On a recent day of October, otherwise marked by torrential rains, the city of Porto added a new site to its roster of art centres.Nested in the neighbourhood Campanhã, the history of Casa São Roque traces back to 1759, when it originally functioned as a...
On a recent day of October, ot...
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The cultural association EMERGE tries to disseminate projects by emerging Portuguese artists, with exhibitions and the publication of books or catalogues.Launched in 2017, the Portuguese Emerging Art series selects artists at the beginning of their careers, from a list assessed by a jury that comes...
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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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The first edition of Porto Design Biennale marks an event of great importance in the cultural and artistic scene of Porto. Curated by José Bártolo, this biennial aims to overcome its biennial condition and produce an indelible echo until its next edition.The first moment aims...
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The 30th anniversary of the Serralves Collection as part of the Portuguese Contemporary Art Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of its collection, one of Portugal’s largest and most important. It gathers a wide array of works, more than 4300, over 1700...
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The Galeria Municipal do Porto presents De Outros Espaços, yet another exhibition devised from the EDP Foundation Art Collection. The partnership between both institutions is now extended, connecting the respective cities, creations, practices, discourses and, of course, artists. Available until 18 August. As Michel Foucault[1] (1984)...
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“We speak of houses like someone who speaks of soul itself”. This passage from the poem Prefácio, written by Herberto Helder in 1961 for the book A Colher na Boca, illustrates Ângela Ferreira’s work for the exhibition Dalaba: Sol d’Exil, through which she summons the house...
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"Museums are places where you welcome the world" Philippe Vergne On Monday, 29 April, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presented its new director, Philippe Vergne (1966, Troyes).With a career deeply associated with contemporary art, the man whose presence and character are unquestionably noteworthy began as a...
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Anuário, by definition, is a publication that registers the most important events and activities of a given entity over a one-year period. When the concept is used as the name of an artistic and exhibition project in the Municipal Gallery of Porto, the expectation is...
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Vivarium Festival is back in Porto on the 28, 29 and 30 of March to open a forward-looking debate on the impact of technology in Arts and society. The theme of the 2019 edition is “Natural Intelligence, What AI still can’t do?”. “Nowadays, there is an...
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