Fernanda Fragateiro

Fernanda Fragateiro (1962, Montijo) trained between 1978 and 1987 at the António Arroio School of Decorative Arts, at AR.CO - Centro de Arte e Comunicação, and in sculpture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Lisbon. She held her first exhibition in 1987 and began collaborating regularly on editorial projects in the field of illustration. Her interdisciplinary practice reconfigures the experience of place through objects and interventions that aim to question the perception and meaning of space. Between sculpture, installation, ceramics, architecture, design and illustration, her three-dimensional works enter into dialogue with the surrounding space and with the presence of the viewer, collaborating regularly with architects, visual artists and performers. Fragateiro has developed projects for public spaces, sometimes subtle interventions, such as Paisagem Não-Paisagem, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2016; (Not) seeing, Mosteiro de Alcobaça, 2008; Eu espero, 5º Simpósio Internacional de Escultura Contemporânea de Santo Tirso, 1999; and Jardim das Ondas, created for Expo'98, Lisbon. Her public projects also include Concrete Poem, Vila Nova da Barquinha, 2012. Among other distinctions, she has received the Apertura Prize, Madrid, 2023; the Catalina D'Anglade Prize - ARCO Madrid, Spain, 2017; the AICA Prize, 2017; and the Tabaqueira Public Art Prize, Azores, 2001. She has exhibited solo and in group shows in Portugal and abroad, including Box to keep the void, at Culturgest, Lisbon, 2019; and Stones against diamonds, at NC-Arte, Bogotá, Colombia, 2014. She has 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 - Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; Serralves Foundation (Porto); Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Paris and London). Her work is represented in various public and private collections, including The Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Fundação “la Caixa”, Fundação de Serralves, Fundação EDP, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and the Berardo Museum Collection.

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