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bfr.gab@gmail.com
@bearubiogabriel

Bea Rubio-Gabriel is a performance artist, writer, and curator born in The Philippines now living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. Approaching the curatorial in parallel with artistic practice, they integrate gestures within their curatorial projects (collaborative workshops, inverting an exhibition inside-out, re-curated exhibitions over time, non-static exhibitionary modes etc.) to unveil hidden systems of power within artistic institutions. Curating becomes enacted through the relational act of listening, performance becomes a way to re-imagine the ‘&/’ as cultural imaginary for the utopian present. Their research currently focuses on the moral economy of labour, migrational inheritences, the politics of translation, and the transformation of care™ into the act of ‘tending to’. Bea Rubio-Gabriel is a performance artist, writer, and curator born in The Philippines now living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. Approaching the curatorial in parallel with artistic practice, they integrate gestures within their curatorial projects (collaborative workshops, inverting an exhibition inside-out, re-curated exhibitions over time, non-static exhibitionary modes etc.) to unveil hidden systems of power within artistic institutions. Curating becomes enacted through the relational act of listening, performance becomes a way to re-imagine the ‘&/’ as cultural imaginary for the utopian present. Their research currently focuses on the moral economy of labour, migrational inheritences, the politics of translation, and the transformation of care™ into the act of ‘tending to’.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
Victorian College of the Arts
2024

Bachelor of Arts (Art History & Curating) / Bachelor of Visual Arts
Monash University
2015 - 19

Performances & Exhibitions

2025 
Inheritance (upcoming)
West Space Window

Featherstar
guest performance, Artist: Alicia Frankovich
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art x UQ Museum

Exploring Impulse vs Expectation
guest performance, Artist: Jess Tanto
Trocadero Projects

2024
A La Juventud Filipina
Bus Projects

tiaga at tiis
Victorian College of the Arts

(a)flame
VCA Artspace

2023
bahay kubo
guest performance, Artist: Rayleen Forester
West Space

Arty-Farty Cities
SEVENTH Gallery

how is work?
Testing Grounds

2022
when the typhoon blows off its cocoon the butterfly embraces the sun
Footscray Community Arts Centre

Curatorial Projects

2024
what is given
George Paton Gallery
Artists: Annabell Lee, Devon Campbell, Pinhao Cheng, Elizabeth Negline, Eloise Duffus, Ethan Tsang, Margot de Gier, yoria shi, Yue Zhu, Vivian Ren.

2022
being watery
MMeets, MPavilion
co-facilitated with Yow Wai

2021
flow
BLINDSIDE Gallery
Artists: Aida Azin, Leonie Leivenzon, Michael Tukanuku, Tessa-May Chung, Zia Atahi

2019
/dis/location
Rem Koolhaas MPavilion
Artists: Albert Lin, Ari Tampubolon, Crizelle Perlas, Jooyoung Kim, Liv Austin, Tessa-May Chung

Writing & Publicastions

for tenderness &/ refusal
Honours exegesis
2024

we are the ghosts, we are the mirrors
Arts House
2023

I told my parents I joined the Union
Runway Journal x Parallel Structures
2022

Utang ng Loob
Island Island, Bus Projects
2021

(of dreaming and grief)
Multicultural Arts Victoria
2020