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Ziel Karapotó

Ziel Karapotó is a Brazilian multimedia artist, filmmaker, performer, and curator from the Karapotó community of Terra Nova, São Sebastião, Alagoas. In 2024, he represented Brazil at the 60th Venice Biennale with the installation Cardume II. In 2024 and 2025, he presented performances at Theaterformen Festival in Germany and exhibited at Verso Gallery in Lisbon. His short film The Word Became Flesh (2019) received the Another Sky Award. Ziel has curated Indigenous film programs including ECHOES Indigenous Film Festival in London, Caméra-Flèche: Voies du cinéma autochtone au Brésil in Paris, and Piracema Nu Bai in Lisbon. In 2026, he presented the solo exhibition Todos falam de mim, ninguém me representa: um olhar indígena sobre a obra de Rugendas at Instituto Ricardo Brennand in Recife, critically revisiting Johann Moritz Rugendas’s work. He has been a guest speaker at Brown, Duke, Yale, EHESS, and Manchester universities.




Beiträge //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Jacqueline Azarmi Eskandani, Ziel Karapotó, Olinda Tupinambá, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Alessandra Praun: Where Rivers Meet: Collective Curatorship and Indigenous Arts in Germany

Building a Long-Term Collaboration with Festival Theaterformen
Heft No. 01/2026