In her artistic practice, Tatiana Blass transits between different media, such as painting, video, sculpture, and installation, constantly referencing other artistic languages such as theater, literature, and music. By investigating the fraying of visual and symbolic language, her works allow us to glimpse the gaps, and the wear and tear of the experience narrated by conventional discourses and reasoning. Assuming the lack and the imponderable, the works subtract functionality, materiality, and integrity from real objects and elements. Using operations of muffling musical instruments, melting wax sculptures, sealing or corrosion, Blass gradually dilutes and reconfigures modes of existence in space and time.
With a BFA from the Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Blass has held solo exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, such as Balanço Alicerce, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, in 2024; Nó, at the Sesc Palladium, Belo Horizonte and Twists, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, both in 2022; Mais dia, menos noite, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte in 2019; A Desprofissão, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, in 2016; as well as in institutions such as Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese, Norway, 2014; Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, USA, 2013; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA, 2013; Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo, 2011; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2011; Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011; and Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, in 2009.
She has participated in important exhibitions such as the Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale, China, 2023; the 29th Bienal de São Paulo, 2010; and the 17th Festival de Arte Contemporânea SESC_Videobrasil, São Paulo, 2011. Her work has also been featured in group shows at the Lowe Art Museum, Miami, USA, 2022; Coral Gables Museum, USA, 2019; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, 2016, 2011 and 2006; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, 2015; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2015; Wexner Center, Columbus, USA, 2014; Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2013.
In 2014, Tatiana Blass participated in the Circulating Air program, in Bergen, and in a residence at Kunstnarhuset Messen, in Ålvik, noth in Norway. In 2011 she was nominated for the PIPA Prize, having won the Jury Award and the Popular Vote Award, and was an artist-in-residence at Gasworks, in London, UK. In 2010 she was considered for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grant & Commissions Program, in Miami, USA. In 2008 she was shortlisted for the Nam June Paik Award, for which she exhibited at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, in Cologne, Germany.
Her work is featured in institutional collections such as the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA; Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil; MAC-USP, São Paulo, Brazil; MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; MAM, São Paulo, Brazil; and Sesc São Paulo, Brazil.
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