ANDREA EICHENBERGER

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  • Letters from the countryside
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  • The game of landscapes
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  • Squat
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Bio

I was born in Florianópolis, southern Brazil. I live in Paris and work between Brazil and France. After finishing my studies in Visual Arts, I completed a PhD in Visual Anthropology. Photography, the experience of the encounter, collaboration and participation are at the heart of my artistic practices and research.

Curriculum Vitae

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 : Contemporary Art and Social Housing Biennale, Paris, France

2022 : Galeria Ponto de Fuga, Curitiba, Brazil

2021/2022 : Alliance Française Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2021 : Maison des petits – Cenquatre-Paris, France

2021 : Fictions documentaires – 4ème édition,  Carcassonne, France

2017 : CAL – Centre d’Animation et de Loisirs du Pays du Clermontois, Clermont-de-l’Oise, France

2016 : Photaumnales, Beauvais, France

2016 : MUSA – Museu de Arte da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil

2015: Centro Cultural Erico Verissimo, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2015: Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine – Cycle Images Cité – Projection and conversation with Michel Poivert and Pascal Dibie – Paris, France.

2014 : Museu da Escola Catarinense (MESC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

2013 : Maison du Brésil – Cité Internationale Universitaire – Paris, France

2013 : Photaumnales – Ecume du Jour – Beauvais, France

2013 : Galerie de l’Olivier – Ollioules, France

2009: Live Brazil 2009 – Brazilian Festival – Wellington, New Zealand

2007: Museu Etnográfico Casa dos Açores – Biguaçu, SC, Brazil

2006: Galeria da Ponte – CFH- UFSC – Florianópolis, Brazil

2003: Espaço Cultural Française – Florianópolis, Brazil

2002: Espaço Cultural CASAN – Florianópolis, Brazil

2002: Espaço Cultural Alliance Française – Florianópolis, Brazil

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 : Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau – Hors les murs / Médiathèque Violette Leduc, Paris, France

2022 : Musée Albert Kahn, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

2021 : CRP/ Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France – Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes

2019: Terra Brazilis : photographes contemporains brésiliens. Galerie du Marché Dauphine, Saint-Ouen, France

2019: Fronteiras em aberto. Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporânea de Curitiba / Polo SC / MASC. Florianópolis, Brazil

2019: Festival de fotografia de Paranapiacaba, mostra de filmes. Paranapiacaba, Brazil

2019: O ser e a sua natureza. Instituto Juarez Machado, Joinville, SC, Brazil

2019 : Frequentar os incorporais: entre o movimento e o silêncio, MASC – Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

2018 : 3rd Beijing Photo Biennial, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

2018 : 5th Verzasca Foto Festival, Sonogno, Switzerland

2018 : 6th Triennale de Photographie et Architecture – Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta, Bruxels, Belgium

2017 : Archiphoto 2017 (projection) – La Chambre et Maison européenne de l’architecture – Rhin supérieur, Strasbourg, France

2017 : BC Foto Festival, Balneário Camboriú, SC,Brazil

2016 : Damaged (or not), Volume II – Occupation d’un atelier d’artiste – Montrouge, France

2016: Life Framer Photography Award, Menier Gallery, London, UK

2015: Life framer photography award, Juraplatz, Bienne, Switzerland

2015: Le Bleu du Ciel Centre de Photographie Contemporaine, Lyon, France

2015: Encontros da Imagem, Projection Night of the XXV edition’s program of 2015 – Power & Illusion – Braga Portugal

2015: Damaged (or not) – a Parisian apartment occupancy – Paris, France

2015: Mostra SP de Fotografia, São Paulo, Brazil

2015: Instituto Internacional Juarez Machado – Tessituras Contemporâneas – Joinville, SC, Brazil

2015: Focus Photography Festival – Mumbai, India

2015: FestFoto, Festival de photographie de Porto Alegre, Brazil

2015: 1st Sino-Latin American Symposium, University of Nottingam, Ningbo, China

2015: 5° Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes, Foto em Pauta, Minas Gerais, Brazil

2014: Gallery FAB – University of Missouri –  Saint Louis, USA

2014 : Museu de Arte de Blumenau – 11° Salão Elke Hering – Mostra Nacional Contemporânea de Artes Visuais – Blumenau, SC, Brazil

2014: Ancien Musée de Peinture de Grenoble – Sur la Route, with Dorothea Lange – Migrant farmers – Grenoble, France

2014: 11º Salão Nacional de Fotografia « Pérsio Galembeck » – Araras, SP, Brazil

2013 : Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (MASC) –  Fotografia(s) contemporânea Brasileira : Imagens, Vestígios, Ruídos – Florianópolis, Brazil

2013 : Festival Internacional Fazendo Gênero 10 – Florianópolis, Brazil

2012: Maison des Photographes – Paris, France

2011: Festival de Fotografia Floripa na Foto – Florianópolis, Brazil

2011: Espaço Cultural BRDE – Florianópolis, Brazil

2011: 1° Festival Théo Brandão de Fotografia e Filmes Etnográficos – Museu Théo Brandão – Alagoas, Brésil

2010: Live Brazil 2010 – Brazilian Festival – Wellington, New Zealand

2010: Auckland Festival of Photography – Auckland, New Zealand

2010: Seminário Internacional Fazendo Gênero 9 – UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil

2007 : Espaço Estético Colégio de Aplicação – UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil

2006 : Seminário Internacional Fazendo Gênero 7 – UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil

2005 : Festival Territoire en Images – Institut de Géographie de Paris, France

2004 : Université Paris 7 – Paris, France

2001: Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (MASC) – Florianópolis, Brazil

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2023 : Artist in residence – Contemporary Art and Social Housing Biennale, France

2022 : Nominated for the award Niépce, France

2022 : Finalist of the award Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière / Académie des beaux-arts, France

2021 : Artist in residence – Centquatre-Paris, France

2020 : Finalist of the award Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière / Académie des beaux-arts, France

2018 : Award PIXTRAKK/Photaumnales, France

2015: Artist in residence program – Diaphane Pôle Photographique en Picardie, Beauvais, France

2014 : Award for participation in the 11° Salão Elke Hering – Mostra Nacional Contemporânea de Artes Visuais – Blumenau, SC, Brazil

2013 : Award Funarte Mulheres nas Artes Visuais 2013, Brazilian Ministry of Culture

2013 : Artist in residence program – Ville d’Ollioules, France

2012 : Award UPP/Dupon découverte 2012 – Paris, France

2011 : Grant to the photographic documentation of areas of agrarian reform in southern Brazil – National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INCRA)/ PRONERA – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

2006 : Award for the best photographic story – Séminaire International Fazendo Gênero 7 – Université Fédérale de Santa Catarina, Brazil

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

BnF/ Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, France

CRP/ Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France, Douchy-les-Mines, France

Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (MASC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

Museu da Escola Catarinense (MESC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

Hotel de ville d’Ollioules, France

Museu Etnográfico Casa dos Açores – Biguaçu, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Museu Théo Brandão – Alagoas, Brazil

RESEARCH AND STUDIES

2014-2015 : Post-Doc in Social Anthropology – VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012-2013 : Post-Doc in History of Art (Photography) – Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France

2006-2011 : PhD in Visual Anthropology – between Université Paris 7 – Paris, France and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – Florianópolis, Brazil

2009-2010 : Photography – Ecole Supérieure de Photographie EFET – Paris, France

2003-2005 : Master degree in Ethnology – Université Paris 7 – Paris – France

1999-2002 : Bachelor degree in Visual Arts – Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina – Brazil

RESEARCH GROUP AND ASSOCIATION

NAVI – Núcleo de antropologia visual e estudos da imagem – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil (Research Group)

ARPIA – Association de Recherche et Production d’Images en Anthropologie et Art – Paris, France