LUIZA CROSMAN

Lives and works in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2008, she graduated in Graphic Design at PUC-Rio, inRio de Janeiro. Between 2012 and 2014, she held a MA in Arts and Culture at UERJ – UniversidadeEstadual do Rio de Janeiro. In 2017, she completed her postgraduate degree in PerformativityStudies at a.pass, in Brussels, an institute focused on the investigation and proposal of new artisticperformativities within an international context. Between 2017 and 2019, she was a researcher at theREALTY Sommerakademie Paul Klee program at the Bern Academy of the Arts HKB (Bern,Switzerland).

In parallel to her activities as an artist, she has developed, alongside different institutions,infrastructural projects that find in writing and educational initiatives tools for expanding andexperimenting with the concepts incorporated into her work. Between 2014 and 2017, she oversawthe occupation casamata, in Rio de Janeiro, an experience that instituted self-managementpractices in her work. In 2019, commissioned by WIELS (Brussels, Belgium), she presented themultimedia installation to all contributory factors, which integrated the group show Open Skies.

In 2018, she was one of the artists selected for the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo: AffectiveAffinities and presented TRAMA, an institutional speculation that took on several fronts – in additionto the modification of the Fundação Bienal building by inserting solar plates connected to acryptocurrency mining company, the work also involved the translation of texts into Portuguese, aninstallation, and the presentation of a sound piece. In 2019, she was nominated for the PIPA Prize.She developed, at the Strelka Institute (Moscow, Russia) in 2020, a research project that resulted inthe essay Face as Infrastructure, published in the Strelka Mag – The Revenge of the Real and aninitiative of speculative legislation entitled Kosmos Law. Since 2021, Luiza Crosman has been on theboard of Weird Economies (W.E), an online art project that invests in overcoming contemporaryeconomic arrangements.

Among her recent projects and exhibitions, we highlight CELESTE, her first solo show atGomide&Co (São Paulo, 2022); the video Átropos Sky, commissioned by the Media Lab/Matadero (Madrid, 2022); CASA-ESCOLA Ool, an immersive educational program created at the invitation ofCasa do Povo (Brazil, 2021); and Weather Report Girl, a video-performance that integrated the Open-ended Encounters, an initiative of the Pro Helvetia foundation curated by the aarea collective (Brazil,2020). In 2024, she took part in Lorem Ipsum: objetos nunca morrem, at Espaço C.A.M.A and Porvir,at Gruta Espaço de Arte, both in São Paulo. In 2023, se took part in Para-raios para energiasconfusas, a group show held at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (São Paulo, Brazil) and curated by MaríliaLoureiro and Luisa Duarte.

Text courtesy Gomide&Co.