ADRIANA BERTINI
visual artist
Multidisciplinary artist, activist, and educator working across visual arts, textiles, wearable sculpture, installation, and performance. Her practice explores the relationships between body, material, territory, and care, connecting sexual and reproductive health, human rights, cultural diversity, and environmental justice through art and participatory education.
Bio
Adriana Bertini is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist, activist, and educator based in São Paulo. Born in Porto Alegre in 1971, she has developed an independent practice spanning visual arts, textile experimentation, wearable sculpture, installation, performance, and participatory education. Since founding EcoSocial Studio in 1995, she has explored how art can connect bodily experience with collective care and social change.
Her work brings sexual and reproductive health, human rights, cultural diversity, and environmental justice into dialogue. Through unconventional materials—including unused condoms, textile fragments, discarded objects, and biomedical elements—she investigates the relationships between body, material, territory, and care. Her ongoing Condom Couture practice transforms a familiar object of prevention into a sculptural language that addresses sexuality, stigma, protection, and autonomy.
Bertini’s practice extends beyond the exhibition space. Working with communities, young people, cultural institutions, and public health organizations, she develops workshops, collaborative artworks, and educational projects that combine artistic experimentation with dialogue and shared knowledge. Projects such as BodyTerritory | Corpo Território connect creative processes with questions of identity, rights, health, and belonging.
Her work has been exhibited in Brazil and internationally and documented in books, museum publications, and academic research. Her relationship with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Fowler Museum reflects the intersections between her artistic production, education, and public engagement.
Her current research expands these connections through climate justice, sustainability, and planetary health, exploring how bodies and environments are shaped by interconnected conditions. Across artworks, public interventions, and collaborative projects, Bertini approaches art as a space for critical reflection, participation, and the creation of possibilities for collective care.
EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2026
Corpo Território / Body Territory — Final Performance
CEU Heliópolis · São Paulo, Brazil
Condom Art Crafts — Exhibition and Participatory Art
AIDS 2026, Global Village · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2025
Dress-up — All Around Fashion (2025–2026)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Rotterdam, Netherlands
40 Anos da Resposta Brasileira à Aids
SESI Lab · Brasília, Brazil
Festival Contato — Performance
Sesc Carmo / Praça da Sé · São Paulo, Brazil
Blood of Earth — Urban Interventions
MaBe and public spaces, during COP30 · Belém, Brazil
Amanhã Serei Raiz
Museo de la Mujer · Buenos Aires, Argentina
2024
Long-term Exhibition (2024–2027)
Museu da Diversidade Sexual · São Paulo, Brazil
Mais Arte, Menos Aids — Performance
Sesc Avenida Paulista · São Paulo, Brazil
Feeling Invisible / artHIVism for You
AIDS 2024, Global Village · Munich, Germany
Amanhã Serei Raiz — Touring Exhibition
Taubaté, Itapecerica da Serra and Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2023
EURECA — The Right to Water
Community workshops at Vila dos Criadores · Santos, Brazil
Public parade with Bloco EURECA · São Vicente, Brazil
2022
Political Bodies
opHicina · São Paulo, Brazil
Political Bodies
International AIDS Conference · Montreal, Canada
Geometria do Encontro: Corpos Dissidentes
Casa de Vidro, Museu da Cidade · Campinas, Brazil
2021
Amanhã Serei Raiz (2021–2022)
Unibes Cultural and touring presentations · Brazil
Pontos de Fuga
EmMeio #13, MediaLab / University of Brasília · Online, Brazil
Pontos de Fuga
Panoramas 2021, Museu Neide Rodrigues Gomes · Joanópolis, Brazil
2020
Pontos de Fuga / 1 Mulher por M² (2020–2022)
São Paulo Metro and touring presentations · Brazil
Condom Couture — Artist Residency, Workshops and Performance
UCLA, Fiat Lux programme · Los Angeles, USA
artHIVism
AIDS 2020 · Online
2019
1 Mulher por M²
opHicina · São Paulo, Brazil
1 Mulher por M² — Touring Exhibition
Espaço Índigo · Bragança Paulista, Brazil
1 Mulher por M² — Touring Exhibition
Pinacoteca · Sorocaba, Brazil
1 Mulher por M² — Touring Exhibition (2019–2020)
Centro Municipal de Educação Adamastor · Guarulhos, Brazil
OXES
opHicina · São Paulo, Brazil
Participatory Installation
EMAAC · Barcelona, Spain
2018
Condom Couture
International AIDS Conference · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Biombo do Amor — Participatory Art
Ministry of Health · Brasília, Brazil
2017
Through Positive Eyes (2017–2018)
Iziko Slave Lodge · Cape Town, South Africa
Condom Couture — Divas
Sesc Pompeia · São Paulo, Brazil
2016
Through Positive Eyes — Mind Experiment #1 and #2
Durban Art Gallery · Durban, South Africa
Through Positive Eyes
Adler Museum of Medicine · Johannesburg, South Africa
Condom Couture — Exhibition and Performance
International AIDS Conference · Durban, South Africa
Art Installation
Ministry of Health / PAHO · Brasília, Brazil
2015
Condom Couture — Public Performance
MASP, Open Plaza · São Paulo, Brazil
2013
Dress Up Against AIDS
Anne Kittrell Art Gallery, University of Arkansas · Fayetteville, USA
Art for Action — END FGM
BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts · Brussels, Belgium
Condom Couture — Fashion Show
AIDS Walk New York, Central Park · New York, USA
2012
Art for Action — END FGM
Amnesty International · Lisbon, Portugal
Art for Action — END FGM
AIDOS / Amnesty International · Milan, Italy
Condom Dresses — Performance
UCLA, Art & Global Health Center · Los Angeles, USA
Condom Couture — Fashion Show
George Wingate Educational Campus · New York, USA
2011
Extreme Materials 2 (2011–2012)
Memorial Art Gallery · Rochester, USA
Vista-se
VI Encuentro Mundial de Arte Corporal, Museo de Bellas Artes · Caracas, Venezuela
Condom Couture — Performance
2010
Rubbers: The Life, History & Struggle of the Condom
Museum of Sex · New York, USA
Condom Couture — Fashion Show
SUNY Downstate, Healthy Youth Symposium · Brooklyn, New York, USA
2009
Not Alone
Durban Art Gallery · Durban, South Africa
2008
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Fowler Museum at UCLA · Los Angeles, USA
Dress Up
La Luna Gallery · Chiang Mai, Thailand
Dress Up
International AIDS Conference · Mexico City, Mexico
2007
Experimento Elástico — Exhibition, Murografia Project
Sesc Ipiranga · São Paulo, Brazil
Art Moves
Red Ribbon Express · India
Dress Up
Foro SIDA 2007 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006
Dress Up Against AIDS: Condom Couture by Adriana Bertini (2006–2007)
Fowler Museum at UCLA · Los Angeles, USA
Dress Up Against AIDS (2006–2007)
Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago · Chicago, USA
Dress Up
United Nations Headquarters, Main Hall · New York, USA
Dress Up
International AIDS Conference · Toronto, Canada
2005
Dress-up (2005–2006)
Centraal Museum · Utrecht, Netherlands
Dress Up / Vista-se
UNESCO BREDA · Dakar, Senegal
Vista-se
Ministry of Health · Brasília, Brazil
2004
No Name Fever (2004–2005)
Museum of World Culture · Gothenburg, Sweden
Dress Up / Vista-se
International AIDS Conference · Bangkok, Thailand
Vista-se
Life Home Project · Phuket, Thailand
Vista-se
Santande · São Paulo, Brazil
2003
Vista-se
Caixa Econômica Federal, Conjunto Nacional · São Paulo, Brazil
Dress Up / Vista-se
CascaisVilla · Cascais, Portugal
Vista-se
Santander · São Paulo, Brazil
2002
Divas
FAD · Barcelona, Spain
Vista-se / Dress Up
International AIDS Conference · Barcelona, Spain
Dress Up / Vista-se
CascaisVilla · Cascais, Portugal
2001
Patuá
Metrô · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Patuá
Sesc Itaquera · São Paulo, Brazil
Caliente · Installation
Le Moulant, with Jairo Bauer · São Paulo, Brazil
2000
Fragmentos de um Orgasmo Protegido
Sesc · São Paulo, Brazil
Patuá
Biblioteca Mário de Andrade · São Paulo, Brazil
1999
Patuá
Centro Cultural Dragão do Mar · Fortaleza, Brazil
Sexo Inseguro · Installation
Porto Seguro, Brazil
1998
Mercado Mundo Mix Loves You
São Paulo, Brazil
Mix — Fashion Show
Brasília, Brazil
1997
Uma Fala de Amor
Hotel Hilton · São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Lagoa Mix · Fashion Show
Florianópolis, Brazil
Camisinha é Cultura · Beach Fashion Show
In partnership with MTV and Sebrae · Maceió, Brazil
Fashion Show and Performance
First São Paulo LGBT Pride Parade, Avenida Paulista · São Paulo, Brazil
1996
Aids na Avenida Performance
Carnival, Sambódromo · Florianópolis, Brazil
1995
Segunda Pele · Installation
Espaço Mix · Florianópolis, Brazil
First Fashion Show
Equinox Bar · Florianópolis, Brazil