artist and cultural programmer
born in Pirassununga - Brazil
lives and works in London - UK
nbertazi@gmail.com
@nathaliabertazi
born in Pirassununga - Brazil
lives and works in London - UK
nbertazi@gmail.com
@nathaliabertazi
blogging here:
nathaliabertazi.cargo.site
nathaliabertazi.cargo.site
I am drawn to materials that bend, fray, sag, or resist stability
— forms that reveal the effort of remaining intact.
Through repetition, layering, erosion, and precarious assembly,
I build structures that seem to hover between holding and collapse.
Discarded or fragile materials become temporary systems: skins, shelters, membranes, links. They carry the marks of circulation, labor, exhaustion,
and repair.
Making is never neutral.
Every gesture leaves a trace of the social world that produced it.
Rather than seeking fixed meanings, I work through accumulation and undoing, allowing contradiction, instability, and vulnerability
to remain visible.
I think of my practice as a way of staying with tension: attending to what persists after rupture, to what loosens slowly, to what survives through adaptation. The work does not search for resolution, but for forms capable of holding uncertainty collectively — however briefly.
Education
MA Print, Royal College of Art, London - UK, 2024 - 2025
PG Curating Contemporary Art, The Art of Social Engagement , UAL: Chelsea College of Arts, London - UK, 2018
BA Photography, Escola Panamericana de Arte e Design, Sao Paulo/BR, 2010-2011
BA Languages and Literature, Anhanguera Educacional, Sao Paulo/BR, 2005-2009
PG Curating Contemporary Art, The Art of Social Engagement , UAL: Chelsea College of Arts, London - UK, 2018
BA Photography, Escola Panamericana de Arte e Design, Sao Paulo/BR, 2010-2011
BA Languages and Literature, Anhanguera Educacional, Sao Paulo/BR, 2005-2009
Residencies
Art Residency Workshop de Allende
led by Alessandra Sanguinetti, Jim Goldberg and Paul Schiek
TBW Books
San Miguell de Allende - Mexico, 2023
Research Residency in Contemporary Art Encorpando Processos Criativos
led by Virginia de Medeiros
Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Sao Paulo - Brazil, 2023
led by Alessandra Sanguinetti, Jim Goldberg and Paul Schiek
TBW Books
San Miguell de Allende - Mexico, 2023
Research Residency in Contemporary Art Encorpando Processos Criativos
led by Virginia de Medeiros
Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Sao Paulo - Brazil, 2023
Curated
_2026
A System At Scale
co-curated with JJ Hellerman
Three Rooms Gallery, London/UK
_2025
A System At Scale
co-curated with JJ Hellerman
Three Rooms Gallery, London/UK
_2025
Dutch-Tape
co-curated with Darcie Burns and Hagar Etiel
Royal College of Art, London/UK
Rites of Ruins
co-curated with JJ Hellerman
Safehouse1 Peckham, London/UK
_2024
Obra de Memória
Edifício Vera, Sao Paulo/BR
_2023
Significância
LOV A, Amsterdan
co-curated with Darcie Burns and Hagar Etiel
Royal College of Art, London/UK
Rites of Ruins
co-curated with JJ Hellerman
Safehouse1 Peckham, London/UK
_2024
Obra de Memória
Edifício Vera, Sao Paulo/BR
_2023
Significância
LOV A, Amsterdan
Shows
_2026
Muda
Somers Gallery
A System At Scale
Three Rooms Gallery, London/UK
_2025
Muda
Somers Gallery
A System At Scale
Three Rooms Gallery, London/UK
_2025
Another Shore
Art@111 Gallery, London/UK
Dutch-Tape
Royal College of Art, London/UK
School of Arts & Humanities MA graduate show
Royal College of Art, London/UK
The Fall of Icarus
Upper Gulbenkian Galler y, London/UK
Ancestral Utopias
Hangar Galler y, London/UK
Rites of Ruins
Safehouse1 Peckham, London/UK
In Betweens
Southwark Park Galleries, London/UK
_2024
Invisible
Hockney Galler y, London/UK
Obra de Memória
Edifício Vera, Sao Paulo/BR
_2023
Início, meio e início
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo/BR
We Like Small Things v.6
FilterPhoto Space, Chicago/US
_2018
Sinapses
Galeria Vão, Sao Paulo/BR
Art@111 Gallery, London/UK
Dutch-Tape
Royal College of Art, London/UK
School of Arts & Humanities MA graduate show
Royal College of Art, London/UK
The Fall of Icarus
Upper Gulbenkian Galler y, London/UK
Ancestral Utopias
Hangar Galler y, London/UK
Rites of Ruins
Safehouse1 Peckham, London/UK
In Betweens
Southwark Park Galleries, London/UK
_2024
Invisible
Hockney Galler y, London/UK
Obra de Memória
Edifício Vera, Sao Paulo/BR
_2023
Início, meio e início
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo/BR
We Like Small Things v.6
FilterPhoto Space, Chicago/US
_2018
Sinapses
Galeria Vão, Sao Paulo/BR
founder of
soslaios, arte e cultura
educational project (2018)
co-founder of
asdfasdfasdf
an art lab based in London for now (2025)
co-founder, executive producer and art-educator at
lombada collective
photobook and zine lab (2017-24)
executive producer of
Festival Imaginária
photobooks fair and festival
São Paulo (2023)
photo editor at
GQ Brazil magazine
edições Globo | Condé Nast (2012-16)
researcher at
Marie Claire Brazil magazine
editora Globo (2010-12)
soslaios, arte e cultura
educational project (2018)
co-founder of
asdfasdfasdf
an art lab based in London for now (2025)
co-founder, executive producer and art-educator at
lombada collective
photobook and zine lab (2017-24)
executive producer of
Festival Imaginária
photobooks fair and festival
São Paulo (2023)
photo editor at
GQ Brazil magazine
edições Globo | Condé Nast (2012-16)
researcher at
Marie Claire Brazil magazine
editora Globo (2010-12)