Vandria Borari (born 1983, Alter do Chão, Amazonia, Brazil). Lives and works Buhl, Germany.
Vandria Borari is a ceramicist and Indigenous activist from the Borari people of Baixo Tapajós, Pará, Brazil. She holds two Bachelor’s degrees in Law (Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém, Brazil) and Tourism (Esperança Institute of Higher Education, Santarém, Brazil), respectively. From 2016 to 2021, Borari worked as a Cultural Producer in the village of Alter do Chão, Pará, organising cultural events and exhibitions, including
Mutak – Mukameẽsawa Tapajowara Kitiwara (2021), an Indigenous art exhibition of the Lower Tapajó region.
In 2024, Borari received the Pro Helvetia Co-creation grant. Awarded to two artists, the grant supports collaborative research aimed at strengthening intercultural exchange and creative partnerships. The artist collaborated with Indian artist Ishita Chakraborty on the ongoing project
Fluid Forest, 2024-present. Borari was also awarded the 2023 SEED Award by the Prince Claus Fund, the Netherlands.
Developed during her 2023 Speculative Ecologies residency in Brazil, Borari’s
Yupirungáwa series has been exhibited in significant exhibitions and environmentalist projects globally. Borari also participated in the 2021 group project
SÜDSTELLIUM, in which artists occupied billboards on the U1 subway line at the Kottbusser Tor station, Berlin.
Borari has presented talks, lectures, and symposia for several prestigious institutions – selected examples include Duke University, 2022, North Carolina, USA; United Nations, 2019, Geneva, Switzerland; and Museum der Kulturen Basel, 2025, Basel, Switzerland.
Petra Feriancová (born 1977, former Czechoslovakia) lives and works in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Petra Feriancová graduated from the Bratislava Institute of Art and Design in 1995, followed by the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, 1996, and L’Accademia delle Belle Arti, Rome, 2002. In 2016, she completed her PhD in the Department of Intermedia and Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Feriancová is a two-time recipient of ArtVerona’s Premio Level 0 Award, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. In 2010, she was granted the prestigious Oskár Čepan Award for young Slovak visual artists, organised by the Foundation – Centre for Contemporary Art. Subsequently, Feriancová was awarded a six-week residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City.
In 2013, Feriancová was selected to represent the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. Together with Zbyněk Baladrán, she presented the joint exhibition
Still the Same Place at the Pavilion in the Giardini.
Feriancová has held solo exhibitions in prestigious institutions across Europe and beyond. Since 2016, the artist has exhibited with Elizabeth Xi Bauer; most recently, she presented the solo exhibition
Echo’s Bones at the gallery’s Exmouth Market location. Feriancová’s works are part of several private and public collections, including the Slovak National Gallery, Slovak Republic; AGI Verona Collection, Italy; Fondazione Morra Greco, Italy; Palazzo Collicola Spoleto, Italy; Villa D’Este Tivoli, Italy; Collezione Planeta Palermo, Italy; Art Collection Telekom, Germany; and Mario Testino Collection, Peru.
Karoliina Hellberg (born in 1987 in Porvoo, Finland) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
After graduating from Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2013, Hellberg completed an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, in 2015. Earlier this year, Hellberg received the Visual Artist Award from the Marcus Collins Memorial Fund and the Swedish Literature Association, Finland. Previously, Hellberg was the recipient of the Didrichsen Pro Arte Award (2018), and in 2019, the Didrichsen Art Museum held a solo exhibition of Hellberg’s work as part of receiving the award.
Participating in numerous residencies across Europe, including the Cité Internationale des Arts Residency, Paris, in 2023, Hellberg’s work has been commissioned by a variety of institutions. In 2022, the City of Helsinki’s Art Collection commissioned
Lilacs, Anemones and Wind, 2022, for permanent display at Kallio General Upper Secondary School, Helsinki. Hellberg’s practice is supported by Art Promotion Centre Finland, and in 2025, Hellberg received a three-year grant from the Finnish National Council for the Visual Arts.
Hellberg’s work was included in the recent group exhibition
Freshly Painted at the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland. Her work has been exhibited extensively across Europe in both solo and group exhibitions. In 2025, Hellberg’s work
Night-time garden, 2023, was included in the exhibition
Nordic noir: works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson at the British Museum, London, and subsequently acquired by the collection. Hellberg’s works are collected in public and private collections including Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki; HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, Espoo, Finland; and Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland.
Following her inaugural 2024 solo exhibition in the UK, at Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Deptford, titled
Labyrinth, Hellberg will open her second solo exhibition at Elizabeth Xi Bauer later this year.
Sofia Silva (born in 1990 in Padova, Italy) lives and works in Padova, Italy.
In 2012, Silva completed a BA in Fine Arts and, in 2016, an MA in History of Art and Preservation of Artistic Heritage. In 2019, Silva participated in the Q-Rated Nuoro residency, organised by La Quadriennale di Roma and Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro (MAN), Italy.
Parallel to her artistic practice, Silva has written for various publications and catalogues, including La Quadriennale di Roma, Italy; Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Germany; Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Kunsthalle Wien, Austria.
Silva has exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions across Europe, the United Kingdom, South America and the United States, including Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy; Palacio Libertad Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Flowers Gallery, London, UK; Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris, France; and Triennale Milano, Milano, Italy. In 2025, Silva presented
Spoiled by Freud, a solo exhibition at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York City, USA. Silva’s solo exhibition,
Private Index, will open this May (2026) at Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany.
No Hay Banda, at CFA, Milan, in partnership with Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London, will be Silva’s first time exhibiting with Elizabeth Xi Bauer.
No Hay Banda will run from 29
th May – 26
th June 2026, at CFA: Via Gioacchino Rossini 3, 20121, Milan, open Tuesday through to Friday, 3 – 7 pm or by appointment. A Private View will be held on 28
th May 2026, 6 – 9 pm.
CFA: Via Gioacchino Rossini 3, 20121, Milan, Italy
Elizabeth Xi Bauer locations:
20-22 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QE
Fuel Tank, 8-12 Creekside, London, SE8 3DX
For further information, press inquiries, or to schedule a visit, contact Paige Ashley at
[email protected]
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Image credit: Karoliina Hellberg,
Black pensées and dill (rainy sea), 2024. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 x 150 cm. Photograph: Richard Ivey. Courtesy of the Artist and Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London.
