Ana Druwe
Artist Fellow 2025-2026
Ana Druwe pursues a critically reflective institutional practice. Her work is based on the conviction that cultural institutions are spaces for the active negotiation and reorganisation of social relationships. At Casa do Povo, a renowned cultural centre in São Paulo, she creates collaborative projects that understand communication as a tool for participation and active co-creation of cultural spaces. She develops collective editorial formats, such as the magazine Nossa Voz, and promotes new forms of storytelling as a political-emancipatory tool to promote self-representation and knowledge transfer. She also implements this principle in participatory platforms, community-organised events and through open access to the building's resources under the motto “Sharing the Key of the Building”. In her research, she is interested in the institutional production and archiving of knowledge as well as a reflexive approach to mediation strategies and organisational structures. Her work moves between curatorial responsibility, institutional critique and communicative innovation.
Abstract
Transparency, Opacity, Porosity: Communicating Processes within Art Institutions
The research investigates communication in art institutions as an artistic-organizational practice. The proposal focuses on transparency, opacity, and porosity as key concepts within my institutional practice at Casa do Povo (São Paulo). Over the course of six months, my residency unfolds in three distinct phases that contribute to a research project in progress: a practical seminar on institutional praxis drawing on the methods of Casa do Povo; a collaborative project between invited artist Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino and seminar students situated within Leuphana legacy; and a final exhibition by Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino at Kunstraum Leuphana showcasing both previous works and the results of the students' collaboration. A final essay will compile the reflections from the fellowship period. Transparency, Opacity, Porosity examines how communities and art institutions negotiate shared spaces (porosity), determine what should be made visible (transparency), and safeguard certain practices as a form of community care (opacity). Can institutions be co-created by their audiences? How can we rethink institutional models through coexistence and shared responsibility, addressing what Édouard Glissant describes as a poetics of diversity? Over the course of my residency, the project aims to develop these inquiries, expanding their relevance to Leuphana context in discussion with students on shaping institutional futures.
Education
2023 MSc Communication Sciences, University of São Paulo
2020 Postgraduate Studies in Media, Information and Culture, Center for Latin American Culture and Communication, University of São Paulo
2014 BA Fine Arts, São Paulo State University
Most Recent Academic Position
Head of Communications Casa do Povo, São Paulo
Most Recent Publications
with Romanini, Vinicius: “Transmedia Strategies of Young Climate Activists: On the Communities Constituting the Fridays for Future Movement in Brazil.” Roth, P.H., Olmos, A.M.G., Olteanu, A., & Böschen, S. (eds.). Making Media Futures: Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations. London: Routledge, 2025.