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Music Between Companion Species
May - November 2023

Music between Companion Species is a series of concerts conceived and performed for and with dogs, their human companions and other more-than-human presences who may join these sessions. Inspired by Donna J. Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto and by cientific studies about dog’s preferences for sound and music, the concerts will take into account these animals’ unique sensibilities and hearing capabilities. Curated by Lovers & Lollypops.

Curated by Lovers & Lollypops
Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize
17.06-20.08.2023

Created by the City Council as a tribute to the late Councillor for Culture Paulo Cunha e Silva (1962 – 2015), a central figure for the city’s artistic life, the award, held every two years in Porto, recognises the talent of new generations of national and international artists. This year’s edition underlines the Prize’s commitment to fostering creation and cultural exchange by establishing a partnership with three world-recognised residency programmes: Arquipélago Centro de Artes in S. Miguel, Azores, Cove Park, on Scotland’s west coast, and Pivô, in São Paulo, will all host one of the nominated artists, appointed by a jury of three members.

The Nominators for the 2023 edition of the Art Prize are:
Artist Ângela Ferreira, Jan van Eyck Academie Director Hicham Khalidi, and cultural programmer Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura.

With
Euridice Kala, Márilu Namoda and Luis Santos (nominated by Ângela Ferreira); Rouzbeh Akhbari, Kent Chan and Hira Nabi (nominated by Hicham Khalidi) and Maren Karlson, Malik Nashad Sharpe aka Marikiscrycrycry, and Eve Stainton (nominated by Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura).
 Duet
Maria Paz and Joan Jonas
16.09 – 19.11.2023

 
Duet is an invitation for two artists to share an exhibition space. It started as a proposal for a young artist from Porto to think of an artist they would like to share an exhibition with. Recalling the impact of her survey show at the Serralves Museum, Maria Paz invited Joan Jonas to share the exhibition space of the Galeria Municipal do Porto. In this transatlantic exchange of generations, the two artists will reveal their common investigations of forms, colours and materials.

Curadoria de Filipa Ramos

 The Sylvan and Harsh North
09.12.2023 – 10.03.2024

What are the meteorological patterns, the myths and stories, the rhythms, colours and shapes, the human and nonhuman inhabitants that make up the Iberian Northwest, in its reality and fiction?
Wondering about the rituals and expressive modes of people, animals, plants, elements and minerals, we went looking for the roots, terminations and tentacles of the Iberian Northwest, trying to locate the places where they might reside. In doing so, we considered the past but above all faced the present-future of these concrete and imagined spaces between seas, woods and settlements. The Sylvan and Harsh North is an exhibition that follows roads and lines of intensity, centrifugal forces that take us beyond Porto, towards those supposed margins where permutations erupt, to discover and share the references, stories, words and connections to these places with a long past and an even longer future.

Curated by Filipa Ramos and Juan Luis Toboso
  • For schools / Thursday, November 12, from 10am to 1pm

    Formas sónicas das plantas – Drawing and sound workshop with Escola de Desenho Inconvencional
    The Escola de Desenho Inconvencional proposes a series of moments - like radio stations - where we record the auditory nature of the Crystal Palace Gardens. In each place, we'll create a moment of capture: the sound is extracted and transferred to images scratched on paper, or digitally, as sonic waves.
     
    Art, science and technology are the branches of this ping! workshop, which we want to bring out different sensations. Let's feel, touch and draw the sound of the plant beings that grow and expand endlessly in these gardens...
     
    In a variety of ways, we'll think about drawing and listening far beyond what we learn at school, bringing new perspectives on the plant world, full of sensitive and communicative beings.
    To participate, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
     
     
    Miguel Ângelo was born in Guimarães in 1994. An ever-expanding visual artist, he completed his Master's degree in Fine Arts at the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design (2023) and his Bachelor's degree at the same school (2016). He founded the Escola de Desenho Inconvencional in 2020 and since then has worked on art education and art liberation projects with schools, institutions and associations. 
     
    Since 2021, he has been part of the Coletivo PALMA together with Catarina Braga, an artistic project focused on ecological issues.
     
    In his paintings and drawings, he works with archival sources, fiction and memory, looking for compositions that rewrite canonical images to imagine another subject. These themes are represented in a rich color palette, with an attention to light and space that gives the work a psychological depth and narrative.
     
    He has been exhibiting regularly since 2015, including the group exhibitions Fazer Arbítrio, Centro Cultural Vila Flor (2024); Hammer Time, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2023), Drowning Room, Cosmos CAC, Lisbon (2023), O Verdadeiro lado da Manta; a proposal by Sara & André at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (2022), PREMIERE at Centro de Artes de Meymac, France (2022), Sem Medo, Casa das Artes de Tavira, Tavira (2021) and the solo shows Things that can be thrown, Salão dos Recusados, Leiria (2024); Os Algoritmos da Pintura at Centro de Artes das Caldas da Rainha(2021) Resistir a todos os traumas, Galeria Verso Branco, Lisbon (2019); the artist residencies also stand out: If this plant could talk, OSSO Coletivo, (2023) Masks with Damian Ortega, Centro Botin Santander (2022) and Unrevelling the Myth , CAU Cortém (2021).
  • 15 November

    Circuitos '24| Exhibition Route
    Clube do Desenho 
    “...Facsimiles / inilotemporé…”      – Carlos Barreira and Emília Alírio 
    Rua da Alegria, 970 / 14:30 - 19:00

    Nuno Centeno 
    “ALL ANIMALS ARE BAD, ALL OF THEM ARE A MEAL AWAY FROM BARBARITY”     – Filipe Marques 
    Rua da Alegria, 598 / 14:00 - 19:00

    Campanice 
    Intervenção individual na Linha Amarela     – Dalila Gonçalves 
    Rua Anselmo Braancamp, 529 / 14:00 - 21:00

    Lehmann + Silva
    “Hagiografia de uma máquina” – Alice dos Reis 
    Rua Duque da Terceira, 179 / 14:00 - 19:00

    Museu da Faculdade de Belas Artes
    “Direitos, Liberdades e Garantias” – Collective Exhibition  
    Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas, 265 / 14:00 - 18:00 

    Senhora Presidenta
    “Ervilha” – Ana Bustelo 
    Rua Joaquim António de Aguiar, 65 / 14:00 - 19:00

    Batalha Centro de Cinema 
    “A Cine-fotonovela: Um Cinema Impresso Esquecido” – Curated by Jan Baetens 
    “O que aconteceu ainda está por vir” – Ana Vaz e Isabel Carvalho
    Praça da Batalha, 47 / 11:00 - 22:00

    Maus Hábitos 
    "Cortejo de Despedida" – Amanda Elosa
    Rua Passos Manuel, 178, 4 andar / 12:00 - 06:00

    Rampa 
    “2 minutos de Apneia” – Patrícia Almeida
    Pátio do Bolhão, 125 /15:00 - 19:00

    Oficina Mescla 
    Open Studio
    Pátio do Bolhão / 14:00 - 18:00

    Térmita / Armazém Fundo 
    “PANORAMA” – Pedro Maia 
    Largo de Mompilher, 5 /14:00 - 20:00

    Kubikgallery 
    “Relicário” – Pedro Liñares
    Rua da Restauração, 6 / 14:00 - 19:00

    Galeria Pedro Oliveira 
    Fernando Marques de Oliveira
    Calçada de Monchique, 3 / 15:00 - 19:30

    Sput&nik The Window
    "da frágil continuidade" – Cláudia Lopes 
    Rua do Bonjardim, 1340 / 17:30 - 20:00

    Adega - PELE 
    “FUTURA” – Collective Exhibition
    Travessa da Granja, 176 /14:00 - 18:00


  • 15 November

    Circuitos'24 | Event Route
    Espaço AL859, 16:00 / Opening
    “ALGUÉM NO ATELIER?” – Collective Exhibition
    Rua da Alegria, 859

    Maus Hábitos, 17:00 / Talk
    Artist Talk with Amanda Elosa
    Rua Passos Manuel, 178, 4 andar

    Galeria Ocupa, 18:00 / Opening
    “Quartzo leitoso para professar estase” – Marcelo Reis
    Rua do Bonfim, 422 – 424

    Sonoscopia, 18:30 / Concert
    MV 4.58 | John and Dan + Rodrigo Ambriz & Emiliano Cruz
    Rua de Silva Porto, 217 / 18:30


  • 16 November

    Circuitos '24 | Event Route
    SIMULTANEOUS OPENINGS | QUARTEIRÃO BOMBARDA
    16:00 - 20:00

    Rua de Miguel Bombarda

    Galeria São Mamede: Desdobramentos – Benedita Kendall

    Galeria Presença: Passa (Tempo) Marginal | Frágil, Precário e Provisório – Rodrigo Oliveira

    Galeria Serpente    : Cor e luz – Eliz. Barbosa

    Galeria Quadrado Azul: Solombra / Schadowe – Luísa Jacinto

    REM - Espaço Arte: 024 – Group Show

    Galeria Símbolo: Group Show

    Galeria 9:16 (FAHR 021.3): Duplo, an exhibition based on the process of Né Barros

    Galeria João Lagoa: Group Show

    Galeria Artes em Partes: Joalharia e Liberdade

    Tincal Lab: Tincal lab 2024 Challenge: Joalharia e Liberdade

    Ap'Arte Galeria: Group Show

    Galeria Trindade: ...nos lugares onde arrumo as variantes do tempo. – Group Show

    Ó! Galeria: No princípio era o Oeste – Rui Vitorino Santos


    Rua Adolfo Casais Monteiro

    Galeria DaVinci: Art Show II – Group Show

    Ó! Cerâmica: “Um jardim no meu quarto” – Mónica Solsona


    Rua do Rosário

    Adorna Galeria: “Acrylic Afternoons” – Bruno Silva

    Cor Própria: “A Matéria dos Sonhos” – Joana Mundana

    MEL (Earlymade) / Lehmann + Silva / Monitor: Exhibition – Sérgio Carronha, Dalila Gonçalves, Joana Hintze e Laurent Montaron


    CIRCUITO DE EVENTOS

    Asterisco, 15:30 / Talk
    "Wura Moraes x Mário Calixto - Sobre Confluências"
    Rua de Pinto Bessa, 409

    Extéril / Poste, 16:00 / Opening
    Exposição – Joana Rego
    Rua do Bonjardim, 1176

    Galeria Fernando Santos, 16:00 / Opening
    Exposição – Cristina Massena
    Rua Miguel Bombarda, 526, Porto

    MIRA FORUM, 16:00 / Opening
    “Porto Pinhole Photography” – Group Show
    “MIRA Mobile Prize Street Photography” – Group Show
    Rua de Miraflor, 155

    Salut au Monde!, 16:00 / Opening
    "Um País Imaginário" – Dinis Santos
    Rua de Santos Pousada, 620

    A LESTE, 17:00 / Opening
    “Dreaming of a utopia that is in front of my eyes” – Manda Pinky
    Rua D. João IV, 577, Porto

    Dentro, 17:00 / Opening
    "Sinais de Fumo" – Carlos Mensil
    Rua do Almada, 254, 1º andar, sala 14

    Galeria Municipal do Porto, 17:00 / Talk + 19:00 / Concert
    “A cena de arte contemporânea no Porto hoje: quais as potencialidades e os desafios?” – Eduarda Neves, Mário Silva, Marta Almeida, Mauro Cerqueira, Pedro Álvares Ribeiro e Rita Senra / Moderated by João Laia e Matilde Seabra
    +
    Bonga

    Ócio, 17:00 / Finissage
    “Contínuo” – Hugo Oliveira and Pedro Petiz
    Rua do Heroísmo, 139 B

    Sismógrafo, 17:00 / Opening
    “Três Irmãs / Three Sisters” – Francisca Carvalho
    Rua do Heroísmo, 318
  • 16 November

    Circuitos '24 | Exhibition Route
    Espaço MIRA
    “Time Takes a Cigarette” – Aya Koretzky
    Rua de Miraflor, 159 / 15:00 - 19:00

    Galeria do Sol
    “Sobre brincadeiras de infância” – Letícia Costelha
    Rua Duque De Loulé, 206 / 15:00 - 19:00

    Culturgest Porto
    “Território #6: O Chão é Lava” – Curated by Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca
    Avenida dos Aliados, 104 / 15:00 às 19:00

    Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
    “CAC 50 anos: A Democratização Vivida” – Curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez
    “Afinidades” – Exhibition cycle on Contemporary Jewellery
    “Memória Próxima” – João Paulo Serafim
    “Siza, Câmara Barroca” – Coordinated by José Miguel Rodrigues
    “Luxúria” – Pedro Bastos
    Rua D. Manuel II, 44 / 10:00 - 18:00

    MEL (Earlymade) / Lehmann + Silva / Monitor
    Exhibition – Sérgio Carronha, Dalila Gonçalves, Joana Hintze e Laurent Montaron
    Rua do Rosário, 235 / 11:00 - 19:00

    Neblina
    “Fazer noite” – Group show
    Rua D. Manuel II, 182 / 15:00 - 19:00

    Caixa de Correio
    Project by Daniel Moreira e Rita Castro Neves
    Rua D. Manuel II, 188 / Always ongoing

    Galeria Municipal do Porto / Exposição
    “Superfície Desordem” – Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
    “Febre da Selva Elétrica” – Vivian Caccuri
    “Assim no céu como na terra” – Rita Caldo
    Rua D. Manuel II – Jardins do Palácio de Cristal / 10:00 - 18:00

    Anti-House – Associação Artística
    Hori-zonte     – Exhibition Co-Creating Spaces: Dialogues Between Architecture & Nature
    Rua Calouste Gulbenkian 227 / 10:30 - 19:00



    Open Studios – Avelino Sá, Studio Bruto, Cristina Massena, Filipe Cortez Studio, Hori-zonte, Francisco Oliveira, José Almeida Pereira, Manuel Casimiro, Cravo Tattoo e ANTI-HOUSE
    Rua Calouste Gulbenkian 293 / 10:30 - 19:00

    Performing The Archive
    "Corpo Manifestação: Transmissões da Performance-Arte nos Feminismos em Portugal" – Group Show
    Alameda do Dr. António Macedo, 75, Loja 15, 1º andar / 14:00 – 20:00
  • 17 November

    Circuitos'24 | Event Route
    Neblina, 15:00 / Durational sound performance
    Mariana Sardon and Vicente Mateus 
    Rua D. Manuel II, 182

    Armazém Pedreira, 16:00 / Listening and Sharing Session
    “Radical Labs” 
    Rua Pinto Bessa, 290, Porto

    Quarto Mundo, 17:15 / Listening Session
    Listening Session 
    Rua de Santa Catarina, 771
  • 17 November

    Circuitos'24 | Exhibition Route
     Fundação de Serralves
    “Casa Vale Ferreira”
    “Miguel Marquês”
    “Stan Douglas”
    “Esculturas no Parque”
    “Francis Alÿs”
    “Francisco Tropa” 
    Rua Dom João de Castro, 210 / 10:00 - 19:00

    Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica do Porto
    “Dança do labirinto” – Ricardo Jacinto 
    Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327 / 10:00 - 19:00

    Quadras Soltas 
    "Arte Solta #17" – Group Show
    Rua de Tânger, 1281 / 15:00 - 18:00

    Caldeiraria 
    Exhibition – Gabriela Barbosa 
    Rua dos Caldeireiros, 102 / 15:30 - 18:30

    Uma Certa Falta de Coerência 
    “Realismo” – Tiago Mestre 
    Rua dos Caldeireiros, 77 / 16:00 - 19:00

    INSTITUTO
    “Provas para Encontros” – Soraia Teixeira 
    Rua dos Clérigos, 44 / 15:00 - 18:00

    DE LICEIRAS 18 
    “10 and beyond”  – Performance Programme
    R. da Igreja de Cedofeita, 27 / 15:00 - 19:00

    DÍNAMO
    “TheSpaceInYourHead” – Group Show
    Rua dos Navegantes, 51 / 16:00 - 20:00

    Casa de São Roque
    “Coleção Peter Meeker: obras de 1980 a 2023” 
    Rua S. Roque da Lameira, 2092 / 10:00 - 17:00
  • Saturday, December 7, at 4 pm

    Guided exhibition tour
    On the first Saturday of every month, the Galeria Municipal do Porto holds a guided tour of the exhibitions.
    Free admission.
    Guided tour in portuguese: 3pm
    Guided tour in english: 4pm
  • Saturday December 7th at 4.30pm

    Book launch with Jonathan Uliel Saldanha and Bragança de Miranda.
    On the occasion of the exhibition "Surface Disorder" by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, curated by João Laia, we are launching a publication on the exhibition project. 

    Free admission.
    BMAG Auditorium.

    Photo: Renato Cruz Santos

  • Saturday December 7th at 6pm

    "Surface Disorder": Concert by MAU SANGUE - HHY & The Macumbas + Lunar Ring
     
    Free admission.
    BMAG Auditorium.

    Photo: Renato Cruz Santos
  • Join the colective!

    0.0 Be a ping!
    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.
  • Ongoing

    Exodus for Schools
    To participate in the Exodus, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
    All routes are carried out on foot. 
    Meeting point to be defined.
     
    Thursday and Friday, 10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Duration: 120min
  • Visitas-Pavão to the Exhibitions

    Visitas-Pavão to the Exhibitions
     To participate in the Visitas-Pavão, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
    Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.
     
    Duration: 90 min.
  • Visitas-Pavão to the Gardens

    Visitas-Pavão to the Gardens
     To participate in the Visitas-Pavão, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
    Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.
     
    Duration: 90 min.
  • Ongoing

    Podcasts with Mariana Sardon
    Sound artist Mariana Sardon has been accompanying the activities of PING! - together with the group of PINGS! - who come together to capture the sounds and conversations of the artists and thinkers who are part of each year's educational programme.
    Mariana Sardon lives and works in Porto. She has a degree in Multimedia Communication Technologies from the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto and a master's degree in Interactive Music and Sound Design from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. She is dedicated to the visual and sound arts and researches audio and image archives. She is interested in the technical processes of recording visual and sound memory, which she explores at performance or installation level. Mariana Sardon currently also gives training in electronics workshops aimed at the construction of sound creation objects.
  • Oficina Pedrêz

    Blues of our time
    The duo behind the project, Matilde Cabral and Francisco Fonseca, conceived the different blues according to multiple meanings: from the ideas of Louis Kahn when who said that "a square is nothing more than a façade facing the sky", to the reference to the blue objects that, inexplicably, resisted the fires in Maui, Hawaii; one can even recognise on those surfaces the continental masses and oceans that permeate the planet.
    Oficina Pedrêz is an experimental architecture studio in the fields of material research and human ecologies. It was founded by the fashion designer Matilde Cabral and the architect Francisco Fonseca in 2020, following the fusion of the “Porto Fashion Office” development studio and the “Skrei” experimental architecture office. Pedrêz takes its name from a breed of chicken native to northern Portugal and Cantabria – the pedrês chicken – in recognition of its fundamental role in the human and urban ecology of these regions. Pedrêz is an integrative architecture workshop, with a particular focus on architectural devices and self-built projects, bringing together various lines of applied research, such as cultivable building materials and the development of self-sufficient domestic infrastructures.
     
    A project commissioned by Galeria Municipal do Porto / Ágora – Cultura e Desporto, do Porto E.M., S.A.
  • Saturday, January 4, at 4 pm

    Guided exhibition tour
    On the first Saturday of every month, the Galeria Municipal do Porto holds a guided tour of the exhibitions.
    Free admission.
    Guided tour in portuguese: 3pm
    Guided tour in english: 4pm
  • Saturday, January 11, at 3pm

    "Surface Disorder": Guided exhibition tour with Aida Castro
     
    Free admission.

    Photo: Renato Cruz Santos

  • Thursday, January 16 at 7pm

    "Surface Disorder": Talk with Zachary Mainen and Gonçalo Guiomar

     
    Free admission.
    BMAG Auditorium.

    Photo: Renato Cruz Santos
  • Saturday, February 1, at 4:30pm

    Guided exhibition tour with Rita Caldo and Patrícia Coelho
    Artist Rita Caldo, who is presenting "As in heaven, so on earth" in the exhibition room on level -1, will give a guided tour of the exhibition, with the project's curator, Patrícia Coelho.

    Later, at 6.30pm, there will be a performance concert by Crisálida.
    Free admission.
  • Saturday, February 1, at 6pm

    Concert-Performance by Crisálida
     
    Free admission.

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