Roberta Lima

Roberta Lima (born 2 December 1974 in Manaus, Brazil) is an Austrian-based video and performance artist.

Roberta Lima studied Architecture and Urban Planning at Unisinos in southern Brazil and then went on to complete her graduate studies in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Lima's work explores her own body as theme for her work using various media, such as photographs, video and installations. She investigates and appropriates aspects of different spaces and contexts like subculture, science, popular media, historical reference and feminist theory. Her work questions the subjects of space and performative interaction. At the same time she aims for an aesthetic atmosphere in her performances and installations. The negotiated positions of beauty are created in Lima's work by framing the modernistic old-school feel with cables, cameras, screens, projections and other tools of her trade as a video artist. Lima makes the conditions of production visible, the same way she regularly does with the interior of her body. But she also refers to the technical sphere in her reflections on body politics and uses the same technology to sculpt herself.

Solo exhibitions

• 2009 From Transgression to Transcription (Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Tirol)

• 2008 Into Pieces (das weisse haus , Vienna)

• 2008 6teen Stitches (Donaufestival, Krems)

• 2007 Lights Out! (Kunstraum NOE, Vienna)

• 2007 Cut it Out! (Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana)

Selected group exhibitions

• 2009 PERFORMANCE II: Übertragung und Übersetzung, FOTOGALERIE WIEN, Vienna

• 2009 Fragments of Art in Translation, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna

• 2008 synchronicity in collaboration with Dorit Margreiter, 11th International Cairo Biennale

• 2007 Fresh Europe 07, Kogart House, Budapest

• 2007 ARTmART, Vienna Künstlerhaus

• 2007 Auftritte Collaboration with the Austrian artist Anja Manfredi, Galerie Österreichisches Kulturforum, Berlin

• 2006 MAK NITE – Exhibition Microstories Austria – Kurzfilme österreichischer Medienhochschulen, MAK, Vienna

• 2006 ALL NIGHT LONG, Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna

• 2005 I can see clearly now, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna

Awards and artist residencies

• 2010 Daghdha Space in Limerick, Ireland

• 2009 Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, China awarded by Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur, Austria

• 2007 Kunstpreis H13 for performance (Kunstraum Noe), Austria

• 2007 Akademiefreundepreis in Vienna, Austria

References

• Pacher, Jörg. "Preface", in: Lima, Roberta. Invasion. (Self-published: Vienna), 2008.
• Thun-Hohenstein, Felicitas (Ed.). synchronicity: 11th Cairo Biennial Austrian Contribution. (Walther König: Vienna), 2009.
• Lima, Roberta. "Thinking Praxis and Theory Inversely", in: Art & Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, (Glasgow Art School: Glasgow), 2009.
• basis wien: art, information and archive

External links

• Roberta Lima
• From Transgression to Transcription, by Roberta Lima published by CORPUS, an Internet Magazine for Dance, Choreography and Performance