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30 Sept, 01, 04, 05 OctWorkshop: Second Spring – Reflecting on the seasonal and collective body in the city. with Joyfood Experiences
Workshop on the body and food, with collective journeys and writing
with Joyfood Experiences.
Autumn is nicknamed the second spring. Do we have a second spring?
In discovering the importance of the particularities of this season, we can perhaps discover our own seasonality. We take a closer look at this abundant season where flavours have matured and our bodies desire to integrate everything that summer has illuminated and gilded. How does this relationship between the Earth's cycles and our own body and mind work? What is our relationship with internal and external cycles?
Through an ongoing process that explores and rediscovers Autumn in the Gardens of the Crystal Palace and its surroundings with the Romantic Paths; through exercises in mindfulness, with the body, writing and our relationship with objects, provocations and chewing, we want to (re)discover material to create a ritual.
What distinguishes an edible rural landscape from an urban one?
What wisdom, understanding and visions does the awareness of inhabiting a cyclical body and planet bring us?
Just how important is it to reclaim and revisit ritual space? In which way can this ancestral place of nature's consecration, which we are and inhabit, feed and nourish our contemporary lives?
Structure of the four sessions:
Session I - presentations and shared writing.
Sessions II and III - workshop on autumn dining and shared dinner.
Session IV - final rehearsal and performance open to the public.Alice Artur and Joana Trindade Bento are graduates in Fine Arts from ESAD.CR.
They have extensive experience in social and environmental impact, cultural projects and professional kitchens. Seven years ago, they founded Joy Food Experiences, a creative platform where they create mainly performative projects, facilitate creative processes in a corporate context and develop educational projects. Their mission is to build new paradigms by curating sensory experiences that create human-ecosystem connections.
Participation in the workshop is free of charge, with prior registration. Attendance at all project activities is mandatory.
Participants will be selected in order of registration, via email to galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
The session will be held in Portuguese.Workshop schedule:
Session 1: 30/09, Tue. from 6pm to 8pm
Session 2: 1 October, Wednesday, from 6pm to 9pm
Session 3: 4 October, Saturday, from 10am to 6pm
Session 4: 5 October, Sunday, from 10am to 1pmPhotography: Simon Suserna
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Saturday, October 4, 16:00
Guided Exhibition Tour
Next Saturday, October 4, is the final guided tour of the exhibition "Lucid Reverie – Panorama of Portuguese Contemporary Art", featuring works by 20 Portuguese artists and duos, selected by international curators Hiuwai Chu and Raphael Fonseca.The same tour will also include the outdoor installation “Beach Ruins” by Andreas Angelidakis, curated by João Laia.This is the last opportunity to discover more about the ideas behind these projects before they end on October 12th!Free participation. -
Thursday, 9 October, at 7 pm
Gallery Talk: Bernardo Pinto de Almeida
In this edition of ‘Gallery Talks,’ Bernardo Pinto de Almeida will share his perspective, as a writer and historian, on the relationship between art and emotion, as well as between art and history, with examples of artistic practices in the Portuguese context.Bernardo Pinto de Almeida received the title of Professor Emeritus of Art Theory and History at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2004. In 1983, he received the AICA/Gulbenkian Foundation Prize for Art Criticism. From 1990 to 1996, he was a member of the Acquisitions Committee of the Serralves Foundation, where he organised several exhibitions. He curated the Portuguese art collection at the M.E.I.A.C. (Museo Extremeño Ibero-Americano de Arte Contemporáneo) in Badajoz, Spain. From 1995 to 2001, he was the artistic director of the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, where he established the Centre for Surrealism Studies and organised numerous exhibitions.Between 2005 and 2009, he was a member of the board of directors of the Berardo Foundation, representing the State. As an independent curator, he organised over a hundred exhibitions in museums and institutions in Portugal and Spain. He has written around three hundred prefaces for catalogues in Portugal and abroad, and has given over three hundred lectures at cultural institutions in Portugal and internationally.He edited the 40-volume collection Caminhos da Arte Portuguesa no Século XX for Editorial Caminho and contributed to the magazines Lapiz, Arte y Parte (Spain), Artforum and Contemporânea (USA). He has published approximately twenty books of essays on art and ten books of poetry. -
16, 17, 18 oct
Workshop: Bio-Matter-Lab, with Paula Pin
DIY+DIT workshop on bioplastics and other biomaterialsWith Paula Pin
The Bio-Matter-lab workshop, proposed by Paula Pin, shares the potential of new and more environmentally friendly materials such as bioplastics. The experiment will take place at CyanoVan, a nomadic science laboratory that has travelled the world and will now be parked in the Gardens of the Crystal Palace. Based on the logic of learning by doing and in a collective DIY+DIT (Do It Yourself + Do It Together) approach, the process involves cultivating biomaterials and understanding the applicability of bioplastics. The conclusions and opinions will be recorded in a fanzine.The practice of artist and activist Paula Pin combines science, biology and queer identities in the creation of projects that take the form of interactive sculptures, installations, performances, walks and laboratory experiments, in which the body relates to the world in unusual ways. Pin organises techno-feminist workshops and has been collaborating since 2012 with the extensive bio-hack network Hackteria, which unites body and nature. Pin has collaborated with institutions such as CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), Geneva; Bergen Assembly; Hangar, Barcelona; and KASK, Ghent. She has recently been invited to sound and noise workshops and has presented concert-performances.
Participation in the workshop is free of charge, with prior registration. Attendance at all project activities is mandatory.Participants will be selected in order of registration, via email to galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.Workshop schedule:16/10 Thu. from 6pm to 8pm17/10 Fri. from 6pm to 8pm18/10 Sat. from 10am to 6pm -
Fogo Fátuo | Saturday, 25 October 16:00—18:00
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins: Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless
Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless is a choreography that reflects on the relations of desire, dance, love (as communality), loss and time. The work dwells in the states of perception at the threshold of mourning, hope and celebration. A radiant listening that stems from grief and contends with witnessing the state of transit from life to death. Meanings and perceptions, swell, undo and fragment while the choreography undertakes the invention of micro-grammars of connection. The piece manifests relational forms of being-with and for one another, in spite of and in resistance to overwhelming architectures of violence. The work is performed in various constellations, between one to four performers.
Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto — Ground Floor
Duration: 2 hours. This is a durational performance, where the audience is free to move around, enter, and exit the room.
Age rating: To be confirmed
Accessibility: Accessible to people with reduced mobility
Free admission
Photo: Spyros Rennt
Credits:
Choreography: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
The iteration at Galeria Municipal do Porto is performed by: Aaa Biczysko and Ronald Berger
Developed in collaboration with: Aaa Biczysko, Arad Inbar, Beverly D. Renekouzou, Thomias Radin
Sound design and artistic advisor: Krzysztof Bagiński
Sound contributions: Zoi Michailova
Light design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Dramaturgy: Andrea Rodrigo
Sound live: Krzysztof Bagiński
Set design assistance: Anna Posch
Poem: Ezra Green
Acknowledgements: Dareen Abbas, Thibault Lac
Executive producer: Holly Shuttleworth
Studio director: Andrea Rodrigo
Studio manager: Laura Cecilia Nicolás
Tour manager: Anna Posch
A production by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins Studio, co-produced by De Singel – International Arts Centre, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Klosterruine Berlin, Disappearing Berlin – Schinkel Pavillon. Developed with the generous support of a residency at Callie’s. Supported by Nationales Performance Netz (NPN) - Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The iteration at the Sophiensaele is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
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Fogo Fátuo | Sunday, 26 October 16:00—19:00
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins: Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background)
Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) engages with the potential of desire, eroticism, sensuality, and touch. A choreography composed of gestures of erotic charge that might recall situations between friends, lovers, strangers. Bodies assemble in relations that never settle, always becoming, imbued with a sense of queer futurity.
The work includes a billowing, suspended red fabric, a prop for burlesque performances, bringing to the foreground sensuality and reflecting on the ephemerality of queer gestures.
The repetition of Urzula Sipińska’s 1971 titular ballad – Until a thousand roses bloom – folding onto itself in loops, saturates the space with a nostalgia not for the past but for what remains possible.
“Flowers grow always and everywhere, there where they will thrive.”
Cruising is taken as a mode of close attention to the modulations and gestures of longing, through repetition and temporal suspension. What is being cruised here is desire and eroticism itself.
Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto — First Floor
Duration: 3 hours. This is a durational performance, where the audience is free to move around, enter, and exit the room.
Age rating: To be confirmed
Accessibility: Accessible to people with reduced mobility
Free admission
Photo: Spyros RenntCredits:
Choreography: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
In collaboration with and performed by: Aaa Biczysko, Billy Morgan, Ewa Dziarnowska, Filipka Rutkowska, Jose Funnel, Rafał Pierzyński, Katarzyna Szugajew
Set design: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins in collaboration with Małgorzata Nawrocka
Live sound: Krzysztof Baginski
Sound research: Filip Lech, DUNNO Recordings
Originally commissioned and produced by Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, 2018
A production by: ABJ Studio
Studio director: Andrea Rodrigo
Studio manager: Laura Cecilia Nicolás
Tour manager: Anna Posch
Previous presentations include:
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Varsóvia / Warsaw (2018);
Kunsthalle Basel, Suíça / Switzerland, as part of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ solo exhibition Such Feeling (2019).
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October 22, 23 and 24
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins @Teatro Municipal do Porto/Rivoli
In addition to the pieces presented in Fogo Fátuo, and as part of the programming partnership between Galeria Municipal do Porto and Teatro Municipal do Porto, the following shows will also be presented:
22.10.2025 – 19h30
3h, 9€Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli – Palco do Grande Auditório
23.10.2025 – 19h30
24.10.2025 – 19h30
1h30, 9€Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli – Palco do Grande Auditório
Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin)
Conditions for accessing shows at Rivoli may vary.
All information is available on the TMP website, here.
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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.
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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.
