Silvia Noronha (*1984 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil) lives and works in Berlin. She studied Glass and Ceramic at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and received an M.A. in Textile and Surface Design at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. In her art practice Noronha is interested in engaging with material agency in a participatory and collaborative process. She investigates how to observe and make space for matter to perform in its own rhythm and beyond rational meanings. Since 2015 Noronha has a pseudo-alchemist speculative geology practice, she understands soil as media, which concentrate multidimensional information, specially about time. Incorporating a wide range of soil components including earth, clay, glass, electronic waste, and plastic the artist creates events that are part of geological developments. In her work an imaginative landscape is illustrated, gathering worldly experience and projecting how Earth may unfold from here and now.
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Noronha was recently honored with the Neukölln Kunst Preis 2023 for her ongoing work “Shifting Geologies” and with the Art Award der Kummer-Vanotti-Stiftung 2022. She was also a fellow of the Goldrausch project for women artists in 2020 and received the research grant of the Berlin Senate in this same year. Her work “Future of Stones - speculation on contaminated matter” in response to the Environmental Crime in Mariana - MG was awarded the Elsa Neumann Scholarship of the State of Berlin 2019, the Mart Stam Prize 2016 and was featured in multiple media in Brazil and in Germany. She has participated in exhibitions at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE (2017, 2020,2022), Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, AU (2018), Berlin Science Week, DE (2018), together with Archipel Stations Community Radio at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE (2019), Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL (2020), Kunsthaus Dresden, Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art, DE (2021), Center for Craft, NC, USA (2023), Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE (2023), Johannesburg Art Gallery, SA (2023), among others.
EDUCATION
2016 MA Textile and Surface Design | Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (KHB), DE
2015 Semester abroad Glass and Ceramic handicraft | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), DK
2013 BA Graphic Design | State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG), BR
EXHIBITIONS
solo
2022 the breath below | Kunstverein Goettingen
group
2023 Soil Conversations, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Joburg, SA
2023 Hard Heart, Spoiler Zone, Berlin, DE
2023 Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE
2023 NEO MINERALIA Synthetic and Digital rocks, Center for Craft, NC, USA
2023 Neukölln Art Prize 2023, Galerie im Saalbau - Gallery for contemporary art in North Neukölln Berlin, DE
2022 Elusive Grounds, Raum für drastische maßnahme, Berlin, DE
2022 Aliens are temporary, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2022 Altered Lands, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2021 What the eyes cannot see, the heart cannot feel, kunsthaus Dresden, Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art, DE
2021 Gebaüde ‘F’ open studios, Berlin Art Week, Berlin, DE
2021 Nothing is gonna change my world?, gr_und, Berlin, DE
2021 Nuclear Landscapes, online exhibition
2020 Sirene, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE, DE
2020 Economia, a festival on economy without the economists, online exhibition
2020 Dutch Design Week, Einhoven, NL
2019 Unnatural, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, DE
2019 Soil is an Inscribed Body *participation with Archipel Radio, S A V V Y Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2019 GESTEIN - Soil, Sediment, Stone, Kunstverein Kärnten | Klagenfurt, AT
2018 Berlin Science Week - Art Science Exhibits, Thaer Institute of the Humboldt University, Berlin, DE
2017 The desert can no longer spread - it is everywhere, Project Space at KunstWerk, Cologne, DE
2017 Affen, Steine, Kühlerhauben - Mart Stam Prize 2016, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
2017 Synaesthesia, Bunker, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, DE
2017 Edge. Piraeus, Casthela Art Center, Athens, GR
2014 VI Bienal de Arte da Une, Museum of Contemporary Art Salvador, Salvador, BR
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2023 Second prize Neuköllner Kunstpreis 2023, Berlin, DE
2022 Environment and Art Award 2022 of the Kummer-Vanotti-Foundation, Bonn, DE
2022 Modul D - digital mediation formats Scholarship, Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. DE
2020 Research Visual Arts Scholarship of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, DE
2020 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprogramm, Berlin, DE
2019 Elsa Neumann Scholarship, Berlin, DE
2016 Mart Stam Prize, Berlin, DE
2016 Artist*Scholarship of the Fondation Thorens, Basel, CH
2015 DAAD scholarship, Berlin, DE
RESIDENCES
2022 Guest artist of the Residency project ‘Radio Otherwise’, Inhotim Contemporary Art Center, Brumadinho, BR
2022 outsidein_insideout art Laboratory, Stadt Wehlen - national park Saxon Switzerland, DE
2022 Suelo Methodology Residency, Uferstudios Gmbh, Berlin, DE
2021 Artist* residency of the Jardim do Hermes ceramic group, Kaaysa, São Paulo, BR
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE / TEACHING
2023-July TERRENE (Temporal Experiment), in the frame of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE
2023 Artist Talk, CICLO DE CONFERENCIAS - Mundos inmundos Estéticas de la supervivencia en el Antropocenoo, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, DE
2022 TERRENE (Temporal Experiment), AUSUFERN EXHIBIT - interdisciplinary program series, Uferstudios GmbH, Berlin, DE
2022 TERRENE (Temporal Experiment), PLAY! At ACAU - a creative program for Ukrainian children and their parents, Ana Conda am Ufer, Heizhaus, Berlin, DE
2022 TERRENE (Temporal Experiment), SUELO Heitzhaus, Heizhaus, Berlin, DE
2021 Lecture, annual General Assembly of the PREVENT Waste Alliance (GIZ), online assembly
2022 Artist Talk, Art & Education - a digital education project, Kunst Verein Goettingen, podcast
2020 Exhibition talk, SIGNALE | If one day you find a stone smiling at you, would you tell anyone?, online event 2015 Lecture & Workshop, Carbon Open Day, Institute of Making, London,UK
PRESS / NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
2023 Geoescrituras de un planeta enfermo, Estefanía Bournot, Universität Innsbruck *(es)
2022 Toxic Beauty: New Aesthetics of Industrial Disaster, Julia Modes, 6th International Conference for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Students *(en)
2022 Silvia Noronha shows art about ecological challenges on Grafenwerth Island, Bonn, e-Journal
2022 Silvia Noronha at Kunstverein Göttingen, artviewer,website
2022 Sounding finds and growing crystals at the Künstlerhaus Goettingen, Goettingen, Daily Journal
2022 Silvia Noronha shows installations for all senses, Goettingen, Daily Journal
2022 Listening to the breath of things, Kulturbuero-goettingen, e-Journal
2021 The material as agent Art, nature and Silvia Noronha, gallerytalk, website
2021 Catastrophes and the Turn of Time - Human Impacts on Geology, Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Plant. History and Future of a Technology, German National Bibliography Publications, book
2020 Fictional Journal, Issue 04. Responsibility, e-Journal
2020 Sirene – Goldrausch 2020, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt. Berlin, Catalogue
2018 (Un)steady as a Rock: Believing, in Times of Make-believe, Anna Hallgren, Journal of Art History
2018 Silvia Noronha explores the future of non-natural stones, Designboom, website
2018 Environmental tragedy of Mariana is the theme of art exhibition in Germany, Deutsche Welle, TV
2017 Art in Catastrophe, Interview, Piauí Magazine
2017 Artist transform mud from the disaster in Mariana, Talk about art in the Anthropocene, Globo-news, TV
2017 Mud from Mariana mud turns into art, Deutsche Welle, TV
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Silvia Noronha (*1984 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil) lives and works in Berlin. She studied Glass and Ceramic at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and received an M.A. in Textile and Surface Design at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. In her art practice Noronha is interested in engaging with material agency in a participatory and collaborative process. She investigates how to observe and make space for matter to perform in its own rhythm and beyond rational meanings. Since 2015 Noronha has a pseudo-alchemist speculative geology practice, she understands soil as media, which concentrate multidimensional information, specially about time. Incorporating a wide range of soil components including earth, clay, glass, electronic waste, and plastic the artist creates events that are part of geological developments. In her work an imaginative landscape is illustrated, gathering worldly experience and projecting how Earth may unfold from here and now.
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Noronha was recently honored with the Neukölln Kunst Preis 2023 for her ongoing work “Shifting Geologies” and with the Art Award der Kummer-Vanotti-Stiftung 2022. She was also a fellow of the Goldrausch project for women artists in 2020 and received the research grant of the Berlin Senate in this same year. Her work “Future of Stones - speculation on contaminated matter” in response to the Environmental Crime in Mariana - MG was awarded the Elsa Neumann Scholarship of the State of Berlin 2019, the Mart Stam Prize 2016 and was featured in multiple media in Brazil and in Germany. She has participated in exhibitions at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE (2017, 2020,2022), Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, AU (2018), Berlin Science Week, DE (2018), together with Archipel Stations Community Radio at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE (2019), Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL (2020), Kunsthaus Dresden, Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art, DE (2021), Center for Craft, NC, USA (2023), Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE (2023), Johannesburg Art Gallery, SA (2023), among others.
EDUCATION
2016 MA Textile and Surface Design | Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (KHB), DE
2015 Semester abroad Glass and Ceramic handicraft | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), DK
2013 BA Graphic Design | State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG), BR
EXHIBITIONS
solo
2022 the breath below | Kunstverein Goettingen
group
2023 Soil Conversations, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Joburg, SA
2023 Hard Heart, Spoiler Zone, Berlin, DE
2023 Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE
2023 NEO MINERALIA Synthetic and Digital rocks, Center for Craft, NC, USA
2023 Neukölln Art Prize 2023, Galerie im Saalbau - Gallery for contemporary art in North Neukölln Berlin, DE
2022 Elusive Grounds, Raum für drastische maßnahme, Berlin, DE
2022 Aliens are temporary, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2022 Altered Lands, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2021 What the eyes cannot see, the heart cannot feel, kunsthaus Dresden, Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art, DE
2021 Gebaüde ‘F’ open studios, Berlin Art Week, Berlin, DE
2021 Nothing is gonna change my world?, gr_und, Berlin, DE
2021 Nuclear Landscapes, online exhibition
2020 Sirene, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE, DE
2020 Economia, a festival on economy without the economists, online exhibition
2020 Dutch Design Week, Einhoven, NL
2019 Unnatural, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, DE
2019 Soil is an Inscribed Body *participation with Archipel Radio, S A V V Y Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2019 GESTEIN - Soil, Sediment, Stone, Kunstverein Kärnten | Klagenfurt, AT
2018 Berlin Science Week - Art Science Exhibits, Thaer Institute of the Humboldt University, Berlin, DE
2017 The desert can no longer spread - it is everywhere, Project Space at KunstWerk, Cologne, DE
2017 Affen, Steine, Kühlerhauben - Mart Stam Prize 2016, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
2017 Synaesthesia, Bunker, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, DE
2017 Edge. Piraeus, Casthela Art Center, Athens, GR
2014 VI Bienal de Arte da Une, Museum of Contemporary Art Salvador, Salvador, BR
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2023 Second prize Neuköllner Kunstpreis 2023, Berlin, DE
2022 Environment and Art Award 2022 of the Kummer-Vanotti-Foundation, Bonn, DE
2022 Modul D - digital mediation formats Scholarship, Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. DE
2020 Research Visual Arts Scholarship of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, DE
2020 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprogramm, Berlin, DE
2019 Elsa Neumann Scholarship, Berlin, DE
2016 Mart Stam Prize, Berlin, DE
2016 Artist*Scholarship of the Fondation Thorens, Basel, CH
2015 DAAD scholarship, Berlin, DE
RESIDENCES
2022 Guest artist of the Residency project ‘Radio Otherwise’, Inhotim Contemporary Art Center, Brumadinho, BR
2022 outsidein_insideout art Laboratory, Stadt Wehlen - national park Saxon Switzerland, DE
2022 Suelo Methodology Residency, Uferstudios Gmbh, Berlin, DE
2021 Artist* residency of the Jardim do Hermes ceramic group, Kaaysa, São Paulo, BR
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE / TEACHING
2023-July TERRENE (Temporal Experiment), in the frame of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE
2023 Artist Talk, CICLO DE CONFERENCIAS - Mundos inmundos Estéticas de la supervivencia en el Antropocenoo, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, DE
2022 TERRENE (Temporal Experiment), AUSUFERN EXHIBIT - interdisciplinary program series, Uferstudios GmbH, Berlin, DE
2022 TERRENE (Temporal Experiment), PLAY! At ACAU - a creative program for Ukrainian children and their parents, Ana Conda am Ufer, Heizhaus, Berlin, DE
2022 TERRENE (Temporal Experiment), SUELO Heitzhaus, Heizhaus, Berlin, DE
2021 Lecture, annual General Assembly of the PREVENT Waste Alliance (GIZ), online assembly
2022 Artist Talk, Art & Education - a digital education project, Kunst Verein Goettingen, podcast
2020 Exhibition talk, SIGNALE | If one day you find a stone smiling at you, would you tell anyone?, online event 2015 Lecture & Workshop, Carbon Open Day, Institute of Making, London,UK
PRESS / NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
2023 Geoescrituras de un planeta enfermo, Estefanía Bournot, Universität Innsbruck *(es)
2022 Toxic Beauty: New Aesthetics of Industrial Disaster, Julia Modes, 6th International Conference for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Students *(en)
2022 Silvia Noronha shows art about ecological challenges on Grafenwerth Island, Bonn, e-Journal
2022 Silvia Noronha at Kunstverein Göttingen, artviewer,website
2022 Sounding finds and growing crystals at the Künstlerhaus Goettingen, Goettingen, Daily Journal
2022 Silvia Noronha shows installations for all senses, Goettingen, Daily Journal
2022 Listening to the breath of things, Kulturbuero-goettingen, e-Journal
2021 The material as agent Art, nature and Silvia Noronha, gallerytalk, website
2021 Catastrophes and the Turn of Time - Human Impacts on Geology, Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Plant. History and Future of a Technology, German National Bibliography Publications, book
2020 Fictional Journal, Issue 04. Responsibility, e-Journal
2020 Sirene – Goldrausch 2020, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt. Berlin, Catalogue
2018 (Un)steady as a Rock: Believing, in Times of Make-believe, Anna Hallgren, Journal of Art History
2018 Silvia Noronha explores the future of non-natural stones, Designboom, website
2018 Environmental tragedy of Mariana is the theme of art exhibition in Germany, Deutsche Welle, TV
2017 Art in Catastrophe, Interview, Piauí Magazine
2017 Artist transform mud from the disaster in Mariana, Talk about art in the Anthropocene, Globo-news, TV
2017 Mud from Mariana mud turns into art, Deutsche Welle, TV
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