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Exhibitions

Solo

2023

A Pele do Mundo

Futuros – Arte e Tecnologia, Rio de Janeiro · Curated by: Michael Asbury

Solo exhibition curated by Michael Asbury. It brought together the installation Esquina, the series Esquinas I–X, Turbina, Chuveiros Sonoros, Espreguiçadeiras Sonoras and the videos Máscara Sonora and Falante.

Bilingual catalogue, Refresco / Futuros, 2023, ISBN 978-65982255-0-6

2021

Cidade Labirinto

Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro; digital exhibition cidadelabirinto.art

Solo exhibition comprising an installation at the Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica and a digital exhibition with podcast.

2020

Poema Tornado

Galeria Reserva Cultural, Niterói · Curated by: Marisa Flórido

Solo exhibition curated by Marisa Flórido.

2018

Nuvem

Centro Cultural Furnas, Rio de Janeiro

Sound installation with umbrellas.

2016

Muro de Som

Parque das Ruínas, Rio de Janeiro · Curated by: Guilherme Bueno

Solo exhibition curated by Guilherme Bueno. It brought together Muro de Som, Binóculos Sonoros and Espreguiçadeiras Sonoras.

2016

Errância

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro — CCBB Contemporary Award

Solo exhibition held through the CCBB Contemporary Award, in the Sala A Contemporânea.

Errância, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2016ErrânciaErrância

2013

Sonar

Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro · Curated by: Glória Ferreira

Solo exhibition curated by Glória Ferreira.

2012

A Cidade Sonora

Galeria Funarte, Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro — Projéteis Award, Funarte

Solo exhibition held through the Projéteis Contemporary Art Award, Funarte.

A Cidade Sonora, Palácio Gustavo Capanema, 2012A Cidade Sonora

Selected group exhibitions

2024

Virada Sônica: The Sonic Turn — The Surge of Sound in Contemporary Art ↗

Farol Santander, São Paulo, 5 July to 13 October 2024 — curated by Chico Dub

International exhibition of sound art, from John Cage to contemporary artists. Floriano Romano showed Espreguiçadeiras Sonoras (2016), with the sound of the sea at Ipanema. Digital catalogue.

2021–2022

Brasilidade Pós-Modernismo [Postmodernism Brazilianness] 1922–2022

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte — curated by Tereza de Arruda

Group exhibition for the centenary of the 1922 Modern Art Week, with 51 artists, including Adriana Varejão, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto, Lenora de Barros, Mira Schendel, Rosana Paulino and Tunga. Floriano Romano took part with Radionovelas (Sérgio Carvalho Collection), in the Aesthetics section. Rio de Janeiro, 1 September to 22 November 2021; São Paulo, 15 December 2021 to 7 March 2022; Brasília, 5 April to 5 June 2022; Belo Horizonte, 29 June to 19 September 2022. Bilingual catalogue.

2017

Media Art Festival Arad, 4th edition — CINEMA ↗

Arta Cinema and Arad Art Museum, Romania, 8 September to 1 October 2017 — curated by Călin Man and Ileana Selejan

International media art festival. Falante (2007, 7 min 53 s) was part of the continental drift screening programme.

2012

SOUNDWORKS ↗

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 19 June to 16 September 2012

ICA project presented alongside Bruce Nauman's exhibition Days: more than one hundred international artists, invited by the ICA and by institutions in several countries, made sound works in response to Days, gathered on a website and in the galleries. Floriano Romano took part with a sound poem.

Group (selection)

2019

O Rio dos Navegantes

Museu de Arte do Rio, May 2019 to May 2020. Conceived and curated by Evandro Salles

Group exhibition on the history of Rio de Janeiro as a port city.

O Rio dos Navegantes, Museu de Arte do Rio

2018

Arte pra Sentir

Caixa Cultural Brasília (16 October to 23 December 2018) and Caixa Cultural São Paulo. Curated by Isabel Portella

Group exhibition of works addressing senses other than sight.

Exposição Arte pra Sentir, Caixa Cultural Brasília, 2018

2018

Corpo de Som [Body of Sound], with Helen Cole and Alex Bradley — Panorama Festival

Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro — Panorama Festival, 3–24 November 2018

Group exhibition on the body and sound.

Panorama 2018 — Corpo de Som: Helen Cole e Floriano Romano

2016

Paquetá Experimenta

Casa de Artes de Paquetá, Paquetá Island, Rio de Janeiro — 21 May to 25 June 2016. Curated by Ivair Reinaldim

Group exhibition of works made during an immersion on Paquetá Island.

Paquetá Experimenta Arte Contemporânea, 2016

2015

Permanências e Destruições

Former Hotel Balneário Sete de Setembro, now Colégio Brasileiro de Altos Estudos, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro — 17–30 January 2015. Curated by João Paulo Quintella

Group exhibition in a former hotel from 1922.

Permanências e Destruições — Hotel Sete de Setembro, Canal-Arte, 2015

2015

TRIO Biennial — Forma e Matéria: the limits of the three-dimensional in expanded fields

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro. Curated by Marcus de Lontra

The first biennial in Rio de Janeiro devoted to three-dimensional art.

TRIO Bienal, CCBB Rio, Canal-Arte, 2015

2015

Aparição

Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro. Curated by Fernanda Lopes. Performance with Sapatos Sonoros at the opening

Group exhibition of seventeen artists devoted to sculpture.

Aparição, Caixa Cultural Rio, Canal-Arte, 2015