Isabelle Borges
Isabelle Borges' (*1966 in Salvador, Brazil) non-representational paintings, murals, collages and installations find their origins in her photographic studies of nature and establish a relationship both to the Neo-Concretists from Brazil and to the representatives of the European and New York schools of the 1950s and 1960s. Her work is thus shaped by the artistic influence of two continents - she studied in Rio de Janeiro at the Escola de Artes Visuais, among others with Beatriz Milhazes, and then at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf with Prof. Christian Megert, who was a major influence on the international group ZERO. Unlike the European Constructivists, however, Borges is not concerned with the geometry of pure form without a connection to nature and a possible illusionary space. She likes to be inspired by chance, by structures she finds in the visible environment. In doing so, the artist composes a permanent interplay of flatness and depicted spatiality.
Born 1966 in Salvador, Brazil. Lives and works in Berlin.
| 1985-88 | Social Sciences, UnB, Brasilia, Brazil | |
| 1989-92 | Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| 1993 | Moved to Cologne | |
| 1993-96 | Studio assistent from Jack Ox, Cologne | |
| 1994-96 | Studio assistent from Antonio Dias, Cologne | |
| 1996-97 | Studio assistent from Sigmar Polke, Cologne | |
| 1995-97 | Art academy Dusseldorf, with Prof. Christian Megert |
Awards
| 2020 | Neustart Kultur Kunstfonds Bonn |
| 2020 | Neustart Kultur Kunstfonds Bonn |
Solo exhibitions
| 2023 | crumple – unfold – crumple – unfold – crumple / Duo mit Haleh Redjaian / Galerie Nanna Preußners / Hamburg / D |
| 2022 | Shifts / Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph Gallery / Berlin / D |
| 2021 | Floating Spaces / Frank Taal Galerie / Rotterdam / NL |
| 2020 | Textures of reality / Kogan Amaro Galeria / Zürich / CH |
| 2018 | Synthetic fields / Kogan Amaro Galeria / Sao Paulo / BR |
| 2017 | l´espace indicible / Galeria Roberto Alban / Salvador de Bahia / BR |
| 2015 | Imbalance of nature / Holthoff Mokross Galerie / Hamburg / D |
| 2014 | Dobras Silenciosas / Galeria Paralelo / Sao Paulo / BR |
| 2013 | the arrow of time / Museu Brasileiro da Escultura / MUBE / Sao Paulo / D |
| 2012 | Suchmaschine läuft / works on paper - Galerie Exhibeo / Berlin / D |
| 2011 | Der unsagbare Raum / Kunstverein Meiningen / Meiningen / D |
| 2010 | Strom / Galerie Schuster / Berlin / D |
| 2008 | Hinterkopf / Galerie Weisser Elefant / Berlin / D |
| 2004 | Mind the Gap / Galeria Rosa Barbosa / Sao Paulo / BR |
| 2002 | Isabelle Borges / Brazilian Embassy / Berlin / D |
| 2000 | Galeria Candido Mendes / Rio de Janeiro / BR |
| 1999 | Galeria SESC Paulista / Sao Paulo / BR |
Group exhibitions (selection)
| 2023 | Trash - Cash / Frank Taal gallery / Rotterdam / NL |
| 2022 | Environmental Abstraction / Laura Mars Gallery / Berlin / D |
| 2021 | Catch´22 / Frank Taal Gallery / Rotterdam / NL |
| 2020 | Clash / Valencia – Berlin / Valencia / SP |
| 2019 | 14th. international Bienal of contemporary Art Curitiba / Oscar Niemeyer Museum / Curitiba / BR |
| 2018 | Berlin Radio / five artists from berlin / Galeria Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte/ BR |
| 2017 | The inaudible and noiseless foot of time / Isabelle Borges - Christian Henkel / Kunstverein Meissen / Meissen / D |
| 2016 | Les Miniatures / CODEX / Galerie Nicole Gnesa / Munich / Germany / D |
| 2015 | BerlinRoma-RomaBerlin / Reverse Inequality – Galerie Patrick Ebensperger / Berlin / D |
| 2014 | Außer der Reihe - Galerie Eigen + Art / Leipzig / D |
| 2013 | Borges - Budet - Popescu - Galerie Eigen Art Lab / Berlin / D |
| 2012 | Apes presents / Galerie Volker Diehl / Berlin / D |
| 2010 | Konstruktiv / Beck+Eggeling / new quarters / Düsseldorf / D |
| 2009 | Alpha / Pilot Projekt für Kunst / Düsseldorf / D |
| 2007 | Arcadia / Tactile Bosch / Cardiff / Wales / GB |
| 2006 | Brasil + Berlin / Galerie Schuster + Scheuermann / Berlin / D |
| 2004 | Ten Artists Two Countries / Brazilian Embassy / Berlin / D |
| 2001 | Galeria Scoglio di Quatro / Milano / IT |
| 2000 | Quatro Quadros - Centro Cultural Candido Mendes / Rio de Janeiro / BR |
