo) and graphic edition, video editing, tecnical drawing (Word,
Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, CorelDraw, QuarkXPress, AutoCAD)
> Driving license