Élle de Bernardini
Education
- Bachelor of Philosophy - Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
- Classical Ballet, Royal Academy of Dance - London, United Kingdom
- Butoh, Yoshito Ohno and Tadashi Endo - London, United Kingdom
- Bachelor in Social Communication, Journalism - UNIFRA, Santa Maria, Brazil
- Degree in Theater - Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
Solo shows
2025
A Primeira Década, Curated by Ana Carolina Ralston – Usina Luis Maluf, São Paulo, Brazil
2023
Anomalia, Curator: Horrana de Kassia Santoz, Portas Vilaseca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2022
A lamina e a lingua, Curator: Tiago de Abreu Pinto, Gilda Lavia Galleru, Roma
2020
Black And Gold, Curator: Raphael Fonseca - Luciana Caravello Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Not everything that shines is, Curator: Ana Carolina Ralston – Kogan Amaro Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
Sex Shock, Curator: Julia Lima - Verve Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
Expanded body, Curator: Carollina Lauriano - Karla Osorio Gallery, Brasília, Brazil
2018
The Empress - Salas Negras, Rio Grande do Sul Art Museum / MARGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016
Border Point. Curator: Jaqueline Sampaio and Verônica Vaz - State Institute of Visual Arts RS, Photogallery Virgílio Callegar, Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2014
Bed, Santa Maria Art Museum, Santa Maria, Brazil
Group shows - Performance
2026
Inconformadas. Curated by Ana Avelar, Claraboia Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Falácia Natural. Curated by Shion L., Refresco Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Acervo em Movimento. Curated by Museum Curatorial Team, Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2025
White Gallery. Curated by Valentina Ciarallo, Temporary Art Space, Rome, Italy
Nem tudo que reluz. Curated by Ana Avelar, Solar Fábio Prado, São Paulo, Brazil
Mulheres artistas: Acervos em expansão. Curated by Fran Favero, National Museum of the Republic, Brasília, Brazil
2024
The fourth constructivist generation in Rio de Janeiro. Curated by Paulo Herkenhoff - Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eterno Egito: A imortalidade nas coleções Viscondessa de Cavalcanti e Eva Klabin, Curators: Helena Severo and Douglas Fasolato at Casa Museu Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bloco do Prazer, Curated by: Marcelo Campos, Amanda Bonan, Amanda Rezende and Jean Carlos Azuos. Guest curator: Bitu Cassundé - Rio Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gesture - Libido, Labor and Politics in Performance. Curated by Marina Câmara, Marcela Futuro, Sammy Duarte and Ali do Espiríto Santo - Remanso Cultural Institute, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Brazil Now. Curated by: Manuela Parrino - U-ART-P, Bergamo, Italy
2023
Itinerant Collective Future Brazil - The Forms of Democracy. Curated by Lilia Schwarcz, Rogério Carvalho, Paulo Vieira and Márcio Tavares - National Museum of the Republic, Brasília, Brazil.
Itinerant Collective. Future Brazil - The Forms of Democracy. Curated by Lilia Schwarcz, Rogério Carvalho, Paulo Vieira and Márcio Tavares - Casa das 11 Janelas, Belém do Pará, Brazil.
- Itinerant collective. Future Brazil - The Forms of Democracy. Curated by Lilia Schwarcz, Rogério Carvalho, Paulo Vieira and Márcio Tavares - Solar Ferrão Salvador, Brazil.
Notes for the day after tomorrow. Curated by Ciclo Plataforma - Museum of Contemporary Art of RS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Transit-Woven. Curated by Mariana Leme - Galpão 556, São Paulo, Brazil
TEMPOPESO. Curated by Alessandra Terpins - Carbono Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Rotating Collection. Curated by: Curatorial Center FURG - Rio Grande do Sul Art Museum, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Updating the System. Curated by Curatorial Academy - National Museum, Brasília, Brazil
The Middle Way. Critical text Daniela Avellar - Marli Matsumoto Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Launch. Documentary: Café Avec Élle de 5 à 7. Guest Gabriela de Laurentiis - Pivô Art and Research, São Paulo, Brazil.
2022
Mulherio. Curated by Viviane Matesco, Marcus Lontra, Rafael Peixoto - Danielian Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Land in Times. Curated by Beatriz Lemos - MAM-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ultraqueer. Curated by Roma Pride - Palazzo Merulana, Rome. Italy
Collection on Display - FAMA, São Pedro Museum, Itu. Brazil
Lance. Curated by Carollina Lauriano and Guilherme Teixeira - ão Paulo Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
Sartori Collection. Curated by Paulo Herkanhoff - Rio Grande do Sul Art Museum, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Identities 22&22&22 - Santander Bank, São Paulo, Brazil
Contemporary Palace. Curated by Fabio Pimentel Baraldo - Palace Piratini, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2021
Steel Foams. Curated by Juliana Monachesi - Marli Matsumoto Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Butoh. Body on the brink of crisis - Marli Matsumoto Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
If walls could talk - Flat Massimo Carasi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Now or not. Curated by Women in the Archives - Rio Grande do Sul Art Museum / MARGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Women in the collection. Curator: Women in the collection group - Rio Grande do Sul Contemporary Art, Museum / MACRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
RS Contemporary Art. Curator: Ana Amélia Bulhões - Rio Grande do Sul Contemporary Art Museum / MACRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2020
In air. Curator: Tiago Abreu Pinto – Ed. Copan. São Paulo, SP
Brazilian Body. Curator Petr Hosek - Goethe-Institut, Porto, Portugal
2019
The Body Beyond the Body. Curator: Carollina Lauriano - Ponder70. São Paulo Brazil.
Collective. Ipêrformático II. Curated by invited artists: Alice Yura - MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Mato Grosso. Campo Grande, Brazil
Inauguration of the Pacaembú Dam. "Banheirão" Project: João GG - Casa Alagada. São Paulo Brazil
Collective. Threshold - Sesc Bauru. Bauru, Brazil
The Eschatology of the Glorious Body. Curatorship: Ío - Prego Gallery. Porto Alegre, Brazil
Food to inhabit liberties. Curated by Bernardo Mosqueira and keyna Eleison - Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Performance Despite the Ruins and Death. In partnership with Luz de Pandora - Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brazil
Feminist Stories Artists Women After Curatorship: Isabella Rjeille - MASP, São Paulo
Women in Brazilian Art - Entre Dois Vérticas. Curator: Pollyana Quintella - São Paulo Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
Women's strategies. Curatorship: Fabrícia Jordão and Rita Farias - Farol Santander, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Like it or not - Women in the Margs collection. Curatorship: Women in the collections - Margs, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Experiments on collectivity. Curator: Fernanda Pitta - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2018
Performance. Experiment to Deconstruct Normativity - Galeria Península, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Dance With Me - Galeria Península, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Collective. Cuerpo Testimonio> Fuera Performance - La Chatica: Centro de Investigacion y Produccion de Arte, Bogotá, Colombia
I Meeting of sharing knowledge and Festival of Performances BucÉtyko de Pornoklastya - Al Janiah, São Paulo, Brazil
Record N.2. Curatorship: Charlene Cabral and Diego Groisman - Casa Baka, Porto Alegre, Brazil
The Resumption of the Image Will Be the Presence. Curator: Agrippina R Manhattam - Galeria Oriente, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
II Movediça _ Performance Art Exhibition - Estúdio Lamina, São Paulo, Brazil
Open Performance. Bááárbaros - Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brazil
Collective. Trans-in-corporates - Org .: UFRJ, Labcrítica, Capes, Goethe Institut - Art Museum of Rio / MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Collective. GenerosityS _ art and the overfow of genres.
Performance curators: Monica Lopes Galvão - Sesc Santo Amaro. São Paulo Brazil
Expo 1806. Curatorship: UsinaQuatorze Coletiva de Arte - Municipal Museum, São José dos Campos, Brazil
Collective. Taller Abierto. Curator: Thiago Saraiva - Kasa Risomatikx. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Collective. Political Adornment. Curatorship: Tales Frey - Espaço Maus-Hábitos and Saco Azul. Porto, Portugal
2017
Collective. "Night of Museums". Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul / MACRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Collective. # 2 Shows Performatus. Curatorship: Tales Frey and Paulo Aureliano da Mata - Sesc Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Collective. RIP #ZERO action festival. Proposers: Chico Machado, Isabella de Mendonça, Jordi Tarso- Atêlie Subterrânea, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Collective. EX_Tensão IV Edition, Exhibition of performances and work in progress - Espaço MOVA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi
First Multicultural LGBT Show - SUCV Hall, Santa Maria, Brazil
Corpus Urbis, Performance Exhibition - Art Gallery of the Visual Arts Course at Unifa, Macapá, Brazil
Collective. DESOVA, Performance and New Media Exhibition - Associação Fotoativa, Belem do Pará, Brazil
Collective. Transitory Performance Show - Gerd Bornhein Gallery, Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Queermesse de São Sebatião - Ufrgs Department of Dramatic Arts, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016
Gesture Action & Performance - FURG, Rio Grande, Brazil
2015
Performance. Barbarians - Praça Saldanha Marinho, Santa Maria
Latin America Autumn Salon - Latin America Memorial, Marta Traba Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
"Caro, Cara, Corresponding Portraits in MARGS Collection and Invited Artists". Curator: André Venzon - Museum of Art of Rio Grande do Sul, MARGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Collective. PERTURBE 2015 - Bicicletaria Cultural, Curitiba, Brazil
Collective. "Work-Dores do Cu". Curator: Paula Aureliano da Mata and Tales Frey - Espaço Maus-Hábitos, Porto, Portugal
2014
Milky Way - Planetário da Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Drowning - Livraria Athena, Santa Maria, Brazil
Butoh. Lírio Meu - Santa Maria Art Museum, Santa Maria, Brazi
Contact Field Action I: Untitled - Ruins Estação Férrea, Santa Maria, Brazil
Performance Naval - Drifting Brazil - Macondo Lugar, Santa Maria, Brazil
Líria Meu - Winter City Dance Show - Renascença Theater, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Fresh Face. Curator: Talitha Motter and Paola Fabres - Galpon Gallery, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Gesture Action & Performance - FURG, Rio Grande, Brazil
Latin American Exhibition of Plastic Arts - Santa Maria Art Museum, Santa
Biennals
2023
Biennial of the Amazon. Curated by Keyna Eleison, Sandra Benites and Vânia Leal - Belém do Pará, Brazil
2020
12 Mercosul Curator: Andrea Giunta - Porto Alegre, Brazil
2019
International Biennial of Performance Activism, Bogotá, Colombia
Residences
2022
Cité Internationale des Arts. Project: Café avec Élle de 5 à 7 - Period: April and May. Paris, France
2019
Pivô Research Residency Project: Contrassexual Forms. São Paulo, Brazil - Curatorial follow-up: Camila Bechelany. Period; May to August
2018
PPPP Península Public Performance Program, # 6 Project: Transgenealogia - Península Gallery, Porto Alegre, Brazil - Period: January
Adelina Artistic Residency Program. Project: City, Femininity and Dissidence. Curatorial followup: Josué Mattos - Instituto Adelina, São Paulo, Brazil - Period: August and September
Works in Collection
- Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo, Brazil
- French Government Collection, National Library of France, Paris, France
- Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Ado Malagoli Museum of Art of Rio Grande do Sul - MARGS. Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul - MAC-RS. Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói - MAC-Niterói. Niterói, Brazil
- Santander Bank Brazil Collection, São Paulo, Brazil
- Rio Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Rio Museum of Modern Art - MAM-Rio. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- National Museum of the Republic, Brasília, Brazil
- Italian Embassy, Brasília, Brazil
- São Pedro Museum/FAMA - Itú, Brazil
- Aloisio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art - MAMAM Recife - Recife, Brazil
- Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
