About
Dandara Catete
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1992)
Lives & works in Madrid
Dandara explores poetic readings of the daily life, using elements from the domestic environment and the routine. Her production focuses on sculpture and installation, although she also works with painting, video and performance. Her research is based on the material quality of things, re-signifying them and investigating their symbolic aspects.
She occasionally works as a curator, and was the founder and Creative Director of the Jardim Suspenso Art Residency and Festival, an open-air contemporary art and music event (2011-2016) held in forested areas of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2023, she produces and hosts a cooking/interview show with artists who live and work in Madrid.
CV
Education
2019 | Comunidad de Madrid research group "En los márgenes del arte: Ensayando comunidades" (Madrid)
2011 - 2015 | Wesleyan University (CT-USA)
2009 - 2011 | Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (RJ-Brazil)
Grants & Awards
2024 | Ayudas a la Creación en Artes Visuales
(Comunidad de Madrid)
Ayudas a la Creación Contemporánea
(Ayuntamiento de Madrid)
2016 | Favela Criativa - Residência Artística e Mostra de Artes Jardim Suspenso
2015 | Jessup Prize for promise in the field of Visual Arts.
Exhibitions
2024
Arquitectura de barrio – Producer/curator, Biblioteca BBAA, Complutense University (Madrid, Spain)
2023
Intersticios – Group show, La Parcería - (Madrid, Spain)
Buencaldo – Season 1, YouTube channel
Acciones Complementarias – Arquitectura de barrio workshop, Biblioteca BBAA, Complutense University (Madrid, Spain)
2022
Salzuburger Kunstverein – Bundesstadt Residency (Salzburg, Austria)
Tres hombres Un pez – Solo show, Usera (Madrid, Spain)
Torre de Babel – Solo show, Alimentación 30 (Madrid, Spain)
Tunnel Vision – Group show, Rumpelstiltskin Gallery
(New York, USA)
2021
La noche de los libros – Group show with Familia Editions, Galería Nueva (Madrid, Spain)
Aragon Park – Group show, Coslada (Madrid, Spain)
Nudo-Nido – Group show. Sala de Arte Joven (Madrid, Spain)
Por la raíz – Performance event. Espacio Paco Martín, La Pelubrería (Madrid, Spain)
2020
Aragon Park – Group show, Coslada (Madrid, Spain)
Lenta Explosión de una Semilla - OTR Espacio de Arte (Madrid)
2019
Mi barrio de los sueños – Taller educativo, Papelería Librería Pencil (Madrid)
Residencia Tabacalera Cantera – Tabacalera Promoción del Arte (Madrid)
Dandara Catete en #vitrina – marcablanca (Madrid)
VOTOX ¡Que viene la ultraderecha! - Exposición colectiva, ABM Confecciones (Madrid)
NO EXPO XXL – Exposición colectiva, ABM Confecciones (Madrid)
2018
Latin Reconquista: La colonia Contraataca - ABM Confecciones (Madrid)
Lo que permanece oculto - OTR Espacio de Arte (Madrid)
Visual Research Network, University of Manchester
2011-2016
Creative Director - Jardim Suspenso Residency and Festival
(Rio de Janeiro)
2015
Amorfo, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (CT-USA)
2014
Novas Poéticas, UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro)
CALLE+Art, Lavapiés (Madrid)
2013
Where were you? Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery (CT-USA)
Overlay, Davison Art Center (CT-USA)
2012
Curral, The Black Square Gallery (Rio de Janeiro)