Born in the sunny southside of Portugal, 1997
Currently lives and works in Berlin.





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+351 926 611 579
@rodrigo___rosa



“Time takes its crazy toll”  Says Thurston Moore in the opening line of Sonic Youth’s epic – The Diamond Sea.  And as the song crumbles upon its own distortion across its magnificent 20 minutes, so does memory fall ill to the unforgiving curse of time.
The relationship between memory and the urban landscape, is the main foundation of my artistic investigation. As such, I aim to raise my own questions regarding the role that the human presence – or the total lack of it – plays inside the City, as well as its own eternal and inherent ephemerality. Working directly with elements of the City, my artistic practice is essentially an amalgamation of different, sometimes opposing or conflicting processes, brought together in the same body of work and forced not only to co-exist, but also to dialogue. Among appropriation, stealing, recreation, fragmenting and tracing, the result of these processes can often be conflicting, blurring the frontiers that separate the mundane from the artistic.

Memories are ephemeral – unreliable, distorted, biased by feelings and untrusting – and that’s what makes them so interesting to work with.




EDUCATION

2020/2022 - Fine Art (MFA)
UMPRUM Prague - CZ
Intermedia Studio - Dominik Gajarsky & Michal Pěchouček

2015/ 2018 - Visual Arts (BFA)
University of Algarve - PT

2021 - Fine Art (MFA)
UMPRUM Prague - CZ
Guest Artist Studio - Matt Mullican




SOLO SHOWS

2022 - An Everlasting Gaze (curated by Guilherme Vilhena Martins), Störung Galerie - Berlin, DE

2020 - Linhas De Campo II, Egeu - Lisbon, PT
2019 - Deadlift, 289 Project Room - Faro, PT
2018 - Dreamhouse (Curated by Sandro Resende), Travessa da Ermida - Lisbon, PT
2018 - Unknown Structures / Unnamed Spaces, Foco Lisboa - Lisbon, PT

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2024 - Random (produced by Azan Space) - Lisbon, PT

2023 - Resort (curated by Guilherme Vilhena Martins), Magma Maria - Offenbach, DE

2023 - Various Forms of Sensitivity (curated by Michal Stochl), HYB4 Gallery - Prague, CZ

2023 - Alcazar (curated by Egeu), Alfaia - Loulé, PT

2023 - Pintura Sem Fim, Brotéria - Lisbon, PT

2022 - A Cor Das Nuvens, Alfaia - Loulé, PT

2022 - Splash! (curated by Hugo Cantegrel), Mono - Lisbon, PT

2021 - Details Of An Imaginary Universe (Artsemester ‘22), UMPRUM - Prague, CZ

2021 - Careful, The Floor is Wet (curated by Aude Vignac), Mono - Lisbon, PT

2021 - Da Terra á Lua a Pé (curated by Pedro Cabral Santo), Plataforma Revólver - Lisbon, P

2020 - I Will Take The Risk (Lisbon Art Weekend ‘20), Azan Space - Lisbon, PT
2019 - Sabotage, Galeria Trem - Faro, PT
2019 - Micro-clima, Galeria Valbom - Lisbon, PT
2019 - I Will Take The Risk (Curated by Carolina Trigueiros and Tomaz Hipólito), Azan Space - Lisbon, PT
2018 - This is Not a Lovesong (BFA), Historical Beer Factory - Faro, PT
2017 - Mr. Mov Videoart Festival, Santa Guillia Fine Art Academy - Brescia, IT



GRANTS AND AWARDS

2020/2022 - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Scholarship, PT

2019 - Carpediem / Millenium BCP Young Art Prize - Shortlisted, PT
2017 - Young Creators Award (IPDJ & CPAI) - Shortlisted, PT


RESIDENCIES

2021 - Mono - Lisbon, PT

2020 - Egeu - Lisbon, PT

COLLECTIONS

AZAN Collection - PT
Carpe Diem Editions - PT
Luis Ferreira Collection - PT
Private collections



OTHER PROJECTS

2022 - CIAC: Ciclo de Artes Visuais (guest lecturer), UAlg - Faro, PT

2020 - Carpe Diem: Editions, Excavo - London (Ontario), CAN

2017 - Outdoor: Jovens Artistas (Sandro Resende P28) - Faro, PT


PUBLICATIONS

2022 - Alcazar - Independent publication, PT

2022 - Interview - Gerador Magazine, PT 

2021 - Interview - Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine, AT

2021 - Entrevista a 471 Artistas (Sara & André) - Contemporânea Magazine, PT
2019 - Dose #3 - Independent publication, PT







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