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Amanda Gatti (b. 1996, Porto Alegre, Brazil) is an artist and researcher based in Madrid, working across performance, installation, video, photography and writing. Her practice explores how we occupy — and are occupied by — the spaces around us, considering how bodies, objects and environments transform one another. Moving between domestic and urban environments, she often works with found objects, everyday materials, spatial arrangements and embodied actions to create temporary architectures and relational situations.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Scenic Practice and Visual Culture from Museo Reina Sofía/UCLM (Spain, 2023), with Distinction, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Production from PUCRS’s School of Communication, Arts and Design (Brazil, 2018). Her work has been presented at Museo Reina Sofía, Fundación Antonio Pérez, Galería Nueva and CRUCE, among other contexts, and includes Trayectoria, a performance commissioned by Art Madrid in 2026 and presented at the Galería de Cristal/Palacio de Cibeles. She has participated in residencies and research programmes including Index Freiraum (Switzerland), Live Art Ireland, La Casa Encendida and Azala Kreazio Espazioa (Spain).
Alongside her artistic practice, Gatti co-directs PÁR, an itinerant platform for experimental and critical practices around cinema and contemporary art. Her broader practice also includes teaching, writing and curating, with recent projects including Cine-Ciudad, a film programme exploring relationships between cinema and critical spatial practices.
currently:
September-November 2026
Index Freiraum COLLAB residency / fellowship recipient, with the artist Duarte Perry
Zürich, Switzerland
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CV
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
(2023) Museo Reina Sofía, UCLM (Spain)
Master’s Degree in Scenic Practice & Visual Culture – with Distinction
(2018) PPGAC UFRGS (Brazil)
Visiting Student - MFA, Discourses and Practices of Artistic Creation
(2015 - 2018) School of Communication, Arts and Design, PUCRS/BR
Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Production
(2017) Scholarship Santander Universities
Exchange Program in Art History at UJA (Spain)
(2016 – 2017) Research Fellowship FAPERGS / PROBIC
Quantified cinema: data visualisation as a support for the analysis of audiovisual content
with Prof. Dr. Roberto Tietzmann
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(Since 2024) Founding member, PÁR
Itinerant project that creates platforms for critical and experimental practices in cinema and contemporary art
Currently in Madrid, Spain
(2020 - 2023) Founding member, Collective Território de Rupturas
A remote investigation about the relationship between art and daily life
Brazil, Europe
(2014) Collaborating Artist
The performer's creation process: the search for organicity based on "contact improvisation"
Coordinated by Marcia Berselli, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
(2013) Collaborating Artist
Exploring a "Political Poetics" in Contemporary Public Space Performance
Coordinated by Evelise Mendes, UFRGS,Porto Alegre, Brazil
(2013) Member-researcher, Urban Intervention, Cia Stravaganza
Practical investigation in public spaces, Porto Alegre, Brazil
SOLO / SITE-SPECIFIC EXHIBITION
2023 Inventario (site-specific solo exhibition in artist’s home-studio), Lavapiés, Madrid
MA final project at the Reina Sofía Museum/UCLM
PERFORMANCES
2026 Trayectoria, Art Madrid'26 fair, Galería Cristal / Palacio Cibeles, Madrid, Spain
2025 La Plasti Ciudad Del Cuerpo #4, Galería Nueva, Madrid, Spain
2025 La Plasti Ciudad Del Cuerpo #3, CRUCE, Madrid, Spain
2025 Nos.Otros Work #2, Teatro Pradillo, Madrid, Spain
2024 La Plasti Ciudad Del Cuerpo #2, Acción Spring(t) Congress UCM, Madrid, Spain
2023 Escaparate, DT Scenic Area, Madrid, Spain
2023 La Plasti Ciudad Del Cuerpo #1, Fundación Antonio Pérez, Cuenca, Spain
2023 Nos.Otros Work #1, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2019 Carne Viva, Ocidente, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2019 Who's Next?, Ocidente, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016 Escape-Epacse, Casiere Gallery, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016 Eros Blue, Clube Silêncio, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2015 Radio-Activity, Acervo Independente, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2015 Radio-Activity, Clube Silêncio, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2015 Spring with me #2, Rua dos Andradas / public space, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2013 Spring with me #1, Praça da Alfândega / public space, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2013 Trash Island, II Gestão Urbana Sustentável, Palácio Farroupilha, Brazil
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2026 Lapidarios: una sessió expositiva i reproductiva de les pedres,
Entresol Primera, Barcelona, Spain
2025 Alto Bardo, Bardo Projektraum, Galería Nueva, Madrid, Spain
2025 Entre el color y el yo, CACO, Curated by Romina Llaguno, Tierra y Tiempo, Madrid, Spain
2025 Spatiotemporal - Architecture & Experimental Film Symposium/Exhibition, Charlotte, USA
2025 CRUCE 2054, CRUCE Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2024 La ciudad visible, la ciudad en juego (collab Monika Rikic), CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
2023 Estudios Abiertos, MPECV, Teatro Pradillo/Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2022 R4ch4dur4 (Territorio de Rupturas), Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2022 Tourist in your own home (Territorio de Rupturas), Astro, Berlin, DE
2022 No More Hot Air (Territorio de Rupturas), Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, UK
2021 #6 Mostra Sesc Cinema, Brazil
2021 #14 Mostra Play The Movie, Pernambuco, Brazil
2021 Exit BR Platform (Territorio de Rupturas), Europe
2021 Video art festival, #6 Timeline:BH (Territorio de Rupturas), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2021 Digital Notes (Territorio de Rupturas), Art Gene, England, UK
2021 Mov.Cidade Festival (Territorio de Rupturas), Espírito Santo, Brazil
2021 #3 Imaginários Urbanos Festival (Territorio de Rupturas), Fortaleza, Brazil
2021 Arte Postal Digital (Territorio de Rupturas), University of Pelotas, Brazil
2021 TRELA (Territorio de Rupturas), University of Pelotas, Brazil
2021 2055 (Territorio de Rupturas), UFBA, Bahia, Brazil
2020 Musicircus (Territorio de Rupturas), Kino Beat Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2020 SPMAV - Visual arts research seminar (Territorio de Rupturas), UFPel, Brazil
2018 #5 International Contemporary Art Fair, Museo Provincial Jaén, Spain
2017 Prémio Facultad Exhibition, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
2016 Escape, Casiere Gallery, Porto Alegre, Brazil
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS (PERFORMANCE / FILM / PHOTOGRAPHY)
2025 Deriva San Cristóbal / Festival Ídem, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2024 After Myself (Pedro Mendes), British Film Institute, London, UK
2023 Vanilla Underground, experimental short film (Pedro Mendes), Notodofilmfest Madrid, Spain
2022 My body is not your country (Marta Bonito), Camden People's Theatre, London, UK
2022 Body Polyphonies (Manuela Albrecht), Trinity Laban Dance Faculty, London, UK
2021 Amarelo Cárcere, experimental short film (Pedro Mendes), #6 Mostra Sesc Cinema, Brazil
2018 Natural (Alessandra Horn), Porto Alegre, Brazil
2018 Andorra (Nina DeLudemann), Goethe-Institut, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2018 Night of the Living Dead REDUX (Imitating The Dog), Porto Alegre Em Cena Festival, Brazil
2016 Persona, photo performance (collab Gustavo Razzera), Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016 Flowers, short film (Vado Vergara), Pocilga Filmes, Brazil
2016 Undressing the Prejudice (Falos&Stercus), Forum Social Mundial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2015 Esquizo-Estudo, short film (collab Mariah Philippe), Brazil
2015 Os quintais de Porto Alegre, Grant Funarte Artes na Rua, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2015 Solquegira.doc, Sala Alziro Azevedo UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2015 Solquegira.doc, Mostra Novas Caras, Sala Álvaro Moreyra, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2014 Cegos (Desvio Coletivo), Palco Giratório SESC, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2014 A Inauguração (Evelise Mendes), Festival de Teatro de Rua de Porto Alegre, Brazil
2014 A Liberdade Veste Preto, experimental short film (João Suriz), Porto Alegre, Brazil
2013 Ilha dos Amores (Falos&Stercus), Porto Alegre Em Cena Festival, Brazil
2013 Circuito Intervenção Urbana (Cia Stravaganza), Palco Giratório SESC, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2013 A Inauguração (Evelise Mendes), UFRGS/Largo Glênio Peres, Brazil
2013 Pingos e Pigmentos (Rita Aquino), Palco Giratório SESC, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2013 Padox dans la citè (Compagnie Dominique Houdart), Festival de Teatro de Rua POA, Brazil
RESIDENCIES / GRANTS / PRIZES / FELLOWSHIPS
2026 Index Freiraum COLLAB residency / fellowship, Zürich, Switzerland
2025 Experimenta/Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2025 Residency Live Art Ireland, Milford House / Borrisokane, Ireland
2025 Lab 'Maneras de hacer ciudad', The Other City, Madrid, Spain
2023 Residency Azala Kreazio Espazioa, Lasierra, Spain
2021 2nd Prize, MoV.Cidade Film Festival, Espírito Santo, Brazil
2021 Iberescena Program Grant (2020/2021), Brazil–Portugal
2021 Cultural Grant, Secretary of Culture of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2020 FAC Digital RS Grant (Aldir Blanc Law), Brazil
2018 Residency Odin Teatret, Brasília, Brazil
2018 Residency Imitating The Dog (Performance and Technology), CCMQ, Brazil
2017 2nd Prize in Photography, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
2017 Santander Universities Scholarship, Spain
2016-2017 FAPERGS Research Fellowship, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2013 Residency Falos & Stercus — Performance art in public spaces, Porto Alegre, Brazil
CURATION / JURY / PRODUCTION / MEDIATION
2026 Guest juror, course “Collaborative design studio” at IE University, Segovia, Spain
2025 Curatorial text, Soplar Las Velas, Camila Carreira solo exhibition, La Juan Gallery, Spain
2025 Founder/Curator, Cine-Ciudad, CCCQS, Madrid, Spain
2024 Founder/Curator, Cine-Ciudad film club, Madrid, Spain
2024 Coordinator/Producer, MAYRIT 2024 - Architecture & Design Biennial, Madrid, Spain
2023 Mediator, Escarbar a Oscuras, BBAA UCLM, Cuenca, Spain
2021 Manager/Mediator, Borders Territory of Investigation (Virtual), SEDAC RS/BR
2019 Jury, Açorianos de Dança Awards category "New media", Porto Alegre, Brazil
2019 Producer, #21 National Congress of Architecture, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2019 Production Assistant, #6 Kino Beat Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2018 Production Assistant, #5 Kino Beat Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2017 Production Assistant, #4 Kino Beat Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016 Curator/Mediator, All women in cinema Festival, Casa Peirô, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016 Curator, Audiovisual em Curso, Cine Esquema Novo Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016 Manager, III Encontro TECCINE, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2015 Producer/Mediator, MOUC Festival, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2015 Manager, II Encontro TECCINE, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
TEACHING
2023 Guest facilitator, Clube de Zanzantes, PPGAC UFRGS, Brazil/Spain
2022 Guest facilitator, Arqueologias Afetivas, Póvoa de Santa Iria, Portugal
2021 Facilitator, Becoming Action: Body & Memory #virtual, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 Facilitator, Becoming Action: Body & Memory #virtual, Rodamoinho, Farroupilha, Brazil
2019 Facilitator, Povera Collage & Animation, Centro Cultural UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2017 Facilitator, Tree of Life Movements, National Philosophy Marathon, PUCRS, Brazil
2016 Facilitator, Povera Collage & Animation, Casa Peirô, Porto Alegre, Brazil
TALKS / ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS / INTERVIEW
2024 Acción Spring(t) Congress, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2023 Escarbar a oscuras, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, Spain
2020 Artist talk O artista-produtor masterclass, Companhia de Solos, virtual, Brazil
2017 Researcher talk Speak Out! International experiences, PUCRS, Brazil
2017 Researcher talk #185 PUCRS Magazine, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016 Artist talk Born in Flames / Pipoca de Bolso, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016 17th Scientific Initiation Salon (SIC), PUCRS, Brazil
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARTIST TEXTS
GATTI, Amanda, text Ciudad
Book Barrio(s), organized by Centro de Creación Contemporánea Quinta del Sordo
2026 / Madrid, Spain upcoming
GATTI, Amanda, poetic essay Azul Revelado on Caco Magazine
2025 / Madrid, Spain
GATTI, Amanda, article "Deriva Transversal - Where cities meet"
Book Imaginários Urbanos: desobediências poéticas
ISBN: 978.65.5556.194.4
2021 / Fortaleza, Brazil
SELECTED ARTICLE / REVIEW / PRESS
DEL PILAR, Sara, LLAGUNO, Romina, The Body in Trajectory, by Amanda Gatti for Art Madrid 2026
published on March 26th 2026 on Caco Magazine
Qué hacer en Madrid este fin de semana (5–8 marzo): Semana del Arte
published on March 5th 2026 on Diario de Madrid
WEB ARCHIVE
ARTEA Archive / Artists, Spain