
MULTIMEDIA ARTIST São Paulo - SP, Brasil (1997)
Nicole Kouts multidisciplinary work investigates the image as a transport medium of ancient beliefs to contemporary technologies. In the spaces occupied by the digital and the analogue there are mutations of time and memory. The luminous screens operates as portals to the fiction of the divine, the self and the infinity. While obsolete media are the reverse face of forgotten identities and myths. The interest in the genealogy of images and the archaeology of media comes from an autobiographical experience, as latin american, granddaughter of immigrants, raised between the brazillian, the greek and the Internet culture.
She started blogging her drawings as a teenager, participating on comics and zine collectives. After that, has illustrated books, album covers, theater and festival posters. Nowadays, her work as a visual artist has been exhibited in Brazil, around the world and online. She also works as costume and set designer, puppeteer and curator of experimental projects in digital spaces.
EDUCATION
2019-2020
Post-graduation in Set and Costume Design | Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo | Scholarship (In)Formados | São Paulo, Brasil
2015-2018
BA (hons) in Visual Arts | Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo | Scientific Research Scholarship Funadesp | São Paulo, Brasil
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Mapping the Cartographic | nextmuseum.io | Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast + Museum Ulm | Online
2020
45º SARP - Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Nacional-Contemporâneo MARP - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto | São Paulo, Brasil
FRESTA - Mostra de Audiovisual Experimental - 5ª Edição Instituto de Artes - FURG | Online
System Failure. Please Restart | CETI Gallery of The Future | Online
Covid 1984 | SPAMM The Super Modern Art Museum | Online
12º Festivau de c4nn3$ - A marcha audiovisual | Online | Brasil
OnlineBlush | OnlinePlayroom | Online
-protocol | Online
Game of Life + Installation Island ACAI - Animal Crossing Artificial Intelligence Workshop | Online
Where's The Remote? | Sits Still Project | Online | Estados Unidos
A Fronteira | Espaço Apis | Online | Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
0202.2020.Space | Streaming + Hong Kong, Taiwan, Seoul, Amsterdam, Barcelona e Atenas
On-Off Moving Image Festival | Valencia, Espanha; Gol, Noruega
2019
The Wrong Biennale (pavilhões):
- The Wrong Epicentre | Valencia, Espanha
- InAbsentia | Semiosphera | Itineran/itinerant | Foggia, Itália
- Megalith | MetamerLabs | Svalbard, Noruega
- Novas Sensibilidades | Instagram | Santa Catarina, Brasil
- Very Large Works | Pavilhão Online - verylarge.works
- Virtual Ritornello | Itinerante/itinerant | Califórnia, Estados Unidos
The Screen - The Laboratory of Dissident: Inside Outside Chapel Arts Studios - Winchester School of Arts | Inglaterra
Festivau de c4nn3$ | DDD Volt4 P4r4 LOS Año$ 20 | Galpão Terra | São Paulo, Brasil
TIMELINE: BH#5 - Festival Internacional de Video Arte | CineSesc | Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Mudhouse Residency Exhibition | Agios Ioannis | Creta, Grécia
48º Salão de Artes Novíssimos | Galeria de Arte Ibeu | Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Rotas - Belas Artes | SP-Arte | São Paulo, Brasil
Festival do Minuto | Destaque: Tema Livre | Website
2º Festival de Pintura | Instituto de Artes da Unesp | São Paulo, Brasil
2018
MADA - 1ª Mostra Audiovisual do Barreiro | Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Abstratas Moradas | Museu Belas Artes | São Paulo, Brasil
1ª Bienal de Artes de Taubaté | Taubaté | São Paulo, Brasil
CompartiArte - 5a Edição | Centro Britânico Brasileiro | São Paulo, Brasil
Rotas – Belas Artes | SP-Arte | São Paulo, Brasil
Cosmovisión Femenina | Capiusa Centro Creativo | Cidade da Guatemala, Guatemala
2017
3ª Mostra BA | Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo, Brasil
2015
Novas Impressões | Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade | São Paulo, Brasil
ART RESIDENCIES
2020
2º Temos Vagas! | Ateliê 397 | São Paulo, Brasil
2019
Mudhouse Residency | Agios Ioannis | Creta, Grécia
PROJETO DATASHOW
DATASHOW is a digital space for art exhibitions, an experimental curatorial project led by Nicole Kouts e João Rocha
2020
Queima de Stock | A selection of the best Stock videos on the internet
2019-2020
Tráfico de Influência | Exhibition of video links recommended by artistas | Online Pavillion of The Wrong Bienalle 2019/2020