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
Gineceu+Estigma

With roots in the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal, Gineceu+Estigma addresses the fantastic world of botany, crossing scientific, artistic, philosophical, spiritual and ecological thought with approaches in which academic, artistic and empirical knowledge intersect and complement each other.

Gineceu+Estigma offers talks, workshops and interpretative tours of the garden by invited educators, researchers and artists.

Friday, February 7, at 6pm

Book launch of Gineceu&Estigma

The publication Gineceu&Estigma is the result of the programme of the same name, an axis of knowledge and mediation based on the Botany of the Gardens of the Palácio de Cristal, as part of ping! - Programa de Incursão à Galeria, an educational project of the Galeria Municipal do Porto. The contributions collected here, as well as the activities that have been presented over time, show different ways of establishing fairer relationships and approaches to the natural world. This book is not just a memoir, but an extension of a project that is constantly expanding and developing. Divided into four chapters - Especulações Botânicas, Micorrizas, Hackers&PANCs and Terrários - it shows an eco-thinking that runs through both theoretical reflection and practical educational actions, through workshops, essays, lectures and interpretive routes.

To celebrate the fourth anniversary of Gineceu&Estigma, the launching day will take place on February 7nd, with the participation of Ellen Pirá Wassu, writer and indigenous artivist, Paulo Pires do Vale, philosopher and commissioner of the National Arts Plan, and Matilde Seabra, coordinator of ping!, for a conversation about the relationship between human life and nature.

Venue: BMAG Auditorium

Language: Portuguese

To attend the conference, you must collect your free ticket (for one person) up to 15 minutes before the start of the event. Reservations can be made in advance by emailing galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.

Ellen Pirá Wassu is an indigenous artivist, writer and PhD candidate in Comparative Modernities: Literatures, Arts and Cultures at the University of Minho in Portugal.

Paulo Pires do Vale is a philosopher, professor, essayist and curator. Commissioner of the National Arts Plan since 2019.

Photo of Ellen Pirá Wassu: Renato Cruz Santos
Photo of Paulo Pires do Vale: Nuno Botelho [Expresso]

18, 19 oct

Workshop: Bio-Matter-Lab, with Paula Pin

DIY+DIT workshop on bioplastics and other biomaterials

With 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 8pm

17/10 Fri. from 6pm to 8pm

18/10 Sat. from 10am to 6pm