Gabriela Saenger Silva

Gabriela Saenger Silva (she/her) is a Brazilian-UK-based arts practitioner, educator, and researcher specialising in contemporary art biennials, art education, and socially engaged and decolonial art practices. She is a PhD candidate at the Exhibition Research Lab at Liverpool John Moores University with the thesis “Biennials as Educational Tools” (working title), participating in multiple conferences in Brazil, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and Poland. Saenger Silva was pivotal in art institutions’ educational and public programmes, including Mercosul and Liverpool Biennials, where she devised and delivered experimental programs, including “The City Is a School”. She was a guest curator for Bienal de São Paulo and part of the collective curatorial programme at the International Slavery Museum (National Museums of Liverpool). She is part of the urban environmental cooperative Scouse Flowerhouse and an associate researcher for the Amazon Basin and Para-Educational Study Group (HBFK, Hamburg).