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

FEET OF CLAY

After the exhibition presented at the Galeria Municipal do Porto, focused on clay as the central theme, the project has now been materialised into a book.

Some people may associate clay, pottery and ceramics with tradition, and tradition with the past. Others may associate technology, digital communication and databases with the new, and the new with the future. What if the future is a technology as old and peculiar as clay? What if, after all, clay is a material that constantly regenerates itself and gives time its unpredictable configurations? What if clay is the future and the future is clay?

It was based on these questions and enigmas that curators Chus Martínez and Filipa Ramos developed the exhibition Feet of Clay, presented at the end of 2021, bringing together a group of artists who have used clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, design and mould the world in which they live. They are: Ana Jotta, Eduardo Navarro, the Formabesta duo (Salvador and Juan Cidrás), Gabriel Chaile, Isabel Carvalho, Neïl Beloufa, Pauline Curnier Jardin and Tamara Henderson.

Bringing together the contributions of all the participating artists, this publication presents itself not only as a summary of the exhibition project, but also as an extension of their thinking about this ancient technology, materialised through interviews and essays written for the occasion.

Publishers:

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

Lenz, Milan

Editors:

Chus Martínez, Filipa Ramos

Contributions:

Ana Jotta, Chus Martínez, Eduardo Navarro, Filipa Ramos, Formabesta (Salvador e Juan Cidrás), Gabriel Chaile, Isabel Carvalho, Neïl Beloufa, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Tamara Henderson

Editorial Coordination:

Tiago Dias dos Santos

Design:

Ana Dominguez Studio

Translation:

Cláudia Gonçalves, Martin Dale

Proofreading:

Cláudia Gonçalves, Diana Reis, Hernâni Baptista

Photography

Dinis Santos

Print:

Ediprima (Italy)

ISBN

978-989-53981-2-6

Ágora – Cultura e Desporto

do Porto, E.M.

979-12-80579-50-8

Lenz, Milan

Price:

15€

Discounts:

Student: 30%

Porto. Card: 20%.

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