About Anabela Veloso Art Practice

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I tend to look into relations and how they shape the social and the political: kinship, friendship, religious communities, identity-belonging and place-based connectedness. The research I have been developing takes subjective figures like the friend, the neighbour, and most recently, the pen pal and amplifies them into collectivity.

I pursue their entry points to understand, deconstruct and propose imagined possibilities using research and language that can be shared as community practices or add a critical voice in a white cube installation. A case of the latter is Armandina Ferreira, a piece that narrates my grandmother's life while expanding to a portrait of women during the Portuguese dictatorship. I hemmelighed jeg har det som blommen i et æg, a community work in/for Otterup, takes archival stories of past citizens to question prevailing individualistic teenage ways of being.

These days, I am focusing on the figure of the friend — relating to one another more than family, religion and co-belonging in the same place or identity. I have decided to partner with others — feeding the investigation into the partnership itself and the possible-produced work.

I hold an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under the School of Conceptual and Contextual Practices, a Minor in Art, Writing and Research and a BFA from the Oporto Faculty of Fine Arts. I had exhibits and performances in Portugal, Denmark, Malmö, and Austria standing out circled, around - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, DK (2023), Afgang2022 - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, DK (2022), Spaces (in) Between - Thorvaldsens Museum, DK (2022), Memory Play - Ustillingsstedet Q, DK (2020), Lighting up - Tanzquartier Wien, AT (2015) and Colectivo - Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, PT (2014). I also explore the public space, having intervened at The Lure of the Local - Kimen Ørestad (2021), REMA 1000 – meget mere kunst! - REMA 1000 Søndermarken, DK (2021) and more recently i hemmelighed jeg har det som blommen i et æg - Otterup Municipality, DK (2023).

collective shows

Upcoming

2025
LAFB25 festival
Skjold Contemporary, Boldklubben, DK

2025
New Performance Turku Biennale
Turku, FI

2025
Halbes Schloss
Tag des offenen Denkmals, Langenleuba-Niederhain, DE

Past

2024
1,2,3 Playtime
Inter Arts Center - Lund University, Malmo, SE

2024
APERTO
Fondazione Antonio Ratti - CSAV,Como, IT

2024
Tiny Park Festival
Royal Institute of Art - Gröndal, Stockholm, SE

2023
O meu corpo é o teu corpo
CAPC, Coimbra, PT

2023
The flavour of Malmö
FAMN publishing, Malmö, SE

2022
Afgang 2022
Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK

2022
Spaces (in) Between
Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, DK

2022
Rundgang 2022
Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen, DK

2021
Pulsar 2021
Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, DK

2021
The Lure of The Local
Public Art - Kimen (Zenøen) Ørestad, Copenhagen, DK

2021
REMA 1000 – meget mere kunst!
Pulic Art intervention - REMA 1000 Søndermarken, Copenhagen, DK

2021
Rundgang 2021
Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen, DK

2020
Rundgang 2020
hybrid show - tiredofwalkingalone.anabelaveloso.com and Copenhagen, DK

2020
Sonic, Social, Distance and Soundtracks for Strange Days
online publication: compilation Part 2 at sonicfield.org

2020
more copenhagen to copenhagen
online publication: newmodels.io

2016
e como estrelas/ duplas/ consanguíneas, luzimos de um para o outro/ nas trevas
mARTE, Barcelos, PT

2015
Prémio Aquisição FBAUP
FBAUP Museum, Porto, PT

2015
UMA
Galeria Painel, Porto, PT

2015
Understatement
Centro de Memória, Vila do Conde, PT

2015
Fui para Timbuktu
FBAUP Museum, Porto, PT

2015
Rundgang 2015
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, AU

solo shows

2023
i hemmelighed jeg har det som blommen i et æg
Public Art intervention - Otterup municipality, DK

2023
Armandina Ferreira
Don't look at me gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2020
Memory Play - a familiar category in life
in collaboration with participants from the Memory Play Workshop
Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, DK

2020
Advent
online publication: temporary online show

2015
Alguém p’ra apagar
Espaço Mira Armazém 3, Porto, PT

2014
Qual é a coisa qual é ela, que foi feita pela Anabela?
Casa da Imagem, Vila Nova de Gaia, PT

2012
Zoom - há sete anos, a toque de caixa
Zoom - cultural association booth, Barcelos, PT

performances

2023
Talvez
- with Soroosh Moghadam
Gallerihelg: Rehearsals of [other] realities - Gruppuställning, Malmö, SE

2023
circled around - gathering
Kunsthall Charlottenborg (cinema room), Copenhagen, DK

2022
being suspicious
- in collaboration with Sarah Buchner
Spaces (in) Between - Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, DK

2021
Talvez
- with Osman
Rundgang 2021 - Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen, DK

2020
elpis
Pulsar 2020 - Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, DK

2015
lighting up
Tanzquartier Dance Festival - Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, AU

2014
colectivo
- with Hugo Oliveira, Pedro Huet, Ricardo Nogueira and Sara Graça
sintoma - Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, PT

2013
recreio
sintoma - Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, PT

2013
com John Grzinich
- with John Grzinich, Inês Abrunhosa, Pedro Huet, Pedro Tudela, Ricardo Nogueira and Sara Graça
FBAUP Museum, Porto, PT

publications

2025
There is no line in Lake Como
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, CSAV, Italy
Contributor: Artistic Writing (Wrote 2 artistic texts, 12 pages)

2024
1,2,3 Playtime
Inter Arts Center, Lund University, Sweden
Report No. 1, ISBN 978-91-531-2612-6 (print), 978-91-531-2613-3 (digital). Contributor: Artistic Writing (Wrote a text on the works “3 bichos da traça” and “ponto sem nó”, pp. 76–79)

2024
O Meu Corpo é o Teu Corpo
Exhibition Catalogue, Curated by Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro
Contributor: 10 pages dedicated to the work “Armandina Ferreira”, including a combination of previously written texts and photographs

GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2024
Artists’ Research Laboratory with Ibon Aranberri
Microclima Variabile, CSAV
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT

2024
Statens Kunstfond - Danish Art Foundation
Arbejde Legat - working grant, DK

2023
Statens Kunstfond - Danish Art Foundation
Exhibition and Work Production, DK

2022
Birgit Vibeke Toft’s mindefond
Cultural purposes, internship in fine arts, DK

2016
New Geographies - artist in residence
CTM Berlin - Festival for Adventurous Music and Art, Berlin, GE

2015
Prémio Aquisição FBAUP
Bachelor award at Oporto University, PT

education

2023-2024
Post Graduation
Of Public Interest
Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, SE

2019-2022
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
The School of Conceptual and Contextual Practices
The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Schools of Visual Arts, Copenhagen, DK

2019-2022
Minor in Art, Writing and Research
Institute for Art, Writing and Research
The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Schools of Visual Arts, Copenhagen, DK

2023-2024
Art and Politics - On Friendship and the Political ImaginaryArt and Politics - On Friendship and the Political Imaginary
HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design,
University of Gothenburg, SE

2011-2015
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Multimedia Art
Faculty of Fine Art, Oporto University, Porto, PT

2014-2015
Performance Art (BA)
Erasmus+ Exchange
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, AU

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