In April we are thrilled to welcome an artist from Portugal Catarina Real!

Catarina works at the intersection of artistic practice and theoretical research in the expanded fields of painting, writing and choreography, mostly in long-term collaborative projects that address the question of how we can live better collectively.

She is a doctoral student at the Center for Humanistic Studies at the University of Minho with research that crosses art, love and capital. She maintains a practice of commenting - in the form of reflective texts, introductory texts to exhibitions, interviews and moderating conversations - on the works and processes carried out by artists in her generational group, with the intention of contributing to a healthy environment of criticism and collective and community creation. She has been vice-president of the French association Artistes en Résidence since 2019 and editor at Edições da Ruína since 2022.

During her residency at Studija she will work on her project Biography of a Goddess (Biografia de uma Deusa), a visual and video poetry project that takes language as a political tool and looks for new grammars to access other possible realities.

Together with Gundega Melberga, Catarina will lead two workshops - on April 17 (for children) and on April 26 (for adults).
Stay tuned for more information. 

The residency is supported by Valsts Kultūrkapitāla Fonds.