CAROLINA CORDEIRO

Having started her artistic practice with drawing, she quickly began to explore other mediums such as photography, object-based and sculptural works, video, and installation. Over nearly twenty years of her career, Cordeiro has developed a plural body of work in terms of format and materials, increasingly rooted in the influence and resources of her surroundings. She is drawn to immersive processes and advocates for a relationship of “contamination” with the landscape—so that her work not only proposes spatial interventions, but is also structured by the elements that compose that space. A key feature of Cordeiro’s practice is the pursuit of material and procedural economy. Using everyday elements and objects—found in nature or inexpensive and readily available—she assembles her work through concise, poetic gestures. Among these materials and methods, those related to the domestic sphere—such as fabric and sewing, often associated with femininity—are recurring, as well as elements drawn from marginalized and peripheral contexts, like zinc sheets common in the vernacular architecture of favela dwellings.

In 2021, Carolina Cordeiro founded Galeria de Artistas, a collective project created by and for artists as a means of experimenting with new ways of engaging with the art market. In 2020, she was nominated for the PIPA Prize. She has participated in numerous national and international artist residencies, including: CASCO: Art and Community Integration Program, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2021); Pivô Research Residency, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); Red Bull Station, São Paulo, Brazil (2016); Homesession, Barcelona, Spain (2011); and GlogauAIR Art Residency, Berlin, Germany (2009).

Selected exhibitions include: Adiar a ordem (Group, Galatea, São Paulo, 2025); Soltaré cien conejos y usted verá cómo le hace para juntarlos todos (Group, Galeria Zielinsky, Barcelona, 2024); Carolina Cordeiro: o tempo é (Solo, Galatea, São Paulo, 2023); América do Sal (Solo, Galeria de Artistas – GDA, São Paulo, 2021); Una nit a 8360 km d’aquí (Solo, Àngels Barcelona, 2018); Casa no céu (para Rochelle) (Group, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2023); Semana sim, semana não (Group, Casa Zalszupin, São Paulo, 2022); Lenta explosión de una semilla (Group, OTR. Espacio de arte, Madrid, 2020); I remember earth (Group, Le Magasin des horizons, Grenoble, 2019); and Estratégias do Feminino (Group, Farol Santander, Porto Alegre, 2019).

Courtesy Galatea