Sara Pasternacki (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist,performer and writer. Her work moves between embodied movement,songwriting,care and storytelling.
Her practice arises from her interest in creating bridges between our inner and outer worlds, to play and bring into the physical realm people's desires, fantasies, stories and experiences.
For her projects her main concern is to create work that stimulates people’s imagination through environments that evoke the feeling of intimacy and conscious action. Exploring practices of care and rituals, her research finds its form and shapes in performance, drawing, installation and sculpture.
Sara created alongside Sidney Tan and Ana Oliveira the Collective Sal, a collaborative project that researches performance processes by creating performance practice jams/readings/sharing circles. They’ve collaborated with P.A.R.T.S, De Markten, Canapé, Palmerston and Degarage. Their collective is currently based in Metarage, a performance residency space in the heart of Brussels.
In the past years Sara has curated group exhibitions between Brussels and Caldas da Rainha. She’s designed, written and drawn for two publications, namely topo.grafiaaa collective’s first edition of a multilingual zine (2024) and most recently Weaving Mushrooms alongside Sahoko Yoshino (2025).
Her practice arises from her interest in creating bridges between our inner and outer worlds, to play and bring into the physical realm people's desires, fantasies, stories and experiences.
For her projects her main concern is to create work that stimulates people’s imagination through environments that evoke the feeling of intimacy and conscious action. Exploring practices of care and rituals, her research finds its form and shapes in performance, drawing, installation and sculpture.
Sara created alongside Sidney Tan and Ana Oliveira the Collective Sal, a collaborative project that researches performance processes by creating performance practice jams/readings/sharing circles. They’ve collaborated with P.A.R.T.S, De Markten, Canapé, Palmerston and Degarage. Their collective is currently based in Metarage, a performance residency space in the heart of Brussels.
In the past years Sara has curated group exhibitions between Brussels and Caldas da Rainha. She’s designed, written and drawn for two publications, namely topo.grafiaaa collective’s first edition of a multilingual zine (2024) and most recently Weaving Mushrooms alongside Sahoko Yoshino (2025).
From Lisbon,Portugal
Based in Brussels,Belgium
sarapasternacki@gmail.com
@sarapasternacki
General Enquiries
For all enquiries relating to exhibitions, commissions or collaborations please email:
sarapasternacki@gmail.com
Based in Brussels,Belgium
sarapasternacki@gmail.com
@sarapasternacki
General Enquiries
For all enquiries relating to exhibitions, commissions or collaborations please email:
sarapasternacki@gmail.com
CV
Education
2022-2023
October 2022- April 2023 Erasmus+ Intership at Dock11, Berlin, Germany
October - December 2023
Intership at Globe Aroma, Brussels, Belgium
October 2023- May 2024 Intership at Mercerie, Brussels, Belgium
2021 + 2022
BA Fine Arts, ESAD: Escola Superior de Artes e Design, PortugalErasmus BA Mixed Media, Luca School of Arts Ghent Belgium
2018 + 2019
Next Art Centro de Formação Artística: Educational Programme SculptureAr.co Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual: Etching Workshop
Little Art: Print Berlin: Experimental Print and Collage Workshop
ESDIP Berlin: Collage Workshop with Jorge Chamorro
Goethe Institute: German level A.1
Exhibitions
2025
Caldas Late Night 29.05.2025,Coisas que Soam, performance,Caldas da Rainha, PTThe Slime Knows, at Brasserie Atlas, 6.06-28.06.2025,Weaving Mushrooms, artist book in collaboration with Sahoko Yoshino, Brussels, BE
Recto Verso, at Wittockiana, - Musée des arts du livre et de la reliure, 16.10.2025-25.01.2026,Weaving Mushrooms, artist book in collaboration with Sahoko Yoshino, Brussels, BE
Thoughts on Paper, at Palmerston, Group show curated by Hallwaychatter collective, 15.11.2025, Drawings by Sara Pasternacki, Brussels, BE
2024
Zine workshop with topografiaaa collective, 20+21 january.2024,House of Grownfunding,Brussels, BE
Topografiaaa Zine, Ilustrations & Design + Launch @Mercerie 2024, Brussels, BE
À Flor de Pele, Festival (Pas si) Fragile! @Studio Thor 2024, Maison des Arts, Brussels, BE 24.04.2024, Sara Pasternacki & Matilde Frade, Performance 45 min.
FEMINISTISK SOMMERSOLHVERV, Onkel Dannys Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark 21 of June 2024, Sara Pasternacki – Sussuro, Installation.
2023
Caldas Late Night 27.05.2023, Farinha Mágica, performance,Caldas da Rainha, PTPart of You, 16-18 june.2023, Choir Piece, performance,De Verffabrik,Ghent, BE
Grounded Festival, 14 october .2023, Strings of Connection, Performance with Inês Sousa,Utrecht, NL
2022
Achtertuin, 019 Ghent from 06.02.2022 to 13.02.2022, Sara Pasternacki – Sussuro, Installation.O eu na vida de todos os Dias, Graduation Show, ESAD.CR 2022, Sussuro, Installation.
Mayday Festival, 06.05.2022-08.05.2022,Ghent
Caldas Late Night , Igreja do Espírito Santo 10.06.2022, Sara Pasternacki - Poço, Performance Todos os Dias, Galeria Nova Ogiva from 11.07.2022 to 11.09.2022, Sara Pasternacki and Sander Thijs,A Brincar, Video-Performance.
2021
Estar Suspenso, Atelier 6 Centro das Artes 14.01.2021, Sara Pasternacki – Só nós, performance 34 min.Ciclo de Exposições MATA 1a Edição 17.02.2021, Sara Pasternacki – Em ti, Video 5.02 min.
Festival Ofélia 10.5o Edição, Silos Contentor Criativo 20.05.2021, Sara Pasternacki and Inês Sousa – DiaLugar, performance 20min.
Shot #119 at S.H.O.Ts with an S (nomadic), Luca School of Arts Ghent 23.12.2021, Sara Pasternacki – Palavras Cruzadas and Canção da Vontade de Existir, Vídeo and Sound Piece.
2020
Eletricidade Estética Gato Vermelho 6a Edição do Ciclo Performativo 03.11.2020, Sara Pasternacki e Lara Almeida – Somos os corpos que nos olham, performance 35 min.
Plastic Ways of Seeing, ESAD.CR, November – December 2020
Eletricidade Estética, Gato Vermelho 5a Edição do Ciclo Performativo 10.03.2020, Sara Pasternacki – Relações que procuram forma, performance 120 min.Residencies
2019 BAI Berlin Art Institute, Berlin, Germany2021 Materiais.Diversos: NA PRÁTICA - ESCOLA DE VERÃO , Portugal
2022 Destelheide: Workshop MetaHumans by Amir Yatsiv, Belgium 2022 International School of Play: Workshop by John Mowat and Samuel Meyler, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 P.A.R.T.S SUMMER SCHOOL- SAL Collective Brussels, Belgium
2024 SAL Collective - DeMarkten Brussels, Belgium
2025 SAL Collective, Nutrir- Performance Jams, Canapé, Brussels, Belgium
2025 SAL Collective, Nutrir- Performance Jams, De Garage, Leuven, Belgium
Curated
Ciclo de Exposições MATA 1a Edição 16.02.2021 and 17.02.2021 – Student Council ESAD, PortugalPeople Are Not Political Weapons, Dinner and Art Fair 15.12.2021- Fundraiser to aid Refugees stuck between Polish and Belarus Borders - Luca School of Arts ,BelgiumReinkommen with Aléna Birzele and Marie Hohloch, PROJECTIONS, 29.09.2023 - Artístic Direction and support, ADA.UFER STUDIOS, Berlin, Germany
Topografiaaa Zine Launch, Performances + Concert 2024 Mercerie, Brussels, BE
Publications
Peça interativa. (Ed.) Romana, Ana João 2020 – Edições da Sala 5,volX. Caldas da Rainha:Esad.cr/LIDA Não Estou Sozinha (Ed.) Azar Magazine 2022 – Azar 2ºEdition, Coimbra Instagram @azarmagaz
Planetary Embodiment (Ed.) 2023
Topografiaaa Zine (Ed.) Lilka Raikhline, Sidney Tan & Sara Pasternacki 2024 1ºEdition, Brussels, BE
Weaving Mushrooms (Ed.) Sahoko Yoshino & Sara Pasternacki 2025, Brussels, BE