Bruna Fetter

Bruna Fetter is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Arts at UFRGS. She holds a PhD in History, Theory and Art Criticism from the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the same university, where she also works as a professor. She is the vice-coordinator of the specialization course in Curatorial Practices (UFRGS), and was a visiting researcher at New York University (2014/2015), made possible by a Fulbright scholarship. She is the Cultural Director of the Vera Chaves Barcellos Foundation and has curated several exhibitions, the most recent being “Amazona, ou a dança das resistências” (2024, MACRS), “O pé esquerdo” (2024, Galeria da PBSA), and “Haverá Consequências” (2022, FVCB). Between 2006 and 2007, she coordinated the executive production team of the 6th Mercosul Biennial. Co-author of the book "The New Rules of the Game: The Art System in Brazil" (Editora Zouk, 2014), she collaborated on the publications "Visual Arts - Contemporary Brazilian Essays" (FUNARTE, 2017), "Contemporary Practices of Moving" (Circuito, 2015) and "Women have the floor: Dialogues on the Inclusion of Women in the Visual Arts" (Panorama Crítico, 2014). She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (ABCA) and the National Association of Visual Arts Researchers (ANPAP). In 2025, she was awarded the Gilda de Mello e Souza Prize by ABCA, intended for young art critics.