1989, São Paulo - BRAZIL
JANAINA WAGNER works across video, photography, scenography, drawing and installations. Her work aims to present a critical understanding of the ways in which humans impose systems of order and control upon their surroundings. Through the appropriation of history as presented through various forms of media, Wagner considers how notions of progress and legacy are articulated through a constellation of tales, facts, images and memories.

BA both in Fine Arts and in Journalism, and a middle school video teacher, many of Wagner’s references derives from the procedures through which mankind registers and articulates it’s progress and legacy. Journalism’s sociological bias functions for her as a manner of approaching the mechanisms that validate a story as a true one – a constellation of tales, facts and images. Janaina develops her plastic work in a “decoupage” process, rearticulating images and texts that are already inserted in media circulation. 

Currently on a PhD at Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains (FR), Janaina lives and works between Roubaix and São Paulo. 



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janaina.wg@gmail.com


Artist in residence: Janaina Wagner from Gasworks






FORMAÇÃO / EDUCATION


curently @ PHD LE FRESNOY - Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Tourcoing, France) + Centre d'Étude des Arts Contemporains - Le CEAC – Université de Lille

MA SPEAP - Programme d’Expérimentation en Arts Politiques
– SciencesPo (Paris, França)

PIMASP – Independent Program of Museu de Arte de São Paulo - MASP (São Paulo, Brazil)




RESIDÊNCIAS / RESIDENCES


2021     Gasworks (London, United Kingdom)

2021 VISIO -  European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images (Florence, Italy)

2021 Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Tourcoing, France)

2019 FID Campus - Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (Marseille, France)

2018 Curry Vavart (Paris, France)

2017 Pivô Pesquisa – Pivô (São Paulo, Brazil)

2016 RAM – Residência Artística Mutuca (Altamira, Brazil)

2016 Bolsa Pampulha (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

2015 Red Bull Station (São Paulo, Brazil)

2015 Casa Tomada + Fresh Milk Barbados (São Paulo, Brazil)

2014 Phosphorus (São Paulo, Brazil)

2013 COMO Clube (São Paulo, Brazil)

2013 NES (Skagastrond, Iceland)

2012 Anarcademia W139 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

2011 Projeto Experiência, Itaú Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil)




EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS / SOLO SHOWS


2018 With burning love - Villa Belleville (Paris, France)

2017 Floresta – Museu do Esquilo (Ibiuna, Brazil)


2016 Criatura – Oficina Cultural Oswald Andrade (São Paulo, Brazil)

2015 Decupagem/ Crônica de um final anunciado – Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto – MARP (Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)


FILM FESTIVALS / PRIZES 


2022 Festival do Rio - AWARD BEST SHORT FILM NOVOS RUMOS (Rio de Janeiro, BR)

2022 Las Palmas de Grand Canaria Film Festival - Short Film Competition – AWARD BEST SHORT FILM (La Palma, IC)

2022 Chaktomuk Short Film Festival - AWARD BEST SHORT FILM (Phnom Penh, KH)

2022 Festival Kino Arte de Cinema - AWARD FOR BEST SOUND (Londrina, BR)

2022 Antropocenicas – Conference + film projection - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, PT)

            2022  Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF (Bucharest, RO)

2022 IndieCork Festival (Cork, Ireland)

2022 29th Valdivia International Film Festival (Valdivia, Chile)

2022 Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (Georgia)

2022 Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona - Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Barcelona, ES)

              2022 25 FPS festival - Short Film Competition (Zagreb, SL)

           2022 Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK)

2022 Mostra Ecofalante – Latin America Competition (São Paulo, Belo Horizonte e Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

             2022 Helsinki Film Festival- Short Film Competition (Helsinki, Finland)

2022 Concorto Film Festival - Supernature, curated by Claudia Praolini (Concorto, Italy)

2022 Curtas Vila do Conde - Short Film Competition (Vila do Conde, Portugal)

2022 Ecrã Festival de Ciema Experimental - Short Film Competition (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

2022 Olhar de Cinema - Short Film Competition (Curutiba, Brazil)

2022 Short Waves Festival - Short Film Competition (Poznań, Poland)

2022 Vienna Shorts -  Short Film Competition (Vienna, Austria)

2022 Beira Film Festival (Rondônia, Brazil)

2022 Kino Otok International Film Festival (Isola, Slovenia)

2022 Kino Pavasaris – Vilnius International Film Festival - Short Film Competition (Vilnius, Lithuania)

2022 Glasgow Short Film Festival - Eco-Spectrality: Residual Fabulations (Glasgow, United Kingdom)

2022 Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes - Short Film Competition (Tiradentes, Brazil)

2020 Simultan Festival XV – Unseen (Timisoara, Romania)
             
2020 Emma Goldman Anarchist Film Festival (New York City, USA)

2019 FID Campus - Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (France)

2018 10 Semana de Cinema (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

2018  International Conference on Landscape and Cinema – Universidade de Letras de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)


EXPOSIÇÕES COLETIVAS / GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2022     Cão Elefante Lobo – Casa de Cultura do Parque (São Paulo, BR)

           2022   Vigília Revista Rosa – (São Paulo, Brasil)

2022     Ópera Citoplasmática – Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, Brazil)

2022 O cru e o cozido – Athena Contemporânea (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
 
 2022    Garganta - CIAJG - Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (Guimarães, Portugal)

2022 Aliens are temporary - Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Berlin, Germany)

2021     Thinking beyond: moving-images for a post-pandemic world – Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence, Italy)

2021 Super-Natural Lift the Veil – BPA Space (Colone, Germany)

2021 Super-Natural Untill the End – Masssimo Space (Milan, Italy)

2021 Super-Natural – Olhão (São Paulo, Brazil)

2021 Fuso Festival – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado (Lisbon, Portugal)

2021 Cuando no hay sombra es mediodía - Nube – Kiosko (Santa Cruz, Bolivia)

2021 A natural history of ruins - Pivô (São Paulo, Brazil)

2020     Casa Carioca – MAR Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

2020 The Vampire Squid From Hell – Hot-Bed (Philadelphia, USA)

2019 Começo de Século – Galeria Jaqueline Martins (São Paulo, Brazil)
2019 The Vampire Squid from Hell - Various Small Fires (Los Angeles, USA)

2019 Inauguração Oficial da Represa do Pacaembu - Casa Alagada (São Paulo, Brazil)

2018 International Conference on Landscape and Cinema – Universidade de Letras de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

2018 BIT - Biennale de l’Image Tangible – Plateforme (Paris, France)

2018 10 Semana de Cinema (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

2018 NES Artist Residency - 10 years alumni video exhibition, (Skagaströnd, Iceland)

2018 TRELA, Ateliê 397 (São Paulo, Brazil)

2018 Festival Mondes Possibles - Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (Paris, France)


2018 In Situ Tion - Festival Hors Piste - Centre Pompidou (Paris, França)

2017 Ensaio de Tração - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)

2017 Bestiário - Centro Cultural São Paulo - CCSP (São Paulo, Brazil)

2017 Mágica – 13 Festival VERBO de Performance – Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo, Brazil)

2017 Falência – Galeria Cavalo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

2017 De carne e ferro – Pivô (São Paulo, Brazil)

2017 Les entrées extraordinaires – Atelier W (Paris, France)

2017 VIII Prêmio Diário Contemporâneo de Fotografia – Casa das Onze Janelas (Belém, Brazil)

2017 Um Piano na Selva – Periscópio (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

2017 Bad Video Art Festival – A3 Gallery (Moscow, Russia)

2016 Mon cher Magma – Atelier W (Paris, France)

2016 Bolsa Pampulha – Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

2016 Mutuca – Museu de Arte da Mutuca (Altamira, Brazil)

2016 Permanências e Destruições – Torre H (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

2016 Esforço-Desempenho – Athena Contemporânea (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

2015 Hipótese e Horizonte – Observatório (São Paulo, Brazil)

2015 Galeria Transitória – Red Bull Station (São Paulo, Brazil)

2015 Despoxição ou rearranjo – Tofic House (São Paulo, Brazil)

2015 Concrete Matter – Warm (São Paulo, Brazil)

2015 Como diz o outro – Nice Cópias (São Paulo, Brazil)

2015 Ciclo de Pesquisas Casa Tomada – Casa Tomada (São Paulo, Brazil)

2014 Primeira – Warm (São Paulo, Brazil)

2014 4º Prêmio EDP nas Artes – Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, Brazil)

2014 Phosphorus – Phosphorus (São Paulo, Brazil)

2014 39º SARP – Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto - MARP (Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)

2014 Estado de Suspensão – Coletor (São Paulo, Brazil)

2014 32th Coopy RIghtOTs - 8. Salon (Hamburg, Germany)

2014 13º Salão de Arte Nacional de Jataí – MAC Jataí (Jataí, Brazil)

2014 aber-tura – Coletor (São Paulo, Brazil )

2013 XV Salão de Artes Visuais de Natal – FUNCARTE (Natal, Brazil)

2013 Projeto Multiplo #5 – Centro Cultural São Paulo - CCSP (São Paulo, Brazil)

2013 13º SNAI - Salão Nacional de Artes de Itajaí - Fundação Cultural de Itajaí (Itajaí, Brazil)

2013 20º Salão de Artes Plásticas de Praia Grande - Complexo Cultural

Palácio das Artes (Praia Grande, Brazil)


2013 The New York Art Book Fair – MoMA PS1 (New York, United States of America)

2013 Sangue Latino: 12 º Festival de Arte Serrinha – Paço das Artes (São Paulo, Brazil)

2013 Equivocábulos – MAB - Museu de Arte Brasileira (São Paulo, Brazil)

2013 Feira Plana, MIS – Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)

2013 NES Open Studios, NES (Skagaströnd, Iceland)

2012 Anarcademia, Kunstvlaai (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

2012 Anarcademia, W139 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

2012 Anarcademia: Fachada e Cineclube – Colaboração de “Imagens claras x ideias vagas”, de Dora Longo Bahia, Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo, Brazil)

2012 Rapidinha, Ateliê 397 (São Paulo, Brazil)

2012 TAZ Tu, Centro Cultural São Paulo - CCSP (São Paulo, Brazil)

2012 MIS-SIM, Museu da Imagem e do Som de Campinas - (Campinas, Brazil)