Kjell Caminha
About Kjell Caminha
Kjell Caminha is an artist from Teresina, Brazil, based in Gothenburg since 2009. Kjell works with quotidian settings and political issues, charging them with new implications and demands. These are constantly enrolled with his research on identity. He is interested in juxtaposing facts, ideas and different collaborators to construct situations where fictional stories informs thoughts touching how one's identity might be changed, mixed, crashed with others, clarified or even erased at times.
Kjell Caminha’s research process often envelops a context, a specific issue or situation that relates to its own connection with identity. Through the use of text, photography, audio, sculpture, installation, performance and increasing interest in curatorial practices, Kjell constructs situations where a possibly active dialogue and participation with the viewer is strongly expected.
Caminha’s practice relates to methodologies within decoloniality of being and knowledge:
I’m concerned on how we mistakenly reproduce and reinstall practices of colonialism using modernity, development and freedom as ways of re-conquering resources, cultures and individuals. I’m interested in settings that might re-problematize the experience of those practices, leading to an incitement for retelling and reinterpreting.
Kjell Caminha holds a Master of Fine Arts from Valand Academy and has recently participated in the project Counterparts in Gothenburg curated and produced by Anna van der Vliet from ICIA (Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art), for whom he has also worked as a curatorial assistant.
With the support of Valand Academy, Kjell Caminha has been focusing his artistic research on welcoming and fostering forums for discussion on decolonial practices, diversity and migration knowledge and politics. Lately he is developing a research seminar for January 2016 on afrophobia - regarding approaches towards decolonial curatorial practices, as a continuation and expansion on the last seminar entitled Practices and Notions of the Migrant Image, with Daniel Baker (UK), Geir Tore Holm (Sámi/NO) and Paula Urbano (SE) and Louise Wolthers (DK).
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A thing that is or may be
chosen
Ram Krishna Ranjan, Kjell Caminha
Decolonising Pedagogy: Exploring processes in image-making Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg - 2019-01-01 -
Public Art Research Report
(2018)
Kjell Caminha, Håkan Nilsson, Oscar Svanelid, Mick Wilson
- 2018-01-01 -
On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial
Approaches
Kjell Caminha
Glashuset, Akademin Valand. Göteborg (SE) - 2016-01-01 -
Dialogues
Sara Jordenö, Kjell Caminha, Balsam Karam, Andreas Engman, Maximiliam Von Aertryck, Niklas Persson
- 2015-01-01 -
I Want to Sing My
Song
Kjell Caminha
GalleryWendA, Halden (NO). - 2015-01-01 -
Practices and Notions of the Migrant
Image
Kjell Caminha
Glashuset, Valand Academy - 2015-01-01 -
150 Years of Art Education in
Gothenburg
Kjell Caminha
Presented at the panel 'On the questions facing art education today', as part of 150 YEARS OF ART EDUCATION IN GOTHENBURG conference. 2-3 October - 2015-01-01 -
Research Day
2015
Kjell Caminha
Presentation of my artistic research at 'Research Day 2015' on December 7, Valand Academy - 2015-01-01 -
Fotografidialog
14:1
Kjell Caminha, Thom Bridge, Cora Hillebrand, Pål Henrik Ekern, Adel Szakacs
Bidrag i ”Fotografidialog 14:1”, en föredragskväll med Cora Hillebrand, Thom Bridge, Kjell Caminha, Pål Henrik Ekern och Adel Szakacs där de konstnärerna presentera sina examinationsprojekt utifrån olika fotografiska perspektiv, arrangerad av Hasselblad Centers Vänner, 15 maj 2014. - 2014-01-01 -
Arton
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Kjell Caminha, Thom Bridge
- 2014-01-01 -
här ute, där
inne
Gunilla Burstedt, Kalle Boman, Sofia Gräsberg, Paulin Nande, Leslie Johnson, Kjell Caminha, Andrea Bodelsson, Martin Hultén
- 2014-01-01 -
Hemma hos
Kjell
Kjell Caminha
Exhibited at Motbilder (Counterparts) in Gothenburg, Sweden - 2014-01-01 -
Hur står det till? Göteborg som
konststad
Kjell Caminha
Bidrag i paneldebatt ‘Hur står det till? Göteborg som konststad’, arrangerad av ADA Sweden, 16 augusti 2014. - 2014-01-01 -
Tre reflektioner:
Förflyttning
Kjell Caminha, Masoud Vatankhah, Azada Najafi
Bidrag i ”Tre reflektioner: Förflyttning”, en föredragskväll i samband med utställning av Adrian Paci – ur liv och berättelser, arrangerad av Röda Sten, 27 februari 2014. - 2014-01-01 -
Oskickade brev, Staying for dessert and other short
stories…
Kjell Caminha
- 2013-01-01 -
May I Be Happy
Here
Kjell Caminha
- 2013-01-01