• she / her
    born in Portugal, lives and works in Berlin.

  • Catarina Oliveira’s work includes numerous participations, having led to selections for both national (notably the PD929 project, produced by the Manuel António da Mota Foundation, and the film residency of the Expedição project at Maus Hábitos, Porto, in 2014) and international exhibitions and residencies (such as Breviário do Brasil, invited and in collaboration with João Sousa Cardoso, at the Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade in São Paulo, Brazil, 2017). She was selected as artist resident 2026 at Solar Cinematic Art Gallery (Vila do Conde, Portugal), with an upcoming solo exhibition planned for December 2026.

    Oliveira is currently developing her first short film, Tap Dancing Ghost, produced by Primeira Idade (PT) and Alphapanda (DE), which has been selected for the European Short Pitch 2026, presented at the CoProduction Forum of Leiden Shorts 2026, and for Curtas Pro: In Development at the Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival 2026.

Education

2025 Post-graduation, Fiction Writing, Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2021 Next Wave Programme, Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, Germany
2018 Post-graduation, Communication Sciences – Cinema and Television, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2014 BFA, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
*Erasmus Exchange Semester (Winter 2012): Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Austria

Selected Exhibitions

next A Mulher da Areia/The Woman in the Dunes (solo exhibition), Solar Cinematic Art Gallery, Vila do Conde, Portugal
2018 Três Voltas (solo exhibition), Mupi Gallery Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal
2014 PD 929 (group exhibition), ARTES Contemporary Art Program of Manuel António da Mota Foundation, Porto, Portugal
2014 O sol estava sobre si – diz ela (group exhibition), MIRA Gallery, Porto, Portugal
2014 Without Mercy (group exhibition), Sismógrafo Gallery, Porto, Portugal
2014 Figuras do Novo Império (group exhibition), Edifício Montepio, Porto, Portugal
2013 Rumo a Oeste (group exhibition), Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal


Filmography

next Tap Dancing Ghost (short film), produced by Primeira Idade (PT), Alphapanda (DE), shooting in 2027

Residencies

2026 Solar Cinematic Art Gallery, Vila do Conde, Portugal
2017 Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil

Grants

2025 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Artistic Creation Grant (Cinema)