Programmes
Of the Exhibitions
Of the Exhibitions
The Galeria Municipal do Porto proposes to mediate informal meetings between audiences by consolidating a series of events developed in collaboration with artists and curators in the context of the exhibitions. With a new structure based on three types of free public initiatives – Visits, Talks and Performances –, the programmes are inspired by the specificities and potential of each exhibition, and may also include concerts, films and other activities.
November 14, Saturday, 4pm
PAULO CUNHA E SILVA ART PRIZE – 2ND EDITION: Talk with Margarida Mendes and the winning artist
On November 14, Saturday, the Galeria Municipal do Porto organizes a talk with Margarida Mendes (jury member of the 2nd edition of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize) and the winning artist.
17.02.2018 - sat - 5.00pm Free entry
THE ART OF COLLECTING - With António Cachola, Pedro Álvares Ribeiro e Paulo Pimenta
Between finitude and accumulation, memory and utility, the practice of collecting develops around the possibility of a relation between the present and the future. In discussion with three voices behind important national collections we unpack reflections fundamental to the act of collecting.
16.03.2018 - Fri - 9.30 pm free entry
Opening of the Exhibition "Germinal - O núcleo Cabrita Reis na Coleção de Arte Fundação EDP"
OPENING:
Following the EDP Foundation’s acquisition of the Cabrita Reis Collection in 2015, the Galeria Municipal do Porto, in collaboration with the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) presents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this collection. Germinal will focus on a vast and significant set of works that have been acquired by the artist Cabrita Reis over the last three decades, with special focus on the early or founding years of leading Portuguese artists who have affirmed their careers over time. With a broad and solid representation of the so‑called ‘Nineties generation’, complemented by artists from earlier and later generations, the exhibition aims to introduce spectators to a set of remarkable works and reveal the gaze of an attentive and dedicated collector, with close ties to artists and experimental practices, reflecting cosmopolitanism, edginess and a firm commitment to the future.
Following the EDP Foundation’s acquisition of the Cabrita Reis Collection in 2015, the Galeria Municipal do Porto, in collaboration with the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) presents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this collection. Germinal will focus on a vast and significant set of works that have been acquired by the artist Cabrita Reis over the last three decades, with special focus on the early or founding years of leading Portuguese artists who have affirmed their careers over time. With a broad and solid representation of the so‑called ‘Nineties generation’, complemented by artists from earlier and later generations, the exhibition aims to introduce spectators to a set of remarkable works and reveal the gaze of an attentive and dedicated collector, with close ties to artists and experimental practices, reflecting cosmopolitanism, edginess and a firm commitment to the future.
17.03.2018 - Sat- 5.00 pm Foyer do Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett Free entry
Launch of the Catalogue "QUATRO ELEMENTOS"
28.04.2018, Saturday, 16h00 With Ana Anacleto (curator) Francisco Queirós, Paulo Mendes and Sílvia Hestnes Ferreira
GUIDED TOUR
Free entry
© Ricardo Castelo / Fundação EDP
© Ricardo Castelo / Fundação EDP
28.04.17, Saturday, 21h30 Capela de Carlos Alberto
PERFORMANCE: António Olaio & João Taborda
Free entry
19.05.18, Saturday, 3.00 pm With Ana Anacleto (Curator) and Pedro Cabrita Reis
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE LAUNCH: GERMINAL
Free entry
© Ricardo Castelo / Fundação EDP
© Ricardo Castelo / Fundação EDP
09.06.2018 - Sat - 6 pm free entry
Opening of the exhibition 'Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize'
The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, created by the Municipality of Porto in 2015 as a tribute to the former Councillor for Culture, Paulo Cunha e Silva, is a project aimed at artists under 40 who have held no more than one solo exhibition in an 'internationally renowned institution' or art space. The jury – which in the first edition was comprised by João Laia, Vicente Todolí, Meg Stuart and Julião Sarmento – analysed the portfolios presented by 47 artists, selected by a group of 16 curators, nominated by the four jurors. This exhibition will present works by the Prize’s six finalists – Christine Sun Kim, Jonathas de Andrade, June Crespo, Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, Naufus Ramírez Figueroa and Olga Balema.
06.07.18, Friday, 10 pm
Screening of films by Steina and Woody Vasulka
Presented by Margarida Mendes
07.07.18, Saturday, 10 pm
Performance by Lydia Lunch
‘Dust and Shadows’ is an impassioned word based performance by Lydia Lunch, illustrated by an evocative multimedia presentation utilizing images captured and mixed live by Elise Passavant. Psycho ambient soundscapes further the dynamic musicality of Lydia Lunch’s lyrical poetry and hypnotic voice. ‘Dust and Shadows’ is a unique combination of otherworldly textures, images and sound, which deal lyrically with loss, love, rage and survival through the haunting images of the numerous ghost towns littered throughout the Spanish desert.
'Frankenstein, or the 8 bit Prometheus': Low-resolution séance 13.07.18, Friday, 10 pm
Performance by Riccardo Balli
Through a low-resolution séance mediated by Game Boy links Riccardo Balli is going to evoke the spirit of corpse reviver Giovanni Aldini (1762 – 1834), credited with having inspired ‘Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus’. Aldini is going to tell a compressed version of the original Frankenstein story, exposing its language to retro-gaming jargon and simplifying the plot as if it were an arcade game. The aforementioned 18th-century electrifier was the nephew of eminent scientist Luigi Galvani, who lived in MIDIevil Bologna just like the author of this performance.
21.07.18, Saturday, 5 pm
Talk by Miguel von Hafe Pérez
"At these crossroads of memory I often wander into the territory of a very particular epoch: the late 1970s. Everything revolves around an indistinct magma in which proletarians and intellectuals were the protagonists of radical paradigm shifts in the reception and dispersal of music in culture. I glimpse the characters that frequented Brooklyn’s clubs replicating inaccessible modes of Studio 54, realizing the dream of liberation together with their more roly-poly, less sophisticated, cocaine-head female companions. They are my disco-punks. The power is not destructive and nihilistic, it is returned in weekend-perfected dance steps. Saturday Night Fever and Bee Gees’ music is the most engaging scenario of the old myth of the empowerment of the American mechanic, with his unique work ethics. Staying Alive is the other side of the mirror (sprinkled with less white dust) of one of the very first dance experiences that opens the doors to techno and its by-products: the eight-minute version of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. The unionist revolution choreographed with synchronized hip movements from Saturday night fever breaks away from the hedonist cynicism of those who had managed to squeeze through door number 254 of Manhattan’s 54th street. All of this in 1977. At the other extreme, punk detonated with unexpected violence and speed. Like a bomb releasing contradictory, hyper-fast, guaranteed-penetration bits of shrapnel. A bomb manipulated by an increasing intellectualization, which I cannot but blame on Malcom McLaren (but this is just my totally subjective and irrational intuition). All of this is… strange.
And nevertheless… this intellectualization of punk and post-punk music, which was made of pure energy and contradictory gestures, has for protagonists a long series of actors whose background was, precisely, the art world. Proletarians of image or intellectuals of form?"
And nevertheless… this intellectualization of punk and post-punk music, which was made of pure energy and contradictory gestures, has for protagonists a long series of actors whose background was, precisely, the art world. Proletarians of image or intellectuals of form?"
22.07.18, Sunday, 5 pm
Guided tour with Carla Filipe
"The exhibition 'Yesterday Died today, Today Will Die Tomorrow' is an attempt to build something solid, to counter fluidity and initiate some memory of the present and past that might generate echoes and affirm our ability to act, make, map, contribute to the collective while never loosing our singularity, which is the greatest wealth. There are several people involved in this project for the Galeria Municipal and as many ways of seeing and looking at Porto or its nightlife."
23.09.18, Sunday, 6 pm
Concert with works by Filipe Pires, Álvaro Salazar e Rui Penha
Concert with works by:
Filipe Pires (1934 - 2015)
"Figurações III", for two pianos
Henrique Mateus (pf), Gonçalo Oliveira (pf)
Students of the Academia de Música de Vilar do Paraíso
Álvaro Salazar (b. 1983)
"Ein Plagiaten", for piano
Elsa Marques Silva (pf)
Rui Penha (b. 1981)
"pendulum", for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, video and real-time electronic
Presentation of the work by the composer.
20.10.2018, Saturday, 4 pm
Guided Tour + Sessions
16h Guided Tour by Musa paradisiaca
18h Session with Filipa Ramos
19h Session without António Poppe
18h Session with Filipa Ramos
19h Session without António Poppe
26.10.18, Friday, 6 pm
Talk “Do anarquismo musical aos GNR” — Inês Meneses with Alexandre Soares, Rui Reininho and Silvestre Pestana
Talk with Her
“Do anarquismo musical aos GNR”
Inês Meneses talks with Alexandre Soares, Rui Reininho e Silvestre Pestana
27.10.2018, Saturday, 6 pm
Tour with the curators
Tour with the curators
Paulo Vinhas, Hugo Oliveira, Manuel João Neto, Pedro Junqueira Maia, Pedro Tenreiro, Suzana Ralha
Paulo Vinhas, Hugo Oliveira, Manuel João Neto, Pedro Junqueira Maia, Pedro Tenreiro, Suzana Ralha
27.10.2018, Saturday, 6:30 pm
Film screening — “Estudos Incomunicantes”, de Álvaro Salazar
Premiere “Estudos Incomunicantes”, de Álvaro Salazar
Directed by de Bruno Nacarato
Produced by Atelier de Composição
03.11.2018, Saturday, 6 pm
Talk “Da Caos à X. A importância das Rádios Livres” — António da Silva Oliveira, Paulo Vieira de Castro and José Carlos Tinoco
“Da Caos à X.
A importância das Rádios Livres”
António da Silva Oliveira, Paulo Vieira de Castro, José Carlos Tinoco
10.11.2018, Saturday, 4 pm
Tour with the curators
Tour with the curators
Paulo Vinhas, Hugo Oliveira, Manuel João Neto, Pedro Junqueira Maia, Pedro Tenreiro, Suzana Ralha
Paulo Vinhas, Hugo Oliveira, Manuel João Neto, Pedro Junqueira Maia, Pedro Tenreiro, Suzana Ralha
17.11.2018, Saturday, 5 pm
Book launch + Sessions
17h Book Launch
18h Session with Fernanda Bernardo
21h Session with Isabel Soveral
18h Session with Fernanda Bernardo
21h Session with Isabel Soveral
18.11.18, Sunday, 6 pm
Concert F.R.I.C.S.
F.R.I.C.S. — Fanfarra Recreativa Improvisada Colher de Sopa
16 February, saturday , 5pm
Closing — Launch of the catalogue of the exhibition “Transantiquity” and talk with the artists
06.04.19, Saturday, 4 pm
ANUÁRIO: Guided tour with the curators
Joana Machado
Joaquim Durães
José Maia
Miguel Flor
Rita Castro Neves
Joaquim Durães
José Maia
Miguel Flor
Rita Castro Neves
06.04.19, Saturday, 5 pm
ANUÁRIO: "Água Forte", a film by Mónica Baptista
ÁGUA FORTE
Mónica Baptista
2018, PT, 15', M/12
Mónica Baptista
2018, PT, 15', M/12
18.05.19, Saturday, 4 pm
ANUÁRIO: Guided tour with the curators
Joana Machado
Joaquim Durães
José Maia
Miguel Flor
Rita Castro Neves
Joaquim Durães
José Maia
Miguel Flor
Rita Castro Neves
18.05.19, Saturday, 9.30 pm — 1 am
ANUÁRIO: Performances
Garcia da Selva & Mafalda Santos
Berrante — Xavier Paes
Sereias
DJ Urânio & MC Sissi
Berrante — Xavier Paes
Sereias
DJ Urânio & MC Sissi
15.06.19, Saturday, 5 pm
Conversation: ANA KUN and MARIA TRABULO
In a way, through the intervention, Ana Kun is shadowing Maria Trabulo, she’s making an imperfect copy of her gesture: Maria Trabulo went to Tehran and talked to people about an art collection she didn't get to experience first hand, and Ana Kun is now planning a response by reading descriptions of contributors' artworks. In her mind she is constructing this fictitious setting which is a pale reflection of Maria Trabulo’s setting, in the effort to make a prelude to it, to ease the viewer in this antechamber which is the staircase (a fringe-like space which breaks the suspension of disbelief and acts like a palate cleanser between two shows). Whimsical!
15.06.19, Saturday, 6 pm
Screening: 'STATUES OF TEHRAN' by BAHMAN KIAROSTAMI
STATUES OF TEHRAN
Documentário, 60'
Statues of Tehran interrogates the function of monuments in today’s Tehran, an ideology-ridden postmodern megalopolis, afflicted with forgetfulness. It tracks the fate of two important public sculptures, the first, a pioneering work commissioned by the royal family in the 1970s, of then foremost modern sculptor Bahman Mohassess; the second a tribute to the Islamic Revolution standing in Revolution Square, by Iraj Esskandari. Under the aegis of the revolution, the first was destined for neglect and eventually storage, while the second became a landmark in the city’s myriad public projects celebrating the revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
Documentário, 60'
Statues of Tehran interrogates the function of monuments in today’s Tehran, an ideology-ridden postmodern megalopolis, afflicted with forgetfulness. It tracks the fate of two important public sculptures, the first, a pioneering work commissioned by the royal family in the 1970s, of then foremost modern sculptor Bahman Mohassess; the second a tribute to the Islamic Revolution standing in Revolution Square, by Iraj Esskandari. Under the aegis of the revolution, the first was destined for neglect and eventually storage, while the second became a landmark in the city’s myriad public projects celebrating the revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
26.06.19, Wednesday, 7pm
'THE CHAIR REMAINS EMPTY / BUT THE PLACE IS SET' – Performance JEREMIAH DAY
Performance by JEREMIAH DAY
followed by conversation with MARIA TRABULO
Jeremiah Day’s personal and idiosyncratic performances bring together the forms of the slide-show, the tradition of the bard, and the focus on the body as working material drawn from post-modern dance. Emerging from research into the work of Hannah Arendt and in particular her widely ignored affirmative argument for council democracy, as elaborated by the writer and activist Fred Dewey, the performance with slide shows depicts key sites of Istanbul and New England.
followed by conversation with MARIA TRABULO
Jeremiah Day’s personal and idiosyncratic performances bring together the forms of the slide-show, the tradition of the bard, and the focus on the body as working material drawn from post-modern dance. Emerging from research into the work of Hannah Arendt and in particular her widely ignored affirmative argument for council democracy, as elaborated by the writer and activist Fred Dewey, the performance with slide shows depicts key sites of Istanbul and New England.
06.07.19, Saturday, 4 pm
'De Outros Espaços' – Guided tour with the curators JOÃO SILVÉRIO and PEDRO GADANHO
13.07.19, Saturday, 6 pm
Conversation DORA GARCÍA and MARIA TRABULO + Reading 'AN ASSEMBLY IN THE DESERT'
Conversation DORA GARCÍA and MARIA TRABULO
In partnership
'Times of Contemporaneity 2 – Decolonizing Culture'
curated by CLAIRE BISHOP and NUNO CRESPO
(Colectivos Pláka)
Dora García is a Spanish artist based in Barcelona, known for her research-based archives, videos, and performances. García is currently researching Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), revolutionary socialist and the only woman in the Soviet government, who also proposed a theory of revolutionary sexuality. García is preparing a film that traces Kollontai’s influence on Third World, Chicano and Black feminisms.
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Leitura
'AN ASSEMBLY IN THE DESERT'
Three characters argue on the best governing system to be adopted in their land, following the death of their king. Inspired in an Herodotus passage (Histories, 440 BC).
In partnership
'Times of Contemporaneity 2 – Decolonizing Culture'
curated by CLAIRE BISHOP and NUNO CRESPO
(Colectivos Pláka)
Dora García is a Spanish artist based in Barcelona, known for her research-based archives, videos, and performances. García is currently researching Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), revolutionary socialist and the only woman in the Soviet government, who also proposed a theory of revolutionary sexuality. García is preparing a film that traces Kollontai’s influence on Third World, Chicano and Black feminisms.
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Leitura
'AN ASSEMBLY IN THE DESERT'
Three characters argue on the best governing system to be adopted in their land, following the death of their king. Inspired in an Herodotus passage (Histories, 440 BC).
05.10.19, Saturday, 6pm
Performance 'In Freundschaft' — KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, by PEDRO SILVA
© Renato Cruz Santos
26.10.19, Saturday, 4:30pm
Performance 'In Freundschaft' — KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, by PEDRO SILVA
© Renato Cruz Santos
16.10.19, Saturday, 4:30pm
Performance 'In Freundschaft' — KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, by PEDRO SILVA
© Renato Cruz Santos
December 8, Sunday, 6 pm
9Kg de Oxigénio: Talk with Dan Graham and Pedro de Llano
The American artist, writer, and curator Dan Graham will talk about his wide artistic practice with the curator and art historian Pedro de Llano, according to whom: “talking with Dan Graham is a fascinating experience The themes and ideas continue as a roller coaster and his comments surprise and provoke reflection. Sometimes it is difficult to understand whether he is serious, or even if he is using sarcasm or praise - or both at the same time (…) We are anxious to return to the conversation, continuing to learn from one of the greatest artists of our time and know, for example, what he thinks of the new building designed by Álvaro Siza in his city or the last album of his friend Kim Gordon, among many other things”.
December 14, Saturday, 6 pm
Book Launch: “Musonautas, Visões & Avarias”
Book launch:
“Musonautas, Visões & Avarias
1960-2010: 5 décadas de inquietação musical no Porto”
Concerts by:
Volúpia Mundana
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João Loureiro, Ana Deus and Rui Fernandes
(BAN)
“Musonautas, Visões & Avarias
1960-2010: 5 décadas de inquietação musical no Porto”
Concerts by:
Volúpia Mundana
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João Loureiro, Ana Deus and Rui Fernandes
(BAN)
January 23, Thursday, 10 pm
Depois do Estouro: Film Screening I
Madalena Fragoso and Margarida Meneses
A Casa e os Cães
PT, 62’, 2019
Marcelo Tavares
Tu. Tu. Tu.
PT, 12’, 2019
A Casa e os Cães
PT, 62’, 2019
Marcelo Tavares
Tu. Tu. Tu.
PT, 12’, 2019
February 6, Thursday, 10 pm
Depois do Estouro: Film Screening II
Diogo Baldaia
Miragem Meus Putos
PT, 24’, 2017
Leonor Teles
Balada de um Batráquio
PT, 11’, 2016
José Rito
Will Free
PT, 12’, 2017
Andréia Pires and Leonardo Mouramateus
Vando Vulgo Vedita
BRA, 22’, 2017
Miragem Meus Putos
PT, 24’, 2017
Leonor Teles
Balada de um Batráquio
PT, 11’, 2016
José Rito
Will Free
PT, 12’, 2017
Andréia Pires and Leonardo Mouramateus
Vando Vulgo Vedita
BRA, 22’, 2017
February 16, Sunday, 6 pm
9Kg de Oxigénio: Performance “Carceleras”, with Tomás de Perrate and Pedro G. Romero
The artist Pedro G. Romero invited the singer Tomás de Perrate to do a closing performance for the 9Kg de Oxigénio exhibition. The visitor will be surprised by the flamenco intonations and songs about memories of imprisonment and longing for freedom, which will come from inside the work “La Cheka” to the involving gallery spaces.
February 21, Friday, 9.30 pm
Programme launch 2020/2021 with Nástio Mosquito + Odete
“No. One. Gives. A. Mosquito's. Ass. About. Trabalho. De. Preto – Hino de Carne”, 2020
Performance by Nástio Mosquito
with Diogo + Moreno Ácido & B Fachada
Programme presentation 2020/2021
Colectivos Pláka's “Politics of Survival” book launch
ODETE
Dj Set
Performance by Nástio Mosquito
with Diogo + Moreno Ácido & B Fachada
Programme presentation 2020/2021
Colectivos Pláka's “Politics of Survival” book launch
ODETE
Dj Set
March 5, Thursday, 9.30 pm
Opening Anuário 19 + Performances
21h30 – Opening
22h00 – “Vernissage”
Performance by Guilherme de Sousa & Pedro Azevedo
23h00 – “Pérola is Burning”
September 11, Friday, 6.30 pm
Autograph session with Diogo Jesus (Book launch: “APESAR DE NÃO ESTAR, ESTOU MUITO / DJ NOBITA EARLY YEARS 2002”)
This book is published as part of the exhibition Diogo Jesus: Apesar de não estar, estou muito, curated by João Ribas, presented at the Galeria Municipal do Porto between June 2 and August 16, 2020. I was published by Galeria Municipal do Porto and co-published with Chili Com Carne.
September 13, Sunday, 4 pm
Waves and Whirlpools: Guided Tour with Luís Lázaro Matos and Martha Kirszenbaum
On September 13, at 4 pm, the artist Luís Lázaro Matos and the curator Martha Kirszenbaum will lead a guided tour through the exhibition Waves and Whirlpools.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
October 3, Saturday, 4 pm
Guided tour of the exhibitions Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize – 2nd edition & Waves and Whirlpools
The GMP conducts a guided tour of exhibitions on the first Saturday of each month at 4 pm.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
October 24, Saturday, 4 pm
Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize – 2nd edition: Talk with Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela
On October 24, Saturday, Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela, winners of the 1st edition of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, will visit the Galeria Municipal do Porto for a talk with Guilherme Blanc (Artistic Director of the Galeria Municipal do Porto) and Luís Silva (Director of the Kunsthalle Lissabon). At 4pm, in the Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett.
Free entry, subject to the collecting of a ticket in advance, at the Galeria Municipal do Porto, starting from 10 am on October 24. You can reserve your place in advance by emailing galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt. The entrance is subject to room capacity.
Free entry, subject to the collecting of a ticket in advance, at the Galeria Municipal do Porto, starting from 10 am on October 24. You can reserve your place in advance by emailing galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt. The entrance is subject to room capacity.
November 7, Saturday, 4 pm + 5 pm
Guided tours of the exhibitions
The GMP conducts a guided tour of exhibitions on the first Saturday of each month. In November, two visits will be conducted, at 4 pm and 5 pm.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
November 14, Saturday, 4 pm
Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize – 2nd edition: Talk with Margarida Mendes and the winning artist
On November 14, Saturday, the Galeria Municipal do Porto proposes a talk with Margarida Mendes (jury member of the 2nd edition of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize) and the winning artist.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
November 15, Sunday, 6 pm
Waves and Whirlpools: Concert presenting the album
Music appears at the core of Luís Lázaro Matos' practice, and the seven diptych paintings in the Galeria Municipal do Porto exhibition are inspired by the seven songs of his new album, also named Waves and Whirlpools.
The album – composed and written by Luís Lázaro Matos, sung together with Diana Policarpo and produced by Adriano Ferreira Cintra – was released on September 10 and will be played live for the first time on November 15, at the Galeria Municipal do Porto.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
The album – composed and written by Luís Lázaro Matos, sung together with Diana Policarpo and produced by Adriano Ferreira Cintra – was released on September 10 and will be played live for the first time on November 15, at the Galeria Municipal do Porto.
Activity subject to prior registration by e-mail: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
November 6
Galeria Municipal do Porto suspends its November Public Programmes
The Galeria Municipal do Porto has decided to temporarily suspend its Public Programmes during the month of November, according to the latest announced measures to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Therefore, the two programs scheduled for the month of November were cancelled: the conversation between Margarida Mendes and the winner of the 2nd edition of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, which would take place on November 14, Saturday, at 4 pm, and the concert presenting the album Waves and Whirlpools, by Luís da Riviera, scheduled for November 15, Sunday, at 6:30 pm.
The guided tours that the Galeria Municipal do Porto conducts on the first Saturday of each month, at 4 pm, are also suspended, due to the limitation of gatherings to five people.
GMP will continue, however, with its doors open, with the exhibitions Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize – 2nd edition and Waves and Whirlpools, on view until November 15.
Admission is free, subject to the maximum limit of 30 people and other hygiene and safety rules.
Therefore, the two programs scheduled for the month of November were cancelled: the conversation between Margarida Mendes and the winner of the 2nd edition of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, which would take place on November 14, Saturday, at 4 pm, and the concert presenting the album Waves and Whirlpools, by Luís da Riviera, scheduled for November 15, Sunday, at 6:30 pm.
The guided tours that the Galeria Municipal do Porto conducts on the first Saturday of each month, at 4 pm, are also suspended, due to the limitation of gatherings to five people.
GMP will continue, however, with its doors open, with the exhibitions Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize – 2nd edition and Waves and Whirlpools, on view until November 15.
Admission is free, subject to the maximum limit of 30 people and other hygiene and safety rules.
November 11
Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize shared between all the six finalists
The winners of the second edition of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize have been named. The biannual prize is aimed at artists under 40, and was created by the Porto City Council as a tribute to the former Councillor for Culture, Paulo Cunha e Silva, doctor, art critic and curator, whose professional activity was always linked to theoretical reflection on contemporary art.
Although the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize aims to award a single artist from a group of finalists, the jury proposed dividing the monetary value of €25,000 between this edition’s six finalists – Basir Mahmood, Firenze Lai, Lebohang Kganye, Shaikha Al Mazrou, Song Ta and Steffani Jemison –, whose works are on display at the Galeria Municipal do Porto.
Due to the restrictions resulting from the pandemic situation, the jury members Isabel Lewis, John Akomfrah, Margarida Mendes and Shumon Basar were unable to visit the exhibition and personally assess the work of the finalists that they had nominated. These exceptional conditions also meant that the six finalists were unable to install or accompany the assembly of their works in the exhibition space, prior to the inauguration of the exhibition. As a result, the judges considered that it was impossible to ensure the ideal conditions for awarding a single winner of the Prize’s second edition and therefore suggested the division of the prize money between the six finalists.
The jury had already analysed the portfolios of 48 artists, selected by a group of 16 curators, appointed by them. Lastly, they selected the six finalists who have now been declared joint winners. In the words of the four jurors, these artists have “voices – aesthetic, ethical, technical – that articulate the current moment, or, even, sense what is to come.”
Basir Mahmood (Pakistan) uses video, film and photography to reflect on social and historical situations, rooted in daily life, while Firenze Lai (Hong Kong) tries to express states of expanded perception through her paintings and drawings. Lebohang Kganye (South Africa) merges fictional characters with “real” characters, to create stories that incorporate sculpture, installation and film. Sculpture is also the preferred art form of Shaikha Al Mazrou (UAE), who is fascinated by materiality in art, working with colour and shapes to create geometric and abstract arrangements.
Song Ta (China) often seeks to provoke and antagonise the established boundaries between institutional and commercial definitions of art, by creating works that explore the daily conduct of specific groups in society and Steffani Jemison (USA) addresses privacy and opacity as strategies for abstraction and political resistance.
The exhibition of the works of the finalists – now confirmed as winners ex-aequo – can be visited until Sunday, November 15, at the Galeria Municipal do Porto. During the weekend, the GMP will only be open between 10 am and 12:30 pm, due to implementation of new curfew measures in Portugal.
Although the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize aims to award a single artist from a group of finalists, the jury proposed dividing the monetary value of €25,000 between this edition’s six finalists – Basir Mahmood, Firenze Lai, Lebohang Kganye, Shaikha Al Mazrou, Song Ta and Steffani Jemison –, whose works are on display at the Galeria Municipal do Porto.
Due to the restrictions resulting from the pandemic situation, the jury members Isabel Lewis, John Akomfrah, Margarida Mendes and Shumon Basar were unable to visit the exhibition and personally assess the work of the finalists that they had nominated. These exceptional conditions also meant that the six finalists were unable to install or accompany the assembly of their works in the exhibition space, prior to the inauguration of the exhibition. As a result, the judges considered that it was impossible to ensure the ideal conditions for awarding a single winner of the Prize’s second edition and therefore suggested the division of the prize money between the six finalists.
The jury had already analysed the portfolios of 48 artists, selected by a group of 16 curators, appointed by them. Lastly, they selected the six finalists who have now been declared joint winners. In the words of the four jurors, these artists have “voices – aesthetic, ethical, technical – that articulate the current moment, or, even, sense what is to come.”
Basir Mahmood (Pakistan) uses video, film and photography to reflect on social and historical situations, rooted in daily life, while Firenze Lai (Hong Kong) tries to express states of expanded perception through her paintings and drawings. Lebohang Kganye (South Africa) merges fictional characters with “real” characters, to create stories that incorporate sculpture, installation and film. Sculpture is also the preferred art form of Shaikha Al Mazrou (UAE), who is fascinated by materiality in art, working with colour and shapes to create geometric and abstract arrangements.
Song Ta (China) often seeks to provoke and antagonise the established boundaries between institutional and commercial definitions of art, by creating works that explore the daily conduct of specific groups in society and Steffani Jemison (USA) addresses privacy and opacity as strategies for abstraction and political resistance.
The exhibition of the works of the finalists – now confirmed as winners ex-aequo – can be visited until Sunday, November 15, at the Galeria Municipal do Porto. During the weekend, the GMP will only be open between 10 am and 12:30 pm, due to implementation of new curfew measures in Portugal.
Saturday, May 29 at 4pm
Anuário 20 / Talk: Cartografias do Comum – O Lugar do Coletivo na Cidade I
In an attentive exercise of reflection on the city and its multiple dynamics and manifestations, the curatorial team of Anuário 20 invites for two talks about the title "Cartografias do comum – o lugar do coletivo na cidade", collectives, initiatives and spontaneous self-managed movements which, during the year of 2020, contributed to the reconfiguration of a more inclusive and plural community-territory.
In a year in which solidarity was one of the most repeated words, we propose, in this joint reflection, to think of the city as a space for activating and maintaining daily practices of caring and healing.
Saturday, May 29 at 7pm
Anuário 20 / Concert by Milteto
Milteto is a multidisciplinary orchestra driven by the Porto collective Favela Discos.
The concert is part of the public program of the "Anuário 20" project.
The concert is part of the public program of the "Anuário 20" project.
Saturday, June 12
Opening of the exhibitions
Galeria Municipal do Porto opens two new exhibition projects on june 12th: Pés de Barro, a group exhibition by Chus Martínez and Filipa Ramos, and Wall גדר جدار, by Inés Moldavski, curated by Guilherme Blanc.
The exhibition Pés de Barro presents different approaches to the curators' invitation addressed to a group of artists to question and reflect on the different possibilities of pottery and ceramics – technologies that are full of history and creative power. What if the future is a technology as old and peculiar as clay? What if clay is the future and the future is clay? These are some of the questions that curators Chus Martínez and Filipa Ramos posed to artists Neïl Beloufa, Isabel Carvalho, Gabriel Chaile, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Formabesta (Salvador Cidrás & Juan Cidrás), Tamara Henderson, Ana Jotta and Eduardo Navarro, and now present themselves on display.
In Wall גדר جدار, Argentine-Israeli artist Inés Moldavsky was invited to revisit her film “The Men Behind the Wall” – winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale, in 2018 – where she contacted and talked to Palestinian men living in Gaza and the West Bank through a dating application. At the Galeria Municipal do Porto, the artist expands this crossing of digital, political, religious and gender boundaries, to build various moments of conversation and, consequently, of cultural analysis. The exhibition is curated by Guilherme Blanc.
Sunday, June 20th at 4pm
Wall גדר جدار - Guided tour with Guilherme Blanc
Guilherme Blanc, curador of "Wall גדר جدار", by Inés Moldavsky, at Galeria Municipal do Porto, will make a guided tour to the exhibition.
Guilherme Blanc is the Artistic Director of the Batalha - Film Centre. Between 2018 and 2020 he was the Director for Contemporary Art and Film in the City of Porto, where he directed projects such as the Galeria Municipal do Porto, the Fórum do Futuro and discursive programmes in contemporary art. Over the years he has worked as an independent film curator in collaboration with institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts London and the Barbican Centre. Between 2014 and 2018 he was deputy to the Councillor for Culture and to the Mayor of Porto. Since 2017, he lectures Film in the Bachelor's and Master's degree courses at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Escola das Artes.
Guilherme Blanc is the Artistic Director of the Batalha - Film Centre. Between 2018 and 2020 he was the Director for Contemporary Art and Film in the City of Porto, where he directed projects such as the Galeria Municipal do Porto, the Fórum do Futuro and discursive programmes in contemporary art. Over the years he has worked as an independent film curator in collaboration with institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts London and the Barbican Centre. Between 2014 and 2018 he was deputy to the Councillor for Culture and to the Mayor of Porto. Since 2017, he lectures Film in the Bachelor's and Master's degree courses at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Escola das Artes.
Saturday, June 26 at 4pm
Anuário 20 / Talk: Cartografias do Comum – O Lugar do Coletivo na Cidade II
In an attentive exercise of reflection on the city and its multiple dynamics and manifestations, the curatorial team of Anuário 20 invites for two talks about the title "Cartografias do comum – o lugar do coletivo na cidade", collectives, initiatives and spontaneous self-managed movements which, during the year of 2020, contributed to the reconfiguration of a more inclusive and plural community-territory.
In a year in which solidarity was one of the most repeated words, we propose, in this joint reflection, to think of the city as a space for activating and maintaining daily practices of caring and healing.
July 3th, from 4pm to 5pm
Guided tours of the exhibitions
The Galeria Municipal do Porto conducts a guided tour of the exhibitions on the first Saturday of each month.
Saturday, July 10 at 7pm
Anuário 20 / Performance by Kiluanji Kia Henda: Resetting Bird's Memories
Kiluanji Kia Henda (Luanda, Angola, 1979) – one of the most relevant artists and activists in the contemporary art scene – presents the performance “Resetting Bird's Memories”. Here, the story of Kinaxi Square, in Luanda, is told through the bodies of actress Zia Soares and Odete Mosso who bring it to life and, through them, the violent past of that place, its rulers and its monuments is represented. A performance that invites reflection on the changing world, the nostalgic vision of that time and the pre-colonial relationship.
Saturday, July 10 at 9pm
Anuário 20 / DJ Set by Sound Preta
The musical project Sound Preta, composed by DJ Clita, DJ Patisol and LOLA will present a DJ-Set, part of the public program of the project "Anuário 20".
August 7, at 4pm
Guided tours of the exhibitions
The Galeria Municipal do Porto conducts a guided tour of the exhibitions on the first Saturday of each month.
Sunday, September 19, at 4pm
Fado ou Flamenco - Talk with Pedro G. Romero. Moderation by Armando Sousa (Fonoteca Municipal do Porto)
The artist Pedro G. Romero will talk about Fado and Flamenco, offering a selection of vinyl records from the sound archive of Fonoteca Municipal and a list that are part of, in addition to his research, the exhibition The new babylonians: crossing the Border.
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October 2, at 4pm
Guided tours of the exhibitions
The Galeria Municipal do Porto conducts a guided tour of the exhibitions on the first Saturday of each month.
Saturday, October 9, 16h-18h
Pandemic - Performances by António Poppe José Marrucho and Flávio Rodrigues
The notion of time, explored in Filipe Marques' exhibition at the GMP, is also materialized in the almost 10-hour video “Whatevah you do, don't look me too long in the eyes. Now it’s your turn to cry”, and serves as a catalyst for the creation of three performances, where voice, body and sound will be explored sequentially, authored by António Poppe, Flávio Rodrigues and José Marrucho.
Flávio Rodrigues, a multidisciplinary artist, crosses different media such as dance, drawing, performance, sound and sculpture, among others.
José Marrucho is a musician and has worked, in addition to jazz, in projects from the world of Krautrock, Stoner, electronic and experimental music.
António Poppe is a visual artist and has been exploring the intersection between poetry, performance and the visual arts.
Saturday, October 16 at 4pm
Pandemic - Guided tour with the artist and curators
The artist Filipe Marques and curators Isabeli Santiago and Juan Luis Toboso will make a guided tour to the exhibition PANDEMIC – I Don’t Know Karate But I know Ka-razor, opened in the past September 18th.
Friday (18h30-20h00) and Saturday (10h00-16h00), November 5 and 6
Formas Partilhadas – Terracota workshop with Formabesta
Terracota workshop oriented by the artist collective Formabesta (Juan and Salvador Cidrás), in partnership with Ó! Cerâmica.
Based on the idea of “playing” and “learning by doing”, this workshop starts from a series of traditional clay shapes to carry out a continuous process of transformation into other forms that arise from improvisation, chance and collaborative action. As Bruno Munari reminds us, what matters is the possibility of playing with countless possibilities, incessantly changing, testing and testing. Only then, "the mind becomes flexible, the thinking dynamic: the creative individual".
Salvador Cidrás and Vicente Blanco are visual artists and professors in the area of Visual Expression at the University of Santiago de Compostela at the Facultad de Formación de Profesorado de Lugo. Graduates in Fine Arts from the Universidad de Vigo, PhDs in Humanities (USC) and Fine Arts (UGR), respectively, and graduates in Ceramics from EASD Ramón Falcón, Lugo, they develop their artistic research in different mediums, such as video, drawing, sculpture and installation. Their work has been exhibited individually in different contemporary art museums, such as the Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), CGAC (Compostela), MUSAC (León), as well as in several group exhibitions.
Based on the idea of “playing” and “learning by doing”, this workshop starts from a series of traditional clay shapes to carry out a continuous process of transformation into other forms that arise from improvisation, chance and collaborative action. As Bruno Munari reminds us, what matters is the possibility of playing with countless possibilities, incessantly changing, testing and testing. Only then, "the mind becomes flexible, the thinking dynamic: the creative individual".
Salvador Cidrás and Vicente Blanco are visual artists and professors in the area of Visual Expression at the University of Santiago de Compostela at the Facultad de Formación de Profesorado de Lugo. Graduates in Fine Arts from the Universidad de Vigo, PhDs in Humanities (USC) and Fine Arts (UGR), respectively, and graduates in Ceramics from EASD Ramón Falcón, Lugo, they develop their artistic research in different mediums, such as video, drawing, sculpture and installation. Their work has been exhibited individually in different contemporary art museums, such as the Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), CGAC (Compostela), MUSAC (León), as well as in several group exhibitions.
November 6, at 4pm
Guided tours of the exhibitions
The Galeria Municipal do Porto conducts a guided tour of the exhibitions on the first Saturday of each month.
Sunday, November 21, 4pm
Closing programme - The new babylonians: Crossing the border
The artist Pedro G. Romero invited the Afro-descendant bailaora Yinka Esi Graves to the closing performance of the exhibition Novos Babilónios – Atravessar a Fronteira.
The creation of The Disappearing Act is part of an ongoing project (with audiovisual collaboration from Miguel Ángel Rosales) and is the result of the artist's residency, in September, in the gardens of Palácio de Cristal, based on the Primeira Exposição Colonial Portuguesa.
In close relationship with the project, Yinka Esi Graves will present a performance at the gallery's exhibition site, followed by a screening of the project's films co-created by Miguel Angel Rosales and a talk with the artist in the auditorium of the Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garret.
On the same day, at 9 pm, in the Teatro Rivoli's Small Auditorium, the film "Nueve Sevillas", by Pedro G. Romero and Gonzalo García Pelayo, will also be screened, presenting a portrait of the new flamenco in Seville, through nine protagonists. The session is the result of a collaboration between GMP and the Porto/Post/Doc film festival, as part of the Transmission Competition, and will feature an introduction by Pedro G. Romero and Guilherme Blanc, artistic director of Batalha Centro de Cinema.
In close relationship with the project, Yinka Esi Graves will present a performance at the gallery's exhibition site, followed by a screening of the project's films co-created by Miguel Angel Rosales and a talk with the artist in the auditorium of the Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garret.
On the same day, at 9 pm, in the Teatro Rivoli's Small Auditorium, the film "Nueve Sevillas", by Pedro G. Romero and Gonzalo García Pelayo, will also be screened, presenting a portrait of the new flamenco in Seville, through nine protagonists. The session is the result of a collaboration between GMP and the Porto/Post/Doc film festival, as part of the Transmission Competition, and will feature an introduction by Pedro G. Romero and Guilherme Blanc, artistic director of Batalha Centro de Cinema.
11.12 — 10h-18h
Opening of exhibitions
On December 11th, the Galeria Municipal do Porto will open two new exhibition projects, — "The Hour Before Sunset", by artist Milena Bonilla, curated by Juan Luis Toboso and the group exhibition "Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada", curated by Marta Espiridião, resulting from the project Expo'98 in Porto.
Sunday, January 23, 4pm
"Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada" - Guided visit with the curator
On Sunday, january 23, curator Marta Espiridião will make a guided tour to the group exhibition "Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada".
Revisiting exhibitions
The Oracle, by Diana Policarpo
Part of the exhibition “Nets of Hyphae” by Diana Policarpo, the artist presents the video entitled “The Oracle”. The piece provides a historical contextualization of ergot, from Greek mythology to the Middle Ages, highlighting the pioneering knowledge and practices of midwives, healers, and peasants, in traditional medicine, pharmacology and obstetrics. Through this work, the artist also draws connections between women’s struggles for reproductive justice, from the Salem witch trials to abortion rights today.
“Claviceps purpurea, also known as ergot, is a parasitic fungus that infects grains and grasses, especially rye, destroying the ovaries of plants. ‘When I discovered that it attacked the reproductive system of plants, I immediately established a parallel with the human body and the reproductive health of women’, explains Diana Policarpo. This fungus has hallucinogenic and medicinal properties, having been used over several decades by healers and midwives, to perform abortions and help women in the pre and postpartum period. It was even one of the plants used for abortive purposes by enslaved women (raped by enslavers and colonizers) who did not want to give birth to future slaves.” — in Jornal Público, January 12, in an interview by the journalist Mariana Duarte.
The exhibition “Nets of Hyphae” was presented at GMP netween 2020 and 2021 and was curated by Stefanie Hessler and coproduced by Kunsthall Trondheim.
Saturday, February 5, at 4pm
"The Hour Before Sunset" - Guided visit with the artist and curator
The artist Milena Bonilla and the curator Juan Luis Toboso will make a guided visit to the exhibition "The Hour Before The Sunset".
Sunday, February 5th, 4pm
Film projection and talk with the artist Milena Bonilla and curator Juan Luis Toboso
The film "I am Life and Life is Beautiful", presented in three chapters in the exhibition "The Hour Before Sunset", by Milena Bonilla, curated by Juan Luis Toboso, will be screened on Sunday, followed by a conversation between the artist and curator.
Based on a conversation between the artist and the dancer and herbalist Shelley Etkin connected with Rosa Luxemburg's herbarium, the filmic piece travels through the three memorials dedicated to her in Berlin, with the aim of looking for some of the plants portrayed in his botanical notebooks, while rescuing the memory of its violent end, crossing body, botany and history, "in an attempt to unveil the intangible fabrics of patrimony."
"I am Life and Life is Beautiful"
VHD video, colour, 2021
- I Eden Hotel – Olof-Palme Platz (on view: 11/12/21–16/01/22)
- II Landwehr Canal – Tiergarten (on view: 18/01/22–30/01/22)
- III Monument to the socialist – Friedrichsfelde Cemetery (on view: 1/02/22–13/02/22)
Revisiting Public programmes
Guided visit and film projection with Milena Bonilla
The public programme of the exhibition "The Hour Before Sunset" by Milena Bonilla, curated by Juan Luis Toboso, took place on the weekend of February 5th and was attended by the artist for a guided tour of the exhibition and also for the projection of the film "I am Life and Life is Beautiful", part of the exhibition project. The screening was followed by a talk between Bonilla and Filipa Ramos.
Saturday, February 12, at 3 pm
Rama e pûera - Walk through the gardens with Ellen Lima
As part of the public programme of the exhibition "Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada", the poet and indigenous researcher Ellen Lima proposes a walk through the gardens of Palácio de Cristal. The route will seek to promote a reflection on ancestral and contemporary temporality, inviting participants to think about the relationship between life and the present.
Saturday, February 12, at 4 pm
Error 409: Conflict - Talk with Ellen Lima and Coletivo FACA
"We open the gallery space to the conflicts that arise in the search for a decolonization of artistic and cultural spaces. What care and concerns should institutions have when dealing with historically depredated and violated identities and cultures? How can we reflect on the processes of restitution, compensation and historical review, and dismantle the erasure mechanisms of culturae and identity? We reinforce the importance and usefulness of conflict in these movements and progress, constant unequal negotiations of limits, places of speech and expression - as Fanon said, only the oppressor knows peace, because is rarely challenged. And dialogue is also a battleground." Marta Espiridião
As part of the public programme of the exhibition "Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada", a talk will happen between the poet and indigenous researcher Ellen Lima and Coletivo FACA. Created in 2019, the collective seeks to rethink the way in which culture in general, and art in particular, integrates the debate around issues related to LGBTQI+ themes, feminism, colonialism, racism and non-normativity in museum spaces.
As part of the public programme of the exhibition "Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada", a talk will happen between the poet and indigenous researcher Ellen Lima and Coletivo FACA. Created in 2019, the collective seeks to rethink the way in which culture in general, and art in particular, integrates the debate around issues related to LGBTQI+ themes, feminism, colonialism, racism and non-normativity in museum spaces.
Saturday, February 12, at 6 pm
ESTOMACUS - Performance by Trypas Corassão
Departing from the metaphors of digestion, the piece will focus on taste and noise, feeling and daydreaming, questioning who is predator and prey, who eats and who is food.
Integrated in the public programme "Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada".
Saturday, February 19, at 4 pm
Error 406: Not Acceptable: Talk with Luan Okun and Hilda de Paulo
Part of the public programme of "Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada".
Saturday, February 19, at 6 pm
O jeito que o corpo dá - Performance by Luan Okun
"We will find different ways to get up, to move and, thus, to move structures conditioned to the racialized fat body in the diaspora.
Activate powers by unlocking the pelvis, strengthening the base, rocking the established.
What is it like to go through colonial misfortunes? And what if it's by bouncing? How is the fault configured? and when that body fails? Is there forgiveness?
We will break, not only with accents and zippers, but with everything that is set as a limit, as unique, as correct.
We will show, in a comic or tragic way, the tricks that normativity gives us daily.
And how do you get up from that body?
And when that body doesn't get up? What if it's slow? What if it no longer walks the same way?
We will share survival technologies, starting with moving the ass. Going through the entering and exiting the black hole. Where does it start? Where does it end?"
Integrated in the public programme "Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada".
Revisiting Public programmes
Erro 417: Talks, walks and performances
The public programme of the exhibition “Erro 417: Expectativa Falhada” was presented in two moments, bringing together a set of activities composed of talks, walks and performances.
The first moment included the poet and indigenous researcher Ellen Lima, who proposed a walk through the gardens of Palácio de Cristal. Later, Lima joined in a talk with Coletivo FACA and Marta Espiridião, curator of the exhibition project. On the same day, the performance "Estomacus", by the duo Trypas Corassão, was also presented in the exhibition space.
In the second part of the programme, there was a talk entitled "Error 406: Not Acceptable" with the participation of Hilda de Paulo, Luan Okun and Marta Espiridião. Okun also presented the performance "O jeito que o corpo dá", which had the collaboration of Joni Ricos and video projection by Yuna Turva.
GMP Editions
Galeria Municipal do Porto launches the book “Masks”
In 2020 Galeria Municipal do Porto hosted the exhibition "Máscaras (Masks)". The publication, co-edited with Mousse Publishing, is now available for purchase.
The exhibition project, which was curated by João Laia and Valentinas Klimašauskas, focused on the role of masks throughout history, materialized in the works of twenty-one artists. An artifact present in society since ancient times, the mask took the most varied forms and roles: from caricature to camouflage, from imitation to social makeup, going through the online and offline world. In the words of the curators, the mask brought together “completely different people in time and space”.
Thought even before the pandemic, the exhibition was presented when masks became mandatory at the entrance of museums. Two years later, these objects are still present in everyday life, giving the publication a pressing and current symbology. The editorial project, also undertaken by the two curators, had contributions from Guilherme Blanc, Grada Kilomba, Zack Blas and the collective Omsk Social Club. More than a catalogue, “Masks” is an extension of the exhibition project in book format, prolonging its reflections through unpublished and complementary textual contributions to the exhibition.
Revisiting exhibitions
Editar Evento - 'Luchona, por Gabriel Chaile' ▲ PortuguêsInglês Titulo - EN
As part of the group exhibition "Feet of Clay" curated by Chus Martínez and Filipa Ramos, in 2021 at GMP, Gabriel Chaile presented a sculpture entitled "Luchona".
"My work is linked to an anthropological predisposition of understanding our own things. I always took myself as an object of study on a visual level and a lot of things appeared from there. I always took what was closest to me first, and that was working-class life. I saw those images, I saw my mother baking bread all her life in a clay oven and my father, a bricklayer, arriving late, not sleeping, not resting much, working a lot. All situations that I approach formally and visually, are a way to talk about what doesn’t happen in the mainstream of society and which is there, it
has to do with life in places that are not visible." Gabriel Chaile
In Latin America, luchona [fighter] is a derogatory name given to young single mothers who are considered to be immature and irresponsible for partying hard while raising their children. Gabriel Chaile’s monumental Luchona pays tribute to these women by revealing their resourceful and loving nature.
Revisiting Public Programmes
"Statues of Tehran", by Bahman Kiarostami
Part of the public programme of the exhibition "Desertado. Algo que aconteceu pode acontecer novamente", the documentary "Statues of Tehran" was presented, signed by the director Bahman Kiarostami.
The filmic work questions the function of monuments in today’s Tehran, a postmodern and ideologically overburdened mega-metropolis, afflicted by oblivion. The piece retraces the fate of two important public sculptures: the first, a pioneering work commissioned by the royal family in the 1970s by the then most prominent sculptor of modernity, Bahman Mohassess; the second, a tribute to the Islamic Revolution installed in Revolution Square, by Iraj Eskandari. Under the aegis of the Revolution, the former was condemned first to neglect and finally to be stored, while the latter became a reference piece among the profusion of public projects celebrating the Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
GMP Editions
Galeria Municipal launches the publication “To School Out of School”
“To School Out of School” results from the homonymous contemporary art reflection course, integrated in the second edition of the municipal programme entitled Colectivos Pláka.
“To School Out of School” was coordinated by Ana Rocha, producer, curator, choreographer and performer, and André Sousa, artist and co-founder of the artistic project "A Certain Lack of Coherence", tooking place in three moments between the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019. The course brought together national and international artists and thinkers in the creation of a temporary workshop on contemporary studies focusing on collectives, solo actions, informal or institutional structures that develop their projects in the area of curatorship and reflecion about Culture nowadays.
The publication, co-edited by Ana Rocha and André Sousa, brings together contributions from the curators, critics and artists who participated in the course: Adrian Heathfield, Benjamin Seroussi, Catarina Saraiva, Fadwa Naamna, Irit Rogoff, Markus Miessen, Olivier Marbeout, Pedro G. Romero and Stephan Dillemuth, along with drawings by Mauro Cerqueira, and introduction by Guilherme Blanc, Artistic Director of Batalha Centro de Cinema, who curated the initiative and the editorial project.
Promoted within the scope of the Pláka platform, the Colectivos Pláka programme brings together reflection and thought production groups on contemporary art and artistic practice, with the central focus of enhancing opportunities for thinking, learning and knowledge sharing between artists and cultural agents residing in Porto.
Purchases can be made through this website or at the Galeria Municipal do Porto counter.
GMP Editions
Galeria Municiapal launches 2nd edition of
After the success of the first edition, the Galeria Municipal do Porto publishes again the book "Musonautas, Visões & Avarias: 1960-2010 - 5 Décadas de Inquietação Musical"!
The publication is now available for purchase at the Galeria Municipal do Porto counter, or by mail, by contacting gallerymunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
Saturday, april 9, 10pm
9Kg de Oxigénio — Book launch
Next Saturday, at 10 pm, we're launching the book resulting from the exhibition 9kg de Oxigénio, presented at GMP in 2019, curated by "A Certain Lack of Coherence", a project managed by André Sousa and Mauro Cerqueira.
The moment will take place in the space of "A Certain Lack of Coherence" on the occasion of the opening of Babi Badalov's exhibition, "Darktoevsky," one of the artists in 9kg de Oxigénio.
The publication has contributions from the 18 participating artists and unpublished texts by Guilherme Blanc and Pedro de Llano.