Inspired by the guaraná (Paullinia cupana) and Sateré-Mawé cosmology, where the plant is born from the eye of a child. Organic and geometric forms unfold between cell, plant and cosmos, emerging as code: a visual technology that predates computation.
Exhibition
Digital Nature, Berlin New Media Week · B-Dome, Berlin
Terra (Re)imaginada is a body of work that explores the city as shaped not only by buildings and infrastructure, but also by invisible forces that move through and beneath its surface. It reflects how places can be reimagined through relationships that extend beyond geographic distance.
Award
National Young Creators Portugal 2025 · Cross-disciplinary
A creature living between the organic and the artificial, inspired by a marine form and its bond with a coral reef. It moves with gestures that come from the artist's body, asking what kinship could mean, and which delicate connections, human and non-human, we choose to sustain.
Featured
Studio1111, Berlin New Media Week · Urban Spree Galerie, Berlin Art Week
An experiment exploring how local cartographies can shape new spatial realities, grown from the drawings and narratives of children from Estandarte Island.
Place
Escola João Jorge Filho · Estandarte Island, Maranhão, Brazil
Cities are complex systems in which the relation of action and impact is hard to grasp. This project explores how VR can translate science-backed effects into a tangible game experience that engages diverse age groups and knowledge levels in urban participation.
Phygital editorial merging fashion, organic textures and digital composition. A dream-like world built around the lightness and fluidity of the clothes.
Amazonian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Portugal, exploring ancestral knowledge as technology. Her spatial practice moves across installation, hybrid environments and artistic research, tracing the visible and invisible infrastructures that hold a place together.
Moving between embodied and speculative world-building, she creates as a way to re-enchant the present, shaping playful places that ask how we want to be together, and what becomes possible when we do.
Selected exhibitions
2026
NERVE — Berlin New Media Week, Studio 1111, Berlin, Germany
Reconnection — Berlin Art Week, Urban Spree, Berlin, Germany
2025
Terra (Re)imaginada — National Young Creator, Santarém, Portugal
Digital Nature — curated by Harshini J. Karunaratne, Berlin New Media Week, B-Dome, Berlin, Germany
Shine More – Realm of Jade — Digital Art Exhibition, curated by MarySu Wen and Alexxi, Hong En Daoist Temple, Beijing, China
2024
Terra (Re)imaginada — curated by Rossana Mendes Fonseca, CRU Creative Hub, Porto, Portugal
Cartographies of Deviations: Mapping Origins and Narratives — curated by Rossana Mendes Fonseca, Culture Hub, Split, Croatia
Micose — curated by Miguel Leal and Virginia de Diego, Casa do Campo Pequeno, Porto, Portugal
2023
Young Creator Aveiro
Fotografia e o Resto #4 — curated by Susana Lourenço Marques, Faculty of Fine Arts Museum, Porto, Portugal
Awards & nominations
2025
National Young Creator Award Portugal — Cross Disciplinary Category, Terra (Re)imaginada
2023
CRU — Young Creator Aveiro, Portugal
Izzy Benigno•Multidisciplinary Artist & Experiential Designer
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Spatial practice · Hybrid environments · Artistic research
Open to exhibitions, commissions and collaborations
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About
Izzy Benigno
Amazonian-born artist based in Portugal, exploring ancestral knowledge as technology. She shapes playful places that ask how we want to be together, and what becomes possible when we do.
Her work has been shown at Berlin New Media Week, Berlin Art Week, as well as in Portugal, Croatia and China. In 2025 she received the National Young Creator Award Portugal for Terra (Re)imaginada.
