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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, April 5th, at 5pm

    Depth of Field: Contra Ponto, by Tristany Mundu
    Tristany Mundu's performance proposes the construction of a symbolic and imaginary route, taken by two performers in an equally imaginary vehicle. 
    The journey contrasts the physicality of their bodies in space with the presence and singular meanings of Mónica de Miranda's works, inviting us to reflect on the relationship between nature and the human and the different dimensions of this dynamic.

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

    Admission is free.

    Age rating to be assigned.

    Tristany Mundu is a transdisciplinary artist born in 1995 in Linha de Sintra, Lisbon, with Angolan and Portuguese origins. He is a musician, performer, visual artist, producer, creative director and curator. His first album, Meia Riba Kalxa (2020), inspired visual series such as Baxu ku Riba and Au vivu. He made his debut as a visual artist with Interferências at MAAT, and curated the exhibition Meia Riba Kalxa na boka mundu at the Iminente Festival. Co-founder of the Unidigrazz collective, he has presented projects in Europe and works in different cultural spaces. He is currently developing the trilogy Cidade à volta da Cidade (2025), presented at CAM/Gulbenkian Foundation.
  • Saturday, April 5th, at 3pm

    Primal Form: Guided exhibition tour + artist studio visit with Francisco Pedro Oliveira & Isabeli Santiago
    On the first Saturday of April, the Galeria Municipal do Porto is organising a first-hand visit to the exhibition 'Forma Primeira', with artist Francisco Pedro Oliveira and curator Isabeli Santiago. 
     
    In this session, aimed at deepening knowledge of this project and his artistic practice, the artist also invites the public to accompany him on a visit to his studio.
    Limited capacity.
     
    To attend the tour you must collect your free ticket (maximum of 2 per person) up to 15 minutes before the start of the event. Reservations can be made in advance by emailing galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
     
    The walk from GMP to the artist's studio is approximately 10 minutes.
  • Saturday, April 12th, at 5pm

    Depth of Field: Migro, logo existo - Interstícios Do Não-ser, by Marinho Pina
    In "Migro, logo existo: Interstícios do Não-Ser" [I migrate, therefore I exist: interstices of non-being], Marinho Pina questions the struggle for private property - physical, cultural, ideological and/or identity - that makes us forget to look at the 'interstices of non-being', the non-place where universes of possibilities and opportunities reside to break down barriers, whether visible or invisible, and reinvent what it means to be human.
     
    "Migro, logo existo: Interstícios do Não-Ser" is part of the programme of activations for the installation "Timelapse", part of the exhibition "Depth of Field" by Mónica de Miranda.
    Venue: GMP, Floor 1

    Admission is free.

    Age rating to be assigned.
  • Saturday, April 12th, at 11 am

    Primal Form: Active Listening with João Sarmento (Fonoteca Municipal do Porto)
     
    Venue: Fonoteca Municipal do Porto (R. de Pinto Bessa 122 Armazém 12, 4300-427 Porto)

    Admission is free, but capacity is limited.

    João Sarmento has been a Jesuit since 2008 and was ordained a priest in 2020. He holds a degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, a degree in philosophy from the Portuguese Catholic University, and studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, the University of Comillas in Madrid and the Portuguese Catholic University. He has been a guest lecturer at ArCo - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual and is currently the artistic director of Brotéria - the Portuguese Jesuit cultural centre in Bairro Alto, where contemporary urban cultures and Christian faith intersect.
  • Saturday, May 3rd, 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 Oliveira
    Admission 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

    Admission is free.
  • Saturday, May 10th, at 5pm

    Primal Form: Performance-Concert by Amuleto Apotropaico

    Amuleto Apotropaico, a musical project by Francisco Pedro Oliveira (guitar and electronics) and António Feiteira (percussion), 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.
     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 17, at 5pm

    Depth of Field: Artist talk with Mónica de Miranda
    Within the framework of the "Depth of Field" public programme, the Galeria Municipal do Porto is organising a talk with Mónica de Miranda.
     
    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.
     
    Venue: GMP

    Admission is free.
  • Saturday, May 17th, at 4pm

    Depth of Field: Pouca Terra, by Isabél Zuaa and Mauro Hermínio
    Part of the activations programme of the piece "Timelapse".
    Venue: GMP, Floor 1

    Admission is free.

    Age rating to be assigned.
  • Saturday, May 24th, at 5pm

    Depth of Field: Opéra Ultra, by Henrique J. Paris
    Part of the activations programme of the piece "Timelapse".
    Venue: GMP, Floor 1

    Admission is free.

    Age rating to be assigned.
  • Thursday, May 29th, at 7pm

    Depth of Field: 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.
    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.

    Venue: BMAG Auditorium
  • Saturday, June 7, at 2:30 and 5pm

    Depth of Field: Reverberações de um corpo-tela, by Wura Moraes
     Part of the activations programme of the piece "Timelapse".
    Venue: GMP, Floor 1

    Admission is free.
  • 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 Oliveira
    Admission is free.
  • Thursday, June 12, at 7pm

    Deep Scarlet, Scream Ruby - The Freestanding Joys: Gallery Talks with Eduardo Souto de Moura
     
  • Mais informações em breve

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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.

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