André Uerba (*1983, Portugal), visual artist, performer and maker, grew up in the suburbs of Lisbon and has been living in Berlin since 2013. In Lisbon he studied Graphic Design at high school António Arroio, Theater at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and Photography at Ar.Co, where in 2010/2011 he received a grant. In 2011 he took part in  “Encontros Rumo”, a laboratory for young choreographers mentored by Vera Mantero. In 2013 Uerba started an MA in Solo/Dance/Autorship at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz in Berlin, and in the same year he received a Young Creator grant from Centro Nacional de Cultura (PT) to develop the research for his piece Terrarium, is graduation work (2015). Uerba has worked among others with artists Alexandra Pirici, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Antonija Livingstone, Carlota Lagido, Clement Layes, Christian Falsnaes, Moritz Majce & Sandra Man, Felix Ruckert, Julian Weber, Karnart, Rafael Alvarez, Sílvia Pinto Coelho, Tino Sehgal, and Willi Dorner.