Jota Ramos

Born in 1989, BraSil.

Jota Ramos is a transmasculine nonbinary multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin/Germany. Beginning with autobiographical artistic experiments, Ramos explores the practices of performance, video, installation, photography, and poetry. Creating peripheral dissident subjectivities that dialogue with symbolic, etymological, and Black and gender identity references, he seeks to bring a poetic reflection as a healing space thinking about how to portray the authenticity of the brown body in a genuine way, as a light-skinned Black person. His research investigates tools to build an antiracist and powerful representation of Black queer people’s sociality, identity, and their historical journey. He is currently studying direction at FilmArche in Berlin and has a postgraduate degree in applied social science where he researched female Afro-entrepreneurship in the southern region of Brazil. Residencies include Corpo – Acumulo at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana in Porto Alegre (2019); Our Stories at Jamaica Performing Arts Center in New York, (2019); Atlas of Transition Performing Arts and Migration in Bologna/Italy (2020); Carolinas at Flup (Periphery Literature Festival) in Rio de Janeiro (2020); and Tracce Residence in Conversano (2021). His works have been exhibited in Portugal, Italy, United States, Switzerland, Brazil, and Germany. The most recent exhibitions took place at Circle 1 Gallery, Oyoun Cultural Center, Acud Macht Neu, Lona Galeria, Vae Raleigh, Espaço Itinerante, Escola de Belas Artes, Museum im BellPark, LaBottega Laboratorio Urbano and Wedding film. In 2022, he took part in the residency INcorporAÇÕES e Cruzas Poéticas at MARGS (Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul) in Porto Alegre and is now represented in the museum collection. He is currently taking part in the Panorama art residency at the Afropolitan in Berlin and in the performance exhibition at Galeria Vermelho and Chão SLZ. He is also one of the six international artists selected for the PerfocraZe mentoring program in Ghana, and is scheduled to attend both the QUEERWEEK22 at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and the DISKURS Festival in Giessen.