Alexandra Costa

Alexandra Costa is a Portuguese visual artist and researcher with a focus on contemporary art. She graduated in Visual Arts from the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP) in 2015 and further pursued a postgraduate degree in Contemporary Art in 2016.
In 2022, she completed her Master’s in Visual Arts, specializing in Artistic Practices and Research, also from ESAP.

Costa has participated in numerous collective exhibitions, where her work explores complex themes such as abstraction, entropy, and the body.
Some key exhibitions include Sem Imago Mundi. A Random Diversion Instead at the Planetário do Porto in 2018, and A alguns passos como se fosse muito longe at Palacete Viscondes de Balsemão during the Encontros da Imagem festival in 2017. One of her notable projects during this time was Studies on Entropy, exhibited at Espaço Mira in July 2017 as part of the exhibition Projectos_Processos_Propriedades.

In 2021, Costa was a resident artist for Projecto Tomate: body, work, poverty, curated by Eduarda Neves, where she continued to explore social and conceptual themes through her work. That same year, she took part in the collective exhibition Nem Noite Nem Dia Ou como estar de frente para o relógio, which was part of the Porto Image Month program.

Additionally, the artist was a CEAA scholarship holder, involved in the FCT-funded program On Abstraction [or the excessive concern about an object], integrating her academic and artistic practice into broader theoretical discourses on abstraction.