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Luzia Simons

b. 1953

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Born 1953. Luzia Simons is a photographer and installation artist.

Luzia Simons (born 1953) is a Brazilian visual artist, living in Berlin. Simons has exhibited her work internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in Brazil. Simons is a pioneer in the development of the scanogram—a media technique that combines elements of painting and photography.

Early life and education Simons was born in 1953 in Quixadá, Ceará, Brazil. From 1977 to 1981 she studied history at Université Paris VIII Vincennes. From 1984 to 1986 she studied Fine Arts at the Sorbonne Paris. From 1988 to 2010 she was a lecturer at the Puppet Theater Program, Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart, Germany.

Art career Identity as a sociocultural construction has been central in Simons' works since she left Brazil at the age of 23. Her questions are directed at continuity, vulnerability of the individual and about notions of transference of culture in a globalised world. Her own biography serves as a trigger for the works that encompass photography,

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions 2002, Luzia Simons – Face Migration / Sichtvermerke, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany 2006, Luzia Simons – Stockage, , Berlin, Germany 2013, Luzia Simons – Segmentos, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Group exhibitions 2016, Vanitas Rerum, Musée des Archives Nationales, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France 2019, Art Season Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre d'Arts et de Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France 2019, B.A.R.O.C.K., Caputh Palace, Schwielowsee and ME Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany 2021, XXVI Rohkunstbau, Castle Lieberose, Spreewald, Germany 2021, Brasilidade Pós-Modernismo, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Collections Kunsthalle Emden, Germany Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections), Germany Fonds national d'art contemporain (FRAC), and , France Pirelli Collection/São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil New Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark

Publications Books by Simons Simons, Luzia (2003). Luzia Simons: Transit. Patrice Cotensin, Tereza de Arruda, Werner Knoedgen. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. Luzia Simons: Scannogramme & Installation; Stockage. Claudia Emmert, Mitch Cohen, Luzia Simons, Berlin. Exhibition Luzia Simons Stockage 2006, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin: 2006. Simons, Luzia (2012). Luzia Simons. Matthias Harder. Berlin: Distanz. Simons, Luzia (2016). Installations in situ Archives Nationales, Paris - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Tereza, de Aruda, Hans Schiler. [Berlin]. Dams, Saskia (2019). Luzia Simons | Naturgeschichten. Günter Dr. Baumann, Museum in Kleihues-Bau Stadt Kornwestheim, Brandes and Mediaservice, Altenriet. Simons, Luzia. Traces. Berlin: Distanz, 2021. Edited by Tereza de Arruda. .

Books with contributions by Simons B.A.R.O.C.K. (2019): künstlerische Interventionen in Schloss Caputh und der Wunderkammer der Olbricht Collection, Berlin. Editors: Samuel Wittwer and Mark Gisbourne. Luzia Simons, Myriam Thyes, Rebecca Stevenson, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg. Esslingen.

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