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Francisca Cardoso Patrocínio (b. 1999) is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist based in Zurich, Switzerland.
In her artistic practice, she works individually and in collectives and holds different roles in the arts, expanding her practice as an artist to other ways of creating: curating, publishing, researching and writing.

She is a co-founder of Arsen33 team, and part of the team at Kulturfolger.

Education

2022 – 2024 MA of Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, CH

2017 – 2021 BA of Fine Arts - Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, PT

2020 – 2021 Erasmus Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, AT

2014 – 2017 Secondary Artistic School Soares dos Reis, Porto, PT

Selected Exhibitions

2025 Grosse Regional *ALTEFABRIK_Kunst(Zeug)Haus 2025

2025 Kunstipendien der Stadt Zurich, Helmhaus, CH

2025 The Grand Tiger Hotel, Hotel Tiger, Zurich CH

2024 Time after time after time, group show at Rötelstrasse 17, Zurich CH

2024 Matazz, Unternehmen Mitte Basel, CH

2024 making space, finding form, Diploma Exhibition MFA, ZHdK, CH

2023 Of Each Absence, ETH Zurich, CH

2023 Wounded and Healing Waters, OnCurating, Zurich, CH

2022 EntreMontra, Edisício Parnaso, Porto, PT

2022 VIDEODREAMS #1, Práticas dos Imaginários, video session, FBAUP, Porto, PT

2022 Assembly of Plants, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, PT

2021 yH brid Spaces, Billboard installation, FLUC Vienna, AT

2021 Vinte Rasgos - Clarabóia, BA Sculpture Diploma Exhibition, FBAUP, Porto, PT

2020 Emergências, Contextile 2020, Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, PT

Selected Artistic Residencies/
Summer Schools

2023 Art & Activism Summer School, IfCAR and Istituto Svizzero in Rome, IT

2022 Órbita #2,Festival Súbito, Agit Lab and Águeda City Council, Aveiro, PT

2020 Displacements, 3rd edition, Collaboration between the Santo Tirso International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture and FBAUP, PT

2019 Summer School Portuguese Basket Technology Course, Lisbon, PT

2019 Drawing in uncertainty - From process to project, Drawing at Convento dos Francos, Porto, Portugal, organized by FBAUP, PT.

Selected Publications

2024 LOVE, Diploma Publication, 350 edition, with Anaïs Strübin, Arthur Heck, Élisa Féraud, Inês Henriques and Massimiliano Rossetto, published by ZHdK, Zurich, CH

2024 Roses, Laser print on Draunendruck paper, self-published, at Soft Launch, Zurich, CH

2024 Blue Hour/Hora Azul, A Glossary of More Than Words, MFA thesis, ZHdK, CH

2024 I will never show this to anyone, Collective Leporello Book, Zurich, CH

2023 The Knitting Club Zine, 50 edition digital print on glossy paper, with Anaïs Strübin, Élisa Féraud and Selina Zürrer, Zurich, CH

Events

2024 Keck Adventskalender with The Knitting Klub, at Keck kiosk, Basel, CH

2024 LOVE, Diploma Publication, presented at Crampi al Cuore, Locarno, CH

2023 Book Machines, presentation of The Knitting Club Zine, ZHdK, Zurich, CH

Awards/
Nominations

2025 Nominated to Kunststipendien der Stadt Zurich
2021 Honorable Mention to Acquisition Prize FBAUP, with Leonor Talefe
2020 Erasmus Studies Programm Grant, FBAUP, PT with Akbild Kunst Wien, AT

Selected Courses/
Workshops/
Programms

2024 – 2025 What’s Next Compass 12-month Programm - Z-Kubator, Zurich, CH

2023 Echo Club, by School for Collective Embodied Inquiry, Gessneralle & BINZ39, CH

2022 Compusive Desires: On Lithium Extraction, Endless Growth and Self-Optimisation, with Anastasia Kubrak, Godofredo Pereira, Marisol de la Cadena, Michael Marder and Susana Caló, Colectivos Pláka, Galeria Municipal do Porto, PT

2021 Temporary collections, with duo SöötZeyringer, Kunstraum Niederosterreich, AT

2020 Indigo Dyeing, with Alice Bernardo, Saber Fazer, PT

2019 Food Cosmogonies, The Gramounce collective, UK in collaboration with the Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid, ES

2019 Blown Glass and post-production methods at CENCAL, Marinha Grande, Leiria, PT

2019 Wool, with Alice Bernardo, Saber Fazer, PT

2019 Natural Dyeing, with Guida Fonseca, Saber Fazer, PT

2016 – 2017 Illustrated Books from Start to Finish: Photography, Illustration, Engraving and Book Binding, FBAUP, Porto, PT