Carol Stampone
Interdisciplinary artist from Brazil based in Bergen, NO. Writer, storyteller, poet, performance artist, philosopher, mediator, and mother.
Education
2023-2025 MA in Fine Arts, KMD (120 ECTs) Bergen, NO
2016-2019 MA Philosophy, UiB (120 ECTs) Bergen, NO
2020-2021 Post studies (courses on Religion and Politics), UiB (90ECTs) Bergen, NO
2008-2009 Post-Graduation in Philosophy, Universidade de Coimbra (60 ECTs) Coimbra, PT
2002-2007 Bachelor in Philosophy, UNICAMP (196 ECTs) Campinas, BR
2009 Training in physical theater, TEUC Coimbra, PT
1999-2002 3 years training as a kindergarten teacher Guaxupé, BR
Performances
2025. she is an open book. performative reading and conversations. MFA group show at Bergen Kunsthall. Bergen, NO
2024. when a woman gossips with ghosts. PAB Open. Bergen, NO
2024. dear sisters, help shared as part of the group show 7-9-13. Copenhagen, DK
2024. (re) searching love ii: how to become intimate with a text? Part of the group show Big Teeth at Bergen Kjøtt. Bergen, NO
2024. talking with Luce, Conference Touching the World on Luce Irigaray, University of Iceland Reykjavik, IC
2023 Our tongues, hands and heart: when we gossip to keep moving, Live Studio Bergen Kunsthall Bergen, NO
2023-2022 Once upon a time 100 women desired another story, Black Theatre Oslo, NO and Oktoberdans Bergen, NO
2022 Do you know your place, PRIDE, Kunsthuset Kabuso Øystese, NO
2022 How could a mother do that, PAB Open Bergen, NO
2022 The moon is down: the status quo is my enemy, Borealis Bergen, NO
2022 Eventyr Brazil: Saci Pererê the protector of the forest, Litteraturhuset Bergen, NO
2021 Almost Poems, Slam! And Soul! at Literaturhusett Bergen, NO
2021 from pink to motherhood, Meteor Bergen, NO
2020 Vandrehistorier: Dola, my mother and me, Festpillene Bergen, NO
2020 How to become a mother without losing myself, HKS Bergen, NO
2019 Soft: an improvised street performance, impro dance Bergen, NO
Exhibitions
2025. Part of the group show, I could only see the back of it. Bergen Kunsthall. Norway.
2024. Part of the Radio Multe Ensemble for the performative installation Seiho and Her Soul, by Karen Werner. USF, Bergen, NO
2024. Mother and Sun,5 years. collaboration with Carola Grahn as part of Earthworks at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
Socially engaged art projects
2020-ongoing. Public Conversations on female thinkers from the Global South, supported by BNKF and Bergen Kommune Bergen, NO
2023-ongoing. motherhood. nomadic (it was hosted at Litteraturhuset, Bergen Kunsthall, aerial. Bergen, NO
Creative writing/mixed writing/art criticism
2025 book fragile certainties. Exilic Press. Netherlands.
2024 Essay ‘On Freedom, Gossip and Sisterhood’ for book Show Up by Soso Bradfield. NO
2024 Essay ‘Pages of my diary: on Trash the Musical and Being Lost’ for artistic book On Loss by Eleni Ieremia. Bergen, NO
2024 Reflections on a Collaboration Uniting Mothers Around Sámi Traditions. Opinion piece. Frieze, London, UK
2023 Carry Across: on translation and resonance for Kunstverk piece on Madihe Gharibi’s contribution to Time will tell, she already does Oslo, Norway
2023 Camille Norment at Bergen Kunsthall published at frieze Frieze, London, UK
2022 bridges to understanding one another: on empathy, hope, and queerness, BIAS magazine Bergen, NO
Writing labs
2025 NSU Writing Lab Part-time Mom. Summer Session, Jyväskylä, Finland.
2024 NSU Writing with an Other, Summer Session, on motherhood, Nordic Summer University, Logklomster, DK
2023 BEK, Participation in Symposium the Only Lasting Truth is Change: with conversation and writing lab on Digital Lethargy by Tung Hui Hu. Bergen,NO
2022 The Fortune Teller and Time, Mediation Program for Alvaro Urbano’s Ruins, Bergen Assembly Bergen, NO
2022 Here and There: On Displacement and Language, Mediation Program for Nora Adwan’s exhibition Defragmentation, HKS Bergen, NO
2022 On Dreams and Political Imagination, Mediation Program for Nora Adwan’s exhibition Defragmentation, HKS Bergen, NO
2022 Writing with an Other: Hospitality and Solidarity in Practice, NSU Oslo, NO
2022 On Solidarity and Feminism, NSU Umea, SE
2021 On Belonging, Listening and Responding, Mediation Program for the exhibition That place of familiarity that holds and hurts I, HKS Bergen, NO
Other relevant experience
2025-ongoing Board member of PAB (Performance Art Bergen) Bergen, NO
2022-2024 Board member of Borealis Festival. Bergen, NO
2022-ongoing Coordinator of the circle on Feminist Philosophy for NSU’s study circle 4 online events and in person events in Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland.
2022 Curatorial Assistant to Daniela Ramos Arias, Summer Academy, HKS Bergen, NO
2021 Research Assistant to Ina Hagen’s Commission for Bergen Kunsthall/ The Ocean and invited speaker on the event “Plattform: Deep Listening and Conversation - Fire Nation with Ina Hagen” on the 2. October 2021. Bergen, NO
Residencies
2025 September residency with Adiancenze Bologna, IT
2023 2 weeks residency at Live Studio Bergen Kunsthall Bergen, NO
2022 2 weeks residency at NoGoods. Bergen, NO
Awards and grants
2022 Etableringsstipend Bergen Kommune.
2025 Diverstipend Kulturadet.
2025 BKH award for MFA students.