Daniel de Paula 1987
Lives in Brazil, Maastricht. Works in Brazil, Maastricht.
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Brazilian artist and researcher Daniel de Paula (Boston, 1987) lives and works between São Paulo, Brazil and Maastricht, Netherlands.
In his artistic practice, he presents a series of objects and works that give continuation to his ongoing investigations towards infrastructure and the production of geographical space understood as the reproduction of violent practices that are fundamental to capitalist production. Through a variety of sculptural and conceptual strategies the artist proposes, not only a critical reflection of the physical structures that surround us, but also of the agency and invisible phenomena they conceal.
The recent propositions by Daniel de Paula seek to activate and exhaust a multitude of agents and relations in a given spatial context. His work seems invested with vitality, a silent forcefulness derived from qualities subtracted off the very own behavior and history of ordinary objects, places, and actions in an urban landscape. The operations employed by the artist suggest an indivisible bond between the objects presented and the actions that give them existence, presence, and significance. Through strategies such as amplified negotiations with and within city structures, displacement of quotidian objects, appropriation of public infrastructure, and interaction with constitutive agents of the exhibition space and its surrounding landscape, his pieces, installations, and interventions attempt to disarticulate, reconstruct and resignify rigid and conditioned spatial and conceptual systems and configurations. His recent maneuvers have intersected the disciplines of art, architecture, and geography by means of juxtaposing of objects and actions in both public and private spheres.
In his artistic practice, he presents a series of objects and works that give continuation to his ongoing investigations towards infrastructure and the production of geographical space understood as the reproduction of violent practices that are fundamental to capitalist production. Through a variety of sculptural and conceptual strategies the artist proposes, not only a critical reflection of the physical structures that surround us, but also of the agency and invisible phenomena they conceal.
The recent propositions by Daniel de Paula seek to activate and exhaust a multitude of agents and relations in a given spatial context. His work seems invested with vitality, a silent forcefulness derived from qualities subtracted off the very own behavior and history of ordinary objects, places, and actions in an urban landscape. The operations employed by the artist suggest an indivisible bond between the objects presented and the actions that give them existence, presence, and significance. Through strategies such as amplified negotiations with and within city structures, displacement of quotidian objects, appropriation of public infrastructure, and interaction with constitutive agents of the exhibition space and its surrounding landscape, his pieces, installations, and interventions attempt to disarticulate, reconstruct and resignify rigid and conditioned spatial and conceptual systems and configurations. His recent maneuvers have intersected the disciplines of art, architecture, and geography by means of juxtaposing of objects and actions in both public and private spheres.
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Daniel de Paula graduated in 2012 from FAAP with a BFA in Visual Arts, São Paulo. In 2017 began a masters in Human Geography, USP, University of São Paulo, (interrupted), São Paulo, and in 2018 came to the Netherlands for a post-academic residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He currently lives and works between São Paulo and Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include: Inalienable, Imprescriptible and Unseizable - LABOR, Mexico (2023); Fear of Property - The Renaissance Society Chicago, USA (2022); Francesca_Minini, Milan (2019); Kunsthalle Gent, Gent (2019); Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo (2017); Galeria Leme, São Paulo (2015); White Cube Gallery, São Paulo (2014) and Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (2011).
His works have also been included in relevant institutional group exhibitions such as: Il coltello nella carne, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2018); Avenida Paulista, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Tomás Toledo, MASP, São Paulo (2017); Metrópole: Experiência Paulistana, curated by Tadeu Chiarelli, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2017); Nós entre os Extremos, curated by Paulo Miyada, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2015), and Da próxima vez eu fazia tudo diferente, curated by Diego Matos, PIVÔ, São Paulo (2012).
Daniel de Paula was awarded the following scholarships: Independent Programme of the São Paulo School (2014), Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2013) and Casa Tomada, São Paulo (2012). He won the acquisition award at the Programa de Exposições do Centro Cultural São Paulo (2011), awarded at the exhibition EDP at the Artes at Institute Tomie Ohtake curated by Agnaldo Farias, São Paulo (2010).
His works have also been included in relevant institutional group exhibitions such as: Il coltello nella carne, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2018); Avenida Paulista, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Tomás Toledo, MASP, São Paulo (2017); Metrópole: Experiência Paulistana, curated by Tadeu Chiarelli, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2017); Nós entre os Extremos, curated by Paulo Miyada, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2015), and Da próxima vez eu fazia tudo diferente, curated by Diego Matos, PIVÔ, São Paulo (2012).
Daniel de Paula was awarded the following scholarships: Independent Programme of the São Paulo School (2014), Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2013) and Casa Tomada, São Paulo (2012). He won the acquisition award at the Programa de Exposições do Centro Cultural São Paulo (2011), awarded at the exhibition EDP at the Artes at Institute Tomie Ohtake curated by Agnaldo Farias, São Paulo (2010).
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Inalienable, imprescriptible and unseizable, Labor Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
2022
16th Lyon Biennial, Manifesto of Fragility, Guimet Museum, France
2021
Veridical shadows, or the unfoldings of a deceptive physicality, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Brussels
2020
Repose (with Marissa Lee Benedict - David Rueter), Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Materiality becomes nothing but a mere representation of a structure of
dominance, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Neatherland.
2019
The control of things over subjects is the control of subjects over themselves Francesca Minini,
Milan.
Composition, De Aanschouw, Rotterdam, Neatherland.
Estrutura insuperável, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium.
2017
A forma condutora de fluxos dominantes, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, BR.
2016
Gravidade, Edital ProAC, Cratera de Colônia, São Paulo, BR.
Open Plan, SP-arte, Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo, BR.
FLACC, Genk, Bélgica.
2015
Testemunho, Projeto SiTU, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, BR.
2014
Objetos de mobilidade, ações de permanência, White Cube Gallery, São Paulo, BR.
2013
Para estender um corredor, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR.
2011
Aparição, programa de exposições, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, BR.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Manifesto of fragility, La Biennale de Lyon, FR
2021
Faz escuro mas eu canto, 34ª Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BR
Not Quite Nearly Fine, Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, Italy
2019
Escrituras contagiadas por Atacama, NoAutomático, Monterrey, Mexico
A Hora Instável, Bruno Múrias Galeria, Lisboa, Portugal
2018
Brasile. Il coltello nella carne, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Matriz do Tempo Real, MAC USP, São Paulo, BR
2017
Avenida Paulista, MASP, São Paulo, BR – curadoria Adriano Pedrosa e Tomás Toledo.
Metrópole: Experiência Paulistana, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, BR
We have the weights, we have the measures, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK
Um Piano na Selva, Periscópio Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, BR
2016
Sempre um ponto de identidade, sempre distinção, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo
ARTE PARA TODOS! Liberação e Consumo, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, BR
Esforço-Desempenho, Galeria Athena Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2015
Nós entre os extremos, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, BR
XYZ, Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, BR.
Voragem da História, Observatório, São Paulo, BR
Permanências & Destruições, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Falso Movimento, Galeria Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Chope Abubuya, Centro de La Cultura Plurinacional, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO
2014
la parte que no te pertenece, Galeria Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, ES
Aparição, Galeria Athena Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, BR
made by... feito por brasileiros, Hospital Matarazzo, São Paulo, BR
Onsite, TAP - Temporary Arts Project, Londres, UK
Abubuya KM 0, Casa de la Cultura de Trinidad, Trinidad, BO
2013
Open Cube, White Cube Gallery Mason’s Yard, Londres, UK
Artista Convidado da 45a Annual de Artes, FAAP, São Paulo, BR.
Espaços Independentes – a alma é o segredo do negócio, Galerias Funarte de Artes Visuais, São
paulo, BR
Equivocábulos, Edifício Lutetia FAAP, São Paulo, BR
2012
da próxima vez eu fazia tudo diferente, Pivô, São Paulo, BR
Processos Públicos, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brasil
Documentação - Processos Públicos, Museu da Cultura PUC, São Paulo, BR
2011
Projeto Imóvel, Edifício Copan, São Paulo, BR
O Desvio é o Alvo, Entretanto, São Paulo, BR
l.o.t.e., UNESP, São Paulo, BR
EDUCATION
2017
Masters in Human Geography, USP, University of São Paulo, (interrupted), São Paulo (BR)
2015
Public School of Astrophysics, “Meteorites, Meteors, and Meteoroids”, São Paulo (BR)
2014
School of São Paulo, “PIESP – Program of the School of São Paulo” – coordinated by Adriano Pedrosa
and Anna Paula Cohen, São Paulo (BR)
2012
FAAP – Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, BFA in Visual Arts, São Paulo (BR)
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2019
De Fabriek, Eindhoven (NL)
Foundation BAD, Rotterdam (NL)
2018-19
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastrich (NL)
2016
FLACC, Genk (B)
2014
Kiosko, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (BO)
2014
Red Bull Station, São Paulo (BR)
2013
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
2012
Casa Tomada, São Paulo (BR)
AWARDS AND DISTINTIONS
2016
ArtNexus SP-arte, São Paulo (BR)
2015
ProAC – State Government Exhibition Award, São Paulo (BR)
2011
Acquisition Award, CCSP - Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
2011
2nd Prize, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (BR)
2023
Inalienable, imprescriptible and unseizable, Labor Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
2022
16th Lyon Biennial, Manifesto of Fragility, Guimet Museum, France
2021
Veridical shadows, or the unfoldings of a deceptive physicality, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Brussels
2020
Repose (with Marissa Lee Benedict - David Rueter), Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Materiality becomes nothing but a mere representation of a structure of
dominance, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Neatherland.
2019
The control of things over subjects is the control of subjects over themselves Francesca Minini,
Milan.
Composition, De Aanschouw, Rotterdam, Neatherland.
Estrutura insuperável, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium.
2017
A forma condutora de fluxos dominantes, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, BR.
2016
Gravidade, Edital ProAC, Cratera de Colônia, São Paulo, BR.
Open Plan, SP-arte, Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo, BR.
FLACC, Genk, Bélgica.
2015
Testemunho, Projeto SiTU, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, BR.
2014
Objetos de mobilidade, ações de permanência, White Cube Gallery, São Paulo, BR.
2013
Para estender um corredor, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR.
2011
Aparição, programa de exposições, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, BR.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Manifesto of fragility, La Biennale de Lyon, FR
2021
Faz escuro mas eu canto, 34ª Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BR
Not Quite Nearly Fine, Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, Italy
2019
Escrituras contagiadas por Atacama, NoAutomático, Monterrey, Mexico
A Hora Instável, Bruno Múrias Galeria, Lisboa, Portugal
2018
Brasile. Il coltello nella carne, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Matriz do Tempo Real, MAC USP, São Paulo, BR
2017
Avenida Paulista, MASP, São Paulo, BR – curadoria Adriano Pedrosa e Tomás Toledo.
Metrópole: Experiência Paulistana, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, BR
We have the weights, we have the measures, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK
Um Piano na Selva, Periscópio Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, BR
2016
Sempre um ponto de identidade, sempre distinção, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo
ARTE PARA TODOS! Liberação e Consumo, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, BR
Esforço-Desempenho, Galeria Athena Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2015
Nós entre os extremos, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, BR
XYZ, Galeria Pilar, São Paulo, BR.
Voragem da História, Observatório, São Paulo, BR
Permanências & Destruições, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Falso Movimento, Galeria Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Chope Abubuya, Centro de La Cultura Plurinacional, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO
2014
la parte que no te pertenece, Galeria Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, ES
Aparição, Galeria Athena Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, BR
made by... feito por brasileiros, Hospital Matarazzo, São Paulo, BR
Onsite, TAP - Temporary Arts Project, Londres, UK
Abubuya KM 0, Casa de la Cultura de Trinidad, Trinidad, BO
2013
Open Cube, White Cube Gallery Mason’s Yard, Londres, UK
Artista Convidado da 45a Annual de Artes, FAAP, São Paulo, BR.
Espaços Independentes – a alma é o segredo do negócio, Galerias Funarte de Artes Visuais, São
paulo, BR
Equivocábulos, Edifício Lutetia FAAP, São Paulo, BR
2012
da próxima vez eu fazia tudo diferente, Pivô, São Paulo, BR
Processos Públicos, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brasil
Documentação - Processos Públicos, Museu da Cultura PUC, São Paulo, BR
2011
Projeto Imóvel, Edifício Copan, São Paulo, BR
O Desvio é o Alvo, Entretanto, São Paulo, BR
l.o.t.e., UNESP, São Paulo, BR
EDUCATION
2017
Masters in Human Geography, USP, University of São Paulo, (interrupted), São Paulo (BR)
2015
Public School of Astrophysics, “Meteorites, Meteors, and Meteoroids”, São Paulo (BR)
2014
School of São Paulo, “PIESP – Program of the School of São Paulo” – coordinated by Adriano Pedrosa
and Anna Paula Cohen, São Paulo (BR)
2012
FAAP – Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, BFA in Visual Arts, São Paulo (BR)
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2019
De Fabriek, Eindhoven (NL)
Foundation BAD, Rotterdam (NL)
2018-19
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastrich (NL)
2016
FLACC, Genk (B)
2014
Kiosko, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (BO)
2014
Red Bull Station, São Paulo (BR)
2013
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
2012
Casa Tomada, São Paulo (BR)
AWARDS AND DISTINTIONS
2016
ArtNexus SP-arte, São Paulo (BR)
2015
ProAC – State Government Exhibition Award, São Paulo (BR)
2011
Acquisition Award, CCSP - Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
2011
2nd Prize, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (BR)
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