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Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

February-April, 2024

Travelling Back is an exhibition that presents a critical perspective on the narratives and collections Bavarian scientists Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826) and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868) brought from Brazil in the 19th century. The exhibition follows their extensive three-year journey across the Brazilian hinterland, including the Amazonian region.

It examines the various displays and interpretations of Spix and Martius's collections from their arrival in Germany to the present, and it sheds light on the dis:connectivities of knowledge production behind these scientific endeavours. 

Museu Nacional da República

December, 2022 - August, 2023

As a consultant for UNESCO at the National Museum of the Republic in Brasília, I led the curatorial research for the museum's collections and conceptualized the exhibition "Aqui Estou." Presented at the museum from December 22 to September 23, 2023, the exhibition was critically acclaimed and attracted over 200,000 visitors.

Museu Lasar Segall

Maio-Julho, 2021

This exhibition project is based on a curatorial immersion in the collection of the artist Rossini Perez. By unveiling the practice of archiving in his poetics, the show brings to the São Paulo public an unprecedented dimension of the production of one of the most important Brazilian photographers and engravers. The show will be accompanied by a series of public programs, guided tours and workshops, in addition to a publication.

Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica

Rio de Janeiro, 01.06 - 27.07.2019

How do places get their names? What does it mean to perpetuate a character by associating his or her name with a public space? What stories and silences do such gestures reveal? These are some of the questions that have guided the work of the Swiss-Haitian artist Sasha Huber for over a decade. These issues are also the guiding thread of the «Nome Próprio» (Proper Noun) exhibition that opens at the Hélio Oiticica Municipal Art Centre on 1 June, 2019 (Saturday), curated by Sabrina Moura.

Videobrasil

São Paulo, Feb. - Jun, 2016

Curatorial work goes far beyond the exhibition space and unfolds into myriad areas of cultural practices. From fieldwork with artists to the editing of publications, from the building of collections to the creation of educational programs, the boundaries of curatorial practice expand into experimental formats.
This laboratory discusses historical aspects of the field of curatorship, including case studies and workshops centered around each of the laboratory’s three modules — public programs, editorial projects and experimental practices.

Cité Universitaire

Paris, 2008-2010

Glassbox is an art collective created in Paris in 1997. The collective is directed and curated by artists whose goal is to promote contemporary creation and innovation in the visual arts field. From 2008 to 2010, we collaborated on the conception and documentation of contemporary art exhibitions, in collaboration with Glassbox. They include: Le Complexe de Rittberger (Fondation Avicenne, Paris, July, 2008); Les Eaux de Céline Duval (CIUP, Paris, February 2009), Six Feet Under (Fondation Avicenne, Paris, December 2009).

From 2012 to 2013, Sabrina Moura coordinated the structuring and the partnerships of the Videobrasil Residency Network. The network involved programs at the Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China; A-I-R Laboratory, Warsaw, Poland; Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal; Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, United States; the Residency Unlimited, New York, United States. This edition also counted with the support of The China Art Foundation, Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea (ICCo) and Resartis.

Videobrasil

São Paulo, 2003

Plataforma:VB  is an online art research tool where the voices of artists, curators, educators and the audience interweave. Like a laboratory of interactions, the elements that comprise the platform (dots, mappings, and tags) weave a web of connections established via multidisciplinary and polyphonic investigations. The project was designed in collaboration with Thereza Farkas and Claudio Bueno for the Associação Cultural Videobrasil.