ABOUT

Bio
Luiza Folegatti is a Brazilian artist based in Western Massachusetts (USA). She spent five years in Berlin (Germany) integrating artistic practice, teaching, and social advocacy. Her current work focuses on motherhood and migration, and she applies photography, video, performance, and visual anthropology methods. Luiza strongly believes in the positive impact generated by projects that combine photography, education, and community building. She currently teaches at Bennington College (USA) and also designs and facilitates photography workshops for community spaces. 

Contact: luizafolegatti@gmail.com

Prizes/ Fellowships/ Residencies
2024 — Artists At Work Grantee
2023 — Pittsfield Local Cultural Council Grant (USA)
2022 — February-April, Residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA (USA)
2018 GIEFF, German International Ethnographic Film Festival, Koblenz, Special Mention form the Jury, (Germany).
2016 / 2018
— DAAD, Academic Fellowship for Art Studies (Germany)
2015
— PROAC for Integrated Arts, by the State Government of São Paulo (Brazil)
2011
— AUGM, South-American Academic Fellowship for Art Studies (Argentina)

Exhibitions
2024 — Solo show, Mothering in Migration, Gallery 51, North Adams (USA)
2024Between Generations, First Fridays Artswalk, Pittsfield, (USA).
2021Facing Gender, F2 Fotofestival, at Depot e.V.,  Dortmund, (Germany).
2019Beyond, Photoszene-Festival, at Kunsthaus Rhenania, Köln, (Germany).
2019Fem-spoken Word Poetry, Festival Offenes Neukölln, at  WerkStadt, (Germany).
2018Señores eso es una teta, Monat der Fotografie OFF, at  Povvera, (Germany).
2018Malleable Borders, Shifting Identities, at Flutgraben e.V., (Germany).
2018Ex-Changing Perceptions – Art for Change, at UDK, (Germany).
2014Multitude: quando a arte se soma à multidão, at SESC Pompéia, (Brazil).
2013Atrás, na frente, em cima, embaixo, entre, at Arte Londrina, (Brazil).
2013Territórios e Fugas, at Galeria de Artes da Unicamp, Campinas, (Brazil).
2013Fotografia em Curso, at  MIS Campinas, (Brazil).

Film Festivals
2019 — II Transforma– Florianópolis, (Brazil).
2019 — RAI, Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, Bristol, (U.K.)
2018 — Curta o Gênero, Fortaleza, (Brazil).
2018GIEFF, German International Ethnographic Film Festival, Koblenz, (Germany).

Teaching:
2023
present — Visiting Faculty in Photography at Bennington College.
2023 Photography workshop for mothers and daughters, in-person, Berkshire Immigrant Center, Pittsfield.
2022 / 2023 —
Colloquium, online, for M.A. program Visual and Media Anthropology, HMKW, Berlin.
2022 — Photography and Performance, online, for M.A. program Visual and Media Anthropology, HMKW, Berlin.
2022 Portrait Photography Workshop, for immigrant women, in-person, Berkshire Immigrant Center, Pittsfield.
2021Frauen* Fotoclub, online, at La Red e.V., Berlin.
2021Eco-Leadership, online, multimedia workshop for teenage girls, at Mar de Colores e.V., Berlin.
2020Photography and womxn leadership, online and in-person, at Encounters, Berlin.
2020Mädchen an die Macht!, online and in-person, multimedia workshop for teenage girls at Mar de Colores e.V., Berlin.
2019Photo-Workshop for womxn, at Encounters Medienwerkstatt, Berlin.
2019Photography and Political Education, at Gemeinsamer Horizont e.V., Berlin.
2018Photography and Autobiographies, at StadtRand Mitte, Berlin.
2018 — Representación de la mujer latinoamericana en la fotografía, at Xochicuicatl e.V., Berlin.
2014Photography and video workshops for PASCH Project, Goethe Institut Brazil, implemented in the following schools: CIL I (Brasília), Colégio Vértice (São Paulo) and E.E.E.P. Paulo VI (Fortaleza).

Arts Management:
2023 / 2024 — Residency Coordinator at the Studios at MASS MoCA.
2022 / 2024
— Coordinator of the Iris Residency Fellowship for immigrant artists at The Studio at MASS MoCA.
2022 / 2023 — Jurying artist for The Studios at MASS MoCA.

Publications
2020
And she was like BÄM!: Fifty Five Photographers, Düsseldorf Photo+, (Germany).
2018Beyond II, humanistic photography in newspaper format, (Germany).
2018 — King ON, Brasil! (15min) published at Visual and Media Anthropology Journal, (Germany).

Press
2025 —
Mothering in Migration  video made by Artists At Work (USA).
2024At MCLA Gallery 51, The Berkshire Eagle.
2021
— Gazing at Slapstick with Luiza Folegatti’s Drag King Series O Deleite da Mulher Barbada From the book Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion by Alena E. Lyons (U.S. / Germany).
2021About Facing Gender  Exhibition – f² Fotofestival (Germany).

Studies
2016 / 2018 — M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, (Germany).
2011 — Academic Exchange at Universidad Nacional del Cuyo, (Argentina).
2008 / 2012 — B.A. in Media Studies at State University of Campinas, (Brazil).

Social Work
2022 — Media and Outreach Coordinator at the Berkshire Immigrant Center (U.S).
2018 / 2020
— Migration social worker at Xochicuicatl e.V., Latin American women center in Berlin since 1992, (Germany).
2020 / 2021 – Migration social worker and researcher at project Fem.OS from Minor GmbH, (Germany).