City of Goiás/GO, Brazil, 1967
Has held numerous national and international exhibitions. Participated in public selections and received awards, such as the Funarte Visual Arts Award in 2010 and the Cultural Spaces Occupation Edict of Caixa Econômica Federal, at the Vitrine Gallery of Paulista, in São Paulo/SP. Was also selected for the Collective Exhibition 7 x City, through the Cultural Spaces Occupation Edict of Eletrobrás Furnas, curated by Enock Sacramento, in 2012, and by the Consejo Provincial de Artes Plásticas- La Habana, at the Carmen Montilla Gallery, Habana Vieja, in Cuba, in 2013. Some of the solo exhibitions include: Amanda Labarca Room at UTEM, Santiago, Chile; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile, in 2006; Guaran Exhibition Space in Lectoure, France; La Ronda Gallery in Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Entel Room in La Paz, Bolivia, in 2007; Portinari Gallery (Funceb), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cultural Institute of Providência, Santiago, Chile; and Amanda Labarca Room in Santiago, Chile, in 2010. Also exhibited at Luz y Oficios Gallery – Provincial Center for Plastic Arts and Design of the City of La Habana, Cuba; Ocktogen Space, Saint-Ghislain, Belgium, in 2011; Alejandro Otero Art Museum in Caracas, Venezuela, curated by Morella Jurado; Fiart Foundation, Madrid, Spain, curated by Andrés Issac; Pedro Esquerré Gallery, Provincial Center for Visual Arts, Matanzas, Cuba, in 2015; Correos Cultural Center, Salvador, BA, curated by Dayalis Gonzáles and Gilmar Camilo, in 2016; Casa Brasil in Brussels, Belgium; and Historical and Military Museum of Chile – Santiago in 2017. In addition, participated in collective exhibitions, such as: Campinas Contemporary Art Museum “José Pancetti” – MAAC, Campinas, São Paulo, SP; “One body. Contemporary art in Mercosur countries”, Alejandro Otero Art Museum and PDVSA La Estancia, Caracas, Venezuela, in 2013; One Body. Contemporary Art in Mercosur Countries, Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiás, Oscar Niemayer Cultural Center; “Imaginary Cities”, B.AGL ART afFAIRs 2015, Berlin, Germany, in 2015; Caixa Cultural, Gallery 3, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; Palimpsesto – Las Rozas Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain; and Cities and Metaphors – Casa Alba, La Habana, Cuba, in 2016. Also participated in Instinct – Historical and Military Museum of Chile, Santiago, in 2017; Place in the Place – Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas, MACC, Venezuela, in 2017/2018; and “The Blood in the Alguidá, a view from the Latin American dirty realism”, with Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, curated by Dayalis Gonzales Perdomo, National Museum of the Republic, Brasília/DF, 2019.
Nicolas Behr (Nikolaus von Behr)
Nicolas Behr (Nikolaus von Behr) was born in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, in 1958. He attended a Jesuit primary school in Diamantino and moved to Cuiaba at the age of ten. He wanted to be a geologist. He began living in Brasilia in 1974 and three years later released his first mimeographed book, logurte com Farinha, the first of many. In 1978 he was imprisoned by the DOPS (Department of Political and Social Order) for carrying pornographic material (his books!) and was found not guilty the following year. In 1980 he began to work as a copywriter for advertising agencies. During this time, he became involved in the environmental movement. In 1986 he began working with FUNATURA — The Pro-Nature Foundation — where he stayed until 1990. Since then he has dedicated himself to his one-time hobby, cultivation of plant species native to the Brazilian Cerrado, at Pau-Brasilia Eco Store and Nursery, which still functions today. He began publishing again in 1993, with Porque ConstruiBraxilia. In the 2004 book Nicolas Behr-Eu Engoli Brasilia — volume I of the Brasilienses Collection — the journalist Carlos Marcelo wrote his biographical profile. In 2008 his book Laranja Seleta— edited by Lingua Geral — was a finalist for the Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature. The 2010 short film Braxilia (17 minutes) by cinematographer Danyella Proen?a, a presentation on the poet’s relationship with his city, won various awards in cinema festivals. His works have been the subject of various master’s theses throughout the country. In 2013 he participated as an invitee in FLIP – the Paraty Internation al Literary Festival, the International Book Fair of Frankfurt, and the Lati- nale — Latin American Poetry Festival, in Berlin. In 2015 the University of Brasilia’s Institute of Letters established the “Nicolas Behr Prize for Literature”. The craft beer “Nicolas Bier” was launched in 2015 by a group of friends who are brewers.
