Luzia Cruz (b. 1997, Lisbon) is a visual artist based in Hamburg and Berlin. Her work focusses on the fragility of social mechanisms that regulate technological development, in tension with the extraction of natural resources. Plastically, Luzia explores this tension in ways of accelerating degradation processes on various materials. She is pursuing an MA in fine arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg and holds a scholarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Luzia is co-founder and co-director of EGEU Cultural Association, since 2019.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Archive des Körpers - Der Körper in Archivierung, ICAT, Hamburg, 2024
Free Roam, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin, 2024
Resort, Magma Maria, Offenbach am Main, 2023
An Upgrade on Cranes, Frappant, Hamburg, 2023
House Warming, Loop, Berlin, 2023
Fata Morgana, Raum Linksrechts, Hamburg, 2021
A4, douzième edition, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2019
Jov’arte Bienal Jovem 2019, Vieira da Silva Municipal Gallery, Lisbon, 2019
PUBLICATIONS
Turbo Land, windpark books, Frankfurt am Main/Wein, 2024
Harvest, Forlaget Materia Magazine, Copenhagen, 2024
Archives of the Body, HFBK online publication, Hamburg, 2024
Alcazar, EGEU publication, Lisbon, 2022
Voz/Estudo de Som, by Guilherme Vilhena Martins, author's edition, Lisbon, 2022
Mondsucht IV, author's edition, Hamburg, 2021
REVIEWS + INTERVIEWS
RTP Notícias, Artistas da "Free Roam" em Berlim defendem trabalho "em coletivo" para fortalecer democracia, Lusa, interview, 2024
Gallery Talk, Highlights des HFBK Rundgangs. Fünf Künstler*innen, die im Kopf bleiben, Theresa Weise, review, 2024
Umbigo Magazine, Spam, Evasion and Image: four artistic positions as an outline of a critical practice, Guilherme Vilhena Martins, essay, 2023
GRANTS + RESIDENCIES
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, scholarship, 2022-2024
La Wayaka Current Residency, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2023
Gwärtler Stiftung, publication funding, 2022
Direção-Geral das Artes (DGArtes), project funding, 2022
Goldsmiths, scholarship exchange, London, 2022
Deutschlandstipendium, scholarship, 2021/22
Karl H.Ditze, project funding, 2021
Studierendenwerk Hamburg, project funding, 2021
Studierendenwerk Hamburg, scholarship, 2020
Künstlerstadt Kalbe Residency, Kalbe, Germany, 2020
PARTES Residency, Moscavide, Portugal, 2017