Nominated by
Ângela Ferreira
After Lygia Clark, Galería Elba Benitez, Frieze New York 2016, New York, USA, 2016. Exhibition views: Kaz Senju. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
Paisagem Não-paisagem, project for Summer Guests at Calouste Gulbenkian Garden, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016. Photographs: Carlos Azevedo. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
R9F6PBRANCO is a collaboration between artist Fernanda Fragateiro and architect Rui Mendes Exhibition at White Pavillion, City Museum, Lisbon, 2013. Exhibition views by Bruno Lopes. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
Stones Against Diamonds solo exhibition at NC-arte, Bogotá, Colombia, 2014. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
Pensar é Destruir / Thinking is Destroying, 2012. 3200 Terracotta mosaic "Bejmate, Blanc Nacré". Artisanal production, Meknés, Morocco Variable dimensions. Photographs: Miguel Ângelo Guerreiro. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
Between the lines, collective exhibition at Museum of the Communications, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007. Curator: Isabel Carlos. Photographs: Pedro Ferreira. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
Between the lines, collective exhibition at Museum of the Communications, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007. Curator: Isabel Carlos. Photographs: Pedro Ferreira. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
Unknown content, solo exhibition at Baginski Galeria / Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009. Photographs: Miguel Ângelo Guerreiro. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
Invisibilidade, solo exhibition at Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil, 2009. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
Unbuilt, 2010, After conjunto habitacional em Scalaheen, Tipperary, Irland, 2005, Atelier Soma Plywood. 1380 x 75 x 33 cm. Collection Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain. Photographs: Miguel Ângelo Guerreiro. © Fernanda Fragateiro, 2016
Fernanda Fragateiro
(Montijo, 1962) Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
Fragateiro's projects are characterized by a keen interest in re-thinking and probing modernist practices. Her practice involves an archaeology into modernism's social, political and aesthetic history through ongoing research with archival matter, materials and objects.
Operating in the three-dimensional field and defying the tension between sculpture and architecture, Fragateiro's works potentiate the relationships with each place, summing the spectator into a performative situation. Her sculptural and architectural interventions in unexpected spaces (a monastery, an orphanage, a dilapidated houses) and subtle alterations of existing landscapes reveal buried stories of construction and transformation. Some of her projects are the result of a collaboration with architects, landscape architects and performers.
Fragateiro's work has been exhibited at Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs, USA, 2016-2017), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal, 2016), Caixa Forum (Barcelona, Spain, 2016), Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando, USA, 2015), Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Paris, France, 2015), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA, 2015), Krannert Art Museum (Champaign,USA, 2015), CIFO Art Space (Miami, USA, 2014), Bronx Museum (New York, USA, 2014), Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastián, Spain, 2014), Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, 2014), Centre Calouste Gulbenkian (Paris, France, 2013) Dublin Contemporary (Dublin, Ireland, 2011), Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Lisbon, Portugal, 2010), Fundación Marcelino Botín, (Santander, Spain, 2009), Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (Valencia, Spain, 2008); Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, Portugal, 2007); Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2006), Serralves Foundation (Porto, Portugal, 2005); Culturgest (Lisbon, Portugal, 2003).
Fernanda Fragateiro's work is represented in public and private collections such as, The Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection (USA), Coleção António Cachola (Portugal), Fundación Neme (Colombia), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), Fundación Helga de Alvear (Espanha), Fundação EDP (Portugal), Fundación Marcelino Botín (Espanha), Fundação La Caixa (Espanha), Cultural Center Belém Foundation (Portugal), Portugal Telecom (Portugal), Unión Fenosa (Espanha), Serralves Foundation (Portugal), Reina Sofia Museum (Portugal), Museo Extremeño e Ibero-americano de Arte Contemporáneo (Espanha) among others.
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