Ana Jotta Explained

Ana Jotta is a Portuguese artist born in 1946^[2] in Lisbon.

Early life

Ana Jotta studied art at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Fine Arts) and at La Cambre in Brussels.^[3] From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema and theatre. She became more focused on visual arts since the 1980s.^[4]

Career

Jotta explores all artistic fields: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, photography. She also works with craft techniques like sewing, embroidery and pottery.^[5] Her projects are extremely varied, she invents new and unexpected forms for each of her exhibitions. In 2018, she co-curated with Ricardo Valentim "from A to C",^[6] an exhibition of works by Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes at Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.

Jotta has had two major career retrospectives: "Rua Ana Jotta"^[7] at Museu Serralves (Porto, 2005)^[8] and "A Conclusão da Precedente" at Culturgest (Lisboa, 2014).^[9]

External links

• Ana Jotta works at the Gulbenkian Museum

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rato. Vanessa. Ana Jotta, "a mais jovem das artistas portuguesas", ganhou o Grande Prémio EDP. 2021-01-03. PÚBLICO. pt.
2. Web site: Ana Jotta Widewalls. 2021-01-02. www.widewalls.ch. en.
3. Web site: ProjectoMAP – Mapa de Artistas de Portugal. 2021-01-02. Project MAP.
4. Web site: Ana Jotta at le Crédac – Art Viewer. 2021-01-02. en-US.
5. Web site: Ana Jotta: DAS. 2021-01-02. www.e-flux.com. en.
6. Web site: Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes from A to C . 2022-10-29 . Museu Calouste Gulbenkian . en-US.
7. Web site: Rua Ana Jotta .
8. Web site: Obra de Ana Jotta da coleção de Serralves. 2021-01-02. Infraestruturas de Portugal. pt-pt.
9. Web site: A Conclusão da Precedente. 2022-07-27. Culturgest. pt-pt.