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
Concerts 15 November

On December 5, Galeria Municipal do Porto is organizing an evening conceived as a dialogue between two artists united by their shared interest in musical experimentation: Lena d'Água and Lena Platonos. The event, which includes two concerts, begins at 9:30 pm and will take place in the auditorium of the Almeida Garrett Municipal Library. Admission is free.

Capacity is limited to available space. No reservations: admission to the venue is based on arrival order.

Concerts, December 5, 9:30 pm

Lena d'Água

Lena d'Água is one of the most influential figures in Portuguese music. She has written a significant part of the soundtrack to the lives of different generations with her voice. Following her acclaimed comeback with the 2018 release of the album Desalmadamente, and more recently Tropical Glaciar in November 2024, her Golden Globe win for Best Performer in 2025 further solidified her talent and artistic relevance among a vast and diverse audience. For this performance, Lena d'Água revisits different moments in her career, particularly the album Ou Isto ou Aquilo, recreating some of her greatest hits from that period.

Venue: Almeida Garrett Municipal Library auditorium.

Admission is free

Capacity is limited to available space.

No reservations: admission to the venue is based on arrival order

Photo: Rita Carmo

Concerts, December 5, 9:30 pm

Lena Platonos

For the first time in Portugal, pianist and composer Lena Platonos — a leading figure in Greek electronic music — invites audiences to immerse themselves in her magical musical world. Since releasing her debut album Sabotage in 1981, Platonos has released and contributed to more than 15 albums, combining virtuosity and poetic expression in a unique way. In 2015, her masterpiece Gallop was re-released by Dark Entries Records, attracting the attention of the international music press and renowned DJs. FACT magazine included the album in its list of the 25 best reissues worldwide that year. In connection with the LP documentary about her life, Platonos also appeared in The Wire. More active and relevant than ever, Platonos will be joined in Porto by Savina Yannatou, Yiannis Palamidas and her long-time collaborator Stergios T. for a concert focusing on the album Gallop, as well as works from her other acclaimed albums, including Sabotage, Karyotakis: 13 Songs, Lepidoptera, Masks of the Sun, The Breaking of the Ice and Cavafy: 13 Songs".

Venue: Almeida Garrett Municipal Library auditorium.

Admission is free

Capacity is limited to available space.

No reservations: admission to the venue is based on arrival order

Photo: Fani Maria Chatzi