Gabriella Achadinha is a South African-Madeiran artist working across video, photography, and installation. Her work draws on archival research and essayistic montage, exploring personal:structural memory and socio-political identity. Observing the tension between visibility and precarity, tracing how roles (IRL, URL) are performed and negotiated over time.
EXHIBITIONS / GRANTS / AWARDS
'tar' screened at Galerie
TIC, Brno as part of their 'Cinema of Resistance' program
(26/05)
'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)
EDUCATION
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)