Marisa Ferreira
was born in 1983, Portugal.
Lives and works between London and Oslo.
Marisa Ferreira’s body of work encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, and public works. Her work draws from childhood memories of being born in a context of loss and industrial decline that characterized the 1980s in the north of Portugal, and focuses on industrial ruins and processes of (de)industrialization and its impact on the environment and local communities. Through practice-led and interdisciplinary methodologies, recent works investigate the intersection between colonialism and the Anthropocene to discuss themes of materiality-memory, waste, colonialism, spatial justice, climate crisis, urban archaeology, and regeneration. Often blurring reality, fiction and imagination, her works explore the ways memory, place and cultural identity intersect to explore creative and speculative methods to reimagine a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Minimalism, conceptualism, Bauhaus, Colour Field, New concretism, authors such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Tim Edensor, Georges Bataille, Edward Soja, and Michel DeCerteau as well as artists like Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Josef Albers/ Anni Albers, GRAV, Frank Stella, Per Kirkeby, and Olafur Eliasson form the reference lexical universe of the artist.
Collections include: Louis Vuitton, Stavanger KunstMuseum (Norway), Norlinda and José Lima (Portugal), Messmer (Germany), REV Ocean, Deloitte, ConocoPhillips, Wintershall, Norwegian Tax Authorities.
Marisa Ferreira holds a PhD in Arts & Humanities from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, United Kingdom, funded by Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) with the thesis “Waste Matter: Public Art and the (Im) Materiality of Post-Colonial Memory”. Ferreira is also a research member of SPACEX - Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange (Horizon 2020, MSCA) and Creative Practice - (trans)forming space, place and the environment (OsloMet).
REPRESENTED BY
Galeria Presença - Porto, Portugal
studiomarisaferreira@gmail.com
@marisaferreirastudio
Curriculum Vitae (EN)
Lives and works between London and Oslo.
Marisa Ferreira’s body of work encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, and public works. Her work draws from childhood memories of being born in a context of loss and industrial decline that characterized the 1980s in the north of Portugal, and focuses on industrial ruins and processes of (de)industrialization and its impact on the environment and local communities. Through practice-led and interdisciplinary methodologies, recent works investigate the intersection between colonialism and the Anthropocene to discuss themes of materiality-memory, waste, colonialism, spatial justice, climate crisis, urban archaeology, and regeneration. Often blurring reality, fiction and imagination, her works explore the ways memory, place and cultural identity intersect to explore creative and speculative methods to reimagine a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Minimalism, conceptualism, Bauhaus, Colour Field, New concretism, authors such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Tim Edensor, Georges Bataille, Edward Soja, and Michel DeCerteau as well as artists like Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Josef Albers/ Anni Albers, GRAV, Frank Stella, Per Kirkeby, and Olafur Eliasson form the reference lexical universe of the artist.
Collections include: Louis Vuitton, Stavanger KunstMuseum (Norway), Norlinda and José Lima (Portugal), Messmer (Germany), REV Ocean, Deloitte, ConocoPhillips, Wintershall, Norwegian Tax Authorities.
Marisa Ferreira holds a PhD in Arts & Humanities from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, United Kingdom, funded by Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) with the thesis “Waste Matter: Public Art and the (Im) Materiality of Post-Colonial Memory”. Ferreira is also a research member of SPACEX - Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange (Horizon 2020, MSCA) and Creative Practice - (trans)forming space, place and the environment (OsloMet).
REPRESENTED BY
Galeria Presença - Porto, Portugal
studiomarisaferreira@gmail.com
@marisaferreirastudio
Curriculum Vitae (EN)
Photo by Stefan Pereira, 2024