Presentation of magazine Colóquio 220: Este Brasil and launch of the book complexo brasil
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Date
- 18:30 / Cancelled 18:30 / Sold out Tuesday, 18:30
Location
Room 1 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
On the occasion of the complexo brasil exhibition, we present issue 220 of Colóquio magazine, entirely dedicated to Brazil, and the essay book complexo brasil, which accompanies and amplifies the curatorial team's research.
Under the title Este Brasil and featuring photographic images by Claudia Andujar, this volume brings together a vast collection of essays, documents, reviews, poetry, biography and unpublished fiction. It is a 350-page collection focused on 21st-century Brazilian culture, with contemporary approaches to several artistic fields and critical thinking: literature and music, architecture and visual arts, cinema and theatre, translation and magazines. It features contributions from around 70 contemporary authors and artists, including Bia Lessa, Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Nuno Ramos, Ricardo Aleixo, Marília Garcia, Caetano Galindo, Veronica Stigger, Bernardo Carvalho and Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, among many others.
Published in partnership with Companhia das Letras, the book complexo brasil offers a journey through Brazilian culture, through five original essays that reflect and amplify the curatorial team’s research. The essays are written by the curators – José Miguel Wisnik, Guilherme Wisnik and Milena Britto – and three guests – Eliane Brum, Suzane Lima Costa and Rafael Xukuru-Kariri.
The conversation will feature contributions from António M. Feijó (President of the Board of Trustees of FCG), Joana Matos Frias, Clara Rowland (Colóquio), Madalena Alfaia (Companhia das Letras) and the exhibition’s curatorial team.
This event is part of the complementary programme for the exhibition complexo brasil, curated by José Miguel Wisnik, Guilherme Wisnik and Milena Britto.
Speakers
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António M. Feijó
President of the Board of Trustees of the Gulbenkian Foundation since May 2022 and Professor Emeritus at the University of Lisbon, where he was Director of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He was Vice-Rector and Pro-Rector of the University, Director of the University Press and its magazine. PhD (English and North American Literature), Brown University (1985); MA (English and North American Literature), State University of New York at Albany (1979). He is the author of books and essays on topics in English, North American and Portuguese literature, as well as translations and plays for the stage.
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Clara Rowland
Professor in the Department of Portuguese Studies at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) of the New University of Lisbon. Member of the teaching staff of the PhD programme in Linguistics and Foreign Literatures at the University of Pisa, Italy. Vice-Rector for Culture at the NOVA University of Lisbon. She directed the Master’s Degree and the FCT International Doctoral Programme in Comparative Studies and was responsible for creating and initially directing the Master’s Degree in Brazilian Studies (FLUL and ICS-UL). Her work focuses on Brazilian Literature, Comparative Literature and Interarts Studies.
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Guilherme Wisnik
Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU USP). He is the curator of MuBE (Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology), and the author of books such as Lucio Costa (2001), Estado crítico: à deriva nas cidades (2009), Dentro do nevoeiro: arte, arquitetura e tecnologia contemporâneas (2018) and Lançar mundos no mundo: Caetano Veloso e o Brasil (2022). He received the ‘Destaque 2018’ award from the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (ABCA). He was the general curator of the 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennial (2013).
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Joana Matos Frias
Professor of Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon – where she also holds the position of Director of the Department of Romance Literatures – and member of the Estranhar Pessoa Project. Her critical activity has been divided among a large number of creators, especially Portuguese and Brazilian. Among her published books of essays, O Murmúrio das Imagens (2 vols., 2018) and Oscilações (poetry in every sense), from 2023, stand out. Since June 2025, she has been the director of Colóquio magazine.
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José Miguel Wisnik
Professor at the University of São Paulo, writer and musician. Author of O som e o sentido – Uma outra história das músicas (1989), Veneno remédio – o futebol e o Brasil (2008) and Maquinação do mundo – Drummond e a mineração (2018). He wrote songs and soundtracks for film, theatre and dance. He was awarded the Jabuti Prize for Literature (1978, 2009), the Kikito Prize at the Gramado Film Festival (1989), the Paulista Association of Art Critics Prize (1991, 1993, 1995), the Order of Cultural Merit (2009) and the National Library Foundation Literary Prize (2019).
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Madalena Alfaia
Literary editor at Penguin Random House Portugal, responsible for Alfaguara and Companhia das Letras. She graduated in Modern Languages and Literature (FLUP) and attended the doctoral programme in Literary Theory (FLUL). She has been working in book publishing since 2004, collaborating as an editor, translator and proofreader with the most prestigious Portuguese publishing houses, institutions and newspapers (Antígona, Húmus, Livros Cotovia, Maldoror, Porto Editora, Presença, Relógio D’Água, Tinta-da-china; Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Imprensa Nacional/Casa da Moeda, Imprensa da Universidade de Lisboa, Teatro Nacional São João, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Teatro Luís de Camões; Público and Expresso).
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Milena Britto
Professor at the Federal University of Bahia, PhD in Brazilian literature and culture. She was visiting professor at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolívar (Ecuador) and at the University of California Berkeley (USA). She was a consultant for UNESCO/MinC/FUNARTE and literature manager for the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia (2011-2015). She was a literature critic and curator of literary events, such as Flip (2022, 2023). She was the editorial coordinator of the Paralelo 13S label. She studied the novel O Mameluco, by Amélia Rodrigues, which was selected by the Rumos Itaú Cultural public notice.
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Cover of issue 220 of Colóquio magazine (detail), graphic project by FBA.
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