September brings the return of the exhibition season and the buzzing sensation of a cultural metropolis sweeps through the streets of Madrid. Warm summer days are still on the horizon as I make my way across the city to experience the 15th edition of the...
September brings the return of...
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What is a biennial supposed to achieve when the very centre of it seems to amass such a centripetal force that all else in the industrial, social and residential fringes - many of which are in the throes of an unstable political reckoning - seems...
What is a biennial supposed to...
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In Bartolomeu Santos' Friend and Foe, the emphasis is apparently on the copulative conjunction “and”, establishing an affinity and complicity between the antagonistic concepts “friend” and “ foe”....
In Bartolomeu Santos' Friend a...
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Established by Vilma Santos and José Eduardo Ferreira Santos fourteen years ago, Acervo da Laje is one of Brazil's most compelling contemporary art initiatives. Based on works by artists from Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador, Acervo da Laje is a museum-home-school welcoming and mirroring the tensions,...
Established by Vilma Santos an...
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The couple and artist duo João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira took up residence at Casa de Serralves, turning it temporarily into Casa Vale Ferreira. The artists' first anthology exhibition, curated by Inês Grosso, displays a selection of the couple's artistic output, celebrating more...
The couple and artist duo Joã...
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In this exhibition, Sara Fonseca da Graça, or Petra Preta, brings together a three-part overview of her artistic output over the last three years. In other words, it offers a trilogy of some of her cross-disciplinary pieces that form her library of images, which have...
In this exhibition, Sara Fonse...
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The festival Ponto d'Orvalho recently held its fourth edition. Running from Friday to Sunday, September 13 to 15, 2024, the programme offered the chance to celebrate the landscape, food and the arts....
The festival Ponto d'Orvalho r...
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It may have all started when the first woman was made responsible for all the woes of the world. Pandora is brought forth as a form of punishment and, precisely because she opens a box which a male figure told her not to - how...
It may have all started when t...
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Afinidades is the brainchild of a partnership between Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Associação Quarteirão Criativo, intended to be a five-edition cycle, with annual themes, including exhibitions, workshops and debate....
Afinidades is the brainchild o...
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A four-storey building stands on Rua da Quintinha, near the São Bento district in Lisbon, and was home to the Random group exhibition for five days. The exhibition comprised a group of works by 50 artists chosen by AZAN contemporary art, an independent project developed...
A four-storey building stands ...
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