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
The same mistake tomorrow

From 6 to 8 November, the Colectivos Pláka programme offered a new course entitled ‘The same mistake tomorrow’, led by June Crespo and Delfim Sardo. This course was presented in partnership with Galeria do Sol/CCOP.

During the three-day course, artists and thinkers were invited to consider error, hesitation and the unfinished not as failures, but as an integral component of the creative process.

The course explored the interplay of gesture, matter and thought across visual arts, cinema, music and dance, culminating in a public talk entitled 'The same mistake tomorrow – A ping-pong conversation', featuring Delfim Sardo and June Crespo, on 8 November at 5 pm.

Delfim Sardo & June Crespo

The same mistake tomorrow

This new course led by curator Delfim Sardo and artist June Crespo invited reflection on artistic creation processes and the ways in which error, hesitation, or the unfinished attempt can contribute to the construction of meaning and experience.

During these three days of seminars and workshops, we approached artistic practice as a field of continuous experimentation, where gesture, matter and thought intertwine.

COLECTIVOS PLÁKA 6 - 8 NOVEMBER, 2025

Registration: until 31 October to plaka@agoraporto.pt, with name, age, profession or occupation, telephone number and brief CV.

Price: €25 per person*

Language: Portuguese

Venue: Rua do Sol / CCOP

Limited capacity!

50% discount for: Porto Card holders, people over 65, students, arts and culture professionals, unemployed people, and professionals from Porto City Council and Porto municipal companies.

All information here.

Saturday, 8 November, at 4:30

Public Session: The same mistake tomorrow – A ping-pong conversation with Delfim Sardo and June Crespo

The public session The same mistake tomorrow – A ping-pong conversation offered a moment of shared reflection and dialogue between Delfim Sardo and June Crespo, following the work developed over the three-day Colectivos Pláka course with the participant group. The conversation will focus on notions of expectation, error, and failure within the creative process.

Venue: Rua do Sol / CCOP (R. do Duque de Loulé 202, 4000-324 Porto)

Free admission.