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

Past Exhibitions 2024

26.10.2024 - 02.03.2025

As in heaven, so on earth, by Rita Caldo

As in heaven, so on earth, by Rita Caldo, launches the Galeria Municipal do Porto's new space. Located on the -1 floor, in the foyer of the Almeida Garrett Municipal Library Auditorium, this new room presents artists premiering in the institutional context offering a space for experimentation, expanding Galeria Municipal do Porto's capacity to embrace and promote the diversity of practices that make up the city's art scene.
Curated by Patrícia Coelho.

26.10.2024 - 02.03.2025

Photography: Dinis Santos

See the public programme here.

26.10.2024 - 23.02.2025

Electric Jungle Fever

Vivian Caccuri is a Brazilian artist, based in Rio de Janeiro, has been using sound to intertwine experiences of sensory perception with historical and social issues, creating experiences that go beyond the auditory field to encompass the visual, the corporeal and the technological.

Curated by Bernardo de Souza.

Photography: Dinis Santos

See the public programme here.

26.10.2024 - 16.02.2025

Surface Disorder, by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha is a musician, visual artist, sound and scenic creator, his artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of sound, gesture, voice, installation, performance and video, crossing pre-language, otherness and science fiction.

Curated by João Laia.

Photography: Dinis Santos

See the public programme here.

28.09.2024

Fogo Fátuo

Fogo Fátuo (will-o'-the-wisp) is a day dedicated to art in motion, across different locations in and around Galeria Municipal do Porto. It showcases a wide range of positions: from intimate acoustic performances to immersive audiovisual projects, showcasing artistic practices centred around sound, combined in a day unfolding at different times and intensities.

Bringing together artists and collectives from various geographies, it seeks to intertwine folk languages with contemporary expressions, including soundscapes linked to clubbing culture as well as psychedelic and transcendental sound explorations.

With:

Les Chanteurs d’Oiseaux, Crystal Palace Gardens – 16h30

Fito Conesa, Desvendar o ornamento – Crystal Palace Gardens – 16h50

Pedro Lima x Martim Sousa Tavares x Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, DANCE SUITE – GMP Terrace – 17h30

Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei, Dedicated to the Youth of the World II – GMP (interior) – 18h15

Michele Rizzo, HIGHER xtn. – GMP – 18h35

Caique Tizzi, Hortifruti Raio-que-o-Parta – GMP Terrace – 19h05

XEXA – Concha Acústica – 20h15

A lake by the mõõn, Templos ~ Orcas ~ Mimos – Acoustic Shell – 20h50

Deena Abdelwahed, Jbal Rrsas Live – Acoustic Shell – 21h45

Nídia – Acoustic Shell – 22h55

Free admission.

This project is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL.

Partnership:

Photography: Dinis Santos

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16.06.2024 – 15.09.2024

forms of the surrounding futures

forms of the surrounding futures embraces an expanded queer perspective to challenge dominant narratives, replacing them with a broad rethinking and remaking of bodies, spaces and times. By embracing different standpoints in a non-conformist affinity, the constructed characteristics of the present are questioned, promoting the emergence of multiple futures.

An ensemble of diverse polyphonic and multisensory positions is proposed, while the collective capacity to imagine and rehearse future worlds is both celebrated and fostered.

With

Ana Vaz, Ania Nowak, Joana da Conceição (Nave Geo-Celestial), KEM, Luiz Roque, María Jerez, Osías Yanov, Outi Pieski, P. Staff, Rodrigo Hernández, Sandra Mujinga

Curated by

João Laia

Executive Direction

Sílvia Fernandes

Learning Programme

Matilde Seabra (Coord.)

Curatorial assistance

Isabeli Santiago

Patrícia Coelho

Production Coordination

Patrícia Vaz

Technical Coordinator

Paulo Coelho

Communication

Tiago Dias dos Santos (Coord.)

Hernâni Baptista

Front of House and Public Relations

Rui Braga

Room Assistant

João Ramos

Production Assistant

Clara Saracho

Installation technician

Armando Amorim

Carlos Lopes

Administrative Assistant

Juliana Campos

Graphic Design

Joana Lourencinho Carneiro

Photography: Dinis Santos

See the public programme here.

16.06.2024 – 15.09.2024

Nave Geo-Celestial, by Joana da Conceição

Joana da Conceição’s work invites us to abandon stagnant ways of relating to the world, proposing magical approaches to the unknown. Nave Geo-Celestial is a dive into the mysterious interior of a pulsating space made of colour, light, matter and sound. This moving place brings together different animated bodies: some resemble familiar figures such as a bed, windows or a skeleton, while others are uncanny in the way they constitute permeable surfaces and suggest floating images or cosmic skies. By seeking a freed imagination, Nave Geo-Celestial projects various possibilities for perceiving reality, questioning oppositions such as self and other, interior and exterior, micro and macro, horizontal and vertical, real and virtual, abstract and figurative, light and dark or static and in motion. Here, these distinctions are replaced by a sensory demonstration of the intimate relationship between all things, materialising a celebration of the living multiplicity of the universe.

16.06.2024 – 15.09.2024

Photography: Dinis Santos

25.04.2024

Abril Febril

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, Galeria Municipal do Porto organised Abril Febril, a tribute to the fervorous atmosphere of April 1974 and a reflection on its meaning in the present days.

Bringing together an eclectic selection of musical projects, Abril Febril is a celebration of freedom, of what is yet to come and of the desire for a more plural and inclusive life, uniting generations claiming a common cause: keeping alive the flame of the revolution and the ideals it represents.

Photography: Dinis Santos

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04.04.2024 – 10.05.2024

Ensaios de uma Coleção – Novas Aquisições da Coleção Municipal de Arte

On April 4, the Galeria Municipal do Porto opened a new exhibition: Ensaios de uma Coleção - Novas Aquisições da Coleção Municipal de Arte. The exhibition project brought together the most recent works acquired under the Aquisições program, which since 2018 has been boosting the contemporary art branch of the Municipal Art Collection. In total, works by 38 artists and collectives will be presented.

Expanding the Collection's repertoire, this new set of pieces sought to cover a greater multiplicity of artists and practices, in a more inclusive and plural logic. The independent selection committee was made up of the artist Mauro Cerqueira, the collector Pedro Álvares Ribeiro and the curator and art historian Pedro de Llano, who considered the artistic, historical and critical value of the works presented.

Ensaios de uma Coleção will feature works by Ana Hatherly, António Manso Preto, AURA, Bruno Zhu, Carla Cruz & Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, Carlos Mensil, Carolina Grilo Santos, Diana Policarpo & Odete, Janaína Wagner, Jiôn Kiim, João Pedro Trindade, José Almeida Pereira, Júlia Ventura, Kenny Berg B2B Ronaldo Rosas, Leonor Parda, Letícia Costelha, Maíra Mafra, Maria José Aguiar, Maria José Oliveira, Maria Miguel Rodrigues, Mariana Barrote, Miguel Leal, Paulo Pinto, Pedro Huet, Rigo 23 / Programa Espacial Autónomo Intergaláctico, Rita de Almeida Leite, Rita Senra, Rodolfo Lopes, Ruca Bourbon a.k.a. Doutor Urânio, S4RA, Sofia Arriscado, Thomas Szott, Vasco Araújo, Von Calhau! and Xavier Paes.

Curatorial support: Isabeli Santiago e Patricia Coelho

Design: José Peneda

Photography: Dinis Santos

See the public programme here.