Galeria Municipal do PortoGaleria 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
  • Saturday, May 17, at 5pm

    [CANCELLED] 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

    [CANCELLED] Depth of Field: Pouca Terra, by Isabél Zuaa and Mauro Hermínio
    A train travels across the African continent, but the passengers are not just people: they are stolen histories, artefacts ripped from their lands and confined in European museum showcases. Each stop reveals sounds echoing from absence, each sound representing the voice of stolen statues, the whisper of silenced masks. The audience is invited to embark on a reflection on Afro-diasporic immigration, displaced bodies and statues imprisoned by a colonial past. A journey that challenges the boundaries of time and space, revealing the weight of history at every stop. The performers are the guides on this journey. Their interaction with the "Timelapse" installation serves as a symbolic manifestation of the stolen artefacts, the bodies displaced from their territories.
    Poka Terra. Poka Terra. Tchu Tchu.

    Part of the activations programme of the piece "Timelapse".
    Venue: GMP, Floor 1

    Admission is free.

    Age rating to be assigned.

    Isabél Zuaa is a multidisciplinary artist born in Lisbon, with 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 invisible biographies.
    She studied acting at Chapitô, Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and Unirio. Since 2010, she has been working in theatre, film, television and performance, developing projects in Portugal, Brazil and Italy.
    In 2019 she founded the collective Aurora Negra, 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 was held at the Espaço Alkantara (2021) and the second at the São Luiz Theatre (2023), in partnership with the Alkantara Festival. Isabél is co-founder of UNA - União Negra das Artes.
    At film festivals, she won the Best Supporting Actress award at Cineuphoria in 2023 (Pedro's Journey); the Guarani Award for Best Actress in 2022 (A Yellow Animal); the Best Actress award at the Gramado Festival in 2020 (A Yellow Animal and for the film Deserto Estrangeiro). She has also received honourable mentions at the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival and prizes at festivals such as Sitges, Zinegoak and Fest Aruanda.

    Mauro Hermínio is a Portuguese actor of Mozambican origin whose career spans theatre, film and television, combined with a strong activism for black representation. He graduated from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and also studied at the Impetus Actors School and the Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Artes in Lisbon. In television, he stood out in productions such as 'A Única Mulher' (TVI) and 'Vidas Opostas' (SIC). In cinema, he is known for films such as Mutant Blast (2018), Frágil (2019) and Ruth (2018), by António Pinhão Botelho. In the theatre, he has shown his versatility in plays such as 'Sweet Bird of Youth' (2015), by Tennessee Williams, directed by Jorge Silva Melo, and 'Imperatore 2.0' (2018), by Pedro Sousa Loureiro. He also wrote and performed the monologue 'Noman' (2014). He participated in the play 'Negros' with the GRIOT company, directed by Rogério Carvalho, which explores the experience of being black in a predominantly white country.
     

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