Visual Artists

Cristina Motta brought the visual artists into this project. She graduated in Portuguese and German Literature and Linguistics and has a post-graduation in Management. She has been active in the trade fair business for over 22 years, representing Messe Frankfurt in Portugal. When invited by Ana Margarida de Carvalho to be part of the project, she couldn’t help but seeing free exhibition space on the cover of Bode Inspiratório’s Facebook page. As an art lover and humble collector, she is well aware that artists go on being artists, regardless of the current situation. This project offers a wall to display every day a new art work produced under the weird circumstances of forced isolation.

António Olaio (Lubango, Angola, 1963) lives in Coimbra. Painter and performer. His performances in the early 80’s led him to music.  He was one of the founders of the rock group “Reporter Estrábico” in 1986 and, since 1995, the songs he makes mostly with João Taborda and also with many other musicians are frequently presented in his videos and exhibitions. Solo exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, Germany, USA. Performances in Portugal, France, Holland, Germany, USA, Spain. He is a Professor in the Architecture Department of the University of Coimbra. He finished his PhD in 2000 (“The field of art according to Marcel Duchamp”). Director of the College of Arts and researcher in the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.

Pedro Calapez (Lisbon, 1953) began taking part in art exhibitions in the seventies and held his first solo exhibition in 1982. Most recently, he has held solo exhibitions in a few galleries and museums, such as, ‘There is only drawing’, Fundação Luís Seoane, Corunha, Galicia, Spain (2013); ‘A shadow secret’, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon (2016). Among the various collective exhibitions in which he has taken part are: Venice Biennale (1986); S.Paulo Biennale (1987 and 1991); ‘Beaufort-Outside/Inside’, PMMK Museum; Ostende (2006); ‘The collection’, Serralves Museum, Porto (2009); ‘It’s not my fault’, Berardo Museum, Lisbon (2010); ‘The collection’, Barrié Foundation, A Coruña (2011); ‘Quote/Unquote’, MAAT Museum, Lisbon (2017). calapez.com

Miguel Branco (1963) lives and works in Lisbon. He studied Painting at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. His work explores different media: drawing, painting, sculpture and digital image. He shows regularly since 1988. Among the most recent solo shows are: ‘The Silence of Animals’ at Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck (2015), ‘Sala do Veado’ at MUHNAC, Lisbon (2015), ‘Black Deer’ at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (2016), ‘Spectres’ at Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris (2016), ‘Naked Lunch’ at Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon (2019). He is represented in the main Portuguese public collections and in several private collections in Europe and the United States.

Gabriel Abrantes was born in North Carolina, United States, 1984. His films have premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and Semaine de la Critique – Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, the Venice Biennial and the Toronto International Film Festival. They have been distinguished with a number of awards, including the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique, the EFA prize at Berlinale, the Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival, and the EDP Young Artist Award. His work has been exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Britain (London), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the MIT List Visual Arts Center (Boston), the Kunst Werke (Berlin) and Serralves Museum (Porto). He participated in the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, the 2016 Bienal Tropical, and the 2014 Bienal d’Image Mouvement. His work has been shown in retrospective screening series at the Lincoln Center (New York) and BAFICI (Buenos Aires). He currently lives and works in Lisbon.

Francisco Janes (Lisbon 1981) lives and works in Vilnius, where he started a family. He is an artist and independent filmmaker whose work grows around experience and sound. He has collaborated in multiple forms of interdisciplinary projects in diverse fields such as advertising, cinema, performance, teaching and contemporary art. He studied in FLUL, completed Advanced Photography in in Lisbon, and was an Ernesto de Sousa fellow in 2008 in New York. In 2012 he obtained his MFA in Film from CalArts in Los Angeles. /user13328769

Ana Vidigal (Lisbon, 1960) has a degree in Painting, ESBAL, 1984. She has been exhibiting as a solo artist since 1981. In 2018 she exhibited at the University of Los Angeles, Bogota and in Espacio Mínimo Gallery, Madrid. In 2019 three exhibitions occurred simultaneously: Bela e Má (Leopoldo de Almeida Museum in Caldas da Rainha), Sal nos Olhos (Cooperativa Diferença) and Quebra Gesso (Nano Gallery, Lisbon). In 2010, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation held her first anthological exhibition – Clean Girl, Dirty Girl, curated by Isabel Carlos. She is present in several public collections: PLMJ Foundation, Gulbekian Foundation, EDP Foundation, MNAC, Culturgest, Berardo Collection, MACE, among others.

Manuel Botelho (Lisbon, 1950) lives and works in São Pedro do Estoril and is associate professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. He studied Architecture at Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa (1968-76). A grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation allowed him to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art (1983-85) and the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1985-87). Holds a PhD degree in Fine Arts / Painting (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, 2006). He has exhibited his work regularly since 1986 and his work is featured in several public and private collections.

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Xana (Lisbon, 1959) graduated in Fine Arts at Escola Superior de Belas-Artes, Lisbon. He holds a PhD in Communication, Culture and Arts at University of Algarve in Faro, where he completed his thesis LOVE, FREEDOM and WISDOM – Dialectics of a visual construction. He is co-author of the project Graduation Degree in Visual Arts at the University of Algarve, where he is a visiting professor since 2005. As a visual artist, he has held several solo exhibitions, as well as created set design and staged intervention in public spaces. He is represented in museums and public collections, including Serralves Museum, in Porto; Kunstlerhaus-Musonturm, in Frankfurt; Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and MAAT in Lisbon. xana.tv

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Hugo Canoilas (1977) lives in Vienna, Austria. His work has been shown in venues such as Frankfurter Kunstverein, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, De Appel, São Paulo Biennial, 4^th Industrial Ural Biennial , Kunsthalle Wien, and has received critical reviews in the magazines Mousse, ArtReview, Observer, Frieze, Metropolis M, FlashArt, Contemporanea and in the newspapers The Guardian, Público and Expresso. He is the 2020 recipient of Kapsch Contemporary Art Award at mumok – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Vienna. /en/qa/artist/hugo

Frederico Almeida (Cascais, 1990) lives and works in Lisbon. He graduated in Drawing by the Faculty of Fine-Arts of the University of Lisbon. Currently, he is finishing his studies in .
He has taken part in group exhibitions since 2013, having had a solo show in  in 2016. He took part in residencies/projects such as Cidadela Art-District, Cascais (2014-2016); Jardim das Pedras, Luzlinar Association, Feital (since 2016) and FIGAC, Viana do Castelo, IPVC (2017). /frederico-almeida

Pedro Proença (Lubango, Angola, 1962) co-founded the Homeostética group in 1982 while attending the Escola Superior de Belas Artes, which he concluded in 1986. His work has been awarded important prizes in Portugal, India and France. He has shown in exhibitions all over the world. He exhibited solo at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, CCB, Frankfurt Kunstwerein, etc. His work links beautifully with literature, and he has illustrated dozens of books by Camões, Pessoa and Saramago. He is also an author of essays, poetry and fiction. Recently, he was curator, designer and creator of the exhibition ‘O Riso dos Outros’ at the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, in Évora, where he presented some of his numerous heteronyms / characters. His work conveys humour, complexity, theatricality and diversity. /pedroproenca5

Rui Miguel Leitão Ferreira (1977) lives and works in Lisbon and Vienna. He graduated in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2003  he has been showing solo at Módulo Centro Difusor de Arte. He is currently represented by Galerie Krinzinger and Galeria 111, where he will have a show as soon as the lockdown ends. He participated in the show ‘Constellations, a Choreography of Minimum Gestures’ at Museu Coleção Berardo. The group show ‘In The Realm of the Clouds,’ that will take place at , is also on hold. Recently he took part in residencies in Austria, Hungary and China. His work is featured in public and private collections all over the world. /

Luís Alegre (Anadia, 1969) graduated in Painting at the Artistic School of Oporto in 1989 and took a Master’s Degree and a PhD in Design at University of Lisbon. He currently lives and works in Lisbon. He is the owner and creative designer of Ideias com Peso, a studio of communication, since 1995. In the following years, he has developed projects that overlap multiple disciplines, connecting design, painting, video and installations. Since 2017 he is the director of DELLI – Design Lusófona Lisboa, director of Communication Design Ba Studies at Film and Arts Department of the Universidade Lusófona, and teacher of the Master’s Degree in Design. He also works as a publisher at Stolen Books (Lisbon independent artist-books publishing) and as art director at LeYa (Lisboa book publishers). 

João Ferro Martins (1979) lives and works in Lisbon. 3D composition, painting and sound/music are at the core of his work. He has developed countless solo shows involving theatre, performance and photography. He has also been present in group exhibitions such as, Prémio EDP Novos Artistas EDP Foundation, Porto, and I wish this was a song, Music in Contemporary Art, Nasjonalmuseet, Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo (both in 2013); and 7 Artistas ao 10º Mês, F.C.Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2008). In stage he was co-creator and interpreter for A Morte nos Olhos (2018) and O Declive e a Inclinação (with Alexandre Pieroni Calado, 2016). He creates original music for Theatre and Film since 2013 and is co-founder of the group A kills B which was presented at Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, in 2008. This project was also shown at F.C.Gulbenkian, Lisbon, in 2012, and performed at Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2013. /

Fernanda Fragateiro (Portugal, 1962) has always had keen interest in 20th-century avant-garde practices in art and architecture, an interest that often shapes her work as a pursuit for subtle alterations on existing landscapes and objects in order to reveal the hidden stories within them. While drawing on a wide range of references, her work maintains a strong signature style, born of an economy of means and a meticulous minimalist aesthetic of form, colour and surface texture. Sculpture and installation have been her media of choice, as working with space in its various phenomenological manifestations – architectural, sculptural, private, public, temporal, socially determined – through sculpture as well as outdoor installations or interventions, collaborations in architectural projects or works that are based on public participation. /

Pedro Chorão (Coimbra, 1945) began painting when he was still studying biology at the North-East Liverpool Technical College between 1963 and 1967. In Paris he studied History of Art and Archeology at École du Louvre and École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne). As a painter he was awarded two scholarships by Gulbenkian Foundation. He held over 50 solo exhibitions from 1974 to 2014 and his works were shown in over 120 group exhibitions in Portugal, Caracas (Venezuela), Paris, Lund (Sweden, Museum of Modern Art), Belgrade, Lyon, Azores, Madrid, Niterói (Brazil) and Tokyo (Museum of Modern Art). His work is represented in the main collections and museums of Lisbon and Porto. /

João Seguro studied at Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa, Chelsea College of Art & Design and Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, where he was also a teacher. In 2005 he was awarded the BES Revelation Prize. /joao.seguro.7

Miguel Palma (Lisbon, 1964) is an artist who appropriates the narratives of modernity in permanent questioning in order to better understand and reflect on present times. He is clearly fascinated by icons of classical modernity: the world of aviation, the automobile, architecture, nature (more or less domesticated) and technology in general. His creativity unfolds into a constructive pulse that summons and problematises concepts such as progress, degeneration, speed and failure. With a career spanning more than three decades, his works cover different media, such as sculpture, video, installation, drawing and performance. miguel-palma.com

Patrícia Garrido (Lisbon, 1963) studied at Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa and her first solo exhibition took place in 1988. She lives and works in Lisbon. She is represented in many private and public collections, such as Colecção António Cachola, Colecção Banco Privado, Colecção EDP, Fundação de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal and Museu do Chiado. patricia-garrido.com

Gil Heitor Cortesão (1967) lives and works in Lisbon. Since 1996, the work he has been exhibiting consists mainly of paintings on plexiglas, showing the reverse side of the painting.  Modernist architecture has been one of his main themes, constantly revisited, deconstructed and subjected to unforeseen associations. He has exhibited his works in galleries and museums, among them ‘Mnemopolis’ (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, 2004), ‘Modelo para armar’ (Galeria Fortes Vilaça, S. Paulo, 2007), ‘Wallpaper’ (Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisboa, 2011), ‘Reversos’ (Palexco, La Coruña, 2013), ‘Second Nature’ (Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, 2015), ‘Late Night Shopping’ (Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisboa, 2017), ‘Umbra’ (Carbon 12, Dubai, 2018). /artists/gil-heitor-cortesa%cc%83o

Teresa Segurado Pavão (Lisbon, 1957) studied textiles and ceramics at Escola António Arroio, and Iade. She took part in several group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1986. Some of her most importante solo shows took place at the Museu Nacional do Traje, Science Museum, Casa Museu Cristóvão Colombo, Museu de Artes Decorativas da FRESS, MUDE and Fundação Arpad Szenes Vieira da Silva.

Matilde Martins (Lisbon, 1994) lives and works between Lisbon and Basel. She holds a BA in Painting from FBAUL and is currently studying for a MA in Fine Arts at Institut Kunst in Basel. In 2017 she won the D. Fernando II Prize and in 2018 she exhibited her first solo show ‘montanha lívido murmúrio’ at , Sintra. /matildemartins

Pedro Cabrita Reis (Lisbon 1956) prefers wine to beer, Cuban cigars to cigarettes, single malt to cognacs. Makes paintings, drawings, sculptures, occasionally photos and prints. Hates flying and self-righteous people. Africa and Australia are the two continents where he hasn’t exhibited so far.