Bruna Kury

Known for

Directing

Birthplace

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Bruna Kury (1987) is an anarcho-transfeminist, performer, visual and sound artist. She focuses on creations traversing issues of gender, class and race (before the current compulsory heteronormative patriarchal cis-theme and structural oppressions - class warfare). She is currently researching sounds in post-porn and the creation of objects that are ramifications of performance work. She collaborates with the publishing houses "Monstruosas" and "Fera Livre" (Brazil). She participated in the artistic residencies Konvent (Spain), Capacete in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Comunidad (Argentina), Festival Anormal (Mexico), was part of the organization of the residency "Post-PornôPirata" in Fortaleza (Ceará, Brazil), Festival Libres y Soberanas aka "Performacula" in Quito (Ecuador) and was in the residency of "Pivô Research Ciclo II" (Brazil, 2020). She recently participated in the exhibitions Visual cartographies for a writting LGBTI+, curated by Andrés I. M. Hernández at "Espaço Arte Vivo", São Paulo (Brazil, 2023), "Entrañas - Els nostres cossos són camps de batalla", curated by Henrique Lukas, Tau Luna, Ju Salgueiro and Margherita Fabbri at Centre LGBT Barcelona (Spain, 2023), "From flight to nostrils: breathing, arms wide, messages in the wind" at HOA Gallery, São Paulo (Brazil, 2023), La Carniceria at proyectoamil (Peru, 2022) During the pandemic she premiered two films, one commissioned by KuirPoetry and the other by SexualHealers (Germany). She is also currently part of the VENTRE1 program of HOA Gallery (Brazil).