Gabriela Giroletti

Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1982.
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

She holds a BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University and an MA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she later worked as a researcher in the Painting Department between 2019 and 2020. Her work explores the language of painting and its endless possibilities as a metaphor for life and lived experience. The artist uses composition, line, color, form, mark-making, texture, and process as structuring elements in her abstract investigation.

Drawing from a subconscious alphabet of references and forms linked to landscape and nature, and carrying relationships of composition and color, these images are accessed intuitively and become the initial material for investigation. However, it is through process that painting takes center stage: in dialogue with the nature of the materials, the work begins to respond to gestures, decisions, and accidents, asserting its own internal logic. The result of these actions is a return to the starting point, in which the initial reference to nature reappears as accumulated energy—of the artist, the materials, and the process itself. Her recent research emphasizes expanded painting and painting-as-object, challenging the limits of the two-dimensional plane and accentuating the work’s physical presence.

Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1982. Lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

EDUCATION

2019-20

Honorary Research Fellow, Slade School of Fine Art

2018

UCL, Slade School of Fine Art, London: MFA Painting (distinction)

2015

Middlesex University, London: Bachelor of Fine Arts (first class)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Among Ripples and Folds, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin

2024

Mil Manhãs, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

Inevitable Orbits, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Palm Beach

Sunsets and Rains, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France

2023

Mingling Currents, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London

Moons, Commonage Projects, London

2021

Breezy, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London

At Once and a Touch Away, Studio Kind, Braunton

2019

Viewing Room, Thames Side Studios, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Brink, Irving Gallery, Oxford

Insided, Outpost Gallery, Norwich

Tenterhooks: Binder of Women, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Insided, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom

Irving Gallery, Oxford, United Kingdom

2024

Across the Pond: Contemporary Painting in London, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, USA

Folded Lines, The Back Room Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2023

Pacific Breeze, White Conduit Projects, London

Seeing Remains, Oceans Apart Gallery, Manchester

Tic Tac Toe, APT Gallery, London

Enter Art Fair with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Copenhagen

2022

BBBARB, Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London

Binder of Women, Arts Club, London

Exxtension, V.O Curations, London

Improv, APT Gallery, London *co-curator

Working on a Dream, APT Gallery, London

Art Karlsruhe, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Karlsruhe

Future Fair, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York

The Greenness of the Green Fields Supernal, Lewisham Art House, London (with Henry Tyrrell)

2021

AORA Pop Up, London

Julie’s Bob, Terrace Gallery, London

RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Wild Grapes, Unit 3 Projects, London

Facing the Sun, Schloss Goerne (Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery), Germany

Friends with Benefits, Safe House One, London

Spiral Drift, Terrace Gallery, London

The Echo System, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London

AORA Pop-Up, Ohsh Projects, London

Wabi – Sabi, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London

III AORA Space Online Platform

2020

I, AORA Space, Online Platform

London Now, Space K, Gwacheon, South Korea

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London

Catamaran, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London *co-curator

2019

R & H Artworks, Rawlinson & Hunter, London

Hix Award, Hix Art Gallery, London

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds

Tate Staff Biennale, Tate Modern, London

Of Course, I Haven’t Forgotten! Artists.Space, London

Annual Summer Show, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London

Black Stuff, Unit 3 Projects, London

The Nomenclature of Colours, Slade Research Centre, London

FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London

2018

Elephant x Griffin Art Prize, Elephant West, London

Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize, Cello Factory, London

Let me know before you arrive, Warbling Collective pop-up space, London

Marching Through the Fields, Jeannie Avent Gallery, London

Motel, Slade School of Fine Art, London

Workshop Foundation Summer Show, Unit1 Gallery Workshop, London

Slade Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London

Rubber-chew / Clink, adieu, Unit1 Gallery Workshop, London

2017

Future Echoes, Refugees Museum, Thessaloniki

Slade Interim, Slade School of Fine Art, London

The Politics of Too Many Rubbish Dinner Parties, Chalton Gallery, London

The Tyranny of the Surface, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London

FAITH, Austin Forum, London

2016

BEEP Wales Painting Biennial, Swansea and Wrexham

2015

FloatArt, Bargehouse, London

Summer Salon, Candid Arts Trust, London

Bells from the Deep, Hundred Years Gallery, London

Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory, London

Launch – Degree show, The Old Truman Brewery, London

Watch This Space, Beaconsfield Contemporary, London

2014

Cafe Culture, Islington Arts Factory, London

Restricted Space, Cre8 Space, London

State, Middlesex University, London

Time=Change, Menier Gallery, London

Events Day, Middlesex University, London

2013

Esperanza Recuerda, Universidad de Granada, Granada

A Place in Between, Espacio Gallery, London

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2021

The Eaton Fund Project Grant

2020

Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop

Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund

2019

Bloomberg New Contemporaries artist

2018

Desiree Painting Prize, UCL

2015

The Dean’s Prize for Academic Excellence, Middlesex University

RESIDENCIES

2021

Elephant Lab residency, London

2018

Slade Summer School Art Education Residency, London

2017

JOYA Arte y Ecologia Residency, Vélez Blanco, Spain

TFAC Residency – Colart, London

2014

Green and Brown Residency, Ile d’Ouessant, France

PUBLICATIONS

2025

Art in Latin America In the Studio with Gabriela Giroletti

2024

Artnet 7 Questions for Brazilian Artist Gabriela Giroletti

2021

Trebuchet Magazine

SWAG zine

2020

Elephant Magazine 5 Questions with Charlotte Jansen

Evening Standard

2019

The Guardian

ArtMaze Magazine Winter Edition, issue 11

2018

FLOORR Magazine

Trebuchet Magazine

2017

Dateagle Art

COLLECTIONS

Middlesex University art collection, London, UK

Jasteka Foundation, Jeffersonville, United States

Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul MARGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

The Newark Museum of Art, United States

Gabriela Giroletti: Breezy

Painter Gabriela Giroletti gives insight into her motivations, artistic influences, and techniques, on the occasion of her solo exhibition Breezy at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London in 2021.

Studio KIND. presents: 'At Once and a Touch Away' by Gabriela Giroletti

Gabriela Giroletti talks to us about her new body of work, available to visit at Studio KIND. in Braunton or as a virtual exhibition at www.studiokind.org.uk. Studio KIND. is a new artist-led contemporary gallery, project space and studios, located in the heart of North Devon. Founded as a community interest company in 2020, Studio KIND. presents the work of both local and national, early-career and established artists through an ambitious and diverse programme of exhibitions and events, curated to excite imaginations, challenge perceptions and create connections. Studio KIND. is run by Richard Gregory and Laura Porter. Gabriela Giroletti is a Brazilian-born painter living and working in London. Through her impasto painting style, Gabriela is developing a unique symbolic glossary, characterised by the constant tension between the pictorial and human presence - the imagined and the material. Existing somewhere between abstract and figurative, painting and drawing, micro and macro, body and nature, still life and landscape, simple and complex, her work performs a push and pull game between body and mind; making and thinking. Gallery website: www.studiokind.org.uk Virtual exhibition: www.studiokind.org.uk/gabriela-giroletti-virtual-exhibition Instagram: @studio.kind Facebook: www.facebook.com/studio.kind Artist website: www.gabrielagiroletti.com

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