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NICOLE KOUTS (São Paulo, Brazil, 1997) is a multimedia artist 🔮
Investigates analogue and digital techniques to conduct intersections between image, time and memory through image editing, collection building, word games and performative gestures. She works with different languages such as video, performance, photography, installation, collage, drawing and net art. Her research is based on a repository of images influenced by a process of media archaeology and by her experience as the granddaughter of immigrants, living between Brazil, Greece and the Internet. By shuffling and rearranging fragments, she explores her perspective as part of a generation that grew up with the rise of digital technologies, weaving non-chronological lines to perceive and navigate time.
She holds a bachelor degree in Visual Arts with 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). Her work began in comic book blogs and zine collectives, during her teenage years. Since then, she has illustrated books, music albums and posters for theater and festivals, also working with also with costumes and set design.
She has participated in exhibitions and festivals in more than 25 countries, in spaces such as Centre Pompidou, The Wrong Biennale, Paxos Biennale, Prague Biennale, Nuit Blanche Paris, Winchester School of Arts, CineSesc and Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade. She presented the solo shows Mnemotécnicas (2024, Casa do Brasil, Embassy of Brazil in Greece, Athens), PALAVRA OLHO (2024, Phoenix Athens Gallery, Greece), ENIGMAS (2023, Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, Denmark) and This message has no body (2021, The Wrong TV). She was awarded by Art Connect magazine (2020) for the Trocando Figurinhas project, in partnership with Gabriel Pessoto. Her work is featured in publications such as Revista Piscina #1 (2024) and Hacking the Power: Guerrilla Tactics for Artists from the Global South (2023, Rede Nami). Is part of the MARP collection.
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EDUCATION
2019-2020
Post-graduation in Scenography and Costume Design, Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo (w/ academic scolarship) - São Paulo, Brazil
2015-2028
BA in Visual Arts, Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo (w/ undergraduate research scholarship) - São Paulo, Brazil
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
MNEMOTÉCNICAS, Casa do Brasil, Embaixada do Brasil na Grécia - Athens, Greece
PALAVRA OLHO, Phoenix Athens Gallery - Athens, Greece
2023
ENIGMAS, TURBINEGALLERIET, Kunsthal NORD (Nordkraft) - Aalborg, Denmark
2021
This message has no body (Esta mensagem não tem corpo), The Wrong TV (Online)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Dedo Nervoso, Olhos Cansados, Espaço Escada - Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Over The Real, itinerância do 13º PLAY Festival de Videoarte y Cine experimental, Auditorio San Micheletto Lucca, Italy
Skysstasjonen #nfcdab2024, Near-Field Communication Digital Art Biennale 6th Ed., The Gol Days Festival - Gol, Norway
Manifesto of Memory, 3rd Paxos Biennale - Paxos, Greece
Leise-Park #nfcdab2024, Near-Field Communication Digital Art Biennale 6th Ed. - Berlin, Germany
INTERSPACE, Galeria WY - Łódź, Poland
2da Muestra Incidental (Cine Accidental), La Cineteca Xela - Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Color Your Dreams, 60Seconds Festival (06 The Wrong Biennale Embassy), Fotografisk Center - Copenhagen, Denmark
#1 PANELINHA, Galeria da Pinacoteca Barão de Santo Ângelo, Instituto de Artes da UFRGS - Porto Alegre, Brazil
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
\> recent ancient open-source analog encrypted garden memory, The Salon - Loop Art Critique #7, MUD Foundation - Onland.io, Online
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, direção: 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 - Lisboa, Portugal
Você consegue me ver?, MARP - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto - Ribeirão Preto, 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, Ihran
PUNTOMOV Órbitas del video - Festival Internacional de Video, Facultad de Artes, UAEMéx - 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, Brazil
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, República Tcheca) - 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, 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, Brazil) - 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, Itinerant - Valencia, Spain
InAbsentia (The Wrong Biennale nº4), Semiosphera - Itinerant, Foggia, Italy
Megalith (The Wrong Biennale nº4), MetamerLabs - Svalbard, Norway
Virtual Ritornello (The Wrong Biennale nº4) - Itinerant, California, USA
The Screen - The Laboratory of Dissident: Inside Outside, Chapel Arts Studios, Winchester School of Arts - Winchester, England
11º 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 (Brazil) - 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 - Cidade da 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
2024
Phoenix Athens Residency, Phoenix Athens - Athens, Greece
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 - Creta, Greece
MEDIA, PUBLICATIONS & INTERVIEWS
2024
Revista PISCINA #1, OCULUS, by Nicole Kouts, p. 93. Edited by Paula Plee, co-edited by Ana Roman → link
Unarchiving Digital Angels with Nicole Kouts, interview by Lana Martires and Andreas Zingerle / Netzrauschen (Mur.at) and Radio Helsinki Graz → link
WEB ARTE NO BRASIL, Trocando figurinhas: instruções by Gabriel Pessoto and Nicole Kouts, text by Fábio Oliveira Nunes → link
Current Internet art? Net art died but is doing well!, fabiofon[dot]com (Trocando figurinhas at The Wrong Biennale em 6:26) → link
2023
Hackeando o poder: Táticas de guerrilha para artistas do Sul global, @e__madonna, by Nicole Kouts - Rede NAMI (org.), Editora Cobogó
(Hacking the power: Guerrilla Tactics for Artists from the Global South) → link
Entrevista com 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 - 3rd Edition → 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, 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
2024
Mnemotécnicas by Nicole Kouts, Talk and guided visit at the exhibition with the Escola de Verão Brasileira na Grécia - Embassy of Brazil in Greece
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 and 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)
AWARDS AND COMISSIONED WORKS
2020
Open Call Correspondence: "trocando figurinhas: operação piloto", a collaboration with the artist Gabriel Pessoto - Award by ArtConnect Magazine
Sleep Mode - Installation Island, comissioned work in partnership with ACAI - Animal Crossing Artificial Intelligence Workshop
2019
1MINUTO, featured video in the category Tema Livre (Free Team), Festival do Minuto, Brazil
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MARP - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto - Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Homeostasis Lab - Digital Archive
SPAMM - Super Modern Art Museum - Digital Archive
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
CURATION
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 → link
2023 - 2024
Fotossíntese (Photosynthesis), Online Pavillion (The Wrong Biennale nº6)
2021 - 2022
Objeto Virtual Não Identificado, Online Pavillion (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 Pavillion (The Wrong Biennale nº4)
FORMAÇÃO COMPLEMENTAR
2015 - 2023
Artes Visuais: 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) and the drawind sessions of Miejska Galeria Sztuki w Łodzi (Łódź, Poland). 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).
Artes Cênicas: 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.
Arte e Teoria: 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).