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
Other Programmes

In addition to the Public Programmes of Exhibitions and the Colectivos Pláka, the GMP organises other occasional and parallel initiatives, that aim to foster discussion and reflection about themes associated to contemporary art and culture.

Workshop Until 16.02.2018 - Tuesday - Friday - 10.00am-11.30am or 2.30pm-4.00pm Free entry with registration

BLUE COLLECTORS

Did you know that some artists use blue as narrative to express their emotions and sensations? In this workshop, we will collect ideas about the colour blue and its meanings. We will think about the blue lighting in the exhibition and get to know through its history the works on view. Are the artworks blue? Is our body blue?

Credits:
Rita Roque

Adressed to:
8-14 years old

Registration:
22 6081063 / galeriamunicipal@cm-porto.pt

Workshop Until 16.02.2018 - Tuesday - Friday - 10.00am-11.30am or 2.30pm-4.00pm Free entry with registration

LOVE ON VENUS, WAR ON MARS

How does love arise? What drives war? Can we imagine these two seperate worlds via through glue and drawing? What is 10 000 years later between Venus and Mars? In this workshop we will value the title of the exhibition and draw up a game board where participants will build these two worlds.

Credits:
Rita Roque

Addressed to:
16-18 years old

Registration:
22 6081063 / galeriamunicipal@cm-porto.pt

Workshop Until 16.02.2018 - Tuesday - Friday - 10.00am-11.30am or 2.30pm-4.00pm Free entry with registration

SONAR - Sounding the Air

What ways does sound travel in the exhibition gallery? What journeys does it draw? In this workshop, we will hands-on travel with the sound and make an imaginary exhibition made of plasticine scultpures composed of the rhythms we capture with our eyes and our ears.

Credits:
Rita Roque

Addressed to:
2-5 years old

Registration:

22 6081063 / galeriamunicipal@cm-porto.pt

Workshop 18.02.2018 - sun- 3.00pm - 5.00pm free entry

FAMILIES IN ACTION

In this workshop, we will map ideas about the exhibition by registring the languages of the artworks and its connections with sound, movement and image.

Credits:
Graça Lacerda

Adressed to:
Families

Workshop 25.03.2018, Sunday, 3.00pm - 5.00pm

FAMILIES IN ACTION

Free entry

© Ricardo Castelo / Fundação EDP

06.04.2018, Friday, 17h00

ARTIST TALK with João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira

Workshop 15.04.2018, Sunday, 3.00pm - 5.00pm

FAMILIES IN ACTION

Free entry

© Ricardo Castelo / Fundação EDP

Workshop 13.05.2018, Sunday, 3.00pm - 5.00pm

FAMILIES IN ACTION

Workshop Until 18.05.2018 Tuesday-Friday: 10.00am-11.30am or 2.30pm-4.00pm Free entry with registration

BARCO NEGRO!

Workshop Until 18.05.2018 Tuesday-Friday: 10.00am-11.30am or 2.30pm-4.00pm Free entry with registration

WHAT IS THE MONKEY THINKING ABOUT?

Workshop Until 18.05.2018 Tuesday-Friday: 10.00am-11.30am or 2.30pm-4.00pm Free entry with registration

LIGHT, SHADE AND COLOUR

14.07.18, Saturday, 3 pm – 5 pm

Workshop by Rui Bourbon: 'Cartazes Despertos'

04.11.19, Monday, 7pm

Performance 'oh!rage' — CALIXTO NETO

As part of Fórum do Futuro 2019

© Marc Domage

14.10.19, Thursday, 7:30pm

Performance 'Antropocenas' — Rita Natálio & João dos Santos Martins

December 4, Wednesday, 7 pm

Talk with Jacopo Crivelli Visconti about the 34th Bienal de São Paulo

With the “poetics of the relationship” as one of its central concepts, the 34th Bienal of São Paulo — "Faz escuro mas eu canto" — adopts an innovative format, expanding in space and time. The next edition of the Biennale, in 2020, is marked by the meeting and mutual enhancement of curatorial projects and institutional action, and involves the holding of exhibitions and actions presented at the Biennale’s Pavilion in articulation with a network of more than 20 institutions in São Paulo.

The conversation will be chaired by the curator Marta Mestre and is part of a set of presentations of the project of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo in international institutions.

With:
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, curator of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo
Marta Mestre

Coproduction:
Projeto Ymago / Galeria Municipal do Porto

With the support of:
Direção-Geral das Artes, Ministério da Cultura, Governo de Portugal.

Free entry
Auditorium – Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett

30 de agosto a 13 de setembro, 21h30

Ciclo de Cinema Lynn Hershman Leeson na Feira do Livro do Porto

Technocistem: corpo e tecnologia na obra feminista de Lynn Hershman Leeson

No âmbito da Feira do Livro do Porto, será este ano apresentado um ciclo dedicado à obra fílmica de Lynn Hershman Leeson. Em cinco sessões, propõe-se mostrar a forma como, através de obras de ficção e documentais, a artista antecipou visualidades e conceitos que marcam práticas artísticas contemporâneas e explorou problemáticas culturais que hoje são incontornáveis.

Curadoria:
Guilherme Blanc (Diretor – Arte contemporânea e Cinema, Ágora E.M)

DOM, 30 AGO
Intro: Commercial for a New York Hotel Room
EUA, 1974, 2’
Seduction of a Cyborg
EUA, 1994, 7’
VertiGhost
EUA, 2017, 13’
ShadowStalker
EUA, 2019, 10’

Apresentado por:
Sara Castelo Branco (Curadora / Investigadora)
Kitty Furtado (Investigadora no CES – UC / Membro do Núcleo Antirracista do Porto)

TER, 1 SET
Conceiving Ada
EUA, Alemanha, 1997, 85’

Apresentado por:
Né Barros (Coreógrafa / Diretora Artística do Balleteatro)

DOM, 6 SET
Strange Culture
EUA, 2007, 83’

Apresentado por:
Joaquim Moreno (Arquiteto / Curador)

TER, 8 SET
Teknolust
Alemanha/EUA/Reino Unido, 2002, 85’

Apresentado por:
Mara Andrade (Bailarina / Coreógrafa)

DOM, 13 SET
!Women Art Revolution
EUA, 2010, 83’

Apresentado por:
Ana Cachola (Investigadora em Estudos Culturais no CECC – UCP)

Free entry
Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett

Saturday, January 29th, at 5pm

Launch of the seventh edition of Contemporânea.

Next Saturday the printed version of the seventh edition of Contemporânea will be launched. The session will also count with a talk between Eduarda Neves, Maria Coutinho and Susana Ventura.

Location: Auditorium of Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett

Time: 5pm

To participate the free ticket must be collected (maximum 2 per person) up to 15 minutes before the event starts.

Reservations can be made in advance by emailing galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.

Entry requires the presentation of a valid digital vaccination or recovery certificate OR a negative test certificate (PCR test carried out 72h before or antigen test carried out 48h before).

Revisiting the Learnning programme

An analysis of the Colonial Exhibitions, by Bambi Ceuppens

In May of this year, we received the anthropologist and curator Bambi Ceuppens for a conference that focused on the analysis of the Colonial Exhibitions in Porto, in 1934, and in Brussels, in 1958, focusing on the issue of human zoos and on the ethical implications of these events in contemporaneity.

The moment, presented in the auditorium of Biblioteca Municipald Almeida Garret, was part of the axis "Um Elefante no Palácio de Cristal", curated by Alexandra Balona, Melissa Rodrigues and Nuno Coelho with InterStruct Collective. Part of ping! – Programa de Incursão à Galeria.

May 13, 2022

Anna Zvyagintseva

Surface Encounters

Surface Encounters is the latest exhibition project of Galeria Municipal do Porto, which takes to the exterior of the building interventions by four artists from Ukraine who, between April and December 2022 will share their reality with the city through the images and impressions conveyed in each work.

The first piece exhibited is "the same hair", by artist Anna Zvyagintseva (1986, Dnipro, Ukraine), who has been working on themes such as the body, exploring the fragility of life through elusive intangible moments.

Surface Encounters will also feature contributions from artists Catherina Lisovenko and Alevtina Kakhidze and the 12345678910 Studio duo (Yevhenii Obraztsov and Anastasiia Omelych).

Each image will be graphically interpreted by the artist and designer Irina Pereira, a gesture that creates a liminal encounter zone, producing a space of sharing between distinct realities and experiences.

Thursday, May 18, at 5 pm

Walk with Ellen Lima: Oby - Gentes verdes

The Galeria Municipal do Porto is located in the gardens of Palácio de Cristal and has dedicated its programming to contemporary art, but also to an artistic practice and thought related to Botany.

On International Museum Day-which coincides with the International Fascination of Plants Day-we invite all to visit the gardens of the Palace through the eyes and voice of poet and indigenous activist Ellen Lima. The walk will encourage reflection on ancestral and contemporary temporality, but also to think about non-Western perspectives of understanding and relating to Nature.

Participation requires registration, free of charge, by email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.

Image: Ellen Lima