About
Federico Protto
My artistic practice unfolds across the realms of performance, sound, installation, and research. Within my works, diverse practices such as choreography, music, fashion, sculpture, and text converge and intertwine with my personal South American heritage. This gives rise to a unique and dynamic style of installations.
At the heart of my creative exploration lies an interest with sharing narratives surrounding migration and the colonial, and our individual and collective movements through the world(s). My practice weaves together myths, ancestral notions, and fiction, creating a tapestry that spans a hybrid network of materialities, practices, and collaborators. My aim is to contribute to innovative and im/material forms and tools that foster cross-continental kinship.
For instance, my performance work ‘Dress-Rehearsals’ (2022) serves as a proto-esoteric gathering, blending elements of performance, workshop, ritual, and installation. This piece addresses questions of heritage collectively, activating texts, songs, dances, languages, costumes, objects, paintings, and audio-visual works through impulse, and spontaneity.
My multidisciplinary approach, e.g. in my current artistic research trajectory ‘MAPA’ embraces methods that diverge from the conventions of the global north. It draws motivation from ethnological, ecological, queer, and subcultural thought and approaches, resulting in a body of work that defies traditional boundaries.
I’ve collaborated closely with dedicated partners like Stefan Cantante, Anna Lugmeier, Myriam Van Imschoot, and Lisa Deml. My work has resonated internationally, engaging with institutions such as DeSingel and MOMU Fashion Museum in Antwerp (BE), Red Dawns Festival in Ljubljana (LSV), Centro Cultural de España in Montevideo (UY), Volksroom in Brussels (BE), Hošek Contemporary Gallery in Berlin (DE), ModaLisboa in Lisbon (PT), Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna (AT), wpZimmer in Antwerp (BE), and kunstencentrum BUDA in Kortrijk (BE).
I participated in the artistic research post-graduate program a.pass in Brussels and completed a master’s degree in fashion design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, as well as Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavik.
Currently, I am immersed in a long-term sound-art and performance project, ‘COUR,’ with Myriam Van Imschoot at Laboratories d’Aubervilliers, Paris-Region, and collaboratively working with various artists on the artistic research project titled ‘MAPA’ in Brussels and Montevideo.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, based in Brussels, Belgium.
2022 |
Post-Graduate artistic research – a.pass, advanced performance and scenography studies, Brussels (BE) |
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2017 |
Masters fashion design – University of Applied Arts, Vienna, prof. Hussein Chalayan/ Bernhard Willhelm, Vienna (AT) |
2023 |
Baby-Steps & Candy – process sharing at Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo (UY) |
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2022 |
Dress-Rehearsals – performance at ‘Reclaim! the power of community’ festival at nadaProductions/nadaLokal, Vienna (AT) // at ‘re:source’ a.pass end presentation, Cultural Center De Kriekelaar, Brussels (BE) |
Inter-Materiality Mode – tape-cassette release, Brussels (BE) |
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2021 |
Human Measueres with Myraim Van Imschoot – sound piece on Tomoko Hojo’s compilation Touch, released on Dragon’s Eye record label, Los Angeles/Tokyo (US/JP) |
Federico Luz Live – performance at Volksroom, Brussels (BE) |
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FORMULAS EP – extended play release and series of 21 CD-Shirts, Brussels (BE) |
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Da geht die Sonne unter! – video work for 22nd Red Dawns international feminist & queer festival, Ljubljana (SVN) |
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3 Studies for Mask with Myriam Van Imschoot – video work for From Breath to Matter, online edition, Berlin (DE) |
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Pan – video directed with Anna Lugmeier – ModaLisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week online edition, Lisbon (PT) |
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2019 |
Oliver’s Antigone with OLIVER art collective – performative stage piece for Antigone Archiv Oper hosted by collective rendezvous3000, Schwere Reiter, Munich (DE) |
Federico Luz Live: performances at Kunsthaus Essen, Essen (DE) // Apotheke – kollaboratorium für grenzgänger aller arten, Berlin (DE) // Kolorado Festival, Nagykovácsi (HU) // Take Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts, Vienna (AT) |
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2017 |
OLIVER’S Trailers with OLIVER art collective – video screening, Schikaneder, Vienna (AT) |
2022 |
School of Mountains and Water by Amanda Piña, TanzQuartier Wien- costume design, performance, Vienna (AT) |
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2021 |
MATRIA! by Rocio Marano, HZT Berlin – costume design, Berlin (DE) |
2020 |
Libelle by May Zarhy – costume & stage design, HochX, Munich (DE) |
2019 |
2020 Antigone – fashion performance at Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) |
UNEXPECTED SCARF with Stefan Cantante – virtual brand, Antwerp (BE) |
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2019 MUSES – fashion show, Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) // group fashion show, Take Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts, Vienna (AT) |
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2018 |
2019 Immortality & Fashion – fashion show, Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) // group show, curated by Jakob Lena Knebel, Weltmuseum, Vienna (AT) |
2017 Non-Corporeal – fashion show, Modalisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) |
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Heartbreak & Mixed Media on Boots – group show, Vad Art 8, Budapest (HU) |
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Cow Eyes – Sunglasses Project with Silhouette Eyewear, Linz (AT) |
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2017 Non-Corporeal – fashion show, Show Angewandte 17, Orangerie Schônbrunn, Vienna (AT) // installation, The Essence 17, year exhibition of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (AT) |
2022 |
KITE with Myriam Van Imschoot – artistic research on sound with and for children, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst // arts center BUDA, Kortrijk (BE) |
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2021 |
we shall be monsters a vocabulary of monstrous empathy, with Lisa deml – workshop facilitation, dotdtodt Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, Vienna (AT) |
2020 |
CARE WHERE? – online zine, textual and visual contributions |
2019 |
arachne Almanac of the Fashion Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna – print publication, concept and creative direction, published at Birkhäuser, Vienna (AT) |
2018 |
Tutor for fashion drawing and portfolio – Felszabter Rajziskola Budapest (HU) |
2024 |
AdLib Attic, Brussels (BE) wpZimmer, Antwerp (Be) ON_OF_SPACE – International Art Centre De Singel, Antwerp (BE) workspacebrussels, Brussels (BE) |
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2023 |
Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo (UY) arts center BUDA, Kortrijk (BE) The Green Corridor, Saint-Gilles (BE) |
2022 |
ON_OF_SPACE – International Art Centre De Singel, Antwerp (BE) arts center BUDA, with Myriam Van Imschoot, Kortrijk (BE) Studio Aalst – Netwerk Aalst – Associated Artists of Netwerk Aalst with Myriam Van Imschoot, Aalst (BE) |
2021 |
Netwerk Aalst, with Myriam Van Imschoot, Aalst (BE) |
2019 |
Best International Designer – ModaLisboa, SangueNovo, Lisbon Fashion Week, Lisbon (PT) |
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2018 |
AFA support collection – Austrian State Grant via Austrian Fashion Association (AT) 2017-2019 |
associated colleagues and spaces:
Lisa Deml
Stefan Cantante
Anna Lugmeier
Aleksandra Borys
Myriam Van Imschoot
Marieke Werner
Nathaniel Moore
ON_OFF_SPACE De Singel
ModaLisboa
Netwerk Aalst
a.pass
@faeioudaeiou
Image by Anna Lugmeier, 2023
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