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Saturday, April 5th, at 5pmDepth of Field: Contra Ponto, by Tristany Mundu
Tristany Mundu's performance proposes the construction of a symbolic and imaginary route, taken by two performers in an equally imaginary vehicle.The journey contrasts the physicality of their bodies in space with the presence and singular meanings of Mónica de Miranda's works, inviting us to reflect on the relationship between nature and the human and the different dimensions of this dynamic.
Part of the activations programme of the piece "Timelapse".Venue: GMP, Floor 1
Admission is free.
Age rating to be assigned.
Tristany Mundu is a transdisciplinary artist born in 1995 in Linha de Sintra, Lisbon, with Angolan and Portuguese origins. He is a musician, performer, visual artist, producer, creative director and curator. His first album, Meia Riba Kalxa (2020), inspired visual series such as Baxu ku Riba and Au vivu. He made his debut as a visual artist with Interferências at MAAT, and curated the exhibition Meia Riba Kalxa na boka mundu at the Iminente Festival. Co-founder of the Unidigrazz collective, he has presented projects in Europe and works in different cultural spaces. He is currently developing the trilogy Cidade à volta da Cidade (2025), presented at CAM/Gulbenkian Foundation.
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Saturday, April 5th, at 3pm
Primal Form: Guided exhibition tour + artist studio visit with Francisco Pedro Oliveira & Isabeli Santiago
On the first Saturday of April, the Galeria Municipal do Porto is organising a first-hand visit to the exhibition 'Forma Primeira', with artist Francisco Pedro Oliveira and curator Isabeli Santiago.In this session, aimed at deepening knowledge of this project and his artistic practice, the artist also invites the public to accompany him on a visit to his studio.Limited capacity.To attend the tour you must collect your free ticket (maximum of 2 per person) up to 15 minutes before the start of the event. Reservations can be made in advance by emailing galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.The walk from GMP to the artist's studio is approximately 10 minutes. -
Saturday, April 12th, at 5pm
Depth of Field: Migro, logo existo - Interstícios Do Não-ser, by Marinho Pina
In "Migro, logo existo: Interstícios do Não-Ser" [I migrate, therefore I exist: interstices of non-being], Marinho Pina questions the struggle for private property - physical, cultural, ideological and/or identity - that makes us forget to look at the 'interstices of non-being', the non-place where universes of possibilities and opportunities reside to break down barriers, whether visible or invisible, and reinvent what it means to be human.
"Migro, logo existo: Interstícios do Não-Ser" is part of the programme of activations for the installation "Timelapse", part of the exhibition "Depth of Field" by Mónica de Miranda.Venue: GMP, Floor 1
Admission is free.
Age rating to be assigned.
Born in Sonaco, Guinea-Bissau, Marinho de Pina is a storyteller who uses different formats: music, film, writing, poetry, dance, performance and architecture. As a performer, he has worked in various spaces throughout Portugal and beyond. Since 2017, he has been working with the Mediateca Abotcha project (Guinea-Bissau), in a programme of cultural creation of dreams and utopias with local communities, which aims to horizontalise knowledge. Recently, the film Ressonância em Espiral (Resonance in a Spiral), which he made in collaboration with Filipa César, was shown at the Berlinale in Berlin, DocFortnight MoMA in New York and Cinema du Réel - Centre Pompidou in Paris, where it was awarded the Libraries Prize sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture. -
Saturday, April 12th, at 11 am
Primal Form: Active Listening with João Sarmento (Fonoteca Municipal do Porto)
Venue: Fonoteca Municipal do Porto (R. de Pinto Bessa 122 Armazém 12, 4300-427 Porto)
Admission is free, but capacity is limited.
João Sarmento has been a Jesuit since 2008 and was ordained a priest in 2020. He holds a degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, a degree in philosophy from the Portuguese Catholic University, and studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, the University of Comillas in Madrid and the Portuguese Catholic University. He has been a guest lecturer at ArCo - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual and is currently the artistic director of Brotéria - the Portuguese Jesuit cultural centre in Bairro Alto, where contemporary urban cultures and Christian faith intersect. -
Saturday, May 3rd, at 4pm
Guided exhibition tours
On this Saturday, there will be guided tours of the exhibitions on show at Galeria Municipal do Porto:
Deep Scarlet, Scream Ruby - The Freestanding Joys, by Pauline Curnier Jardin
Depth of Field, by Mónica de Miranda
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Thursday, May 8, at 7pm
Gallery Talks: Andreas Angelidakis
In the month that celebrates museums around the world, on 10 May the Galeria Municipal do Porto will inaugurate Beach Ruins - an installation designed by Andreas Angelidakis for the courtyard in the gardens of the Palácio de Cristal.Based in Athens, Angelidakis describes himself as "an architect who doesn't build", with all his projects based on the idea of architectural ruins that still exist in contemporary cities.Beach Ruins is the starting point for another Gallery Talks, where the artist-architect will present projects he has been working on, which have in common a discussion about the concepts of monumentality, history and the possibilities of relating to those who inhabit collective spaces.Venue: GMP
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Saturday, May 10th, at 5pm
Primal Form: Performance-Concert by Amuleto Apotropaico
Amuleto Apotropaico, a musical project by Francisco Pedro Oliveira and António Feiteira, revolves around oracular rituals that lead along incomprehensible paths of vertigo and delirium, concentric only in a deliberate spirituality. By reinterpreting folkloric motifs, the duo focuses on the idea of collective memory.
On the way to releasing their first album, which departs from the visceral counterpoint between guitar and percussion to (in)concretise a new synthetic esotericism, the duo proposes a unique performance concert - an expanded staging that uses the reinterpretation of folk motifs to invoke the ghosts of collective memory.Venue: Capela Carlos Alberto, Jardins do Palácio de Cristal
Admission is free, subject to room capacity.
Age rating to be assigned.
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Saturday, May 17, at 5pm
Depth of Field: Artist talk with Mónica de Miranda and Isabél Zuaa
On the eve of the International Day of Museums and the Fascination of Plants, artists Mónica de Miranda and Isabél Zuaa join together for a conversation based on the exhibition "Depth of Field", which, like a shift in a tree, proposes the soil and the body as vectors of decolonial and ecological expression.The various mobile sculptures in the exhibition will serve as a starting point for thinking about the interaction with the thought and practice of Amílcar Cabral, agronomist, poet and leader of the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, who proposed the soil as an active agent in historical processes.An hour earlier, Isabél Zuaa and Mauro Hermínio will present the performance 'Pouca Terra', part of the cycle of activations for the play 'Intervalo temporal', included in the exhibition.Venue: GMP
Admission is free.
Portuguese filmmaker, researcher and artist of Angolan origin, Mónica de Miranda lives between Lisbon and Luanda and works with an interdisciplinary approach that includes drawing, installation, photography, film, video and sound in their extended forms and on the borders between fiction and documentary. She was Portugal's representative at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.
A multidisciplinary artist, Isabél Zuaa was born in Lisbon and has origins in Guinea-Bissau and Angola. Her artistic research focuses on dramaturgies in which black people are the protagonists and hosts of their own narratives and on mapping invisibilised biographies.She trained in acting at Chapitô, Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and Unirio. Since 2010, she has worked in theatre, film, television and performance, developing projects in Portugal, Brazil and Italy.In 2019, she founded the Aurora Negra collective, together with Cleo Diára and Nádia Yracema. The group debuted with Aurora Negra (2020), followed by COSMOS (2022) and Missão da Missão (2023) . They also created the KILOMBO Festival, the first edition of which took place at Espaço Alkantara (2021) and the second at the São Luiz Theatre (2023), in partnership with the Alkantara Festival. Isabél is a co-founder of UNA - União Negra das Artes.In film festivals, in 2023 she won the Best Supporting Actress award at Cineuphoria (Pedro's Journey); in 2022 she won the Guarani Award for Best Actress (A Yellow Animal); in 2020 she won the Best Actress award at the Gramado Festival (A Yellow Animal and for the film Deserto Estrangeiro). She has also won honourable mentions at the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival and awards at festivals such as Sitges, Zinegoak and Fest Aruanda. -
Saturday, May 17th, at 4pm
Depth of Field: Pouca Terra, by Isabél Zuaa and Mauro Hermínio
Part of the activations programme of the piece "Timelapse".Venue: GMP, Floor 1
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Saturday, May 24th, at 5pm
Depth of Field: Opera Ultra [SOUND], by Henrique J. Paris
Ultra [SOUND] opera works as a dissemination of touch in its sensorial, operational and dimensional driving forces — drawn from structures in the Black family, institutional orchestrations and systems of labour surrounding it: interplaying possibilities for epistemic rupture. The iteration journeys through ideas beyond 'service', 'server' or ‘servitude' staged within the context of Galeria Municipal do Porto at the multifaceted site converted onto a playground, garden and auditorium (simultaneously) by Monica de Miranda.The starting point for the performance essay is J Paris' earlier sonic lecture series titled 'Humming as a Praxis' where he attended gentle sonic gestures as tools for renouncing public corporations rooted in colonial thought [during 2024] at the V&A Museum in Kensington (London) and Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Belém (Lisbon); exploring sounding in these site's tragic economies.
Part of the activations programme of the piece "Timelapse".Venue: GMP, Floor 1
Admission is free.
Age rating to be assigned.
Henrique J Paris is a London-based artist-researcher dissecting philosophical, scenographic and architectonic frameworks in relation to [enacted] modes of power, moral codes and Christian discipleship. His practice seeks to push boundaries between visual media and social architectures across an array of mediums such as image-making, installations, performance, archiving and sound composition as sites of proclamation, re-memory and testimony. J. Paris' ongoing Investigation accentuates intricacies [tied] in-between stigmatized social experiences and modernity. He traces through imperial constructions & technologies of censorship to situate immersing modes of historiography, performativity and reinstitution — coding and/or decoding semantics of intimacy by passing public consciousness as well as authorships surpassing state authority. -
Thursday, May 29th, at 7pm
Depth of Field: Lecture by Malcom Ferdinand
The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double rupture: on the one hand, an ecological fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilisation that has led to the continuous devastation of the earth's ecosystems and its human and non-human communities, and on the other hand, a rupture installed by colonisation and Western imperialism that has led to racial slavery, the domination of indigenous peoples and women in particular.In his book "A Decolonial Ecology - Thinking from the Caribbean World" (2019 Political Ecology Foundation Prize), Malcolm Ferdinand challenges this double fracture by thinking from the Caribbean world. The slave ship reveals the inequalities that continue during the storm: some are shackled in the hold or even thrown overboard at the first gust of wind. Drawing on empirical and theoretical research in the Caribbean, Ferdinand develops the concept of 'decolonial ecology', linking environmentalism to political struggles against (post)colonial domination, structural racism and misogynistic practices. In the face of the ecological storm emerging from the basement of modernity, this book proposes a reflection on the construction of a common world, shaped by humans and non-humans who can live together in justice.As part of the Memoria de Elefante axis of ping! it dialogues with the exhibition Depth of Field by artist Mónica de Miranda, presenting a lecture by Malcom Ferdinand, one of today's most important thinkers.Venue: BMAG Auditorium
Admission is free.
Malcom Ferdinand was born in 1985 in Martinique. He holds a degree in Environmental Engineering from University College London and a PhD in Political Philosophy and Political Science from Université Paris Diderot. He received the Prix du Livre from the Fondation de l'Écologie Politique in 2019 for his book A decolonial ecology - Thinking from the Caribbean world. He is currently a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales at the Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.
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Saturday, June 7, at 2:30 and 5pm
Depth of Field: Reverberações de um corpo-tela, by Wura Moraes
Wura Moraes' performance proposes to work on the principle of the canvas-body or body-image, as alluded to in Leda Maria Martins' book "Spiral Time Performances, Canvas-Body Poetics".The Portuguese-Brazilian dancer and choreographer explores the production of images - visual, sonic and kinetic - using objects from her family archive to create compositions that evoke narratives, images and different temporal layers.The props from this archive provide continuity and relate to the project that the artist has been developing: 'Confluências', in which she evokes the memory of her father Mário Calixto and her uncle Miltércio Santos, both dancers and creators.
Part of the activations programme of the piece "Timelapse".Venue: GMP, Floor 1
Admission is free.
Age rating to be assigned.
Portuguese-Brazilian dancer and choreographer Wura Moraes graduated from Angel Vianna College (Brazil) and trained at École des Sables (Senegal), EDIT (Burkina Faso) and FAICC (Portugal). Together with Joana Lopes, she created Alienada and Agente and was a performer in Cribles7Live-Porto by Emmanuelle Huynh. In Bahia, together with Loke Wolf, she developed the contemporary dance research platform Autodidança. She coordinated AgitLAB (Águeda), curated by Paulina Almeida, co-produced LAMB - LAND ART MOVING BIENNAL with Malgosia Sus, coordinated Dance Temple and co-directed the performance trajectory Ilhas Suspensas with Darya Efrat, both for the Festival dos Canais (Aveiro), and created the solo CERN, presented in Águeda and Marrakech. As a performer she has taken part in Gil Mac's NKISI, Time Capsule at JAB/Croatia, Dori Nigro's Serei/Afrodiaspórica, the Plastic Art Performance Collective's Eco_Movements (Romania), Charles Cardin-Bourbeau's Un Enclos (pour l'impératrice), Calixto Neto's Feijoada and the Greenhouse project with Mónica de Miranda. In co-production with the DDD 2024 Festival, she premiered HENDA I XALA, part of the major project Confluências, in honour of her father Mário Calixto (1960-1996), a dancer and choreographer.
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Saturday, June 7th, at 4pm
Guided exhibition tours
On this Saturday, there will be guided tours of the exhibitions on show at Galeria Municipal do Porto:
Deep Scarlet, Scream Ruby - The Freestanding Joys, by Pauline Curnier Jardin
Depth of Field, by Mónica de Miranda
Primal Form, by Francisco Pedro OliveiraAdmission is free. -
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If you're between the ages of 16 and 22 and want to take part in the Gallery's activities, visit the art spaces in the city, or attend workshops led by different artists and thinkers, just send an email to galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.The PINGs! collective accepts applications on a continuous basis.
