Notes related to Portugal
ATELIER, THE HALF-CENTURY ANTHOLOGY OF CABRITA REIS
Pedro Cabrita Reis (Lisbon, Portugal, 1956) celebrates his half century of artistic production in ATELIER, a complex and complete exhibition that covers what is, perhaps, one of the most relevant proposals of the last decades that has emerged from the Portuguese plastic arts. More than 1,500 works from his personal collection fill eight pavilions of Mitra, a space donated by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, located in Marvila, the same town where the artist lives and works.
ERNESTO NETO AND HIS CROSSROADS OF CULTURES AT MAAT
Ernesto Neto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964) presents Nosso Barco Tambor Terra at Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), an impressive large-scale installation with which he evokes and stages the crossing of different cultures and the relationships between individuals from different continents.
ÓSCAR MURILLO AT PORTO’S SERRALVES
A distribution through several of the Porto’s Serralves Foundation's venues are hosting until the end of May the first solo exhibition of Oscar Murillo (Zarzal, Colombia, 1986) in Portugal.
MÓNICA DE MIRANDA, SÓNIA VAZ BORGES, VÂNIA GALA: THE PORTUGAL PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
Greenhouse, the collective project by artist-curators Mónica de Miranda, Sónia Vaz Borges and Vânia Gala, will represent Portugal at the 60th International Venice Biennale.
PLUG-IN: JOANA VASCONCELOS AT MAAT
MAAT presents Plug-in, a solo exhibition by Joana Vasconcelos, bringing together new works, some of the iconic pieces produced by the artist since 2000, and works from the EDP Foundation Art Collection, while establishing a dialogue between electricity heritage, technology, and visual arts.
JONATHAS DE ANDRADE’S EXPLORATION ON HUMANS AND PIGEONS
Batalha Centro de Cinema, in Porto, presents the exhibition Sobrevoo by Jonathas de Andrade.
CARLOS BUNGA’S NEW INSTALLATION AT SARASOTA ART MUSEUM
For the exhibition Reassembling Split Light at Sarasota Art Museum, Carlos Bunga will create a temporary cardboard structure in the 30-foot-high Koski Gallery located on the Museum’s third floor. Beginning and ending as a dialogue with the existing architecture, this installation will transform the gallery’s spatial configuration for the duration of the exhibition. By deploying light as his primary conceptual basis, just as James Turrell has done before him, Bunga explains that he will sculpt light, which cannot be touched, but only felt viscerally.
CALL FOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AT CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM
The Museum of Contemporary Art MAC/CCB in Lisbon, Portugal is looking for an Artistic Director for its new opening on October, 2023. Deadline to apply: August 31, 2023.
CASA DA ARQUITECTURA PRESENTS TWO EXHIBITIONS BY PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA
Four years after de donation of Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s entire archive to Casa da Architectura, the Portuguese Center for Architecture presented two simultaneous exhibtions, a book and a ten-month parallel program of activities around the artist’s principles, aesthetics and ethics.
OPEN CALL FOR RESIDENCY GRANTS AT DGARTES / AiR 351 PROGRAMME
AiR 351, the non-profit independent organization committed to promoting art residencies and public programs, presents three full grants for a visual arts residency program located in Cascais, Portugal.
CARLOS BUNGA: PERFORMATIVE INTERVENTION ON HIS PROJECT IN THE PALACIO DE CRISTAL
On April 7, the Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) presented his new installation Against the Extravagance of Desire at the Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro Park. Last Thursday, July 7, three months after its inauguration, Bunga returns to the Palace to undertake a performative intervention on his work.
THE SHAPES OF COLOR AS PRESENTED BY FEDERICO HERRERO
Kunsthalle Lissabon presents Tactiles, the first solo show in Portugal by the Costa Rican artist Federico Herrero.
