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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
  • 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

    Surface Disorder: 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.

    The presentation will also include a talk between the artist and professor and researcher José Bragança de Miranda.

    Venue: BMAG Auditorium.

    Free admission.

    Photo: Dinis Santos

    José A. Bragança de Miranda holds a doctorate in Communication Sciences from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with an honours degree in ‘Cultural Theory’ from the same university. He is currently a Full Professor at Universidade Lusófona, a researcher at Cicant and a collaborator at ICnova (UNL). He was director of ECATI - School of Communication Sciences. Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies at Lusófona University. He curated the Ligações_Links_Liaisons project for Porto2001 - European Capital of Culture, in collaboration with Maria Teresa Cruz, which resulted in the book Crítica das Ligações na Era da Técnica (Tropismos, 2002). He was President of the FCT's Communication Sciences panel, President of the Icam Documentary Jury (2006), member of the BESfoto awards jury, member of the Luso-Spanish Culture Prize jury. He was curator of the commemorations of the 40th anniversary of 25 April for Porto City Council (2924). He has lectured in the areas of Cultural Theory and Contemporary Arts, Media Theory and Digital Aesthetics. The author of numerous essays and interventions in the most diverse areas of contemporary culture, his publications include the books Analítica da Actualidade, Política e Modernidade, Traços. Ensaios sobre a Cultura Contemporânea, Teoria da Cultura, Síntese, Albuquerque Mendes ou o Ardor da Arte, Queda Sem Fim, Envios. A Philosophical Experiment in Blogging, Body and Image and Jorge Molder. His latest book Constellations: Essays on Technique and Culture in Contemporaneity was published by Documenta in September 2023.

  • Saturday December 7th at 6pm

    "Surface Disorder": Concert by MAU SANGUE - HHY & The Macumbas + Lunar Ring.
    HHY & The Macumbas and artificial intelligence-based generative art collective Lunar Ring collaborate to create a real-time audio-visual tapestry that transcends the boundaries between the organic and the synthetic.
     
    Highlighting the possibilities of improvisation, MAU SANGUE combines an exploration of the limits of rhythm with an investigation into the spaces of mechanised perception.

    HHY & The Macumbas are an enigmatic and psychedelic sonic experience. Over the course of 15 years and 4 albums, the band has built a discography defined by hypnotic melodic cycles, percussive rhythms that distort time and space, and echoes that extend to the limits of perception.
    Venue: BMAG Auditorium.

    Free admission.

    Photo: Rui Pina
  • For schools / Thursday, December 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).
  • 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
    Aida Castro's practice brings together diverse productions that explore hybrid methodologies between practices (visual and written) and speculative knowledge. Her research has explored the archaeologies of media-bodies, a term that emerged in the project (de)MONSTRAS: imaginaries, corporealities and amphibious materialities, to study figures, materials and imaginaries in demonstrations of hybrid and technical bodies.
    Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto

    Free admission.

    Aida Castro is a researcher, teacher and artist with a PhD in Communication Sciences: Communication and Arts from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. She is currently a guest lecturer at the Multimedia department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, where she teaches on the bachelor's and master's programmes. She is a member of ICNOVA, where she coordinates the research project (de)MONSTRAS: imaginaries, corporealities and amphibious materialities (2024). She is also a collaborator with I2ADS, where she co-programmed VIDEODREAMS: Practices of the Imaginary (2022, FBAUP).
    She has been working with Maria Mire as an artistic duo since 2017, having co-edited issue 59 of the Journal of Communication and Languages, with the theme "Media-Bodies: Matters and Imaginaries" (2023), and the book DEAD LINK: mediations of artistic practices (2021), for Interact: Online Journal of Art, Culture and Technology.

  • 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
    Crisálida [Chrysalis] (a project by Sofia Pinto) is the name given to the metallic gold colouring of a butterfly pupae. It is the third stage in the life of these insects, in which they hardly move, except to wiggle their segments and emit sounds to scare away predators.
     
    This chrysalis is no different, it's a state of latency and embryo, waiting for something to define itself before it has the courage to come out of its protective shell. Until it flies, it hides there, never falling asleep, lulling itself with cassette tapes and organ chords while it discovers how and where its voice is. Wings on its back, flight on the soundboard.
    Free admission.
  • Saturday 15th February at 4.30pm and 6:00pm

    Artist talk with Amy Ireland
    Amy Ireland is a writer and theorist best known for her work with the technomaterialist transfeminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks, whose Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (2018) has been translated into 18 languages. With Maya B. Kronic she is the author of Cute Accelerationism (2024).

    Amy currently works as an editor and translator for the UK contemporary art and philosophy publisher, Urbanomic.
    Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto

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