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

ping!
Massa-Mãe

Massa-Mãe is the name given to the bacteria that are kept and nurtured in order to stay alive and be used for the next fermentation, for example that of bread. From this seminal image, it is interesting to relate the politics of food to the place of commensality. With the Palácio de Cristal Gardens as a table, a basket or even a plate, the Massa-Mãe axis invites artistic creation, scientific thinking and more ecological practices into conversations, workshops and itineraries. Here, in these gardens, or anywhere else in the world, there are very different human lives and, within these bodies, millions of microbiological lives.

Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 3pm

Mesa, só de misturas: presentation of a sound production workshop with Frankão, O Gringo Sou EU and Sons do Bairro

A table can be used for many different purposes. It can be a great mix of things. A table can be a place for people to meet, but it can also be a place for eating and chatting. Maybe even for improvisation. We want the table to be a stage for the different sounds and compositions that will be spread throughout Vivian Caccuri's exhibition Electric Jungle Fever.

In this final session of the workshop, Frankão, O Gringo Sou Eu, accompanied by the Sons do Bairro group, invites us to weave our voices with rhythms and sounds, like flavours for our ears.

Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto, floor 1

Admission is free, subject to room capacity.

Frankão, O Gringo Sou EU was formed spontaneously while living in the Brazilian periphery and favelas. A restless observer in Portugal since 2010, Frankão decided to create a project with lyrics inspired by his vision of the world and everyday life, with fervent beats and simple lines. Under the sound of tamborzão, he has added new values to his style, without nostalgia, but with the same purity as when he started in the 90s. Nevertheless, in a tone that fights against asymmetries and increasingly takes on a global form. With a strong component of political criticism, he also works in the socio-cultural field, forming musical collectives with children and young people, from the communities of Rio de Janeiro to the urban neighbourhoods of Portugal.

Sons do Bairro is a project promoted by Famalicão City Council with the aim of empowering young people, adults and senior citizens through music, and promoting the musical and personal development of its participants. The project is not only about about composing and recording music, but also about building a more inclusive and cohesive community that values and understands the cultural richness of each individual.

Friday and Saturday, May 30 and 31

ping! at Festa da Criança, with Oficina Fritta: Dough workshop for baking cakes and biscuits

Just as a cake grows, so do you.

Oficina Fritta came to the Festa da Criança to celebrate with you: your very own cake, just the way you like it!

Let's get to the recipe:

The body is kneaded, but with affection;
Add the celebration of bodies that harbour desires, joys and flaws;
Write your thanks;
Add colour to taste;
Put your hands in the dough and, like an ex-voto, face the fear of the body;
Bake it.
Come and savour the beauty of imperfection around the garden table! Celebrate yourself!

PS: Over there, inside the Gallery, the artist Pauline Curnier Jardin left us a cake the size of a coliseum. You don't believe it? Come and visit!

Activity without prior registration.

Friday, May 30, from 9 am to 1 pm

Saturday, May 31, from 10 am to 7 pm

Oficina Fritta is a collective that works in the field of mediation and the arts, proposing to question the common sense of things, at the crossroads between design, the visual arts and counter-education.

It relies on the energy of Mónica di Eugenio, Júlia Geiger and Emma Andreetti, and the stage presence of Dora and Tullio.

Oficina Fritta collaborates or has collaborated with the Gulbenkian Foundation's Modern Art Centre, Qual Albatroz, Espaço Azul, the Portuguese Refugee Council, the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, the Serralves Foundation, the Luís de Camões Theatre, residents' associations and various cultural venues in Lisbon.

30 Sept, 01, 04, 05 Oct

Workshop: 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 1pm

Photography: Simon Suserna

Sunday, October 5, from 11am to 1pm

Performance and presentation of workshop results, with Joyfood Experiences

To conclude the "Second Spring – Reflecting on the seasonal and collective body in the city" workshop, artists Alice Artur e Joana Trindade Bento from Joyfood Experiences, along with the workshop participants, will present the results of their collaborative efforts over the past three days in the form of a performance.

Join us for a collective autumn ritual, sharing gestures that aim to promote care and nourishment.

Venue: Andreas Angelidakis Beach Ruins, right in front of the Gallery.

Admission is free.