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Saturday, May 3rd, at 4pmGuided 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. -
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.
Photo: Francisco Fidalgo -
Saturday, May 10, at 4pm
Opening: Beach Ruins
Beach Ruins is a site-specific installation by Andreas Angelidakis at Galeria Municipal do Porto. Engaging with various notions of ruin – contemporary, ancestral or imaginary – the Greek artist-architect presents an intervention in which ancient columns embark on a journey across Europe, resting in Porto.Beach Ruins key reference is the "Grand Tour”, a custom of the 17th to 19th Centuries in which upper-class people ventured on journeys searching for classic antiquity, the Greek ruins being one of the prime destinations. The installation subverts stable notions of reality, by transforming the ruined columns into characters who set off from southern Europe in search of new experiences.Here, ruins are paired with parasols, setting the stage for a playful engagement with dynamics such as tourism, monumentality, class, taste, heritage or history. The installation is simultaneously a space of criticality, enjoyment and rest, where the superficial hardness of the stone is deflected by the softness of its interior. The structures function as large poufs that can take on different configurations devised by the visitors, and accumulate markings and tags on their surface, just like any other outdoor city object or building.Beach Ruins is the inaugural project of a new initiative of Galeria Municipal do Porto: the summer outdoor commission which happens annually from May to October.Admission is free. -
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: A Decolonial Ecology - 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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Friday and Saturday, May 30 and 31
ping! at Festa da Criança, with Oficina Fritta: Dough workshop for baking cakes and biscuits
Just as a cake grows, so do you.Oficina Fritta came to the Festa da Criança to celebrate with you: your very own cake, just the way you like it!Let's get to the recipe:- The body is kneaded, but with affection;
- Add the celebration of bodies that harbour desires, joys and flaws;
- Write your thanks;
- Add colour to taste;
- Put your hands in the dough and, like an ex-voto, face the fear of the body;
- Bake it.
- Come and savour the beauty of imperfection around the garden table! Celebrate yourself!
PS: Over there, inside the Gallery, the artist Pauline Curnier Jardin left us a cake the size of a coliseum. You don't believe it? Come and visit!Oficina Fritta is a collective that works in the field of mediation and the arts, proposing to question the common sense of things, at the crossroads between design, the visual arts and counter-education.It relies on the energy of Mónica di Eugenio, Júlia Geiger and Emma Andreetti, and the stage presence of Dora and Tullio.Oficina Fritta collaborates or has collaborated with the Gulbenkian Foundation's Modern Art Centre, Qual Albatroz, Espaço Azul, the Portuguese Refugee Council, the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, the Serralves Foundation, the Luís de Camões Theatre, residents' associations and various cultural venues in Lisbon. -
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.
Photography: Tiago Rodriguez -
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. -
Join the colective!
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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. -
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.
