artes visuais | visual arts
NICOLE KOUTS
(São Paulo, Brazil, 1997)
currently in Łódź, Poland
Nicole Kouts is a multimedia artist and researcher. She investigates the multidisciplinarity of images as a transport medium of ancient beliefs to contemporary technologies, mediated by analogue-digital combinations and by phantasmagorias of the self and the memory in virtual spaces. Her interest in media archeology and the re-signification of materials stems from an autobiographical imagery referential, as a granddaughter of immigrants, raised between Brazil, Greece and the Internet.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts, a Postgraduate Degree in Scenography and Costume Design (Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo) with complementary studies in Art Direction (Academia Internacional de Cinema). Navigates through different languages such as video, performance, digital/printed image, installation, collage and net art. She started working with arts in comics blogs and zine collectives, as a teenager. Since then, has illustrated books, album covers and posters for theater plays and festivals, also working with costume and set design.
Her multimedia work has integrated festivals and exhibitions, in loco and online, in more than 20 countries, in spaces such as: Centre Pompidou (France), The Wrong Biennale (Online), Winchester School of Arts (England), Galerija Reflektor (Serbia), MUNI Faculty of Arts (Czech Republic), Scena Otwarta Gallery (Poland), Facultad de Artes UAEMEX (Mexico), Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (Brazil), Festival nodoCCS (Venezuela), Shariff Gallery (Ihran), MUTA Festival (Peru), Papakura Art Gallery (New Zealand), Capiusa Centro Creativo (Guatemala), Nuit Blanche Paris (France), Plokta TV (Netherlands) and Saigon Film Festival (Vietnam), with the solo exhibitions ENIGMAS (2023, Kunshal NORD, Denmark) and This message has no body (2021, The Wrong TV).
CV
EDUCATION
2019-2020
Post-graduation in Scenography and Costume Design, Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo (w/ Academic Scolarship) - São Paulo, Brasil
2015-2018
BA in Visual Arts, Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo (Scientific Research Scolarship) - São Paulo, Brasil
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
ENIGMAS, TURBINEGALLERIET, Kunsthal NORD (Nordkraft) - Aalborg, Denmark, curated by: Cathrine Gamst
2021
This message has no body, The Wrong TV (Online), curated by: David Quiles Guilló
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
2da Muestra Incidental - estos espacios son nuestros (Cine Accidental), Kasa Kapikúa - Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Démodé Multimedia Exhibition (STIFF - Student International Film Festival), SKC Gallery - Rijeka, Croatia
Jumpscare, Espaço Escada- Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Color Your Dreams Sneek Peek at Skabelonloftet (Culture Night in Copenhagen), 60Seconds Festival - Copenhagen, Denmark
FIC - Frente de Iniciativas Contemporáneas, KAKV Villena Casa de la Cultura KAKV - Villena, Spain
Estande Rede NAMI - Projeto Expansão, ArtRio 2023, Marina da Glória – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
12º PLAY Festival de Videoarte y Cine experimental, Sala del Sol, CCU - Centro Cultural Universitario (Córdoba 794), Corrientes, Argentina
Re-connect Art, International Performance and Multimedia Art Festival: Virtual Body of Society, Prague Biennale Foundation - Prague, Czech Republic
Print Screen, Take Care of the Square Footage), Icebox Project Space - Philalphia, USA
The Unmoving Show, ELO 2023 Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change - Universidade de Coimbra - Coimbra, Portugal
ADAM meets EVE (The Wrong Biennale nº6) - Online
Spktrm Kunstcafé, AbZalon Event Factory - Aalborg, Denmark
2022
Réseaux-mondes @ The Wrong TV, Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
My mama told me I’m experimental, IV Saigon Experimental Film Festival (Satellite Program) - Hanoi, Vietnam
VIII Festival Video nodoCCS 2022, elRAISE - Caracas, Venezuela
10 Desertos de Erros, direction: Leo Caobelli, Rumos Itaú Cultural → online
#biennale.NO 2022, noemata.net → online
14º Festivau de C4nn3$ - R4ch4dur4, Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana - Porto Alegre, Brazil
Trocando Figurinhas: 001 - 500, Ateliê 397 - São Paulo, Brazil
Przy-po-Mnie-nia (Re-Me-mbers), Scena Otwarta, UAP - Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu - Poznań, Poland
APT.EXT (The Wrong Biennale nº5), Leviatã - São Paulo, Brazil
The 3rd One Hour International Short Film Festival (OHISFF), Papakura Art Gallery - Auckland, New Zealand
Espaço ITI - Exposição Coletiva, Espaço Itinerante - Lisbon, Portugal
Você consegue me ver?, MARP - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto - Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
2021
19ª MUMIA - Mostra Udigrudi Mundial de Animação, Cine Humberto Mauro + MIS Cine Santa Tereza - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Paadmaan Video Event #2, Sharif Gallery - Tehran, Iran
PUNTOMOV Órbitas del video - Festival Internacional de Video, Facultad de Artes, UAEMEX - Toluca, Mexico
Embraces: Utopian Proximities (The Wrong Biennale nº5) - Acropolis Remix, Online
The Unmoving Show, (The Wrong Biennale nº5) - Noemata, Online
Tubarões sabem da existência de camelos, Corredor 14 - Pelotas, RS, Brasil
Forever Too Much, To Much Forever, The Wrong TV @ Nuit Blanche Paris 2021 (Wonderland Paris) - Paris, France
Punk Cinema Festival 2021, Punk Cinema Festival - Athens, Greece
MUTA - V Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual, MUTA Festival (Lima, Peru) - Online
LKTV Season 2, LinoKino Media Arts Collective - Twitch Broadcast + Hot Bed Micro Gallery - Philadelphia, USA
VIDEOPARK Festival - Hospitable Utopia, Visual Artist Association of Užice (UVUU) + Improper Walls - Galerija Reflektor - Užice, Serbia
AMID SPACE(s), MUNI Faculty of Arts/ Masaryk Filozofická Fakulta + TIM - Teorie Interaktivních Médií (Brno, Czech Republic) - Online
Living Spaces – space for life!, Videokanava - Videokanava Online Gallery + Art Fair Suomi - Helsinki, Finland
Second Wave, COVIDEO19 - Online
PloktaTV SE/02 - ‘The Hidden Life of Technology’, PLOKTA - Press Lots of Keys to Abort (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - TV Broadcast
My Pandemic Year: Film Screening, WORM (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - Online
Return of the GIF!, Anonymous Waves + White Page Gallery - Online
Mapping the Cartographic, nextmuseum.io + Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast + Museum Ulm - Online
2020
45º SARP - Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Nacional-Contemporâneo, MARP - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto - Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
FRESTA - Mostra de Audiovisual Experimental - 5ª Edição, Instituto de Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) - Online
System Failure. Please Restart, CETI Gallery of The Future - Online
Covid 1984, SPAMM - The Super Modern Art Museum - Online
12º Festivau de c4nn3$ - A marcha audiovisual, Festivau de c4ann3$ (Brasil) - Online
OnlineBlush, OnlinePlayroom Cybergallery - Online
http://2020/data-as-symbolic-form/exchange, http://hypertransfer-protocol - Online
Game of Life + Installation Island, ACAI - Animal Crossing Artificial Intelligence Workshop - Online
Where's The Remote?, Sits Still Project (New England, USA) - Online
A Fronteira, Espaço Apis (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) - Online
0202.2020.SPACE, Streaming (hosted in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Seoul, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Athens) - Online
On-Off Moving Image Festival, Noemata + 60Seconds (Valencia, Spain and Gol, Norway) - Online + Public Spaces
2019
The Wrong Epicentre, Itinerante - Valencia, Spain
InAbsentia (The Wrong Biennale nº4), Semiosphera - Itinerante, Foggia, Italy
Megalith (The Wrong Biennale nº4), MetamerLabs - Svalbard, Norway
Virtual Ritornello (The Wrong Biennale nº4) - Itinerante, California, USA
The Screen - The Laboratory of Dissident: Inside Outside, Chapel Arts Studios, Winchester School of Arts - Winchester, England
Festivau de c4nn3$ - DDD Volt4 P4r4 LOS Año$ 20, Galpão Terra - São Paulo, Brazil
TIMELINE: BH#5 - Festival Internacional de Video Arte, CineSesc - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Mudhouse Residency Exhibition, Agios Ioannis - Crete, Greece
48º Salão de Artes Novíssimos, Galeria de Arte Ibeu - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rotas Belas Artes, SP-Arte, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil
1MINUTO - Tema Livre (Destaque), Festival do Minuto (Brasil) - Online
2º Festival de Pintura, Instituto de Artes, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (UNESP) - São Paulo, Brazil
2018
MADA - 1ª Mostra Audiovisual do Barreiro, Viaduto das Artes - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Abstratas Moradas, MUBA - Museu Belas Artes - São Paulo, Brazil
Cosmovisión Femenina, Capiusa Centro Creativo - Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
CompartiArte - 5ª Edição, Centro Britânico Brasileiro - São Paulo, Brazil
Rotas Belas Artes, SP-Arte, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil
2017
3ª Mostra BA, Espaço di Grado, Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil
2015
Novas Impressões, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade - São Paulo, Brazil
ART RESIDENCIES
2023
LAC - Loop Art Critique #7, MUD Foundation INC (Miami, USA) - Online
2020
2º Temos Vagas!, Ateliê 397 - São Paulo, Brazil
2019
Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis - Crete, Greece
AWARDS
2020
Open Call Correspondence: "trocando figurinhas: operação piloto", a collaboration with the artist Gabriel Pessoto - ArtConnect Magazine
2019
(In)formados Scholarship for Graduate Degree Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo
2017
Scholarship for Undergraduate Research Project Funadesp
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MARP - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto - Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
Homeostasis Lab - Digital Archive
SPAMM - Super Modern Art Museum - Digital Archive
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
2021
Eidolon: the shadows and phantasmagorias of a videographic body-spectrum → link
MEDIA, PUBLICATIONS & INTERVIEWS
2023
Hackeando o poder: Táticas de guerrilha para artistas do Sul global, @e__madonna, by Nicole Kouts - Rede NAMI (org.), Editora Cobogó → link
(Hacking the power: Guerrilla Tactics for Artists from the Global South)
Interview with Nicole Kouts, ItsaPPLaT, work developed by Natacha Lamournier in the residency iM KONSTHALL (Moskosel Creative Lab, Sweden) → link
Glitch Art BR 2022 Org. Cleber Gazana, Chapter 2 - Reflexões Erráticas Sobre Arte Para A Internet, by Fabio FON p. 08 - Deserto de Erros → link
2022
Deserto do real, interview by Laura Rago, about A Anunciação dos Anjos Digitais in the project Deserto de Erros, Revista Zum → link
Revista USO Nº7: revista de literatura e artes visuais, do clássico ao vulgar (07/2022), → link
O IR E VIR DAS IMAGENS, text by Gabriel Bogossian, Trocando Figurinhas: 001 - 500 (Gabriel Pessoto and Nicole Kouts) → link
PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot, Isolamento no Olimpo, by Nicole Kouts (p. 12 and 13), INC Zine #4, Institute of Network Cultures
Editor: Dunja Nešovic - Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (2022) → link
2021
Bem Web Art Special Episode: The Wrong Biennale nº5, fabiofon[dot]com (DATASHOW in 6:06) → link
Como perguntar tudo?, Revista TONEL - Edição 3 → link
WEB ARTE NO BRASIL, Ser Internet, text by Fábio Oliveira Nunes → link
REVISTA TÊMPERA, Vol. 3, Nº 11, Ser Internet, by Nicole Kouts and Veronica Laminarca (p. 131 and 132, Grupo Têmpera, Brazil) → link
2020
As distâncias entre nós, text by Carollina Lauriano, Residência TemosVagas! 2, Ateliê 397 - São Paulo, Brazil → link
Visual Dialogues with Nicole Kouts and Gabriel Pessoto, interview by Julianne Cordray - ArtConnect Magazine → link
2019
Catálogo - Salão Novíssimos 2019, by Filippi Fernandes, p. 6-7, curated by Cesar Kiraly - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil → link
TALKS
2023
Digital Art, Semana de Comunicação e Multimeios, PUC-SP - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2022
Critical Costume 2022, Flash-Talk: Collaborative creation of costumes and artistic interconnections for the theatrical-circus performance
Nicole Kouts e Veridiana Piovezan
#NewAncientHyperMedia, UAEMéx - Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (Toluca, Mexico)
2021
Construção de Portfolio, Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
+ EXTRACURRICULAR STUDIES
2015 - 2023
Visual Arts: attended the series of workshops Drawing is political (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria) and was a participant in the drawing group Kunstens Tegneklub (Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark). Studied Performance and Xerography, with Paulo Bruscky; Cutout Notebooks, with Lourenço Mutarelli; Visual Thought, with Carlos Fajardo; Printed Image, with Augusto Sampaio; Woodcut, with J. Borges and Drawing, with Márcia de Moraes, in cultural institutions such as SESC-SP and Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade (São Paulo).
Theatre and Performing Arts: Amplifying Sensory Materiality, com Donatella Barbieri (DAMU - Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, República Tcheca, PQ/Prague Quadriennale 2023), Costume Design, with Veridiana Piovezan; Contemporary Scenography, with Marcelo Denny; Artistic Masks, with Gigi Manfrinato and Sewing Techniques, with Julia Reyes.
Audiovisual: Art Direction course at Academia Internacional de Cinema (São Paulo, Brazil) and studies in Cinema and Philosophy at the Research and Studies Center of SESC-SP, with film director Daniel Augusto.
Art & Theory: studied Funerary Archeology of Ancient Greece and Hermeneutics of Icons at Areté - Center for Hellenic Studies (São Paulo, Brazil).
Attended the series of lectures The Trouble with Visibility: Decolonizing Technology (Media Theory - Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna, Austria).
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
DATASHOW is a website dedicated to the articulation of ideas about art, media and digital culture through online shows and projects.
Conducted in partnership with the artist João VRC.
2023 - 2024
Fotossíntese (Photosynthesis), Online Pavilion (The Wrong Biennale nº6)
2021 - 2022
Objeto Virtual Não Identificado, Online Pavilion (The Wrong Biennale nº5)
Mostra Melhores Minutos 2020, Festival do Minuto
The White Page Gallery Network, Independent network of online galleries
2019-2020
Tráfico de Influência, Online Pavilion (The Wrong Biennale nº4)
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