Analize Nicolini (Cacoal, Brazil, 1974) is a cisgender visual artist, activist, economist, modern and contemporary art critic, independent curator and consultant for cultural, editorial, social and philanthropic projects. She focuses her research on the contemporaneity – and complexity – of human feelings and relationships and their surroundings, going through existential philosophical questions such as the inevitability of the finitude of life, until arriving at environmental, anthropological and social issues in the Anthropocene, to answer the central question whether Art is capable of transforming human behavior and healing our relationship with the environment and human and non-human suffering, whether through creation or through contemplation. With her artistic practice dedicated to different media such as neon, photography, video and performance, her work unfolds in a therapeutic process of healing and activism for a better world, sustainable capitalist practices and better inter-human relations, and in pro-activism. utopias for a new world order.
Her artistic training includes courses in Photography at Ômicron in Curitiba (2009/2010) and Curating Contemporary Art at the University of the Arts London – UAL (2011), in addition to courses in Painting (2016/2017) and Creative Processes (2018/ 2019) and the specialization in Criticism and Curatorship of Modern and Contemporary Art (2018), all from the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, in Rio de Janeiro and in Curatorial Practice at the School for Curatorial Studies (2019), in Venice. In constant search of new learning and paths, the artist currently participates in the Master’s programme in Environmental Humanities at Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice) as well as in the Inclusive Curatorial Practices: Accessibility, Representation and Diversity programme promoted by the NODE Center (Berlin).
In 2019, she carried out the site-specific Luzes do Leblon (Lights of Leblon) and published the homonymous book, a tribute to the 100 anniversary of the neighborhood, as the result of an artistic residency in Rio de Janeiro between 2018 and 2019. Twenty-one large-format photographs were exhibited on Leblon beach through a performative action. In the same year, she participated in the group exhibition D’água, which inaugurated the Espaço Judith Munk de Fotografia, in Araras, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. In February 2020, during an artistic residency in Venice, he performed Act I – The Invasion of the ongoing project Ending in Venice. In 2022, the artist presented artworks from her most recent production, including some exhibited for the first time, in the solo exhibition Nos Resta Ser Feliz, at SOMA Galeria in Curitiba and in the group show Daqui de Onde Estou, hosted at We Exhibit, Venice, Italy.