Silvia Noronha

Silvia Noronha is a material artist, caracterized by a provocative and aesthetic approach regarding the interrelationship between humans and nature. Having grown up in Minas Gerais, one of the heaviest mined areas of Brazil, the social, political and ecological consequences of an industrialized world were always literally in front of her eyes.
In her practice she intends to give voice to the materials by combining different substances and letting these communicate with each other. Being curious about the individual characteristics of the matter and how these interact, her works have incorporated a wide range of substances including earth, stones, glass, metal and plastic. Using the realm of speculation her current work is focused on how a future geology might look like when man-made and natural materials have fused over time.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
2011 BA Graphic Design | State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG), BRExhibitions
2019 Unnatural | Small Humbold Gallery | Berlin, DE
2019 Soil as an Inscribed Body *participation with Archipelago Radio | S A V V Y Contemporary | Berlin, DE
2019 GESTEIN - Soil, Sediment, Stone | Kunstverein Kärnten | Klagenfurt, AU
2018 Art Science Exhibits | Thaer Institute of the Humboldt University | Berlin, DE
2018 [in]flux | Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin | 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
2017 Graduation Exhibition | Weißensee School of Art | Berlin, DE
2016 Hands on matter | KADK Gallery | Nexø, DK
2016 Melting Point | Bornholm Museum of Art | Gudhjem, DK
2015 Carbon Open Day Artist Project research presentation: Re-code Materials | Institute of Making | London,UK
2014 VI Bienal de Arte da Une | Museum of Contemporary Art Salvador | Salvador, BRAwards and scholarships
2020 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprogramm | Berlin, DE
2019 Elsa Neumann Scholarship | Berlin, DE
2017 Artist*in-residence of the Golden Bee Academy | Tivat, MNE
2016 Mart Stam Prize | Berlin, DE
2016 Artist*Scholarship of the Fondation Thorens | Basel, SE
2015 DAAD scholarship | Berlin, DEmade with Lay Theme