Tássia Bianchini

Born in Brazil and currently working in Europe, my painting practice is grounded in a decolonial and non-Eurocentric approach to abstraction. I understand painting not as a neutral or universal language, but as a situated form of knowledge shaped by body, environment, memory, and cultural experience.
My work explores abstraction as a practice of embodied perception and intuitive intelligence. Rather than illustrating narratives or concepts, I work through gesture, layering, and material processes as ways of listening to internal and external rhythms. In this process, intuition, sensation, and attention function as forms of knowledge that challenge Western hierarchies privileging rationalism and representation over lived experience.
Influenced by Brazilian artistic traditions, Indigenous-informed worldviews, and sensorial ways of relating to nature, I approach painting as a relational and temporal practice. Surfaces are built, dissolved, and reactivated, allowing time, vulnerability, and uncertainty to remain visible. The paintings unfold as perceptual environments rather than fixed images.
Through this decolonial perspective, I seek to question Eurocentric models of abstraction based on control, purity, and formal autonomy. Instead...

2019 - 2020 M.A. Approaching Language, Sandberg Institute, Rietveld Academy, NL

2009 - 2013 Bsc. Product Design, Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR (Prof. Dr. Dalton L. Razera), BR


Residencies

2020 SCAMBIO Air, Mergozzo, IT
2017 W119 Artspace, Dordrecht, NL
2014 Center of Creative Arts and Media (CCAM), Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology - Galway, Ireland

2026 abstract, Rongwrong, Amsterdam NL
2025 Still, still here, Garnalen Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
2024 In the Field of Color, The Hox Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Petit Formats - Group Show, Montpellier, FR

2022 Exposition Inaugurale - Galerie Bounchind’Homme, Montpellier, FR
2017 Fôlego, Piscina-art, São Paulo - BR
2015 Kust Salon Salzburg, Trajceski Gallery, Salzburg - AT
2015 Mostra 105, Espaço 105 by Juliana Coelho, Curitiba - BR
2014 Summer Residency Show & Tell, 126 Gallery, Galway - IR
2013 3º Salão de Design de Superfície de Santa Maria – finalist, Santa Maria - BR
2013 Tangências, SCHLA, Curitiba – BR
2013 ONIE – Graduation show, UFPR, Curitiba - BR