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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

  • Applications open for Galeria Municipal do Porto's new visual identity
    This Monday, November 11, the Diário da República published the "Tender for the Design of the Visual and Graphic Identity of the Municipal Gallery of Oporto", in the form of a restricted call with prior qualification. The competition, promoted by Ágora, is open until December 9 at 17h00.
    The Galeria Municipal do Porto (GMP), located in the Palácio de Cristal Gardens, is one of the cultural centres of Ágora - Cultura e Desporto do Porto, E.M. S.A., and is part of the Contemporary Art Department. It presents a regular programme of exhibitions and public and educational programmes that include interdisciplinary aural, discursive, pedagogical, moving image, performative, sculptural and visual practices, exploring the art and culture of the 21st century. During 2026, GMP will also have a new space in the east of the city, with the opening of a second centre in Matadouro.
     
    In line with the Galeria Municipal do Porto's communication strategy, this competition aims to develop a new visual and graphic identity that focuses on GMP as a central and aggregating project that now integrates the Pláka platform, the Fonoteca Municipal do Porto and other future projects.
     
    This new proposal, which seeks to bring together the different projects, aims to select a visual and graphic identity that should translate the dimension of GMP as an artistic programming structure, but also as a platform that drives a series of programmes to support and promote artistic practice - the Pláka platform, which has developed the initiatives Ateliers Municipais do Porto, Aquisições, Criatório, InResidence and Shuttle, as well as the management of the Contemporary Art Nucleus of the Municipal Art Collection.
     
    In convergence with GMP's music and sound programme, the Fonoteca Municipal do Porto (FMP) will also function as a satellite project, coexisting with the rest of GMP's structure and programme. Located in Campanhã, the FMP is the space that brings together the city's record collection, available for free listening.
    The graphic proposal should ensure a homogeneous and transversal identity that covers all the projects and allows them to be easily and directly identified, using a stimulating language capable of reaching different audiences. The design should be guided by ethical values and principles, including physical, social and intellectual accessibility, inclusive language, ecological balance and sustainable resources for its printed materials.
     
    The documents that make up the proposal must be submitted via the acinGov electronic platform.

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