CV (ENGLISH VERSION)

clarissa ximenes (São Paulo, 1989)

Curator, producer, and researcher of projects related to visual arts, Clarissa holds postgraduate degrees in Management in Contemporary Poetics: From Repertoire Expansion to Formation of Collaborative Teams from Itaú Cultural (2019/2020), in Cultural Production (CELACC/USP, 2015/2016), and a bachelor’s and teaching degree in Visual Arts from UNESP (2008/2013).

Currently, she serves as the programming curator at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, the institution’s first position dedicated to organizing and exploring new languages and uses of the museum and its public programs. Since 2023, Clarissa has been dedicated to creating interdisciplinary projects for the Pinacoteca, as well as curating courses in Art History.

In 2021, she founded BANANAL ARTE E CULTURA, a collaborative cultural space in Barra Funda, São Paulo, where she manages, directs, and curates various exhibitions and programs. Through BANANAL, she has been invited to participate in the exhibition “Abre a Rodinha, meu amor” (Ateliê 397, 2022), the course EntreOlhares Universitários (Itaú Cultural, 2022) as a guest lecturer, the LabGestão laboratory (Ateliê 397, 2021), and the Colapso Climático: Gestão do Caos laboratory (Condô Cultural, 2021).

Between 2017 and 2022, Clarissa worked as an assistant curator at the Associação Cultural Videobrasil, integrating the curatorial team of the 21st Biennial of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil | Imagined Communities (2019/2020) and the 20th Festival of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil (2017/2018). In addition to these collaborations with the institution, she organized numerous programs (exhibitions, artistic residencies, courses, among others) for the Galpão VB, the Association’s headquarters, between 2017 and 2019, in both international and national partnerships.

Throughout her thirteen years of experience in cultural production and curation, she has participated in projects such as IMAGECON – Conferência do Imaginário (2021); Research Trip by Casa do Povo for the curators of the 15th Documenta of Kassel, the ruangrupa collective from Indonesia (2021); as well as collaborations with institutions like the Associação Casa Azul / FLIP (2020 and 2021), Sesc Pompeia (2018), Vila Itororó (2017), Fundação Bienal de São Paulo (2016), Goethe-Institut (2015), and Museu Afro Brasil (2015).

In parallel, Clarissa develops her own work with the Coletivo Foi à Feira, researching and proposing actions and projects that operate at the intersections between visual arts, memory, and the city. Among the projects developed by the collective, highlights include: the artistic coordination and production of the occupation Cadê o bonde que passava aqui? (ProAC Visual Arts Award, 2018); participation in the Lugar Comum exhibition, with the installation Objeto Horizonte (MOSTRA 3M DE ARTE, Parque Ibirapuera, 2020), which traveled to three other public spaces in São Paulo; and the work Testemunho, which was part of the collective exhibition Estamos Aqui (Sesc Pinheiros, 2021).

academic background

Lato Sensu in Contemporary Cultural Management: From Poetic Expansion to Collaborative Teams – Itaú Cultural and Instituto Singularidades (2019–2020)

Lato Sensu in Cultural Project Production by the Latin American Center for Culture and Communication Studies (Celacc) – ECA/USP (2014–2015)

Academic Exchange in Visual Arts and Contemporary Media at Université Lille 3 – Université Charles de Gaulle in Lille, France (2011–2012)

Bachelor’s and Teaching Degree in Visual Arts from the Institute of Arts at UNESP – Universidade Estadual Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2008–2013)

CURRENT PROJECTS

Programming Curator at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, responsible for organizing dance, music, and interdisciplinary and educational projects (2023 – present)

Founder and Manager of BANANAL, responsible for project implementation, administrative management, and curatorial direction (2020 – present)

Member of Coletivo Foi à Feira, responsible for research and production of urban intervention projects and installations (2018 – present)

PRINCIPAIS PROJETOS institucionais

Associação Cultural Videobrasil (2017 – 2022)

Member of the curatorial and programming team at Associação Cultural Videobrasil, working as assistant curator and producer on various institutional projects. Responsible for curating video programs from the collection for national and international partnerships, managing residency programs and projects at Galpão VB (2017–2020).

  • Assistant Curator for the 21st Biennial of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil (Sesc 24 de Maio, 2019)
  • Producer of the 1st and 2nd Dance Season Videobrasil (Galeria Vermelho and CCSP, 2019 and 2017)
  • Assistant Curator to Gabriel Bogossian for the exhibition Dissidence – Minerva Cuevas (Galpão VB, 2018)
  • Assistant Curator to Júlia Rebouças for the collective exhibition MitoMotim (Galpão VB, 2018)
  • Conception and production of the Políticas na Arte course (Galpão VB, 2018)
  • Conception and production of the Laboratório de Pesquisa em Acervos (Galpão VB, 2017)
  • Assistant Curator for the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (Sesc Pompeia, 2017)

FLIP – International Literary Festival of Paraty (2020 – 2022)

Recurring freelance producer for the planning and execution of Flip’s Educational Program projects between 2020 and 2023, producing online and hybrid activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Planning and production producer for the expanded actions of the FLIP Educational Program for the 20th International Literary Festival of Paraty (2022).
  • Executive producer for the in-person activities of the FLIP Educational Program for the 19th International Literary Festival of Paraty (2022).
  • Executive producer for the online activities of the FLIP Educational Program for the 18th International Literary Festival of Paraty (2021).

Casa do Povo (2022)

Assistant curator to Benjamin Seroussi and Marilia Loureiro for research meetings organized for the Indonesian collective Ruangrupa during the curatorial development of the 15th Documenta of Kassel (2022).

Fundação Bienal de São Paulo (2016 -2017)

Assistant producer for public and educational programs of the 32nd São Paulo Biennial – Live Uncertainty, curated by Jochen Volz (2016/2017).

Casa Nova Arte e Cultura Contemporânea (2015 -2016)

Producer and Assistant Director to Adriano Casanova, responsible for the production and communication of exhibitions, as well as the sale of artworks between 2015 and 2016.

  • Justaposições: sound event curated by Thais Gouveia and Marcos Guzman (2016)
  • Time is on My Side, solo exhibition by Martin La Roche (2016)
  • Midnight Mañana, solo exhibition by Ignacio Gática (2016)
  • Tensegrity, solo exhibition by Yoann Saura (2016)
  • Presença, solo exhibition by Carla Chaim (2015)
  • Rafael França (2015)
  • Paisagem Cega e Outras Estórias, solo exhibition by Lina Kim (2015)

other projects and occasional collaborations

Executive producer of the project “O Papagaio Real”, a performance by artist and storyteller Cristiane Velasco, approved by the ProAC for Children’s and Youth Performances 06/2020.

Assistant curator and videomapping programmer for ImageCon | Conference on Imagination, Creativity, and Inspiration, a project funded by the ProAC Festival Expresso LAB 40/2020.

Producer of the project Goethe na Vila, overseeing the artistic residencies of the collectives Raumlabor (Germany) and Casa Mestre Ananias (São Paulo) at Casa 8 of Vila Itororó in 2017.

Executive producer of the project “Avoou: eu tava lá..”, a publication by artist and storyteller Cristiane Velasco, approved by the ProAC for Literary Publication Creation 33/2017.

Production assistant for the performance “Lindinalva e o Bálsamo” by Dan Lie, as part of the Music and Performance project at CCBB São Paulo in 2016.

Production assistant for Dan Lie in the group exhibition “Elefante Branco”, curated by Ana Maria Maia, as part of the Paço das Artes curatorial residency program, held at MIS/SP in 2016..

COURSES, LECTURES AND SEMINARS

International Seminar “Itinéraire Culture: Public Policies and Cultural Initiatives for Youth”, organized by the French Ministry of Culture – Paris and Lyon, 2024.

Lecture “New Ways of Thinking About Curatorship” – Entrelinhas, Interdisciplinary Conference at the School of Architecture, Arts, and Design (PUC Campinas, 2023).

Course “Development and Writing of Cultural Projects” – Bananal, 2022 and 2023.

Course Instructor at EntreOlhares Universitários, a Visual Arts Training Program – Itaú Cultural, 2022.

Lecture “Futures Literacy”, presented with Coletivo Foi à Feira – UNESCO Seminar, 2020.

Lecture “Archaeology of Memory: A Perspective on the City”, as part of the São Paulo Heritage Week Program (2020).

Lecture on the project “Cadê o bonde que passava aqui?” – São Paulo Energy Museum, July 2019..