Benjamin Abras is a multidisciplinary artist, theater and film actor, dance and theater director, poet, essayist, playwright, visual artist, singer, and composer. He develops anti-colonial works based on Afro-Brazilian diasporic philosophies, aiming at Afro friction to counteract the epistemicide of African heritage in the Brazilian diaspora.
Benjamin Abras is co-founder of the contemporary art collective Techno-Orixas. As an artist with a national and intercontinental career, he has worked in Senegal, England, Denmark, India, Morocco, and Tunisia, and for twenty years has been conducting performances, exhibitions, and artist residencies in which he communicates his decolonial research on Afro-Butoh practices.

Benjamin Abra’s most important works include Human Electric Field, developed at the National Theater of Tunisia from 2019 to 2021, Catimbó Body, created at the Instituto Dragão do Mar, Ceará, Brazil (2017/2018), and The Voice of the Voice in the Voice on the occasion of the Dakar Biennale, Dak’Art 2014. As part of the Black Berlin Black – Festivity festival, he will present his solo work KALUNDU.