Galeria Municipal do Porto

Next Wednesday, the transdisciplinary artist Gustavo Ciríaco will present, in a public session, his work in dance, performance and choreography, revisiting some of the most important creations and collaborations of his career of almost 30 years.

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.

 A natural communicator, Inês Meneses has been working in radio since she was 16. She is also a writer and the host of the interview programme 'Fala com Ela' [Talk to Her], which has been running for over two decades — first on Radar and currently on Antena 1. Also on Antena 1, she has been on the programme 'O Amor É' [Love Is] since 2008, alongside psychiatrist Júlio Machado Vaz, with whom she published a book of the same name in 2018.

In 2020, she published 'Caderno de Encargos Sentimentais' [Sentimental Specifications Notebook], now in its eighth edition, followed by 'O Coração Ainda Bate' [The Heart Still Beats] in 2022, 'Fala com Ela' [Talk to Her] in 2023, and 'Máquina de Escrever Sentimentos' [Writing Machine for Feelings] also in 2023, all of which published by Contraponto. Since late 2020, she has been writing columns for the online edition of Público newspaper.

Our Gallery Talks series features Inês Meneses as its guest in July.

For the rentrée session of the Gallery Talks programme, we asked architect, curator and author Pedro Gadanho to reflect on his curatorial career, which has centred on the impact of the environmental crisis on contemporary architectural practice. What paradigm shifts are being defined in this more ecologically correct design logic? This will be one of the questions raised.

Pedro Gadanho, a 2020 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, holds a Master's degree in Art and Architecture and a PhD in Architecture and Mass Media from the University of Porto.
From 2012 to 2016, he was the curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he coordinated the Young Architects Programme and organised exhibitions such as '9+1 Ways of Being Political', 'Uneven Growth' and 'A Japanese Constellation'. From 2015 to 2019, he was the founding director of the MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon, where he initiated over fifty projects, including the exhibitions and publications ‘Utopia/Dystopia’, ‘Tension & Conflict’ and ‘Eco-Visionaries’. From 2020 to 2021, he was the executive director of the bid by 17 municipalities in the Portuguese interior to become the 2027 European Capital of Culture, after which he took up a position as visiting professor at the University of Beira Interior. In spring 2024, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Gadanho is the author of 'Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency' (ACTAR Publishers: New York/Barcelona, 2022). His previous book, 'Arquitetura em Público', won the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism in 2012. He is the editor of the bookazine Beyond and the blog Shrapnel Contemporary and contributes regularly to international publications.

In this edition of ‘Gallery Talks,’ Bernardo Pinto de Almeida will share his perspective, as a writer and historian, on the relationship between art and emotion, as well as between art and history, with examples of artistic practices in the Portuguese context.