Body artist, choreographer, and performer, Gabriela Cordovez is a Brazilian/Colombian artist residing between Madrid and Berlin. She graduated from the Technical Course in Contemporary Dance at the Ángel Vianna School and obtained a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from UFRJ, both in Rio de Janeiro. In 2019, she participated in the PACAP 3 program at the Forum Dança in Lisbon, curated by Vania Rovisco, and in 2022, she completed a master's degree in Performing Arts and Visual Culture at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, in collaboration with the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. She has worked professionally as a dancer with Lia Rodrigues, Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo, Tino Sehgal, Li Ning, Yuko Caseki, and Elisabete Finger, with whom she is currently collaborating. Since 2017, Gabriela has begun to create her own works, both solo and collaborative, such as "CUME PURO OURO SUJO" (2023), "FOGO QUEMA FOGO" (2022), "Ultraviolet Pits" (2021), "CityCiborg" (2021), "Coisa Não Nascida" (2020), "VIBRÁTIL" (2018), and "BEIRA" (2017). Between 2019 and 2022, Gabriela developed an artistic partnership with performer and light designer Dani Paiva de Miranda. Her projects have received support from the Goethe Institute, NordiskKulturfond, Itaú Cultural, Galerie Wedding Berlin, Lake Studios Berlin, and CAMPUS PC, and have premiered at festivals and theaters in Europe and Latin America, such as Festival Cartografias (Forum Dança, Lisbon), Tanzmesse Dusseldorf, Festival Jóvenes Creadores (Montevideo), Festival TransIncorporados (MAR Museum, Rio de Janeiro), Movement Research Testplatz Wedding Berlin, among others. In 2020, she curated and was the artistic director of the international artistic residency NO RIO HÁ UMA CIDADE QUE NOS SEPARA, supported by NORDISKKULTURFUND and developed in Rio de Janeiro in collaboration with the Danish collective CuntsCollective.
Currently, she is an artist associated with the cultural association La Parceria, in Madrid, where since 2023 she has been leading the pedagogical project REBOLASHOP.
With a special interest in anthropology and sound art, Gabriela is driven by the desire to break with all kinds of symbolic, political, and biopolitical hierarchies, including the hierarchy between human x non-human, living x dead, nature x culture. Her works deal with the attempt to deconstruct the notion of agency, through the development of various technologies of body deformation and affection, understanding that at all times we are agents and acted upon by our environment. Every day she feels more and more like a transdisciplinary or undisciplined artist.