Those who are familiar with the work of João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira (JPV&NAF) know that it questions the mechanisms of control and codification of the individual, based on their social stratification – codes that protect them, but, on the other hand, contribute...
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Nora Turato (Zagreb, 1991) returns to the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art after having presented last year, to the Portuguese institution and audience, the performance I’m happy to own my implicit biases, in the fourth edition of the programme O Museu como Performance [The Museum...
Nora Turato (Zagreb, 1991) ret...
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Madragoa opened the September season with two individual exhibitions. Kate Newby and Anna Schachinger occupy two exhibition spaces in the gallery: Loved like a sunbeam (Kate Newby, New Zealand, 1979) and Desta maneira não (Anna Schachinger, Austria, 1990) are the first solo exhibitions of the...
Madragoa opened the September ...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York reopens a new wing in Manhattan on October 21, 2019, adding more than 3.700 square meters of exhibition space. This expansion of the Museum, which has taken place over the past four months, with an investment...
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa...
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Papendrecht is Guido van der Werve’s solo exhibition at Monitor gallery in Lisbon, inaugurated on September 25.The Dutch artist’s career is unique. He began studying piano at the conservatory and gave up after just under a year. Then he studied classical archaeology, Russian and industrial...
Papendrecht is Guido van der W...
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Biennials are the most important and interesting phenomenon in contemporary art. After the Venice Biennale, many other similar models were revised with new geographies, concepts and ways of working the art, history, politics. Many biennials have become institutions, and as a consequence of their subsequent...
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The studio is a space of uninterrupted constructions and the exercise of art is an extended autopsychography, where the artist builds himself through practice. The result is often a product composed of memories, frustrations, successes and failures, sorrows and joys. It is a silent process,...
The studio is a space of unint...
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In the thirties of the last century, Portuguese intellectuals were worried and even alarmed1 about the possible extinction of a Portuguese popular culture. This fear seemed to be associated with the idea that an industrialist philosophy would take over everything. Therefore, a form of Portuguese...
In the thirties of the last ce...
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Cabra Cega is the exhibition that celebrates the second anniversary of the Balcony gallery. The artist Tiago Alexandre was invited to present a curatorial project and he did it in a curious way. The moment is not one of exultation, much less one of celebration;...
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Galeria Reverso presents the collective exhibition of Portuguese contemporary jewellery Up Till Here, until 18 October.Up Till Here proposes a reflection on contemporary jewellery in Portugal. After celebrating its twentieth anniversary with several exhibitions and lectures (an annual project from 2018 where I collaborated), Reverso...
Galeria Reverso presents the c...
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