Haidji ,(Portugal)

Haidji was born on 12 of mai 1968.

Following education in Brazil and Germany she’s now between Portugal, Italy and Holland.

Her interest on art began the age of four when she got a blackboard for Christhmas .
She then started to draw objects around the house: chairs, tables and so on.
Her first memories are colours: in particular a green dress she was wering aged one-and-half.
And ever since,colours has held a fascination for her.
Her University education was at the University of Applied Science at Idar-Oberstein where she obtained a “Diploma” ( equivalent to a Master’s Degree) in Jewerly and Precious Stones – Design and Painting. She’s also a qualified Goldsmith.
Haidji is a talented and creative artist who produces abstract work, that ressonate with warmth and life.
There is a very spiritual feel to her work, almost an otherworldliness.
A captiving blend of Brazilian flair, Teutonic precision and Dutch pragmatism make’s Haidji’s work unique , appealinh and thought-provoking.
Since 1995 she has exibet her work and realised her projects in many countries: Germany, Brazil, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, England, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Australia…



Colours
Are my fist visual memories
dancing around me hearing the sound…music?
envolving me, drainning over my hands
as I tryed to catch them…
colouring and discolouring my life
where sometimes the same thing that made me smile
made me cry…
like to breath the time, where we breath in and out
the moments tones.

There exist things therefor you can’t find tradution in a human language
for this things you have…Art
and the mediums you use are diferents
according with inspiration, possibilities, materials you have
where dreams don’t come into reality , biut the reality will worked to come so close as possible from dreams and ideas,
in a way that projects that seemed to be impossibles, turned into possibles between future and past in the eternal moment named present.

Mascara ©Haidji 2012

Some of my projects
I don’t remenber the number of exhibitions, individuals or in groups,
and would be really boring to read 3 or 4 pages fullfilled with a list of names,adresses and dates.
a list wouldn’t also describe the essence of my projects…reason because I decided to just describe some of them
and some of the rest can be found in a search by google for “haidji”

here, only thoughts and examples of projects I’m doing or have done.,

“As Palavras de Ines”, (Ines Words) a story, seven paintings, 3 songs and a hand writed and painted book
about “Ines de Castro”.
realized on 2006 in Quinta das Lagrimas, Coimbra
where one artwork is now part of the collection of the “Ines de Castro Fundation” in Coimbra.
“Christhmas Project 2005″ With a support from an irish company, in a cold time in december, 100 familys in Ireland received an art work remembering the warmness of Christhmas ,in the middle of winter.
100 paintings in oil for Ireland.

Missing you II ©2012 Haidji


This project would be followed from another one in 2006 and 2007 and also the fist step for a project I’m beginning in Italy(Napoli)
wich name is “fiori invece della spazzatura”(flowers instead rubish” about the riginal vegetation of the region “napoli” , the rubish, world enviroment
that envolve museums in Italy and around the world.
and the project “May a star” that envolve all countries and political leaders in the world with the first steps in 2008 and planned to start after february 2011

“The right to be born 2008″, started as something unique…an individual exhibition about Childrens Right, where in front of the exposed artworks, kids could paint small canvas to help an Children association
the same exhibition (without kids painting) is been made in other places and twice in Holland.
where from the remanescent artworks an dutch instituicion achieved two, and in this way, startet a new project made in an early basis, now in the 5th year, where every year Christhmas cards will send from this instituition to everywhere in Holland,
with the photo of the painting.Is an Instituion that take care of the human resources from many schools in Holland.The message for 2008 is ” the right to be born”

I started to draw and paint as I was 4 , to write stories with 12(have wrote also others and at this moment I’m writting “Suicide Game” a metaphor about the actual society.
so make jewerly and cut precious stones with 14(for what I received a prize in 1996)
and photos so soon I have had my first camera, with 11,12

I couldn’t say always wherefom the inspiration comes…
is everywhere and more than the air I breath, without art, I wouldnt survive.

and impossible things would been made possible between sky and earth

artwork “between sky and earth” is at

the painting “Earth, what choices are you making?” have win a prize in Venice, where they also offered me 2 exhibitions
one in Giardino della Bienalle , with the painting “Between sky and Earth” (because Earth is actually in dakar, senegal) and with
with photography(12 works)
and the possibility to make 4 perfomances (work in progress at the “Biennale”) and start a new serie of works about Venice
“bacio” and “maschere”

painting “Earth’s Dream” for a project in Pensylvania,

perfomance at “arte Lisboa”- “you would die for art but sometimes all they want s to sell fishes”

performace in Lisbon and Porto 2010 – “Lost” and “A piece of the sky”
performance in Sintra – 2010 “Waiting for the Prince”

performance in Lisbon 2010 – “Leave your Mark”

performance at “Arte Lisboa 2010″ – “A Piece of Peace”

Arte Sonori 2010 with the work “Lost”

Performance Colours and Friends 2011 at Galeria Antonio Prates – Lisbon
one of the first steps of the project “Colours and Friends” – inspired on facebook and real friends
with the first perfomance about probably in february 2011

Performance Painting a Tale – Costa da Caparica – Mai 2011

01/02/2011 oficial start of the project “May a Star” at

may a star ©2010 Haidji

Contact : nsaproject@prosumerzen.org