Ana Mendes
□ Stay in 2019
□ E-mail : E-mail | ana@anamendes.com
□ URL : www.anamendes.com
Education
2018 Project Studies for Professional Artists, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, SWE
2010/11 MA in Writing for Performance, Goldsmiths College (Merit award)
1991/6 Degree in Media Studies, University of Beira Interior, POR, grade B (5 years)
2012 Bauhaus University, Fine Arts and Photography, guest student, Weimar, GER
2008 Animation Film, La Poudriere ecole du film d’animation, Valence, FRA (4 months)
Selected Solo Exhibition
2021 The People’s Collection, Arprim, Montreal, CAN (upcoming)
2019 Kinky, Chelsea College Arts, Telephone Box Gallery, London, UK
Artificial Nature, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, KO
2018 Statements, Platform Arts, Belfast, UK
2017 a tale of Europeans, Natural History Museum, Vienna, AUT
a tale of Europeans, Universalmuseum Joanneum/Natural History Museum, AUT
a tale of Europeans, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, GER
On Drawing, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, GER
The People’s Collection Akademie Schloss Solitude/Linden Museum Stuttgart, GER
2015 This is My God, The Albany Theatre, London, UK
2013 This is My God, Kana Theatre Gallery, PLN
Selected Group Exhibition
2019 ADAGP MAD Artist Revelation Award, Paris, FRA
Artificial Nature, Nordic Art Association, Stockholm, SWE
Collectively, Iaspis, Stockholm, SWE
Sternbildgrenzen, Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek/Universalmuseum
Joanneum, Graz, AUT
2018 Lebt, Kunsthalle Zurich, CH
Project Anywhere, Biennial Conference, Parsons School, NY, USA
Drawing Forum, Drawing Room, London, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize, UK tour, UK (Cat.)
Drawing, scanning, (body)mapping, Agency Gallery, London, UK
2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, UK (Cat.)
Iaspis Open Haus, Iaspis, Stockholm, SWE
Mac International Ulster Bank Prize, The MAC, Belfast, UK
Festival of the Regions, Eferding, AUT
2016 No Walls, Friday Exit, Vienna, AUT
Frame It, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AUT (Cat.)
L’intru (Invaders), Errant Bodies and Lage Egal, Berlin, GER (Cat.)
Performing Arts Festival, Berlin, UK
SommerFest, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE
Nordkraft 16, juried exhibition, Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, DKN (Cat.)
Art and Language Location, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
2015 Heckle, Bosse and Baum Art, London, UK
L’Intru (Invaders), Friday Exit and nadaLokal, Vienna, AUT
From East to the Barbican, The Barbican Centre, London, UK
Domestic II, Matthias Court, Salford, UK
L’Intru (Invaders), Rich Mix, London, UK
2014 Festival Ostermin, ZK/U, Berlin, GER
This is My God, Basement, Berlin, GER
Watch & Talk Revisited, Belluard International Festival, Fribourg, CHE
Emergency Platform, Manchester, UK
2013 Never Odd or Even, Palindrome, Team Titanic, Berlin, GER
Believe it or Not, ACC Gallery, Weimar, GER (Cat.)
Score, Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast, ILR
2012 God Factor, Monastery of Tibães, Braga, POR
Lift-off, Lift Gallery, Greensboro College, USA
Intercept 2:7, Multiplexer, LA, USA
With Criminal Energy: Art and Crime 21st Century, ACC Gallery, Weimar, GER (Cat.)
The Big Idea, Peter Robertson Gallery, Alberta, CAN
Rapid Pulse Festival, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, USA
2011 Amsterdam Fringe Festival, NLD
Future MESS, Saravejo, Bosnia (Cat.)
Enlightened City, Stam Museum, Gent, BEL
Body Culture, Museum of Coventry, Coventry, UK
Body Culture, Bath Royal Literary Scientific Society, Bath, UK
2010 The One Minute Foundation, CAM, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, POR
Selected Awards / Honors
2019 ADAGP MAD Artist Revelation Award, finalist, ADAGP, Paris, FRA (August)
IASPIS (Swedish Visual Arts Grants Committee) International grant, Sweden (April)
2018 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, residency grant. Seoul, KOR (December)
IASPIS (Swedish Visual Arts Grants Committee) International grant, Sweden (May)
Artist International Development Grant, Arts Council England/British Council (April)
a-n (artist information company) visual arts bursary, winner, London, UK (March)
Frieze Artist Award NY 2018, shortlist, New York, USA (February)
Chaiya Art Awards 2018, finalist, Chaiya Art, London, UK (February)
2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, second prize winner, London, UK (September)
Evelyn Williams Drawing Award, shortlist, Jerwood Space, London, UK (September)
2016 Special Mention Prize Jury, winner, MATT Museum/Fuso Festival, Lisbon, POR (August)
MAC International 2016, finalist, The MAC, Belfast, UK (July)
Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian International Grant, Lisbon, POR (November)
Nordkraft 16, finalist, Nordkraftudstillingen, Aalborg, DKN (July)
Discovery Award, shortlist, Loop Barcelona, Video Art, ES (April)
2015 Athens Photo Festival, selection, Athens, GRC (April)
Akademie Schloss Solitude, fellowship, 2015/16 (March)
2014 Emergentes International New Talents Award, shortlist, Encontros Imagem, Braga, POR
2013 Prize of the Jury Sophiensaele, winner, Festival 100º Berlin, GER
2012 Lift-Off, second prize winner, Lift Art Gallery, Greensboro College, USA
PACT Zollverein, Grant Symposium Impact 2012, Essen, GER (October)
Act-Arriaga Award, winner, Act Performing Arts Festival, Bilbao, ESP (June)
2010 Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian Fellowship, Lisbon, POR
City of Albufeira Literary Award, winner, Albufeira, POR (May)
2009 Berlinale Talent Campus, selection, Berlin, GER (February)
2008 ‘This is not a competition’, co-winner, Artistas Unidos, Lisboa, POR
2008 Virus Prize, Festival of Animation Film and Illustration, POR
2007 Special prize of the Jury, Literarius Award, Racal Club, Silves, POR
2006 Neon Prize, first prize winner, Corta! International Short Film Festival Porto, POR
Selected Residencies
2019 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, KOR (3 months)
Nordic Guest Studio at Malongen, Nordic Art Association, Stockholm, SWE
2018 Est-Nord-Est Residence, Quebec, CAN (2 months)
2017 Iaspis/Swedish International Grants Arts Committee, SWE (4 months)
Artist-in-Residence Krems, Krems, AUT (1 month)
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, GER (2 months)
2016 Akamedie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, GER (6 months)
Artist in Residency Styria, Graz, AUT (4 months)
2015 Residence Tanzquartier Vienna, AUT (1 week)
Arc Artist Residence, Romanmotier, CHE (1 month)
2014 Writer in Residency City of Vienna 2014, Kulturkontakt Austria (2 months)
Residence Festival Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg, CHE (1 week)
Residence Maison des Arts George Pompidou, Cajarc, FRA (8 weeks)
2013 Residence Festival Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg, CHE (1 week)
2012 18th International Residency Program, ACC Gallery, City Weimar, GER (6 month)
2010 Make Residence, Theatre Forum of Ireland et al, IRL (1 week)
Curatorial Projects
2019 Artificial Nature, Nordic Art Association, Stockholm, SWE
2017 On Drawing, Lage Egal and Ausland, Berlin, GER
2016 L’intru (Invaders), Errant Sound and Lage Egal, Berlin, GER
2015 L’intru (Invaders), Rich Mix, London, UK
L’intru (Invaders), FridayExit and nadaLokal, Vienna, AUT
Selected Festivals / Screenings
2017 Open Screening, Whitechapel, London, UK
Fest Curtas Film Festival, Belo Horizonte, BRA
2016 Kasseler DokFest, Kassel, GER
Fuso - video-art festival, MAAT Museum, Lisbon, POR
2013 Formentera Film Festival, Formentera, ES
2012 Lago Film Festival, Torre del Lago, ITA
Miden Festival, Miden, GRC
2010 One Minutes Festival, Arau, CHE
Artist Talks
2018 Ecole des Metiers des Arts, Quebec, CAN
2017 IASPIS, Stockholm, SWE
Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, AUT
2016 Forum Stadt Park, Graz, AUT
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
2011 Flare Festival, Manchester, UK
Lectures / Workshops
2018 Biennial Conference, Project Anywhere, Parsons School Art, NY, USA
Lecture On Drawing, Science Festival, Edge Arts, University of Bath, UK
Lecture On Drawing, Project Anywhere, Parsons School, NY, USA
Lecture The extended mind, Drawing Room, London UK
2016 Conference Art and Language Location, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
2015 Workshop Performance, PAD - Performance Arts Festival, Mainz, GER
2013 Workshop Performance and video, Act – Performing Arts Festival, Bilbao, ESP
2012 Workshop Performance, Superior School of Arts and Design, Caldas Rainha, POR
2011 Conference Writing for Stage, Superior School of Theatre and Cinema, Lisbon, POR
2009 Workshop Scriptwriting and filmmaking, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, POR
Academic Jobs
Since Peer-reviewer University Arts Stockholm, SWE
2015 Peer-reviewer KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SWE
Other Jobs
2019 Advisory-board, International Fellowship program, Foundation Calouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon, POR
Publications
BOOKS PUBLISHED
Mendes, Ana, The People’s Collection (London: 2018) (artist book)
Mendes, Ana, Uma Mesa são Tábuas (Lisbon: Imprensa Canalha, 2008)
Mendes, Ana, Adeus, até Breve (Lisbon: Ulmeiro Publishers, 2001)
ANTHOLOGIES
Mendes, Ana, ‘The Lake’, Artistas Unidos Magazine, 4 (Lisbon: Artistas Unidos, 2009)
Mendes, Ana, ‘The Stave’, Continental Book, (Zurich: Milk & Vodka Publishers, 2007)
Mendes, Ana, ‘O Pastor’, Contos de Algibeira (Porto Alegre: Edit. Casa Verde, 2007)
Mendes, Ana, Le Bocal Portugais (Paris: Gare au Théâtre, 2002)
Catalogue
2018 Festival of the Regions 2017, Eferding, AUS
2017 Iaspis Open Haus, Iaspis, Stockholm, SWE
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, UK
2016 Meanwhile, Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna, AUT
NKR 14, Nordkraftudstillingen, Aalborg, DKN
2015 L’intru (Invaders), Rich Mix, London, UK
2013 Believe it or Not, ACC Gallery, Weimar, GER
2012 Mit Krimineller Energie Kunst und Verbrechen, ACC Gallery, Weimar, GER
2008 The One Minutes Foundation Lisbon Workshop, The One Minute Foundation/
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, POR (DVD)
Blogs
Collections
ACC Gallerie, Weimar, GER
Greensboro College, USA
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, GER
Maison des Artes Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, FRA
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, POR
Private collections in Germany and France
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