Gabriella Achadinha is a South African-Madeiran artist working across video, photography, and installation. Her work draws on archival research and essayistic montage to explore the entanglements of personal and structural memory, socio-political identity, and the tensions between visibility and precarity. Her practice dwells on the existential - 'exhaust-ential' - conditions of living under neoliberal systems, tracing how these fractures emerge through familial and intergenerational trauma as well as broader, collective modes of survival. Through layered narratives and fragmented forms, her work creates spaces for reflection on the affective, political, and historical forces that formulate lived experience.

deixem passar (it favors the house)(2026-ongoing)

A video essay exploring diasporic masculinity, grief, and cultural identity under neoliberalism. Through the retelling of a familial experience (the loss of a father), a broader expansion of the Madeiran diaspora in South Africa situates intimate memory within broader systems of economic and gendered expectation.

'Para-Narratives: Fragmentary Storytelling' with artist Thérèse Anna Rafter (2026)

A workshop at Galerie TIC, Brno, Czech Republic, exploring the use of fragmentary storytelling and para-narratives in artistic practices, based on the teachings and 'Para-Theory' method proposed by artist and theorist Daniel Blanga-Gubbay.

Tar (2025)

A video essay that - utilizing the archive and recently taken footage - reads into potholed roads as a reflection of a political past crossroading a precarious present within South Africa; memory becomes a site of nostalgic contention and re-construction.

capitalize this spirit (2025)

Included in Glosopeda's group exhibition contribution to 'The Wrong Biennale'.

i count the knots of resistance (2026)

Textual contribution to Sick Girl Strategies, curated by Nadja Kracunovic.

Character Coding (2023)

Awarded the Re:Touch Photography Prize (Kulturprojekteberlin with metaLabHarvard), “Character Coding” deals with female stereotypes, toxic masculinity, and the harassment of individuals perceived as female in online spaces. The work therefore also questions so-called internet phenomena such as hate speech and comments, as well as the current state of net feminism and the male gaze in general.

oooof _____ aged badly (2024)

A filmic reflection on the current phenomenon of social-mediated, skincare-brand weaponized ageism in the form of a 7-minute film. Narrated by a variety of AI voices representing individual users, a comment thread from one niche celebrity gossip account - showcasing how different women celebrities have aged - is re-performed.

studio saudari (2020 - ongoing)

studio saudari started in Berlin in 2020. A collective initiative for sharing, resisting, dreaming, studio saudari is all about collaboration and the love of print publications.

bordering 31 (2022)

Dissecting the features of experiencing a particular mental disorder and the subsequent inherited space of accompanying disillusion the artworks, poetry and soundscape presented by Gabriella Achadinha and the 3D video piece by artist Kim Rosario aim to present the felt as visual.

print experiments: i feel like i know you (2026)

essay: crit (2024)

interviews: pétala (2021), fruta (2022) & jungle (2025)

print experiments: vrystaat kitsch (2025)

essay: An Outsider & The Self-Made: The Universe of South African Artist Helen Martins (2024)

insert narrative (2021)

Dissecting the features of experiencing a particular mental disorder and the subsequent inherited space of accompanying disillusion the artworks, poetry and soundscape presented by Gabriella Achadinha and the 3D video piece by artist Kim Rosario aim to present the felt as visual.

harvesting traces (2024)

Designed and coded the collective research site for the Socio-Political Context Masters program of 2023/4 (KdG Sint-Lucas Antwerpen).

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'tar' screened at Galerie TIC, Brno as part of their 'Cinema of Resistance' program (26/05 - 21/07/2026)

'deixer passar (it favors the house)' screened as part of the group show 'Colectiva Maleza' at MHKA Antwerpen (14/05/2026)

'tar' screened at Galeria La Fuerza in Santiago de Chile as part of the group show 'SurSur Videoclub' (21/01/2026)

'deixer passar (it favors the house)' screened as part of the group exhibition 'Geographies of Return' at VARIA, Rotterdam (4 - 12/12/2025)

'CAPITALIZE THIS SPIRIT' included in the group exhibition 'MUSEO' for Glosopeda for The Wrong Biennale (1/112025 - 31/03/2026)

Awarded the SLA Prize for Global Artistic Research in Antwerp (09/2026)

'tar' screened at Video Club's 18th Edition 'Ecologies of Collapse' in Berlin (27/08/2024)

'oooof _____ aged badly' screened at Argos Centre in Brussels as part of the DIV.FUSE group exhibition (05-15.12.2024)

Awarded the Re:Touch Photography Prize for the project Character Coding (Kulturprojekteberlin with metaLabHarvard)

Exhibited 'Bordering 31' with 3D Artist Kim Rosario at Galerie Grolman in Berlin (funded by the GVL)



Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Master of Visual Arts KdG Sint-Lucas, Antwerpen (2023 - 2025)
Graduated Honors, Bachelor of Arts (Film Production) University of Cape Town (2009 - 2013)