Carla Filipe (born 1973) is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist and photographer, whose work explores the relationship between art objects, popular culture, and activism.
[1][2] Filipe was born in Aveiro in 1973 and brought up in Vila Nova da Barquinha, a small town in the centre of Portugal.
Anchored in drawing, personal experiences and in the concept of autobiography as an experimental archive of contemporaneity, Filipe’s creative process is the outcome of appropriating artefacts and documents that build a singular form of social portrait and, simultaneously, self-portraiture.
Selected Group Shows: “ O fantasma da liberdade”, Anozero´04 Coimbra Biennial, Portugal, 2024;[10] “ Echoes of the Brother Countries”, HKW, Berlim, Germany, 2024;“ Materialismo histórico”, La Oficina, Madrid, Spain, 2023; “FARSA.
Linguagem, fratura, ficção: Brasil e Portugal", SECS Pompeia, S. Paulo, Brazil, 2022; “Tudo o que eu quero: artistas portuguesas de 1900 a 2020”, Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France, 2022 / Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021; “Insistir em lo mesmo: Volver uma presencia sugerida”, EACC, Castellón, Spain, 2029; “ New Literacy”, 4th Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg and cities of Uralregion, Russian, 2017; “Incerteza Viva” 32º Bienal de S. Paulo, Brazil, 2016;[11][12] “ La Réplica Infiel”, CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2016; “Pigs”, Artium (Vitoria-Gasteiz) and Galeria Municipal do Porto, Spain and Portugal, 2016; Re-Discover III, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany, 2015; “ The lynx knows no boundaries”, D´Entreprise Ricard Foundation, Paris, France, 2015; “Mom, am i barbarian?” 13th Istambul Biennial, Turkey, 2013;[13] “1813: assedio, incendio y reconstrucción de Donostia”, Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián, Spain, 2013; “Art Situations: una mirada prospectiva” a selection by Teresa Blanch, María de Corral, Yolanda Romero and Vicente Todolí, Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain, 2012; “ Les Praires”, Les Ateliers Biennale d´arte contemporain de Rennes, France, 2012; “ Gravity & Disgrace” CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2012; “ The Future”, V Biennial de Jafre, Spain, 2011; “ Region de Múrcia In dialogue with Nothen Africa”, Manifesta 8- the European biennial of contemporary art, Murcia and Cartagena, Spain, 2011.