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Artist, performer and dancer of Mediterranean origin, Margherita Isola lives and works on an itinerant basis, currently in Barcelona. Trained in contemporary dance, she mixes different practices and media: textile art, embroidery, performance, dance, collage, installation, public art and community works.
Isola addresses issues related to feminism, migration, colonialism, capitalization of Gaia, in order to rethink new forms of coexistence and interconnection which puts life at the centre.
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Her work, often traversed by autobiographical tensions and by the shadows of Western culture, understands the artistic creation as micro-political process, a therapy, a subjective and collective experience which allows us to rename our being-in-the-world.
In synergy with her artistic practice, she has gained experience in social and educational field and as a corporal therapist.
GRANTS and AWARDS
. Empact Artistic Residency, Espacio Rojo, Madrid, 2023
. Art Research grant at La Escocesa, Barcelona, 2021
. Community Art Awards UNZIP, Barcelona, 2021
. Awards Premis Barcelona 2020, Barcelona City Council
. Artist in Residence at FAAP, São Paulo, 2017
. Artist in Residence at Centro Coreografico,
Rio de Janeiro, 2016
. Art Contest, Art prize for Young Artists, Brussels, 2010
SELECTED SHOW
. 19.04 - 24.05.2023, Guerrila Drugstore- Punto Sabias, comunitary art project, Museum CA2M, Madrid
. 18.03. - 9.04.2023, Utopicalipse, group exhibition, Funarte, São Paulo
. 2.7.2022 - 2.4.2023, Huerta Hertz, site specific project, Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona
. 4.02.2022 - 18.03.2022, Fluchtpunkt/Vanishing Point, collective exhibition at Tangent Project gallery, Barcelona
. 4.08.2021 - 29.08.2021, Revolucionary Herbarium, solo show at National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon
. 26.11.2020 - 2.4.2021, Plaga, Centre d'Estudis i Documentació, Museo MACBA, Barcelona
. 6.3.2020 - 3.4. 2020 , Lucha como un brezo, solo show, Tangent Project Galery, Barcelona
. 31.1.2019 - 31.3.2019, Untitled Migrant, solo show, Museum of Lace &Fashion, Brussels
. 1.9.2018 - 20.10. 2018, Contextile-Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimaraes, Portugal
. 30.10.201 - 2.12.2017, Aqui bem ao Sul, collective exhibition in the frame of BienalSur, FAAP, São Paulo
. 1.9.2016 - 1.10. 2016, Hamlet in Harar, solo show, Galeria ICG, Niteroi
. 3.10.2013 - 20.10.2013, Shape Open Exhibition - collective exhibition, Nunnery Gallery, London
. 12.3.2014 - 29.3.2014, Shape Open Exhibition - collective exhibition, Lewisham Arthouse, London
. 27.4.2013 - 8.6.2013- Arte, uma politica subversiva- Homenagem à Zuzu Angel, collective exhibition, Tech Art Lab, Antica Fabrica Bhering, Rio de Janeiro
. 1.7.2010 - 30.7. 2010, International Biennial of Young Art, Moscow
. 7.5.2009 - 25.7.2009, Dress code, collective exhibition, ISELP, Brussels
. 12.3.2009 - 9.4.2009, Rotte Metropolitane, collective exhibition, Villa Romana, Florence
. 6.10.200 - 4.11.2007, Identities- Guerrilla Girls and Young Italian Artists, collective exhibition, MACN, Monsummano Terme, Italy
PERFORMANCE
. 2023, Contact Drawings, Fundació Valvi, Girona // Sala Coll Alas, Gandia.
. 2023- 2022, Pacha Manas, Reading Performance, Bienal de Mujeres en las Artes Visivas
. 2020, Contact Drawings, WAC Festival, Barcelona
. 2011, The mirror dancing walk , CharleroiDanses Biennial
+ Grace Exhibition Space, New York
. 2011, Inevitable, White Night Brussels, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
. 2011, Fucking Voodoo, Design Center De Winkelhaak, Antwerp
COLLABORATION
. 2023- 2020, Pacha Manas, by Marina Alegre and Margherita Isola in collaboration with Goethe Institut, São Paulo
. 2017, Half of a house, performing art projet by N.O.W, Festival Fabbrica Europa, Firenze
. 2015, Corpos Impares, co-creacion together with Cia Pulsar, Centro Coreografico, Rio de Janeiro
. 2001, Le Plateau de l'Umanitée, Biennial of Venice. Dance interventions coreographed by Carolyn Carlson