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For schools / Thursday, December 12, from 10am to 1pm
Formas sónicas das plantas – Drawing and sound workshop with Escola de Desenho Inconvencional
The Escola de Desenho Inconvencional proposes a series of moments - like radio stations - where we record the auditory nature of the Crystal Palace Gardens. In each place, we'll create a moment of capture: the sound is extracted and transferred to images scratched on paper, or digitally, as sonic waves.Art, science and technology are the branches of this ping! workshop, which we want to bring out different sensations. Let's feel, touch and draw the sound of the plant beings that grow and expand endlessly in these gardens...In a variety of ways, we'll think about drawing and listening far beyond what we learn at school, bringing new perspectives on the plant world, full of sensitive and communicative beings.To participate, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.Miguel Ângelo was born in Guimarães in 1994. An ever-expanding visual artist, he completed his Master's degree in Fine Arts at the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design (2023) and his Bachelor's degree at the same school (2016). He founded the Escola de Desenho Inconvencional in 2020 and since then has worked on art education and art liberation projects with schools, institutions and associations.Since 2021, he has been part of the Coletivo PALMA together with Catarina Braga, an artistic project focused on ecological issues.In his paintings and drawings, he works with archival sources, fiction and memory, looking for compositions that rewrite canonical images to imagine another subject. These themes are represented in a rich color palette, with an attention to light and space that gives the work a psychological depth and narrative.He has been exhibiting regularly since 2015, including the group exhibitions Fazer Arbítrio, Centro Cultural Vila Flor (2024); Hammer Time, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2023), Drowning Room, Cosmos CAC, Lisbon (2023), O Verdadeiro lado da Manta; a proposal by Sara & André at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (2022), PREMIERE at Centro de Artes de Meymac, France (2022), Sem Medo, Casa das Artes de Tavira, Tavira (2021) and the solo shows Things that can be thrown, Salão dos Recusados, Leiria (2024); Os Algoritmos da Pintura at Centro de Artes das Caldas da Rainha(2021) Resistir a todos os traumas, Galeria Verso Branco, Lisbon (2019); the artist residencies also stand out: If this plant could talk, OSSO Coletivo, (2023) Masks with Damian Ortega, Centro Botin Santander (2022) and Unrevelling the Myth , CAU Cortém (2021). -
Join the colective!
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If you're between the ages of 16 and 22 and want to take part in the Gallery's activities, visit the art spaces in the city, or attend workshops led by different artists and thinkers, just send an email to galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.The PINGs! collective accepts applications on a continuous basis. -
Ongoing
Exodus for Schools
To participate in the Exodus, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.All routes are carried out on foot.Meeting point to be defined.
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Visitas-Pavão to the Exhibitions
Visitas-Pavão to the Exhibitions
To participate in the Visitas-Pavão, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.Duration: 90 min. -
Visitas-Pavão to the Gardens
Visitas-Pavão to the Gardens
To participate in the Visitas-Pavão, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.Duration: 90 min. -
Ongoing
Podcasts with Mariana Sardon
Sound artist Mariana Sardon has been accompanying the activities of PING! - together with the group of PINGS! - who come together to capture the sounds and conversations of the artists and thinkers who are part of each year's educational programme.Mariana Sardon lives and works in Porto. She has a degree in Multimedia Communication Technologies from the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto and a master's degree in Interactive Music and Sound Design from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. She is dedicated to the visual and sound arts and researches audio and image archives. She is interested in the technical processes of recording visual and sound memory, which she explores at performance or installation level. Mariana Sardon currently also gives training in electronics workshops aimed at the construction of sound creation objects. -
Oficina Pedrêz
Blues of our time
The duo behind the project, Matilde Cabral and Francisco Fonseca, conceived the different blues according to multiple meanings: from the ideas of Louis Kahn when who said that "a square is nothing more than a façade facing the sky", to the reference to the blue objects that, inexplicably, resisted the fires in Maui, Hawaii; one can even recognise on those surfaces the continental masses and oceans that permeate the planet.Oficina Pedrêz is an experimental architecture studio in the fields of material research and human ecologies. It was founded by the fashion designer Matilde Cabral and the architect Francisco Fonseca in 2020, following the fusion of the “Porto Fashion Office” development studio and the “Skrei” experimental architecture office. Pedrêz takes its name from a breed of chicken native to northern Portugal and Cantabria – the pedrês chicken – in recognition of its fundamental role in the human and urban ecology of these regions. Pedrêz is an integrative architecture workshop, with a particular focus on architectural devices and self-built projects, bringing together various lines of applied research, such as cultivable building materials and the development of self-sufficient domestic infrastructures.A project commissioned by Galeria Municipal do Porto / Ágora – Cultura e Desporto, do Porto E.M., S.A. -
Saturday, January 4, at 4 pm
Guided exhibition tour
On the first Saturday of every month, the Galeria Municipal do Porto holds a guided tour of the exhibitions.Free admission.
Guided tour in portuguese: 3pm
Guided tour in english: 4pm -
Saturday, January 11, at 3pm
"Surface Disorder": Guided exhibition tour with Aida Castro
Aida Castro's practice brings together diverse productions that explore hybrid methodologies between practices (visual and written) and speculative knowledge. Her research has explored the archaeologies of media-bodies, a term that emerged in the project (de)MONSTRAS: imaginaries, corporealities and amphibious materialities, to study figures, materials and imaginaries in demonstrations of hybrid and technical bodies.Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto
Free admission.
Aida Castro is a researcher, teacher and artist with a PhD in Communication Sciences: Communication and Arts from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. She is currently a guest lecturer at the Multimedia department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, where she teaches on the bachelor's and master's programmes. She is a member of ICNOVA, where she coordinates the research project (de)MONSTRAS: imaginaries, corporealities and amphibious materialities (2024). She is also a collaborator with I2ADS, where she co-programmed VIDEODREAMS: Practices of the Imaginary (2022, FBAUP).She has been working with Maria Mire as an artistic duo since 2017, having co-edited issue 59 of the Journal of Communication and Languages, with the theme "Media-Bodies: Matters and Imaginaries" (2023), and the book DEAD LINK: mediations of artistic practices (2021), for Interact: Online Journal of Art, Culture and Technology. -
Thursday, January 16 at 7pm
"Surface Disorder": Talk with Zachary Mainen and Gonçalo Guiomar
Free admission.
BMAG Auditorium.
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Saturday, February 1, at 4:30pm
Guided exhibition tour with Rita Caldo and Patrícia Coelho
Artist Rita Caldo, who is presenting "As in heaven, so on earth" in the exhibition room on level -1, will give a guided tour of the exhibition, with the project's curator, Patrícia Coelho.
Later, at 6.30pm, there will be a performance concert by Crisálida.Free admission. -
Saturday, February 1, at 6pm
Concert-Performance by Crisálida
Crisálida [Chrysalis] (a project by Sofia Pinto) is the name given to the metallic gold colouring of a butterfly pupae. It is the third stage in the life of these insects, in which they hardly move, except to wiggle their segments and emit sounds to scare away predators.This chrysalis is no different, it's a state of latency and embryo, waiting for something to define itself before it has the courage to come out of its protective shell. Until it flies, it hides there, never falling asleep, lulling itself with cassette tapes and organ chords while it discovers how and where its voice is. Wings on its back, flight on the soundboard.Free admission. -
Saturday 15th February at 4.30pm
Artist talk with Amy Ireland
Amy Ireland is a writer and theorist best known for her work with the technomaterialist transfeminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks, whose Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (2018) has been translated into 18 languages. With Maya B. Kronic she is the author of Cute Accelerationism (2024).
Amy currently works as an editor and translator for the UK contemporary art and philosophy publisher, Urbanomic.Venue: Galeria Municipal do Porto