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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
Programmes
Elvira Leite
Learning to teach, teaching to learn
Curated by Matilde Seabra.

15.11.2025 - 15.02.2026
Floor -1

Sábado, November 15, starting at 5pm

Opening: Elvira Leite
With a career spanning more than six decades, Elvira Leite is not only a key figure in the reinvention of art education in Portugal, but also a prolific artist. Organised in two parts, the exhibition Learning to teach, teaching to learn with Elvira Leite brings to the institutional space both a presentation of rarely seen paintings and a recreation of the artist’s studio. 
 
The first part brings together her early career works in dialogue with a selection of recent, previously unseen pieces that move between figuration and abstraction. The second part transforms the gallery into a space where one can ‘play’ with the geometries, shapes and drawings from her gamebooks, while also offering the chance to explore her archive of letters, photographs and objects. By inviting an encounter with this hybrid practice, Learning to teach, teaching to learn is na invitation to discover the unique universe of this artist and educator.
Floor -1

Admission is free.

6 December, 2025

Guided tours of the three exhibitions
On this Saturday, there will be a guided tour of the exhibitions on display at Galeria Municipal do Porto:
 
State of spirit, by Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela
Recursions: a cartography of unfinished grounds, by Kiluanji Kia Henda, com Flávio Cardoso, Lilianne Kiame, Raul Jorge Gourgel
Learning to teach, teaching to learn, by Elvira Leite
3:00 pm: Tour in Portuguese
4:00 pm: Tour in English

Admission is free

Sábado, 13 de dezembro, às 15 horas

Guided Tour (PT) with Lúcia Almeida Matos
This guided tour of the “Learning to teach, teaching to learn with Elvira Leite” exhibition, led by teacher and curator Lúcia Almeida Matos, will focus on the artist’s painting career, which was strongly influenced by the changes at the School of Fine Arts during the 1960s and 1970s.
Floor 0

Free admission

Language: Portuguese

3 January, 2026

Guided tours of the three exhibitions
On this Saturday, there will be a guided tour of the exhibitions on display at Galeria Municipal do Porto:
 
State of spirit, by Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela
Recursions: a cartography of unfinished grounds, by Kiluanji Kia Henda, com Flávio Cardoso, Lilianne Kiame, Raul Jorge Gourgel
Learning to teach, teaching to learn, by Elvira Leite
3:00 pm: Tour in Portuguese
4:00 pm: Tour in English

Admission is free

From 16 December 2025 to 16 January 2026

The Space In Between — Sessions for Organised Groups
‘The Space in Between’ was born from a dialogue between two generations of educators and artists for Elvira’s Leite exhibition Learning to teach, teaching to learn. It is the common ground where pedagogical practice becomes creation and mediation is affirmed as a shared experience. Each session offers an experimental and reflective journey, celebrating the vitality of Elvira Leite's educational practices.

‘The Space in Between’ is a creative workshop for all ages, running from 16 December 2025 to 16 January 2026. It will be led by the BOA Arts mediation and artistic creation project team with Cristina Camargo, as well as the mediation teams from ping!, – the GMP Gallery Incursion Programme and the Porto Municipal Libraries.
Our aim is for the exhibition room to become a place where people can play and learn, paint and write, observe and listen, and draw and paint. The contents of the books will adorn the walls, and the two-dimensional will become three-dimensional constructions. Let's imagine what 'The Space in Between’ can become!

SESSIONS FOR ORGANISED GROUPS: 

• 16.12.2025 + 17.12.2025 + 18.12.2025: 15:00–17:00
with Graça Lacerda, Helena Vieira and Verónica Magalhães / Bibliotecas Municipais do Porto

• 17.12.2025 + 18.12.2025: 11:00–13:00
with João Ramos, Matilde Seabra and Pedro Galante / ping!

• 19.12.2025: 11:00–13:00 and 15:00–17:00
with Cristina Camargo, Joana Nascimento and Sofia Santos / BOA Arts 

• 23.12.2025: 11:00–13:00 and 15:00–17:00
with João Ramos, Matilde Seabra and Pedro Galante / ping!

• 30.12.2025: 11:00–13:00 and 15:00–17:00
with João Ramos, Matilde Seabra and Pedro Galante / ping!

• 06.01.202 + 07.01.2026: 11:00–13:00 and 15:00–17:00
with João Ramos, Matilde Seabra and Pedro Galante / ping! 

• 09.01.2026: 11:00–13:00 and 15:00–17:00
with Cristina Camargo, Joana Nascimento and Sofia Santos / BOA Arts

• 13.01.2026 + 14.01.2026: 10:30 and 14:30
with Graça Lacerda, Helena Vieira and Verónica Magalhães / Bibliotecas Municipais do Porto 

• 15.01.2026: 14:30
with Graça Lacerda, Helena Vieira and Verónica Magalhães / Bibliotecas Municipais do Porto 

• 16.01.2026: 11:00–13:00 and 15:00–17:00
with Cristina Camargo, Joana Nascimento and Sofia Santos / BOA Arts
Venue: Floor -1.
 
Target audience: Schools and other educational/leisure organizations, up to 16 participants. Children over 6 years old.
 
Participation is free, but registration is required by emailing galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
 
We recommend wearing clothes that can get dirty.

From 21 December 2025 to 17 January 2026

The Space In Between — Open sessions
‘The Space in Between’ was born from a dialogue between two generations of educators and artists for Elvira’s Leite exhibition Learning to teach, teaching to learn. It is the common ground where pedagogical practice becomes creation and mediation is affirmed as a shared experience. Each session offers an experimental and reflective journey, celebrating the vitality of Elvira Leite's educational practices.

‘The Space in Between’ is a creative workshop for all ages, running from December 2025 to January 2026. It will be led by the BOA Arts mediation and artistic creation project team with Cristina Camargo, as well as the mediation teams from ping!, – the GMP Gallery Incursion Programme and the Porto Municipal Libraries. Our aim is for the exhibition room to become a place where people can play and learn, paint and write, observe and listen, and draw and paint. The contents of the books will adorn the walls, and the two-dimensional will become three-dimensional constructions. Let's imagine what 'The Space in Between’ can become!

OPEN SESSIONS

• 20.12.2025: 11:00–13:00
with João Ramos, Matilde Seabra e Pedro Galante / ping!

• 21.12.2025: 11:00–13:00 and 15:00–17:00
with Clara Guinoulhiac / Architoys

• 27.12.2025: 11:00–13:00 and 15:00–17:00
with João Ramos, Matilde Seabra and Pedro Galante / ping!

• 28.12.2025: 11:00–13:00
with Cristina Camargo, Joana Nascimento and Sofia Santos / BOA Arts

• 03.01.2026: 11:00–13:00
with João Ramos, Matilde Seabra and Pedro Galante / ping!

• 03.01.2026: 15:30
with Graça Lacerda, Helena Vieira and Verónica Magalhães / Bibliotecas Municipais do Porto - 

• 04.01.2026: 11:00–13:00
with Cristina Camargo, Joana Nascimento and Sofia Santos / BOA Arts

• 10.01.2026: 11:00–13:00
with João Ramos, Matilde Seabra and Pedro Galante / ping!

• 10.01.2026: 15:30
with Graça Lacerda, Helena Vieira and Verónica Magalhães / Bibliotecas Municipais do Porto -

• 11.01.2026: 11:00–13:00
with Cristina Camargo, Joana Nascimento and Sofia Santos / BOA Arts 

• 17.01.2026: 11:00–13:00 and 15:00–17:00
with Cristina Camargo, Joana Nascimento and Sofia Santos / BOA Arts
Location: Floor -1.

Target audience: Open to everyone, including children over 6 years old accompanied by adults.
 
Participation is free and sessions do not require registration.
 
Capacity is limited to the space available. Participation is subject to availability.
 
We recommend wearing clothes that can get dirty.


Saturday, 7 February, from 10 am to 5 pm

Inside and outside school: thinking about education and art based on Elvira Leite
The seminar "Inside and Outside School: Thinking About Education and Art Based on Elvira Leite" is aimed at teachers and educators. Taking place over one day, it features contributions from Amanda Midori, Cat Martins, Joaquim Azevedo, Maria João Vicente, Matilde Seabra, Milice Ribeiro dos Santos and Sofia Victorino.
The seminar is presented in partnership with the National Arts Plan and Escola Imaxinada

More information will be available soon

7 February, 2026

Guided tours of the three exhibitions
On this Saturday, there will be a guided tour of the exhibitions on display at Galeria Municipal do Porto:
 
State of spirit, by Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela
Recursions: a cartography of unfinished grounds, by Kiluanji Kia Henda, com Flávio Cardoso, Lilianne Kiame, Raul Jorge Gourgel
Learning to teach, teaching to learn, by Elvira Leite
3:00 pm: Tour in Portuguese
4:00 pm: Tour in English

Admission is free

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