Galeria Municipal do Porto

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

THE NEW BABYLONIANS: CROSSING THE BORDER

Based on the concept of "new Babylonians" - developed by the Situationist International in the 1960s - artist and curator Pedro G. Romero developed an extensive research focused on the Gypsy, Flemish and libertarian exiles.

This work took shape in the exhibition project presented at the Galeria Municipal do Porto, between September and November 2021. The exhibition was permeated by diverse and multidisciplinary contributions, taking as its starting point a historical map of references and allusions to these groups throughout the ages: the fado of Amália Rodrigues, Zé Povinho, Gil Vicente, Almada Negreiros or the flamenco of Porrina de Badajoz, passing even through Ricardo Quaresma.

The project has now been materialized in book form, in an object that reflects the same exhibition typology, made up of 15 small booklets that mirror the arrangement of the spaces delimited by themes, which the Spanish curator defined in 2021 in the space of the Municipal Gallery. The editorial project was undertaken by the curator himself, together with Filiep Tacq, who also designed the graphic component of this publication.

Publisher:

Galeria Municipal do Porto / Ágora – Cultura e Desporto, E.M.

Editorial Project:

Pedro G. Romero, Filiep Tacq

Texts:

Alberte Pagán, André Sousa & Mauro Cerqueira, Ángel Calvo Ulloa, Armando Sousa, Bruno Sena Martins, Carla Filipe, Carlos Vidal, Concha Barquero & Alejandro Alvarado, Dulce Simões, Eglantina Monteiro, Guilherme Blanc, Maria Ramalho, Mariana Sabino-Salazar, Paula Godinho, João Paupério & Maria Rebelo, Pedro G. Romero, Tânia Dinis, Tiago Pereira

Graphic Design:

Filiep Tacq

Editorial Coordination:

Ángel Calvo Ulloa, Isabeli Santiago, Juan Luis Toboso

Translation:

Martin Dale

Proofreading:

Hernâni Baptista, Isabeli Santiago, Juan Luis Toboso, Tiago Dias dos Santos

Photography:

Dinis Santos (Exhibition views), Luis Espinheira (Documentation and models)

Printing:

Gráfica Diário do Porto

ISBN 978-989-53480-7-7

Price:

15€

Discounts:

Student: 30%

Porto. Card: 20%.

*The discounts are not cumulative and will be granted upon presentation of the respective cards.