Nubago - ART INSTALLATION
About the founder
Claudia Costa Vasconcelos is a Portuguese contemporary artist and founder of Fierce-Art Studio.
She works with large-scale public art installations, light and immersive spatial experiences. Her work explores the emotional relationship between people, geometry, scale and public space. Through her monumental interventions, she transforms urban environments into contemplative and collective experiences.
“ I believe space is never neutral, as an architect, artist and creative director, I've spent over a decade asking one question: what happens when art enters a space that was never designed for it?"
The answer, she has found, is often the same: people stop. They look. They connect with something they did not know they were missing.
Drawing on her background in architecture, Cláudia approaches space through both an artistic and spatial lens, combining structure, scale, color and light to create installations that exist at the threshold of the built and the sensory.
Founded in 2020, Fierce-Art Studio is the creative platform through which she develops site-specific installations for festivals, cities, cultural institutions and public spaces worldwide. Each project transforms ordinary environments into immersive experiences that reinforce identity, memory and collective engagement.
Recent work includes:
Nubago (big scale art installation), Alvarinho Festival, Monção — Portugal (2026)
GiraFlower (big scale art installation), Primavera Sound, Porto — Portugal (2026)
Giant Flowers (big scale art installation), Porto — 1st Prize (2024), and The Hive (big scale art installation) — 2nd Place and Honorable Mention (2025).
Cláudia served as one of the Creative Directors for the Lusail Boulevard Activation Festival at the FIFA World Cup 2022, and co-create and directed LIGHTME Lusail, the International Digital and Light Art Festival in Qatar (2018–2020).
International Speaker.
She has shared her perspective as a speaker at conferences in Doha, Boston, and New York, and continues to investigate how large-scale installations can redefine the emotional experience of public space
About the studio
Fierce-Art Studio is the creative platform behind the artistic practice of Cláudia Costa Vasconcelos.
Working at the intersection of art, architecture and spatial design, the studio produces large-scale public installations and immersive environments that transform how people experience space.
Each project is developed site-specifically, combining light, geometry and scale to create works that shift perception and activate public space in a collective and emotional way.
Fierce-Art operates as both a production studio and an experimental framework for the realisation of contemporary public art at an international scale.
Giant Flowers, 2024 - Fierce Light Art Installation
We create art that belongs to place and community.
Each work by Cláudia Costa Vasconcelos begins with a process of deep listening, to the site, its history, its people, and the context in which it exists.
From this engagement emerge two fundamental questions: What does this place need? What story does it want to tell?
Through this inquiry, Fierce-Art Studio creates site-specific installations that explore light, geometry, color and scale, not as decoration, but as tools for revealing the identity and character of a place.
The result is a body of large-scale public artworks commissioned by cultural institutions, festivals, municipalities, and private clients around the world.
