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

Programmes
Fogo Fátuo October 2025

Fogo Fátuo (will-o'-the-wisp) is an event dedicated to art in motion — a meeting space for different languages, geographies, and traditions. Each edition of Fogo Fátuo offers a dynamic programme that encompasses intimate acoustic performances and immersive audiovisual experiences, showcasing the breadth and richness of performative and sound-based artistic practices.
This new edition of Fogo Fátuo is entirely dedicated to the work of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, offering an immersive two-day experience of this artist and choreographer's universe.

The programme is presented by Galeria Municipal do Porto in partnership with Teatro Municipal do Porto, where Baczyński-Jenkins will also present two additional choreographies.

Galeria Municipal do Porto will host Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless, a choreographic reflection on desire, fragmentation, love (as communality), loss and time. The piece manifests relational forms of being-with and for one another. Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background), undertakes the charge of eroticism, queer longing and pleasure that might recall situations alternately between friends, lovers, strangers.

At Teatro Rivoli, the programme features Untitled (Holding Horizon), a performance with shifting perceptions between a memory of a rave, a ghostly gathering, a militant congregation and a pastoral imaginary. Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin), a piece dedicated to the theme of finitude, navigating capture, movement in relation to power and a broken promise.

Fogo Fátuo

GET TO KNOW: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is an artist and choreographer engaging with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while indulging in other ways of experiencing memory, time and change. He is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Through various experimental formats and community building, Kem engages in critical intimacy and queer pleasure.

Photo: Dirk Rose

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.

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 Rennt

Credits:

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).

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

Untitled (Holding Horizon)

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.