• BIO

    Analize Nicolini (Cacoal, Rondônia, Brazil, 1974) is an artist, curator, modern and contemporary art critic, researcher, and founder of BraSA.Art....

    Analize Nicolini (Cacoal, Rondônia, Brazil, 1974) is an artist, curator, modern and contemporary art critic, researcher, and founder of BraSA.Art. Based between Brazil and Italy, her practice brings together artistic production, curatorial work, writing, and institution-building, with a particular interest in South America as a specific critical field of artistic production, circulation, and thought.

     

    Born in the Brazilian Amazon, she develops research focused on representation, self-representation, dissident bodies, normativity, memory, discard, systems of value, technology, and the politics of looking. A cis intersex woman, Nicolini does not approach this condition as an isolated identity marker, but as a situated critical position from which she examines how bodies, images, and narratives are framed, mediated, legitimized, or refused within contemporary cultural structures.

     

    She works with photography, video, performance, installation, sound, sculpture, text, and exhibition protocols, treating documentation, mediation, and circulation as constitutive dimensions of the work itself. In works such as Minha História Deixa Que Eu Conto, Nas Feridas Que Eu Alcanço, If You Need Art to Act, Pequenos Grandes Traumas, and Insistir em Existir, her practice engages narrative sovereignty, visibility, spatial normativity, care, collective responsibility, and material persistence.

     

    As a curator and researcher, she develops exhibitions, curatorial platforms, and public programmes centered on listening, shared presence, the circulation of South American artists, and the building of institutional contexts more open to tensions between image, language, territory, residue, and technology. Her curatorial projects include Anedotas sobre Origem (Venice, 2019), Daqui de Onde Estou (Venice, 2022), and AQUI ONDE ESTOU — resto, risco, ruína e rastro (Curitiba, 2025). Since 2025, she has also developed the ongoing artistic-curatorial occupation Insistir em Existir / Existir em Insistir — a room for at SOMA – People & Culture in Curitiba, within which she presented the solo exhibition Insistir em Existir: Protocolos de um Ateliê Público (2026).

     

    Since 2025, in dialogue with SOMA – People & Culture, she has also organized public programming in Curitiba, including a film screening, an artist conversation, and a public lecture with Jonathas de Andrade across different institutional spaces in the city.

     

    Her background includes a B.A. in Economics, postgraduate studies in Marketing, studies in Contemporary Art History and Environmental Humanities at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, training in inclusive curatorial practices at Node Center, a residency at School for Curatorial Studies Venice, curatorial studies at the University of the Arts London, and postgraduate coursework in modern and contemporary art criticism and curatorship at Parque Lage School of Visual Arts / IUPERJ Cândido Mendes, with certificate of attendance and coursework completed, but no degree awarded due to the final monograph not being submitted.

     

    Her works and series include Luzes do Leblon (2018–2019), Ending in Venice (2019–), Xingamentos (2022), Por uma Nova Ordem Mundial (2022), Nas Feridas Que Eu Alcanço (2022), Minha História Deixa Que Eu Conto (2024–), If You Need Art to Act (2024/2026), Pequenos Grandes Traumas (2025), and Projeto Neon (2021–). She is also the author of Luzes do Leblon (2019) and Solteira no Século 21 — Ode ao Amor sem dono (2018).

  • CV

    ANALIZE NICOLINI
    Cacoal, Rondônia, Brazil, 1974
    Artist, curator, modern and contemporary art critic, researcher, and founder of BraSA.Art
    Based between Brazil and Italy


    PROFILE

    Analize Nicolini is a Brazilian artist, curator, critic, and researcher whose practice articulates artistic production, curatorial work, writing, and public programming. Working between Brazil and Italy, she investigates representation, self-representation, dissident bodies, normativity, memory, discard, systems of value, technology, and the politics of looking, often through the relation between body, city, social structure, and political imagination. She works with photography, video, performance, installation, sound, sculpture, text, and exhibition protocols, treating documentation, mediation, and circulation as constitutive dimensions of the work itself. Her curatorial and research interests also engage South America as a specific critical field of artistic production, circulation, and thought.


    INDEPENDENT PLATFORM / LEADERSHIP

    2019–present
    Founder and Director, BraSA.Art
    Independent platform dedicated to art, criticism, curatorship, research, public programming, and the circulation of South American artists through exhibitions, institutional partnerships, and transnational exchange.


    ONGOING ARTISTIC-CURATORIAL OCCUPATION

    2025–present
    Insistir em Existir / Existir em Insistir — a room for
    Artistic and curatorial occupation
    SOMA – People & Culture, Curitiba, Brazil
    Live studio, ongoing exhibition programme, and critical-affective agenda developed since June 2025.


    EDUCATION

    2026
    Studies in Contemporary Art History
    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy

    2021–2022
    Studies in Environmental Humanities
    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy

    2022–2023
    Inclusive Curatorial Practices: Accessibility, Representation and Diversity
    Node Center for Curatorial Studies Online, Berlin, Germany

    2019
    Residency in Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Art
    School for Curatorial Studies | Galleria A plus A, Venice, Italy

    2018–2019
    Postgraduate coursework in Modern and Contemporary Art Criticism and Curatorship
    Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage / IUPERJ Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Certificate of attendance; coursework completed; final monograph not submitted; degree not awarded.

    2018
    Creative Processes, with Charles Watson
    Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    2017
    Fundamental Issues of Painting
    Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    2011
    Introduction to Curating Contemporary Art Exhibitions
    University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom

    1998
    Postgraduate Studies in Marketing Administration
    Faculdade de Educação Superior do Paraná / Instituto de Ciências Sociais do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

    1997
    B.A. in Economics
    Faculdade de Educação Superior do Paraná / Instituto de Ciências Sociais do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil


    ARTISTIC PRACTICE / WORKS

    2026
    Insistir em Existir
    Installation composed of a modular cement column, smaller cement artifacts with embedded gloves of different typologies, a punching bag, and a suspended tatami; variable dimensions; Curitiba. The work reorganizes impact, labour, resistance, and material persistence as unstable architecture.

    2025
    Pequenos Grandes Traumas
    Participatory installation with traversable vertical modules, canvas, plastic strip curtain, modular structure, and public activation; Florianópolis/Curitiba. The work engages memory, symbolic reorganization, and collective traces through a protocol of participation.

    2024–ongoing
    Minha História Deixa Que Eu Conto
    Ongoing body of work unfolding across four acts: mirror-based intervention, suspended spatial installation, video-performance / public reading, and sculptural body cast. Across these acts, the project investigates narrative sovereignty, visibility, legibility, spatial normativity, rights discourse, and the inscription of systems of value, classification, and language onto the body.

    2024, 2026
    If You Need Art to Act
    Live performance with acrylic paint on waste bins; 1st edition at Largo do Carmo, Lisbon, Portugal; 2nd edition at SOMA – People & Culture, Curitiba, Brazil. Also developed as a multimedia installation with photographs and video.

    2023
    Anular — Transições Luminares
    Photographic work / triptych based on chromatic and atmospheric variation.

    2022
    Nas Feridas Que Eu Alcanço
    Happening; sound, photographic, and video documentation; costume in biodegradable polyamide created in collaboration with designer Fernando Cozendey; later unfolded into a multimedia installation with framed photographs and a single-channel video; Curitiba. The work stages healing, trauma, cyclical vulnerability, and care as individual and collective urgency.

    2022
    Por uma Nova Ordem Mundial
    Sculpture minted in recycled silver; Curitiba. By minting a new coin, the work resignifies value and proposes reflection on more human and sustainable economic practices.

    2022
    Xingamentos
    Single-channel sound installation, 5’26’’; Curitiba. Built from captured everyday sounds and oral outburst, the work develops as a manifesto and imperative intervention.

    2021–ongoing
    Projeto Neon
    Ongoing neon project based on the archiving of phrases derived from observation, research, reflection, and interlocutions across the artist’s life, intellectual trajectory, and practice. Includes Aqui Todos Nos Lamberemos (2023), Aqui Nos Resta Ser Feliz (2022), and A Vida Não é Só o Agora, Beleza? (2022).

    2021
    O Que Me Rodeia
    Photographic work listed as a distinct series within the artist’s practice.

    2020–ongoing
    Destroços de uma Intimidade
    Ongoing photographic series developed from domestic space, intimacy, isolation, memory, and unstable relations between presence and absence. Includes works such as Presença, O Que Me Rodeia V, Fundo de Poço Tem Porão, and untitled photographs.

    2019–ongoing
    Ending in Venice
    Ongoing project combining performance, posters, and public circulation. Includes the triptych Ato I – Invasão (2020), printed on paper and shown in Venice and Curitiba.

    2018–2019
    Luzes do Leblon
    Photographic series, site-specific performance, and artist’s book, developed through systematic observation of sky and sea in Rio de Janeiro over the course of a year. Includes multiple pigment prints in varying formats and editions.

    2005–2009
    Cidades e Intimidade
    Photographic series developed through urban observation and intimate spatial relations. Includes works such as Telhados em Paris I and Telhados em Paris II.


    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2026
    Insistir em Existir: Protocolos de um Ateliê Público
    Solo exhibition
    Critical text: Kamilla Nunes
    SOMA – People & Culture, Curitiba, Brazil

    2022
    Nos Resta Ser Feliz
    Solo exhibition
    SOMA – People & Culture, Curitiba, Brazil

    2019
    Luzes do Leblon
    Site-specific performance
    Leblon Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


    SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS

    2025
    AQUI ONDE ESTOU — resto, risco, ruína e rastro
    Group exhibition
    Curator: Analize Nicolini
    Production: BraSA.Art
    SOMA – People & Culture, Curitiba, Brazil

    2022
    Daqui de Onde Estou
    Group exhibition, co-curated with Fernanda Andrade
    Production: BraSA.Art and SOMA – People & Culture
    We Exhibit, Venice, Italy

    2019
    Anedotas sobre Origem
    Group exhibition
    Galleria A plus A, Venice, Italy


    PUBLIC PROGRAMMING / CURATORIAL ACTIONS

    2026
    Public programme with Jonathas de Andrade
    Curitiba, Brazil
    Film screening, artist talk, and public lecture developed within the context of the artistic-curatorial occupation and the project Insistir em Existir.

    2025
    Laboratório de Curadoria em Processo
    Open curatorial workshop during the final installation phase of AQUI ONDE ESTOU — resto, risco, ruína e rastro
    SOMA – People & Culture, Curitiba


    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2025
    Estar aqui de paisagem
    Florianópolis, Brazil

    2025
    Deixar de Nos Mentir
    Grupo Impossibilidade de Esgotamento
    Curated by Kamilla Nunes
    Florianópolis, Brazil

    2022
    Daqui de Onde Estou
    We Exhibit, Venice, Italy

    2019–2020
    D’Água
    Espaço de Fotografia Judith Munk
    Araras, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


    APPROVED / CONCEIVED PROJECTS NOT REALIZED

    2018–2022
    braZil: um Retrato de uma Nação
    Solo exhibition of photographer Olaf Heine
    Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Approved by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture / PRONAC 190066; not realized due to lack of fundraising.

    2019–ongoing development
    #CONTEÚDO+ / #CONTENT+ / #CONTENIDO+
    Integrated digital media, lenses, and technologies from Brazil and South America in dialogue with Canada and India
    Approved by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture / PRONAC 200521; not realized in its original format due to lack of fundraising.

    2022
    YaYaYa
    Research, website, and digital presence initially developed for an international open call linked to the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.


    RESIDENCIES

    2021–2023
    BraSA.Art Artistic Residency
    Environmental Humanities research
    Venice, Italy

    2018–2019
    Ruth&PedrinaCULT Artistic Residency
    Development of the photographic research for Luzes do Leblon
    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


    PUBLICATIONS

    Nicolini, Analize. Luzes do Leblon. Rio de Janeiro: R&P Books, 2019.

    Nicolini, Analize. Solteira no Século 21 — Ode ao Amor sem dono. Rio de Janeiro: R&P Books, 2018.


    AWARDS

    2012
    Jabuti Prize — Editora Ahom Educação (founding partner)

    2009
    Jabuti Prize — Editora Aymará (marketing)