Priscila Fernandes

Priscila Fernandes is a visual artist living and working in the Netherlands. Her practice is rooted in an ongoing research into education, play, and the dialectics of work and leisure.


Recent exhibitions include Live Uncertainty – 32nd São Paulo Biennial; The Book of Aesthetic Education of the Modern School at Foundation Joan Miró, Barcelona; Back to the sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy, Reykjavik Art Museum; and Playgrounds, Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid. She won the Brutus Award in 2018. Together with Edward Clydesdale Thomson, she is the Head of Department of BEAR (Base for Experiment Art and Research) at ArtEZ, Arnhem.

By Youri Appelo