Kjell Caminha
Om Kjell Caminha
Kjell Caminha holds an MFA in Fine Art from Valand Academy (2014) and works as an artist-curator, educator and researcher both independently and as an adjunct at Valand Academy, Gothenburg. His specific focus is on the development of curatorial strategies as means for furthering decolonial dialogue, and this is an orientation informing his pedagogical work, artistic research and practice.
Caminha is based in Gothenburg, Sweden where he lectures in the bachelor and master of fine art programs, and coordinates an international advanced course on public art for curators, commissioners and artists (since 2017). Together with artist Ram Krishna Ranjan, he teaches the couse Decoloniality in Contemporary Art and Film. Among other projects, Caminha has curated a series of seminars fostering discussions on hospitality practices, diversity and migration knowledge and politics: 'Practices and Notions of the Migrant Image' (May 2015); 'On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial Approaches' (January 2016); and worked as art educator with focus on building publics and public programming for 'Wheredoiendandyoubegin – On Secularity', Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2017). He has also co-organised the exhibition 'Setting the Table' at Baltic 39 (April 2018) as part of coordination of research project 'Stretched – Expanding Notions of Artistic Practices through Artist-led Cultures' (2015-2018) led by artist and curator Jason E. Bowman.
Together with artists Andreas Engman and Rose Borthwick, Caminha is part of the collective Afterworks that, through hosting, food and discussion, aims to address normative historic structures and to rethink and reframe approaches to being together via specifically framed encounters. Also, Caminha has co-founded and collaborates regularly with Public* Display* of Actions* (P*D*A*), an anti-fascist platform using performance and speech tactics from street and guerilla theater, agitprop, Speakers' Corners, and political assemblies, to initiate contexts for collective experience, demonstration, and dialogue insisting on vigilance and direct process as a dramaturgical method and approach.
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On the Question of Exhibition, PARSE Journal Issue 13: Parts
1,2,3
Nicholas Aikens, Kjell Caminha, Jyoti Mistry, Mick Wilson
2021 -
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 -
Public Art Research Report
(2018)
Kjell Caminha, Håkan Nilsson, Oscar Svanelid, Mick Wilson
2018 -
On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial
Approaches
Kjell Caminha
Glashuset, Akademin Valand. Göteborg (SE) - 2016 -
Dialogues
Sara Jordenö, Kjell Caminha, Balsam Karam, Andreas Engman, Maximiliam Von Aertryck, Niklas Persson
2015 -
I Want to Sing My
Song
Kjell Caminha
GalleryWendA, Halden (NO). - 2015 -
Practices and Notions of the Migrant
Image
Kjell Caminha
Glashuset, Valand Academy - 2015 -
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 -
Research Day
2015
Kjell Caminha
Presentation of my artistic research at 'Research Day 2015' on December 7, Valand Academy - 2015 -
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 -
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Kjell Caminha, Thom Bridge
2014 -
här ute, där
inne
Gunilla Burstedt, Kalle Boman, Sofia Gräsberg, Paulin Nande, Leslie Johnson, Kjell Caminha, Andrea Bodelsson, Martin Hultén
2014 -
Hemma hos
Kjell
Kjell Caminha
Exhibited at Motbilder (Counterparts) in Gothenburg, Sweden - 2014 -
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 -
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 -
Oskickade brev, Staying for dessert and other short
stories…
Kjell Caminha
2013 -
May I Be Happy
Here
Kjell Caminha
2013