Fernanda Fragateiro

Fernanda Fragateiro (1962, Montijo) graduated from the António Arroio School of Decorative Arts, AR.CO - Centre for Art and Communication, and in Sculpture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes [School of Fine Arts], in Lisbon, between 1978 and 1987. She held her first exhibition in 1987, starting a regular collaboration in editorial projects in the field of illustration. Her interdisciplinary practice reconfigures the experience of the place through objects and interventions that aim to question the perception and the meaning of the space. Among sculpture, installation, ceramics, architecture, design and illustration, her three-dimensional works dialogue with the space where they are inserted and with the presence of the spectator, having, in this sense, the regular collaboration of architects, plastic artists and performers. Fragateiro has developed projects for public spaces, sometimes subtle interventions, such as the work Jardim das Ondas, created for Expo'98, Lisbon. Among her public projects are also Eu espero, a work created for the 5th International Symposium of Contemporary Sculpture of Santo Tirso, 1999; Desenho suspenso, Pisão Natural Park, Cascais, 2011; or Concrete Poem, Vila Nova da Barquinha, 2012. Among other distinctions, she received the Tabaqueira's Prize for Public Art, Azores, 2001; the AICA Prize, 2017, by the International Association of Art Critics/Ministry of Culture, Portugal; and the Catalina D'Anglade Prize - ARCO Madrid, Spain, 2017. She has exhibited individually and in collective exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, which include the retrospective Quarto a céu aberto at Culturgest, Lisbon, 2003 and Stones against diamonds at NC-Arte, Bogotá, Colombia, 2014. She has also exhibited at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Contemporanea in Rome; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University (Cambridge); Bronx Museum (New York); Dublin Contemporary; MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City); Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago de Compostela); CaixaForum (Barcelona); Anozero - Biennial of Contemporary Art of Coimbra; Triennial of Architecture of Lisbon; Serralves Foundation (Porto); Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Paris and London). Her work is represented in several public and private collections, including The Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Fundación Marcelino Botín, "la Caixa" Foundation, Serralves Foundation, EDP Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and Museu Berardo Collection.

CB, outubro 2020