Finisterra (2018) by Joana Vasconcelos
© Fred Ernst/Courtesy Kunsthal Rotterdam
Joana Vasconcelos lives and works in Lisbon. She has been exhibiting
regularly since the mid-1990s. Her work became known internationally
after her participation in the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, with the work A
Noiva [The Bride] (2001-05). Her creations question women’s place in the
contemporary world by honoring Portugal’s artisanal
traditions and know-how.
She is the first woman and the youngest artist to exhibit
at the Palace of Versailles, in 2012. Highlights of her
career include a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao, the project Trafaria Praia, for the
Pavilion of Portugal at the 55th Venice Biennale;
the participation in the group exhibition The World
Belongs to You at the Palazzo Grassi/François Pinault
Foundation, Venice (2011); and her first retrospective,
held at the Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2010).
JOANA
VASCONCELOS
