
Joana Teixeira is a visual artist based in Lisbon, with a practice focused on painting and animated motion.
She graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, where she also studied animation and cinema. It was there that she began participating in collective exhibitions such as OCCUPARE (2014), an initiative to intervene in abandoned spaces near the university. She worked as a graphic artist and animator on animation films, contributing to projects such as O Ciclo (dir. Zepe), Suspensão (dir. Luís Soares), and Percebes (dir. Laura Gonçalves and Alexandra Ramires). During this time, she continued to develop her painting practice, exploring new techniques and contexts. In 2022, she contributed to the organization of the project TWND – The Window Next Door with The Great Good Place, which reimagined neglected storefronts as spaces for public art. Recently, she has participated in collective initiatives at Atelier Concorde and Atelier Artéria, such as the exhibition Making is Colder than Capital (2024), and as a monitor in the participatory art project Participar para Não Esquecer (2024-25).
Her mixed-media practice weaves together painting, collage, and animation. A recurring method is the act of collecting pieces of discarded paintings, as fragments of her past, and reclaiming them through transformation and recontextualization. This process is meditative, personal and restorative, serving as a means to navigate the shifting layers of her identity. She’s captivated by how images and materials can break apart, overlap, and evolve, and she often embraces imperfection, allowing rough edges, visible seams, and subtle distortions as a reflection of life's constant state of flux. Through this ever-evolving practice, she searches for new modes of being by embracing the impermanence of existence shaped by time, memory, and change.