Mariana Aboim, Artist, Researcher

Mariana Aboim is a visual artist and teacher based in Rotterdam. She has a background in sculpture, street activism, Art Education, and in 2024 she obtained a PhD from the Royal College of Art in London. Through her practice, Mariana investigates the affective and embodied materialisations of long-term endurance of cisheteronormative structures. Recently, she has been working with queer inconvenience, combining research on gender representation with public interventions that allow moving beyond static binary forms of gender legibility.

Mariana tutors at the Willem de Kooning Academy since 2015, working on the Fine Art bachelor, Social Ecologies Theory line, and she has joined the Miard team in September 2024.

https://marianaaboim.hotglue.me