Leila Alberti

Leila Alberti was born in Quilombo, in the interior of Santa Catarina and currently lives and works in Curitiba.

In 1987 he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Painting from the School of Music and Fine Arts in Curitiba, the following year in Curitiba he became a Bachelor's Degree in Letters from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná and, in 2005 he improved his knowledge by becoming a Specialist in Contemporary Poetics in Art Teaching at the Universiade Tuiuti do Paraná in Curitiba.

For Leila, choosing art as a life activity is the conscious acceptance of the dynamics of creating and producing, making visible and assuming responsibility for its developments and lack of control beyond the studio door. Painting has a broad space in her work, but several issues coexist in her thinking. These are expressions that need other means to exist: assemblages, objects and embroidery. They are consequences of the mental process and, naturally, the need for the real existence of the artistic product is. At the same time that the painting takes place – in its quadrature – she feels the volumes and textures in the surroundings, which demand attention at all times: body, furniture, books, fabrics, objects and nature beyond the windows - human coexistence. Her practice mixes perspectives in many research variations that tell about her memories of the past in the midst of nature and of what is seen and experienced in urban coexistence. The identity of the being and its actions in society guide her in the textile series in the Bordaduras collective, in the coordination of the Bordas collective and in social art projects.

 Among his main solo exhibitions are: A Casa de Todos at Caixa Cultural (2023) and at the Municipal Museum of Art - Curitiba (2022), Irreversíveis at the Blumenau Museum of Art (2021), Espaço Krissart in Miami (2001), at the Casa da Cultura de Quilombo - SC (2000), and at Espaço CEF Curitiba (1994). Among the group shows in which he participated, the following stand out: When Affection United Us at the Ervin Teichmann Gallery in Pomerode (2023), A.finidades at the DeArtes Gallery/UFPR – Curitiba/PR (2023), Maria Bueno and So Many Others at the Alfredo Andersen House Museum in Curitiba/PR (2022), Reencontros em 22 at the Municipal Museum of Art - Curitiba (2022), Corpo na Linha de Borda at the Municipal Museum of Art, Curitiba (2021), A Espera at the Heitor Stockler de França Cultural Center - Curitiba (2020), Bienal Fibra/Galeria DMAE (Porto Alegre, RS, 2019), 66th Salão Paranaense, Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, 2017), Earth. The Essence of Survival, UN/New York - USA (2016), Ceramic Group at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Curitiba, 2013 and 2015), Alice's Things at the Alfredo Andersen Museum (Curitiba, 2013), The Feminine Entrecores Art Space - São Paulo (2013), Elke Hering Contemporary Art Salon/Blumenau Art Museum (2012), Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris - France (2012), SP Expressions - Ward Nasse Gallery, (New York, 2010)