alexandre liberato
Alexandre Liberato (b. 1981) is a Portuguese visual artist based in Berlin since 2012. Trained in architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon, he works across painting, textiles, and sculpture. His practice draws on an understanding of space, material, and construction, exploring the relationship between visible forms and the structures that sustain them.
Working primarily with fabric, sewing thread, and pigments, Liberato examines how social conventions and cultural expectations shape our understanding of identity, particularly masculinity. Sewing, layering, folding, and the manipulation of surfaces are central to his work, where gestures associated with care become means of construction. His recent research extends these processes through the removal and partial reinsertion of threads, allowing new structures to emerge from the material itself.
Liberato's work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at venues including Weserhalle, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Hošek Contemporary, and STUDIO/GALLERY in Berlin. He has also participated in 48 Stunden Neukölln and the Thessaloniki Queer Art Festival. His work Courage Not to Fight (2024) was selected for the 18th International Triennial of Textile Art at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland (2025–2026).
Working primarily with fabric, sewing thread, and pigments, Liberato examines how social conventions and cultural expectations shape our understanding of identity, particularly masculinity. Sewing, layering, folding, and the manipulation of surfaces are central to his work, where gestures associated with care become means of construction. His recent research extends these processes through the removal and partial reinsertion of threads, allowing new structures to emerge from the material itself.
Liberato's work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at venues including Weserhalle, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Hošek Contemporary, and STUDIO/GALLERY in Berlin. He has also participated in 48 Stunden Neukölln and the Thessaloniki Queer Art Festival. His work Courage Not to Fight (2024) was selected for the 18th International Triennial of Textile Art at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland (2025–2026).
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# Artist Statement
My practice examines masculinity as a social and cultural construction, questioning the structures through which ideas of strength, authority, and vulnerability are established and maintained. Rather than seeking to represent an alternative masculine identity, I am interested in how these structures might be questioned through material processes. Care plays a central role in this investigation, not simply as a subject, but as a way of working, constructing, and relating to materials.
Working between painting, textiles, and sculpture, I use sewing, layering, folding, and the manipulation of fabric to explore the relationship between surface and structure. My background in architecture continues to inform how I approach materials, particularly the tension between what is visible and the systems that hold things together. Sewing interests me as a constructive act: a gesture that can join, support, repair, or alter an existing form. More recently, I have begun removing threads from woven fabrics, interrupting their internal organisation and working with the possibilities that emerge. The process is not directed towards a predetermined form. New structures are gradually developed through an ongoing negotiation with the material.
I am interested in the point at which a structure appears to approach its limits without necessarily collapsing. This tension, between stability and uncertainty, presence and absence, connects my work to an understanding of the sublime that is less concerned with spectacle than with suspension and the limits of what can be perceived or controlled. Across different scales and materials, I seek to create situations in which the viewer encounters this tension without necessarily seeing the mechanisms that produce it.
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Alexandre liberato
b* 1981, Lisbon-Portugal
Visual Artist & Architect, based in Berlin
contact@alexandreliberato.com
www.alexandreliberato.com
Education
2017-2018, CREART - Artistic and Creative Research Labs, with Gemma Guasch and Josep Asunción, Barcelona
2017, International Symposium Architecture of Collage at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2017, Seminar Experimental Photography at AR.CO, Lisbon
2012, Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, with Sheng Qing 盛情, Beijing
1999-2005, BA (Hons) Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University, Lisbon
exhibitions
11.10.2025 - 3.05.2026, DECONSTRUCTION/RECONSTRUCTION, 18th International Triennial of Textile, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland
2025, THE FINAL AUCTION, group exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery WESERHALLE, Berlin
2025, BAAM#10, Berlin Artists Art Market, Kühlhaus, Berlin
2024, COURAGE NOT TO FIGHT, solo exhibition, STUDIO/GALLERY, Berlin
2024, SUBLIMINAL SILENCE, duo exhibition with Filippo M. Ceredi, 48 Stunden Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2024, NATURE MORTE AFTER NATURE OBSERVATA, group exhibition, Showroom Frau Caze, Berlin
2024, THINGS YOU CAN NOT BUY, group exhibition, Sellerie Weekend, Studio Baustelle, Berlin
2023, BAAM#6, Berlin Artists Art Market, Not A Gallery, Berlin
2023, DESIGN·ART·SUNDAY, group exhibition, Casa de Música tuCanto, Berlin
2023, SER & SENSITIVITY, solo exhibition, Café Tasso, Berlin
2022, BAAM#4, Berlin Artists Art Market, Moos Space, Berlin
2022, μελαγχολία (MELANCHOLY), duo exhibition with HANSLAND, STUDIO/GALLERY, Berlin
2022, MORE NEW HEROES, solo exhibition, STUDIO/GALLERY, Berlin
2022, EPO FOR UKRAINE, charity auction, European Patent Office, Munich
2021, AIR, 48 Stunden Neukölln Art Festival, KINDL - Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2021, FRESH LEGS, group exhibition, Gallery Heike Arndt DK, Berlin
2020, ΤΙ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΦΟΒΟΣ; WHAT IS FEAR?, film festival, Hošek Contemporary, Berlin
2020, UNLOCK, group exhibition, Espacio 88, Barcelona
2020, BEFORE THE INSURGENCY, Thessaloniki Queer Art Festival, online
2020, BIG WHITE LIES, solo exhibition, 48 Stunden Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2019, QUEERNESS, group exhibition, Projektraum 145, Berlin
publications
2025, 18th International Triennial of Textile Catalogue, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland
2025, Suboart Magazine Nr. 50, International Art Magazine for Emerging Artists, Publishing house Peecho
2025, New Art Project - Issue 5, Publishing house Blurb
2025, Contemporary Art Chronicle - Volume 8, Digital Publication
RESIDENCIES
2019 Konvent.Zero, Berga, Barcelona
Affiliations
Member of BBK Berlin (Professional Association of Visual Artists) and VG Bild-Kunst.
ARCHITECTURE
2012-2017, Co-founder of the architectural office PitLibermann GbR, Berlin
2012, Architect at DO Architecture Art Interior Gallery Fun, DO度联体艺术设计机构 际, 798 Art District, Beijing
2005-2011, Architect at BCQ Arquitectura Barcelona