Célio Braga, SKIN WOUND QUEER
solo expositie in het Kunstmuseum Den Haag, in drie Berlagekabinetten.
Een overzicht van werken 2000 - 2023, selectie Benno Tempel, museumdirecteur. Sculpturen, video, foto's, mixed-media, werken op papier. 10 juni - 10 september 2023.

Bezoek expositie op zondag 16 juli 2023, 14.00-15.00 uur - Esther Bruggink
Bezoek expositie op zondag 20 augustus om 15.30 uur - Mirjam de Winter.

ART Rotterdam februari 2023, PHŒBUS•Rotterdam, deelname met vijf werken:

Célio Braga, Untitled, 2022. Oil on layered canvas and cloth. 40 x 30 cm.
Célio Braga, Bloody Eyes, 2021. Oil on layered cloth. 38 x 29 cm. (wit oog/rood)
Célio Braga, Untitled, 2021/2022. Color pencil, oil and oil pastel on cut cloth. 63 x 42 cm. (boogjes/wit/roze)
Célio Braga, Glorious Wounds, 2022. Oil on fragments of cloth, glass beads, wool embroidered on felt. 63 x 42 cm.
Célio Braga, Thorns and Wounds, 2021. Oil and embroidered glass beads and wool on layered cloth and felt. 34 x 24 cm.

Célio Braga toont in '33 33', expositie t.g.v. de verjaardag van PHŒBUS•Rotterdam 28 januari 2023 (t/m 1 april 2023):
color pencil, oil and wax on paper and canvas, 5 parts, 0.30 x 1.05 m.
(aankoop Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2023)

Célio Braga, Eyes-Black-Red-Brown-Green-Blue, 2020,
color pencil, oil and wax on paper and canvas, 5 parts, 0.30 x 1.05 m.(aankoop Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen 2023)

Zie ook de foto rondleiding over '33 33' - dank aan Jaap Pameyer.

14 mei t/m 9 juli 2022, Célio Braga, 'Flesh and Flowers', 2022

Opening zaterdag 14 mei 2022 18.00-20.00 uur, welkom!
Tijdens de ART Rotterdam is de expositie van Célio te zien
op donderdag 19 en zaterdag 21 mei, 19.30 -22.00 uur, tijdens de lezingen over 'Jewel.Rotterdam' door Liesbeth den Besten en Suzanne van Leeuwen.

Célio Braga, 'FLESH & FLOWERS' the colors of skin and flowers

Statement Célio Braga 2021:
My practice is supported by a very well defined method that involves long processes and specific techniques such as collages, perforations, layering, mending, stitching, embroidery and weaving.
Through those typical mediums that somehow are related to feminin tasks and labour I reflect on gender conventions and stereotypes on the roles of man, women and everything in between. It is also my intention to create a constant friction between the feminine versus the masculine, heterosexuality versus homosexuality, high art versus low art aesthetic, sacred versus the profane, art versus craft, beauty versus ugliness...
In my recent works elements such as scars, wounds, marks, vulvas, phallus, eyes, tears, blood tears, mouths, and thorns proliferate in rich compositions within the topics of sexuality, homoeroticism, religion, gender, violence, birth and death.
My work is also a personal testament to the inevitable passage of time.

In het voorjaar van 2022 neemt Célio Braga deel aan 'The Right Size XL', PHŒBUS•Rotterdam, groepsexpositie

Toon van Borm (BE), Célio Braga (BR/NL), Esther Bruggink (NL),
Dominique De Beir (FR), Bea Emsbach (DE), Anne Marie Finné (BE), Hanna von Goeler (CH/USA), Stefan Gritsch (CH), Hans Houwing (NL), Susanne Humrich (DE), Sarah van der Lijn (NL), Regula Maria Müller (CH/NL), Jadranka Njegovan (HR/NL), Sara Nuytemans (BE/NL), Sibylle von Preussen (DE), Amparo Sard (E), Eva-Maria Schön (DE), Jan Smejkal (CZ/DE),
Ken'ichiro Taniguchi (JP), Michael Toenges (DE)

Célio Braga was de eerste kunstenaar die een 'medaillon' maakte voor de expositie op de ART Rotterdam 2022 (verschoven van februari naar 18-22 mei) 'The Right Size and de Inspiration of a 18C Medaillion'. Zie hieronder, evenals negen werken in dezelfde tijd gemaakt.

Célio Braga, 'De Pest', Museum Het Valkhof Nijmegen (groep), zomer 2021
Célio Braga, 'Huid', Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, org. Rasa, zomer 2021 t/m 23 januari 2022

'The Result, over tijd t.t.v. corona', 28 augustus t/m 11 oktober 2020 expositie PHŒBUS•Rotterdam, galerieruimte bel-etage

Veel kunstenaars werkten tijdens corona extra geconcentreerd door.
Sommige kunstenaars hebben om redenen nèt dat ene uurtje en een
hoekje van de tafel benut. Anderen thematiseerden de corona-tijd.

met Eva-Maria Schön, Esther Bruggink, Célio Braga, Simon Benson, Barbara Helmer, Michael Toenges, Yvonne van de Griendt, Ken'ichiro Taniguchi, Anne Marie Finné, Bernard Villers, Daniel Dutrieux, Jadranka Njegovan, Mark Cloet, Stefan Gritsch,
Jan Smejkal, Regula Maria Müller, Dominique De Beir

21 juni t/m 23 augustus 2020, Célio Braga neemt deel aan de zomerexpositie 2020,
op uitnodiging van Regula Maria Müller

opening zondag 19 mei 2019, 15-17 uur – t/m 7 juli, daarna in de zomer op afspraak

Tekstwerken in tuin en projectruimte:

Simon Benson, Célio Braga, Toon van Borm

Op 11 november 2018 opent de solo expositie in de galerieruimte beletage van PHŒBUS•Rotterdam. Tegelijk is werk van Jadranka Njegovan te zien in de projectruimte. Hartelijk welkom.

Les fleurs du mal, Philip Peters over enkele werken van Célio Braga

Zomertentoonstelling 2018: 'Terrarium / Territorium'. Célio Braga neemt deel met vijf recente werken op papier.

PHŒBUS•Rotterdam / ART ROTTERDAM 2018 Main Section, booth 7
Joachim Bandau, Célio Braga, Bernadet ten Hove, Michael Toenges

Célio Braga is the artist from Brasil + NL, making photos, drawings, installations, videos. His path has been marked by the ability to redefine and to expand fluidly conventional categories such as photography, sculpture and textiles among others. These media are pushed to the limit and beyond, through successive trials and by the employment of unusual materials and craft techniques. Conceptually he deals with the following topics: the fragility of the body, healing rituals, the irrevocable passage of time, processes of disappearance and silence, memory, the definitive nature of death, grief and sexuality.

Letʼs reflect on his minutely carved - as I never saw it - papers:
he cuts and perforates in white paper and photos - his paper works are often layered reliefs and therefore they have a tangability, like objects. However the work concerns fragility - to the point of disappearing...
The white works look abstract and minimal, but glow of organic growings that refer to nature, for instance to the beauty of flower petals or to a jungle of foliage, but also to different structures of the skin with small blobs, pores and shedding; or to the inside of our bodies with organs and intestines. The subtility is clear from the different patterns in the white paper, but also from the combination of the white paper and photography: the furrows in the paper and on the photo look alike, trails of paper and photoprint graceful intertwine, and a piece of a pink photo has a counterpart in a little dot, drawn with colour pencil. Basically all Célioʼs works are skins.

Some works are related to 'medicines'. 'Burning With Emotion (Triumeq)', 2016 consists of perforated paper, textile threads, color pencil, all in/on medical instructions for use (2016, 42 x 61 cm.). Triumeq is a medicine that is used against HIV and aids. The texts of the instructions are readable, also the perforated texts of Flauberts' Temptation of St. Anthony. A ten-part work, 2017, consists of medicine bottles, overlaid with white embroidered textile.

The presentation on the Art Rotterdam 2018 will include carved and perforated paper works, works in textile and with 12 medicine bottels, an animation/ video.

Célio Braga's werk gaat over de kwetsbaarheid van het menselijk leven,
en over 'schoonheid en liefde'.

Welkom op de ART Rotterdam 2018, 7 t/m 11 februari: PHŒBUS•Rotterdam, stand 7 Main Section: Joachim Bandau, Célio Braga, Bernadet ten Hove, Michael Toenges.

Célio Braga, 'Those Two [White Shirts]', 2001/2017; folded, shewn and embroidered white shirts, h 2.05 m. - drie details

Célio Braga, Untitled (White Blur), 2017. 12 Cuts and carvings on paper, each 29.5 x 21 cm.

Célio Braga, Untitled [White Blur], 2017. Two works 65 x 50 cm. Cuts, perforations, carvings on paper, one work" plus color pencil.

Célio Braga, Untitled [Blur], 02, oil stains and bebossing on paper, 32 x 42 cm.
Célio Braga, Untitled [Blur], 02, color pencil, bebossing and oil stains on paper, 32 x 41 cm.
Célio Braga, Untitled [Skin], 2008/2009, cuts and carving on photography, 45 x 57 cm.

Célio Braga neemt deel aan de zomertentoonstelling PHŒBUS•Rotterdam 2017
en exposeert in het najaar 2017.