Saturday 27 September
7pm
Join artist Rubiane Maia and curator Megan Piper in a conversation that will take you behind the scenes of Borders Without Edges, the new solo show of Maia’s work at kollectiv.
Rubiane Maia’s Folkestone Triennial commission is on view in the railway arches (towards Sunny Sands beach) from Saturday 19 July to Sunday 19 October 2025. Her performance, In Search of Darkness, will take place on Sunday 18 October at 2pm. For more information, visit: https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/rubiane-maia-in-search-of-darkness/. Coinciding with the performance and the last weekend of the exhibition, Stones Across the Ocean: Part Three will be presented at kollectiv on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 October.
Rubiane Maia
Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist based in Folkestone. Working across performance, installation, video, writing and photography, her practice explores the body as a site of memory, perception and transformation. Guided by the energies of place, landscape and the more-than-human, she creates works that centre care, interdependence and embodied knowledge. Often developed through site-responsive research, Maia’s work engages with organic materials, ancestral memory and altered states of perception.
Recent projects have drawn on autobiographical texts and transgenerational narratives to address themes of race, gender and belonging.
She has performed and exhibited internationally, including at the 35th São Paulo Biennial (2023), Jerwood Visual Arts, ICA London, and Inhotim Institute. Her two-month long durational work The Garden was presented at Terra Comunal – Marina Abramović + MAI, São Paulo (2015), and she has developed research-led projects in high-altitude landscapes across Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil.
Maia holds a degree in Visual Arts and a Master’s in Institutional Psychology from the Federal University of Espírito Santo. Currently, she is part of the exhibition Marina Abramović + MAI in dialogue with Joseph Beuys, at the Museum Schloss Moyland in Germany, presenting the work ‘Coming from the Plants’, through a seven-day live performance.
Megan Piper
Megan Piper co-founded East London’s public art trail, The Line, with the late regeneration expert Clive Dutton OBE and served as its Director from 2015-2025. She is a former gallerist who ran The Piper Gallery in Fitzrovia (2012-13) and a space on Jermyn Street in St James’s (2016-17). She is a founding member of the Association of Women in the Arts and a former Governor of Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham. She moved to Folkestone in 2021.
Saturday 27 September
7pm
Join artist Rubiane Maia and curator Megan Piper in a conversation that will take you behind the scenes of Borders Without Edges, the new solo show of Maia’s work at kollectiv.
Rubiane Maia’s Folkestone Triennial commission is on view in the railway arches (towards Sunny Sands beach) from Saturday 19 July to Sunday 19 October 2025. Her performance, In Search of Darkness, will take place on Sunday 18 October at 2pm. For more information, visit: https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/rubiane-maia-in-search-of-darkness/. Coinciding with the performance and the last weekend of the exhibition, Stones Across the Ocean: Part Three will be presented at kollectiv on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 October.
Rubiane Maia
Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist based in Folkestone. Working across performance, installation, video, writing and photography, her practice explores the body as a site of memory, perception and transformation. Guided by the energies of place, landscape and the more-than-human, she creates works that centre care, interdependence and embodied knowledge. Often developed through site-responsive research, Maia’s work engages with organic materials, ancestral memory and altered states of perception.
Recent projects have drawn on autobiographical texts and transgenerational narratives to address themes of race, gender and belonging.
She has performed and exhibited internationally, including at the 35th São Paulo Biennial (2023), Jerwood Visual Arts, ICA London, and Inhotim Institute. Her two-month long durational work The Garden was presented at Terra Comunal – Marina Abramović + MAI, São Paulo (2015), and she has developed research-led projects in high-altitude landscapes across Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil.
Maia holds a degree in Visual Arts and a Master’s in Institutional Psychology from the Federal University of Espírito Santo. Currently, she is part of the exhibition Marina Abramović + MAI in dialogue with Joseph Beuys, at the Museum Schloss Moyland in Germany, presenting the work ‘Coming from the Plants’, through a seven-day live performance.
Megan Piper
Megan Piper co-founded East London’s public art trail, The Line, with the late regeneration expert Clive Dutton OBE and served as its Director from 2015-2025. She is a former gallerist who ran The Piper Gallery in Fitzrovia (2012-13) and a space on Jermyn Street in St James’s (2016-17). She is a founding member of the Association of Women in the Arts and a former Governor of Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham. She moved to Folkestone in 2021.
