Tadáskía Preisträgerin K21 Global Art Award 2025
In the organizer's words:
Tadáskía (*1993 in Rio de Janeiro) is one of Brazil's most influential contemporary artists. Her multifaceted work encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, video and other forms of artistic expression. It touches on themes such as change and self-perception, is dedicated to the familiar and the foreign and takes up living and forgotten Afro-transgender cosmological narratives.
As part of the K21 Global Art Award, Tadáskía will realize the site-specific installation "brincando animada: travesti mariposa centopeia / animated play: travesti moth centipede" (2025) for the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. The work consists of a semi-abstract painting painted freely on the wall and newly created sculptures made of Taboa. "It is an unexpected gift to be able to take my work - which I owe to my mother Elenice, who spoke to the plants and the stars, and my father Aguinaldo, who taught me consistency - to places beyond the familiar. I am deeply grateful and honored to receive the third K21 Global Art Award. It gives me great pleasure to see my drawings come to life and play in this other part of the world," says Tadáskía.
Drawing is a central element in Tadáskía's work. Traces of pastel, spray, graphite and charcoal are transformed into vivid and mysterious signs - each line becomes an intimate gesture, a whisper from a world between worlds. Tadáskía's sculptures are made from taboa, a reed-like plant that is traditionally used in Afro-indigenous communities in the Brazilian Pantanal or Amazon region for building but also as a medicinal plant and carries the cultural knowledge of ancestors. The artist uses this straw-like material to create small, twisting sculptures that expand her wall drawing to create a kaleidoscopic situation in space. The work plays with the interweaving of self-perception, imagination and the mysterious and invites us to question firmly established social norms and gender roles and to make gender fluidity visible.
The work has already been realized in major international institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2024) and the 35th Bienal de São Paulo (2023). Works by Tadáskía can be found in renowned public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and at Kadist in Paris. From 2025, her work will add a contemporary non-binary perspective from Latin America to the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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Adults: 14€, with concession: 12€, children & young people: Free admission, students & trainees: 5€
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