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Pati Sayuri is a Brazilian-Okinawan artist, born and based in São Paulo (Brazil), holds a master’s degree in Public Art from Bauhaus Universität-Weimar. She explores her Japanese-Brazilian ancestry through hands-on practices in arts, textiles, and agriculture, researching Shibori and Indigo. Her practice led her to Japan in 2014 and 2017 for research in traditional craft studios. Working across crafts, performance, and public interventions, she has exhibited in museums and independent spaces in Germany and Brazil and joined artist residencies in Germany, Singapore, and Netherlands. Investigating care, intimacy, and failure, she creates participatory exercises that foster affective connections within her community.
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SOLO EXHIBITION
2017 RAIZ-TRONCO, AFETO, PIN-UP Gallery Space (Ginowan, Okinawa, JP).
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 AS VIDAS DA NATUREZA-MORTA, Museu Afro-Brasil Emanoel Araújo (São Paulo, BR)
2023 Collective Caring Exercises - CCE, performance at Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik (Berlin, DE)
2023 NENHUM LUGAR AGORA, Edifício Vera (São Paulo, BR)
DIRECTLY AT THE SUN, Blumenladen (Weimar, DE)
2022 LOst iN TRANSLATION, Bauhaus Museum (Weimar, DE)
DU KANNST DAS TRAGEN, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (Chemnitz, DE)
2021 ENCOUNTER WITH THE SLEEPING GIANT, Matthäikirchhof (Leipzig, DE)
2019 END.OPEN.END, SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin, DE)
2018 FAR FROM HOME, Nathalie Duchayne Galerie, Casa 38 (São Paulo, BR).
PIN-UP GALLERY POP UP STORE, Flying supermarket. Koganecho Bazaar 2018 (Yokohama, JP)
MOSTRA DOS GRUPOS DE ESTUDOS DA ESCOLA ENTRÓPICA, Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, BR)
2016 UMA IDEIA FIXA QUE SE MOVE, Galeria Fórum das Artes, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Itajahy Martins (Botucatu, BR)
CONCEITO COLETIVO, Galeria Fórum das Artes, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Itajahy Martins (Botucatu, BR)
2014 EXPERIMENTAÇÕES DE ARTE EM PROJETO, Galeria do Instituto de Artes (GAIA) (Campinas, BR)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIP, RESIDENCIES
2020-2023 DAAD STUDY SCHOLARSHIPS - Postgraduate Studies in the Fields of Fine Art, Design/Visual Communication and Film, 2020/21 (Weimar, DE)
2022 PLANT FICTIONS art residency (Eindhoven, NL)
2021 FREE RADICALS residency program with TMC Collective - Floating University (Berlin, DE)
2020 CCA IDEASFEST residency program, IdeasCity Singapore, funded by New Museum New York and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore, SG)
2019 SPINNING TRIANGLES - IGNITIONS OF A SCHOOL OF DESIGN fellowship program at SAVVY Contemporary, funded by the Bauhaus heute Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Berlin, DE)
2016 TRAMA AFETIVA - COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE IN UPCYCLING FOCUSED ON DESIGN, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND AFFECTIVE ECONOMY, fellowship program funded by Hermann Hering Foundation (São Paulo, BR)