Diogo da Cruz is a conceptual artist based in Lisbon. He received a BA in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fines Arts of Lisbon (2012) and a Diploma in Free Kunst from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (2016), where he studied with the professor Hermann Pitz, and the guest professors Ceal Floyer, Andrea Fraser and Tyler Coburn. He participated in the Independent Study Programme at Maumaus – Escola de Artes Visuais in Lisbon (2016).
His work has been shown in Portugal, Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Bulgaria and Scotland, including: ‘Geltung [validity]: perception of a natural right’ at GENERATORprojects/ NEoN Digital Art Festival, Dundee (2017); ‘The Social Art Award’ at Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin (2017); ‘WORDCOIN’ screened at Transmission Video Art Festival in Kassel (part of the programme of Documenta 14), Karlsruhe (part of UND#9) and Warsaw, Germany-Poland (2017); ‘BOOBS – THE SEMIOLOGY OF BREAST’ at TAF / The Art Foundation, Athens (2017); ‘ARTE JOVEM 2017’ at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon (2017); ‘The gravity of time’ at Sofia Underground Performance Festival, Sofia (2017).
