“The imagery of my works reveals both existential and symbolic examinations upon the body, biography, fiction, culture and politics. Through my interdisciplinary work I aim to provoke dissonances and the displacement of meaning to ignite an unexpected perceptual apprehension on the viewers. I look for the gap in which the automatized recognition of meaning fails, allowing space for reflection and questioning.”— Cristiane Bouger

Cristiane Bouger (b. Curitiba/Brazil) is a New York-based artist who works with performance, video, theater, poetry, and critical writing. She is inspired by philosophy, literature, contemporary dance, and punk/post-punk influences. She is the co-founder of Umwelt Studio, in Brooklyn/New York, where she has been concurrently developing her art and writing production since 2018. In that year, she was a recipient of the Tanne Award.

Bouger’s works have been featured both in independent and institutional circuits, including performance festivals, collective exhibitions, and screenings, including the Venice International Performance Art Week (Venice, Italy); Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, Brazil); the Movement Research at the Judson Church series (New York, USA); Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (Chicago, USA); chashama 461 Gallery (New York, USA); National Center of Dance – Bucharest/Atelierul de Productie (Bucharest, Romania); Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP (São Paulo, Brazil); Anthology Film Archives – New Filmmakers Series (New York, USA); Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro – MAM-RJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Centro Cultural Solar do Barão (Curitiba, Brazil); Cine Humberto Mauro/Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, Brazil); ACE Film Festival (New York, USA); In-Presentable 08 (Madrid, Spain); Montage Video Dance Festival (Johannesburg, South Africa); Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Salvador, Brazil); Videobrasil/SESC – Avenida Paulista (São Paulo, Brazil); 9ème Festival des Cinémas Différents (Paris, France); Dixon Place (New York, USA); the 1st Live Art Meeting of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); CB’s Gallery Lounge (New York, USA); Teatro Carlos Gomes/Panorama de Dança (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Casa Hoffmann (Curitiba, Brazil), among others.

Her documentary Community, Activism and the Downtown Scene – an independent documentary about the experimental scene in New York (2006, 110 min) was launched at Cine Luz in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2008 the documentary was screened in In-Presentable 08 (Madrid, Spain) and featured in the video collection Circuitos Compartilhados [Shared Circuits], curated by Newton Goto. The video collection, funded by the Institute of Historical and Artistic National Heritage — IPHAN, was distributed to museums, art institutions, and video archives in Brazil. In 2011 the documentary was translated into Romanian and broadcast on the national channel TVR Cultural (Romania, 2011 and 2012).

Her formative original plays include The Last Supper (staged in Brazil 1999–2000), and Ode to Persephone (staged in Brazil in 2001, and translated by the author into English in 2019). She was commissioned to stage dramatic readings of plays written by Caryl Churchill (Top Girls, 2005), for Guaíra Theater Cultural Center, and by Gerardjan Rijnders (Pick up, 2001), for Curitiba Cultural Foundation. In 2002, she was invited by Curitiba Cultural Foundation to be the Stage Director of the first season of the didactic pocket-opera project L'Opera Illustrata, with Musical Direction by Neyde Thomas. The project presented the highlights and historical context of each staged opera at Londrina Theater / Memorial de Curitiba. She directed the presentations of Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin; La Traviata, Il Trovatore and Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi; Lucia de Lammermoor, by Gaetano Donizetti, and Il Guarany, by Carlos Gomes.

Cristiane Bouger’s critical writing production has been published in books newspapers, journals, and magazines in the USA, UK, Portugal, and Brazil. Her short fiction and poetry production has been published in literary magazines and journals in Brazil.

Cristiane Bouger was a 2012–2014 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and a 2012–2013 Performa Magazine Writer-in-Residence. She was a fellow of The Kitchen’s Sixth Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute – Visual Arts and New Media (The Kitchen/Sarah Lawrence College, New York, 2004), and an Artist-in-Residence at Casa Hoffmann – International Center for Movement Studies (Curitiba, 2003). From 2001 to 2003 she studied with the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho at Instituto Paraná Desenvolvimento, in Curitiba/Brazil. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts – Theater Direction (2002), from Faculdade de Artes do Paraná (College of Arts of Paraná, current UNESPAR).

Cristiane Bouger's work has received support from The Tanne Foundation, The Baer Faxt Gift Program, 20MINUTOS.MOV, with funds by Rumos Itaú Cultural (Brazil); the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Davis/Dauray Family Fund and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council (New York); by the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, and the Centrul Național al Dansului București – CNDB (Bucharest, Romania); by Fundação Cultural de Curitiba/Prefeitura de Curitiba (Curitiba's Cultural Foundation/Curitiba City Hall, Brazil), and by  Centro Cultural Teatro Guaira – CCTG (Guaira Theater Cultural Center, Brazil). She was part of the art collective Couve-Flor (2005–2012, Brazil), which was the 2011–2012 recipient of Petrobrás Cultural Program, a national award for the maintenance of dance and theater groups in Brazil, and of FUNARTE Petrobrás Klauss Vianna Dance Award 2006, with funds by the National Foundation for the Arts, the Ministry of Culture, and Petrobrás (Brazil).

“The imagery of my works reveals both existential and symbolic examinations upon the body, biography, fiction, culture and politics. Through my interdisciplinary work I aim to provoke dissonances and the displacement of meaning to ignite an unexpected perceptual apprehension on the viewers. I look for the gap in which the automatized recognition of meaning fails, allowing space for reflection and questioning.”

— Cristiane Bouger

Cristiane Bouger (b. Curitiba/Brazil) is a New York-based artist who works with performance, video, theater, poetry, and critical writing. She is inspired by philosophy, literature, contemporary dance, and punk/post-punk influences. She is the co-founder of Umwelt Studio, in Brooklyn/New York, where she has been concurrently developing her art and writing production since 2018. In that year, she was a recipient of the Tanne Award.

Bouger’s works have been featured both in independent and institutional circuits, including performance festivals, collective exhibitions, and screenings, including the Venice International Performance Art Week (Venice, Italy); Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, Brazil); the Movement Research at the Judson Church series (New York, USA); Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (Chicago, USA); chashama 461 Gallery (New York, USA); National Center of Dance – Bucharest/Atelierul de Productie (Bucharest, Romania); Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP (São Paulo, Brazil); Anthology Film Archives – New Filmmakers Series (New York, USA); Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro – MAM-RJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Centro Cultural Solar do Barão (Curitiba, Brazil); Cine Humberto Mauro/Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, Brazil); ACE Film Festival (New York, USA); In-Presentable 08 (Madrid, Spain); Montage Video Dance Festival (Johannesburg, South Africa); Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Salvador, Brazil); Videobrasil/SESC – Avenida Paulista (São Paulo, Brazil); 9ème Festival des Cinémas Différents (Paris, France); Dixon Place (New York, USA); the 1st Live Art Meeting of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); CB’s Gallery Lounge (New York, USA); Teatro Carlos Gomes/Panorama de Dança (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Casa Hoffmann (Curitiba, Brazil), among others.

Her documentary Community, Activism and the Downtown Scene – an independent documentary about the experimental scene in New York (2006, 110 min) was launched at Cine Luz in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2008 the documentary was screened in In-Presentable 08 (Madrid, Spain) and featured in the video collection Circuitos Compartilhados [Shared Circuits], curated by Newton Goto. The video collection, funded by the Institute of Historical and Artistic National Heritage — IPHAN, was distributed to museums, art institutions, and video archives in Brazil. In 2011 the documentary was translated into Romanian and broadcast on the national channel TVR Cultural (Romania, 2011 and 2012).

Her formative original plays include The Last Supper (staged
in Brazil 1999–2000), and Ode to Persephone (staged in Brazil in 2001, and translated by the author into English in 2019).
She was commissioned to stage dramatic readings of plays written by Caryl Churchill (Top Girls, 2005), for Guaíra Theater Cultural Center, and by Gerardjan Rijnders (Pick up, 2001),
for Curitiba Cultural Foundation. In 2002, she was invited by Curitiba Cultural Foundation to be the Stage Director of the first season of the didactic pocket-opera project L'Opera Illustrata, with Musical Direction by Neyde Thomas.
The project presented the highlights and historical context of each staged opera at Londrina Theater / Memorial de Curitiba. She directed the presentations of Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin; La Traviata, Il Trovatore and Rigoletto,
by Giuseppe Verdi; Lucia de Lammermoor, by Gaetano Donizetti, and Il Guarany, by Carlos Gomes.

Cristiane Bouger’s critical writing production has been published in books, newspapers, journals, and magazines in the USA, UK, Portugal, and Brazil. Her short fiction and poetry production has been published in literary magazines and journals in Brazil.

Cristiane Bouger was a 2012–2014 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and a 2012–2013 Performa Magazine Writer-in-Residence. She was a fellow of The Kitchen’s Sixth Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute – Visual Arts and New Media (The Kitchen/Sarah Lawrence College, New York, 2004), and an Artist-in-Residence at Casa Hoffmann – International Center for Movement Studies (Curitiba, 2003). From 2001 to 2003 she studied with the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho at Instituto Paraná Desenvolvimento, in Curitiba/Brazil. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts – Theater Direction (2002), from Faculdade de Artes do Paraná (College of Arts of Paraná, current UNESPAR).

Cristiane Bouger's work has received support from The Tanne Foundation, The Baer Faxt Gift Program, 20MINUTOS.MOV, with funds by Rumos Itaú Cultural (Brazil); the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Davis/Dauray Family Fund and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council (New York); by the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, and the Centrul Național al Dansului București – CNDB (Bucharest, Romania); by Fundação Cultural de Curitiba/Prefeitura de Curitiba (Curitiba's Cultural Foundation/Curitiba City Hall, Brazil), and by  Centro Cultural Teatro Guaira – CCTG (Guaira Theater Cultural Center, Brazil). She was part of the art collective Couve-Flor (2005–2012, Brazil), which was the 2011–2012 recipient of Petrobrás Cultural Program, a national award for the maintenance of dance and theater groups in Brazil, and of FUNARTE Petrobrás Klauss Vianna Dance Award 2006, with funds by the National Foundation for the Arts, the Ministry of Culture, and Petrobrás (Brazil).

“The imagery of my works reveals both existential and symbolic examinations upon the body, biography, fiction, culture and politics. Through my interdisciplinary work I aim to provoke dissonances and the displacement of meaning to ignite an unexpected perceptual apprehension on the viewers. I look for the gap in which the automatized recognition of meaning fails, allowing space for reflection and questioning.”— Cristiane Bouger

Cristiane Bouger (b. Curitiba/Brazil) is a New York-based artist who works with performance, video, theater, poetry, and critical writing. She is inspired by philosophy, literature, contemporary dance, and punk/post-punk influences. She is the co-founder of Umwelt Studio, in Brooklyn/New York, where she has been concurrently developing her art and writing production since 2018. In that year, she was a recipient of the Tanne Award.

Bouger’s works have been featured both in independent and institutional circuits, including performance festivals, collective exhibitions, and screenings, including the Venice International Performance Art Week (Venice, Italy); Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, Brazil); the Movement Research at the Judson Church series (New York, USA); Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (Chicago, USA); chashama 461 Gallery (New York, USA); National Center of Dance – Bucharest/Atelierul de Productie (Bucharest, Romania); Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP (São Paulo, Brazil); Anthology Film Archives – New Filmmakers Series (New York, USA); Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro – MAM-RJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Centro Cultural Solar do Barão (Curitiba, Brazil); Cine Humberto Mauro/Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, Brazil); ACE Film Festival (New York, USA); In-Presentable 08 (Madrid, Spain); Montage Video Dance Festival (Johannesburg, South Africa); Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Salvador, Brazil); Videobrasil/SESC – Avenida Paulista (São Paulo, Brazil); 9ème Festival des Cinémas Différents (Paris, France); Dixon Place (New York, USA); the 1st Live Art Meeting of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); CB’s Gallery Lounge (New York, USA); Teatro Carlos Gomes/Panorama de Dança (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Casa Hoffmann (Curitiba, Brazil), among others.

Her documentary Community, Activism and the Downtown Scene – an independent documentary about the experimental scene in New York (2006, 110 min) was launched at Cine Luz in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2008 the documentary was screened in In-Presentable 08 (Madrid, Spain) and featured in the video collection Circuitos Compartilhados [Shared Circuits], curated by Newton Goto. The video collection, funded by the Institute of Historical and Artistic National Heritage — IPHAN, was distributed to museums, art institutions, and video archives in Brazil. In 2011 the documentary was translated into Romanian and broadcast on the national channel TVR Cultural (Romania, 2011 and 2012).

Her formative original plays include The Last Supper (staged in Brazil 1999–2000), and Ode
to Persephone (staged in Brazil in 2001,
and translated by the author into English in 2019).
She was commissioned to stage dramatic readings of plays written by Caryl Churchill (Top Girls, 2005), for Guaíra Theater Cultural Center, and by Gerardjan Rijnders (Pick up, 2001), for Curitiba Cultural Foundation. In 2002, she was invited
by Curitiba Cultural Foundation to be the Stage Director of the first season of the didactic pocket-opera project L'Opera Illustrata, with Musical Direction by Neyde Thomas. The project presented the highlights and historical context of each staged opera at Londrina Theater / Memorial de Curitiba. She directed the presentations of Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin; La Traviata, Il Trovatore
and Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi; Lucia de Lammermoor, by Gaetano Donizetti, and Il Guarany, by Carlos Gomes.

Cristiane Bouger’s critical writing production has been published in books, newspapers, journals,
and magazines in the USA, UK, Portugal, and Brazil. Her short fiction and poetry production has been published in literary magazines and journals in Brazil.

Cristiane Bouger was a 2012–2014 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and a 2012–2013 Performa Magazine Writer-in-Residence. She was a fellow of The Kitchen’s Sixth Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute – Visual Arts and New Media (The Kitchen/Sarah Lawrence College, New York, 2004), and an Artist-in-Residence at Casa Hoffmann – International Center for Movement Studies (Curitiba, 2003). From 2001 to 2003 she studied with the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho at Instituto Paraná Desenvolvimento,
in Curitiba/Brazil. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts – Theater Direction (2002), from Faculdade de Artes do Paraná (College of Arts of Paraná, current UNESPAR).

Cristiane Bouger's work has received support from The Tanne Foundation, The Baer Faxt Gift Program, 20MINUTOS.MOV, with funds by Rumos Itaú Cultural (Brazil); the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part,
by the Davis/Dauray Family Fund and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council (New York); by the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, and the Centrul Național al Dansului București – CNDB (Bucharest, Romania);
by Fundação Cultural de Curitiba/Prefeitura de Curitiba (Curitiba's Cultural Foundation/Curitiba City Hall, Brazil), and by  Centro Cultural Teatro Guaira – CCTG (Guaira Theater Cultural Center, Brazil). She was part of the art collective Couve-Flor (2005–2012, Brazil), which was the 2011–2012 recipient of Petrobrás Cultural Program, a national award for the maintenance of dance and theater groups in Brazil, and of FUNARTE Petrobrás Klauss Vianna Dance Award 2006, with funds by the National Foundation for the Arts, the Ministry of Culture, and Petrobrás (Brazil).

“The imagery of my works reveals both existential and symbolic examinations upon the body, biography, fiction, culture and politics. Through my interdisciplinary work I aim to provoke dissonances and the displacement of meaning to ignite an unexpected perceptual apprehension on the viewers. I look for the gap in which the automatized recognition of meaning fails, allowing space for reflection and questioning.”
— Cristiane Bouger

Cristiane Bouger (b. Curitiba/Brazil)
is a New York-based artist who works with performance, video, theater, poetry, and critical writing. She is inspired by philosophy, literature, contemporary dance, and punk/post-punk influences. She is the co-founder of Umwelt Studio, in Brooklyn/New York, where she has been concurrently developing her art and writing production since 2018. In that year, she was a recipient of the
Tanne Award.

Bouger’s works have been featured both in independent and institutional circuits, including performance festivals, collective exhibitions, and screenings, including the Venice International Performance Art Week (Venice, Italy); Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, Brazil); the Movement Research at the Judson Church series (New York, USA); Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (Chicago, USA); chashama 461 Gallery (New York, USA); National Center of Dance – Bucharest/Atelierul de Productie (Bucharest, Romania); Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP (São Paulo, Brazil); Anthology Film Archives – New Filmmakers Series (New York, USA); Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro – MAM-RJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Centro Cultural Solar do Barão (Curitiba, Brazil); Cine Humberto Mauro/Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, Brazil); ACE Film Festival (New York, USA); In-Presentable 08 (Madrid, Spain); Montage Video Dance Festival (Johannesburg, South Africa); Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Salvador, Brazil); Videobrasil/SESC – Avenida Paulista (São Paulo, Brazil); 9ème Festival des Cinémas Différents (Paris, France); Dixon Place (New York, USA); the 1st Live Art Meeting of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); CB’s Gallery Lounge (New York, USA); Teatro Carlos Gomes/Panorama de Dança (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Casa Hoffmann (Curitiba, Brazil), among others.

Her documentary Community, Activism and the Downtown Scene – an independent documentary about the experimental scene in New York (2006, 110 min) was launched at Cine Luz in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2008 the documentary was screened in In-Presentable 08 (Madrid, Spain) and featured in the video collection Circuitos Compartilhados [Shared Circuits], curated by Newton Goto.
The video collection, funded by the Institute of Historical and Artistic National Heritage — IPHAN, was distributed to museums, art institutions, and video archives in Brazil. In 2011 the documentary was translated into Romanian and broadcast on the national channel TVR Cultural (Romania, 2011 and 2012).

Her formative original plays include The Last Supper (staged in Brazil 1999–2000), and Ode to Persephone (staged in Brazil in 2001, and translated by the author into English in 2019). She was commissioned to stage dramatic readings of plays written by Caryl Churchill (Top Girls, 2005), for Guaíra Theater Cultural Center, and by Gerardjan Rijnders (Pick up, 2001), for Curitiba Cultural Foundation. In 2002, she was invited
by Curitiba Cultural Foundation to be the Stage Director of the first season of the didactic pocket-opera project L'Opera Illustrata, with Musical Direction by Neyde Thomas. The project presented the highlights and historical context of each staged opera at Londrina Theater / Memorial de Curitiba. She directed the presentations of Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin; La Traviata, Il Trovatore
and Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi; Lucia de Lammermoor, by Gaetano Donizetti, and Il Guarany, by Carlos Gomes.

Cristiane Bouger’s critical writing production has been published in books, newspapers, journals,
and magazines in the USA, UK, Portugal, and Brazil. Her short fiction and poetry production has been published in literary magazines and journals in Brazil.

Cristiane Bouger was a 2012–2014 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and a 2012–2013 Performa Magazine Writer-in-Residence. She was a fellow of The Kitchen’s Sixth Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute – Visual Arts and New Media (The Kitchen/Sarah Lawrence College, New York, 2004), and an Artist-in-Residence at Casa Hoffmann – International Center for Movement Studies (Curitiba, 2003). From 2001 to 2003 she studied with the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho at Instituto Paraná Desenvolvimento,
in Curitiba/Brazil. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts – Theater Direction (2002), from Faculdade de Artes do Paraná (College of Arts of Paraná, current UNESPAR).

Cristiane Bouger's work has received support from The Tanne Foundation, The Baer Faxt Gift Program, 20MINUTOS.MOV, with funds by Rumos Itaú Cultural (Brazil); the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part,
by the Davis/Dauray Family Fund and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council (New York); by the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, and the Centrul Național al Dansului București – CNDB (Bucharest, Romania);
by Fundação Cultural de Curitiba/Prefeitura de Curitiba (Curitiba's Cultural Foundation/Curitiba City Hall, Brazil), and by  Centro Cultural Teatro Guaira – CCTG (Guaira Theater Cultural Center, Brazil). She was part of the art collective Couve-Flor (2005–2012, Brazil), which was the 2011–2012 recipient of Petrobrás Cultural Program, a national award for the maintenance of dance and theater groups in Brazil, and of FUNARTE Petrobrás Klauss Vianna Dance Award 2006, with funds by the National Foundation for the Arts, the Ministry of Culture, and Petrobrás (Brazil).