Poster Mostra is back, a project created and developed by Departmento. In 2021, in its sixth edition, the event is preceded by a double Open Call between May 3 and June 3. It is an invitation to create posters, allowing freeing creative and artistic expression,...
Poster Mostra is back, a proje...
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In Diary of a Bad Year, J. M. Coetzee wrote something like “we are not born outside a State”. Or something like that.When we are born, we are given a number, an address, a name, a nationality, an ID. Without having any chance from birth, a...
In Diary of a Bad Year, J. M....
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The project Situação21, curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez, co-produced by Porto City Hall, wants to make the city’s commercial galleries more visible, after a long lockdown. The aim is to emphasize their historical and current importance as decisive cultural agents for the art market,...
The project Situação21, cura...
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The exhibition There's more water entering the soil by Inês Brites, at Galeria 3+1 in Lisbon, ends on 5 June 2021. The body of work exhibited is composed of sculptures inspired by discarded objects found by the artist....
The exhibition There's more wa...
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Winner of the 2021 EDP Foundation Art Grand Prize, Luisa Cunha presents KMS on the cover of this month’s online edition of UMBIGO. For this reason, we asked the artist a few questions, whose long career has particular importance in the context of Portuguese contemporary art,...
Winner of the 2021 EDP Foundat...
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On April 12, Lehmann + Silva opened the first solo show of Austrian artist Monika Grabuschnigg in Portugal. Burned Against the Rear Fender, according to Martin Jackson in the exhibition text, “is a continuation of her [Monika Grabuschnigg’s] research efforts into bodily and cerebral desire”.The first...
On April 12, Lehmann + Silva o...
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Could the coronavirus pandemic be a warning to the extractive, corrosive, and destructive way we inhabit the Earth? Are we on the brink of extinction? Is leaving for Mars, as Elon Musk proposes, an alternative? Or is it better to modify our presence on the...
Could the coronavirus pandemic...
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Galeria Foco has opened a new space at Rua Antero de Quental with the group show Amuse-Bouche, which can be visited until May 29. The show features 13 national and international artists: Clara Imbert, Francisco Osório, Hugo Cantegrel, Luísa Salvador, Manuel Tainha, Márcio Vilela, Mia...
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Between space and time, the referential system of the work of art is altered and transformed into a set of changing routes, where the starting point is the unknown landscape. However, this is the moment that constitutes the background on which the artistic processes are...
Between space and time, the re...
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Liebestod – Amor e Morte by Vasco Araújo, curated by Bruno Marques, is at Sismógrafo until May 15, 2021. The exhibition proposes a reflection on romantic love, passion and its impossibility, using video and installation. This is the consequence of an investigation by the artist,...
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