Laura Lima, The Drawing Drawing, 2026, installation at ICA, London. Life model: Olia Poliakova. Image courtesy of Laura Lima Studio.
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Laura Lima: The Drawing Drawing
What happens when an artwork moves, breathes, and makes us question how – or if – we are alive? Join us for a conversation on the singular practice of Brazilian artist Laura Lima, whose work blurs the boundaries between sculpture, performance, installation, and living systems.
Presented alongside Lima’s exhibition The Drawing Drawing, this panel brings together artists, curators, and scholars who have closely engaged with her practice. Developed in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro-based institution Solar, the event will take place simultaneously in London and Rio. Audiences at Solar will watch the discussion live alongside Lima, who will join remotely from Rio to respond to the panel and take questions from both the panelists and the ICA audience.
Lima’s works often unfold collaboratively and unpredictably, treating people, objects, and environments as sculptural matter. This conversation will explore the practical and conceptual questions raised by her practice, from repetitive and durational gestures to works involving museum staff wearing face makeup, sleeping participants, and interventions that subtly transform familiar spaces such as life-drawing studios.
What happens when an artwork moves, breathes, and makes us question how – or if – we are alive? Join us for a conversation on the singular practice of Brazilian artist Laura Lima, whose work blurs the boundaries between sculpture, performance, installation, and living systems.
Presented alongside Lima’s exhibition The Drawing Drawing, this panel brings together artists, curators, and scholars who have closely engaged with her practice. Developed in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro-based institution Solar, the event will take place simultaneously in London and Rio. Audiences at Solar will watch the discussion live alongside Lima, who will join remotely from Rio to respond to the panel and take questions from both the panelists and the ICA audience.
Lima’s works often unfold collaboratively and unpredictably, treating people, objects, and environments as sculptural matter. This conversation will explore the practical and conceptual questions raised by her practice, from repetitive and durational gestures to works involving museum staff wearing face makeup, sleeping participants, and interventions that subtly transform familiar spaces such as life-drawing studios.
Speakers
Bernardo Mosqueira – Artistic Director, Solar (joining remotely)
James Tyson – Head of Programme, ArtHouse Jersey
Andrea Nitsche-Krupp – Curator of Laura Lima: The Drawing Drawing
Ilê Sartuzi – London and São Paulo-based artist
Paula Terra-Neale – Curator and art historian; Director, TerraArte
Laura Lima – will join remotely to respond to the conversationBios
Bernardo Mosqueira is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. He is the founder and artistic director of Solar in Rio de Janeiro and director of Prêmio FOCO ArtRio. From 2023 to 2025, he served as Chief Curator at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), following his tenure on the curatorial team at the New Museum (2021–2023). Between 2011 and 2014, Mosqueira organized the performance festival Vênus Terra, and from 2011 to 2015 he was a curator at Galeria de Arte Ibeu. In 2020, he co-founded Fundo Colaborativo, the first emergency fund dedicated to artists and art workers in Brazil. Recent exhibitions include Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Eterno Vulnerável (Solar, 2025); Diana Dowek: Uprising in the Mirror (ISLAA, 2025); Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths (ISLAA, 2024); Korakrit Arunanondchai: but the words make worlds (Solar, 2024); Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot; and Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart / Mi corazón latiente (New Museum, 2023). He was part of the curatorial team for the fifth New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone (2021) and holds a master’s degree in curatorial studies from CCS Bard (2021). In 2017, Mosqueira received the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi and in 2025 the Vilcek Foundation Prize in Curatorial Work.
James Tyson is an art facilitator and performance-maker who works across disciplines from visual arts, theatre, dance and music. Currently Head of Programme at ArtHouse Jersey (C.I) and musician with the trans-border group ÀTÁ, from 1999-2011 he was Theatre Programmer at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff where he worked with Laura Lima on To Age (2004). He also created with Laura Lima and the Australian group, Ranters Theatre, the live installation work, Song (2013) at Arts House, Melbourne.
Andrea Nitsche-Krupp is Exhibitions Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London and curator of Laura Lima: The Drawing Drawing, 2026. For the ICA she has curated exhibitions by Tanoa Sasraku, Nora Turato, Geumhyung Jeong, Rheim Alkadhi, Aria Dean and Gray Wielebinski. Previously, Nitsche-Krupp was Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). She has worked with the Kramlich Collection, San Francisco; the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; and the Drawing Center, New York, and has contributed to publications for the Tate Modern, London; SFMOMA, San Francisco; the Katonah Museum of Art, New York; the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, and edited multiple publications for the ICA. Nitsche-Krupp has a PhD from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Ilê Sartuzi (1995, lives and works between London and São Paulo) is an artist graduated from the University of São Paulo with a Master from Goldsmiths, University of London. He sneaks into different spheres of the art system, from a conceptual practice in institutional exhibitions to commodity-form works in art galleries and elitist fairs. Some of his recent solo exhibitions and projects include “Contract” at Luisa Strina (São Paulo, 2025); “A CRIME, A CONFESSION AND A TRADE” at NıCOLETTı (London, 2025); “Trick” at the Museum of Contemporary Art (São Paulo, 2025); “Vaudeville” at Pedro Cera (Lisbon, 2023); “hollow head doll’s foam” at SESC Pompéia (São Paulo, 2022) and “A. And A again.” at auroras (São Paulo, 2021). He has participated in exhibitions at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2021, 2023); Videobrasil (2021); Museu Oscar Niemeyer (2022); Bienal SUR (2021); Instituto Moreira Salles (2020); SESC (Pompéia, 2022; Pinheiros, 2022; Ribeirão Preto, 2019; Distrito Federal, 2018); CCSP – Centro Cultural São Paulo (2018); MAC-USP Museu de Arte Contemporânea (2017); Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (2020; 2017; 2015); Galeria Vermelho (2017; 2018, 2019); all three in collaboration with the research group After the End of Art, which he has been part of from 2015 to 2021. His work is in public and private collections including that of Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, coleção moraes-barbosa, Instituto PIPA, Videobrasil and the British Museum. He received the PIPA Award (Brazil, 2021).
Paula Terra-Neale is an art historian, researcher, and independent curator based between London and Lisbon, with three decades of engagement with art in Brazil and internationally. Her PhD (University of Essex) examined the radical shifts in the modern paradigm of the 1960s through Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, and the enduring influence of Mário Pedrosa. She has curated seminal historical exhibitions including Situações: Arte Brasileira, anos 70, named Critics' Exhibition of the Year in 2000. Currently Senior Visiting Fellow at TrAIN, Chelsea College of Arts (UAL), she is leading research on the carioca art scene of the 1990s in partnership with EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro. She also convenes Far Few of Us, a transnational and intergenerational peer group supporting Brazilian women artists across Europe and Brazil. She has lectured at PUC-Rio and EBA/UFRJ and worked with institutions including Modern Art Oxford, ESCALA, Casa França-Brasil, and the British Council. In 2016 she founded Terra-Arte, a platform for exhibitions, exchange, and publication in the field.
Laura Lima grew up in the city of Governador Valadares, in Minas Gerais. When she was still very young, Lima moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she lives now. She graduated in Philosophy from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s and also studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. In 1999, she founded the body Representante guion [hyphen] Representante (RhR) and served as its first bureaucratic administrator. Together with Ernesto Neto and Marcio Botner, she is also a co-founder of A Gentil Carioca, a gallery directed by artists in Rio de Janeiro. Lima’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in institutions around the world, most recently at MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain (2023); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2018); and Pinacoteca (Octágono), São Paulo (2018). Recent group exhibitions include participation the 2025 Boston Public Art Triennial and the Sharjah Biennial in 2019. Her works are held in institutional collections including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Instituto Inhotim, Brazil; Modern Art Museum of São Paulo; Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden; Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland; Zabludowicz Collection; and the Bonnefantenmuseum, The Netherlands, among others.
Book tickets
06:45 pm
Wed, 25 Mar 2026
Cinema 1
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Cinema 1
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- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
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- Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
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Wed 25 Mar, 6:45pm
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Ilê Sartuzi, photo courtesy of the artist.
Paula Terra-Neale, photo courtesy of Terra-Neale.
James Tyson, photo courtesy of Danny Richardson.
Laura Lima, courtesy of the artist.
Bernardo Mosqueira, photo courtesy of the Vilcek Foundation.
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