Galeria Municipal do PortoGaleria Municipal do Porto

Ensaios de uma Coleção
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
galeria

Thursday, April 4th starting at 6:30 pm

Opening: Ensaios de uma Coleção

Since the creation of the Aquisições programme, almost two hundred works of art by more than 150 artists and artistic collectives have been included, with the Collection playing an important role in stimulating, valuing and democratizing the city's artistic heritage.

Ensaios de uma Coleção - Novas aquisições da Coleção Municipal de Arte brings together works by 38 artists and collectives and can be visited until May 19, at the Galeria Municipal do Porto.
 
With the participation of 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! e Xavier Paes.
 
Curatorial support by Isabeli Santiago e Patricia Coelho
 
Design by José Peneda

Admission is free.
galeria

Thursday, April 4th at 7pm

Passage to Crystallization - Performance by Xavier Paes

Passage to Crystallisation is a percussion piece that merges sound and image through the drawing of a musical score.
Based on the exploration of rhythmic exercises, a neumatic landscape is created in real time, through a performance that explores the relationships between music, time, movement and notation systems.
 
Xavier Paes is a transdisciplinary artist. He is interested, among other things, in ideas such as sound and noise, echo and ecology, resonant bodies and the human condition.
Image credits:
Microphone Shake & Passage to Crystallization 
by Xavier Paes and Lukas Benaroch 
Galeria Zé dos Bois
Odair Monteiro, 2022

Saturday, April 4, at 4pm

Ensaios de uma Coleção: Guided tour

 The Galeria Municipal do Porto carries out a guided tour of the exhibitions on the first Saturday of each month.
 Meeting point: Gallery counter.

Admission is free.

Saturday, May 4, at 4pm

Ensaios de uma Coleção: Guided tour

The Galeria Municipal do Porto carries out a guided tour of the exhibitions on the first Saturday of each month.
Meeting point: Gallery counter.

Admission is free.

Friday, May 17 at 7pm

Santa Barba, paisagem imaginária - Performance by Paulo Pinto

By exalting one of his alter egos, Paulo Pinto brings together poetry, theatre and music in a hybrid performance.
Loaded with references to Brazilian popular culture and religious identities, the piece is a mirror of autobiographical emotions about happiness, loss, mourning... "A sensitive sharing to unburden silences and lull your child to sleep".
Paulo Pinto (Juazeiro do Norte, 1972) is a non-binary multidisciplinary artist, performer, poet, art/teacher, art/therapist, psychologist and professor. He is a post-doctoral researcher in Contemporary Art at the University of Coimbra, a doctor in Art Education from the Faculdade de Belas Artes of the University of Porto, has a master’s degree in Psychology, has a degree in Fine Arts and in Theatre.

Créditos da imagem:
Santa Barba
Dori Nigro

Age rating: 16+

Sign up our newsletter