Ana Rito

Ana Rito holds a PhD in Fine Arts (Installation) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and is a member of CIEBA – Centre for Research and Studies in Fine Arts.

Her area of expertise focuses on new media, performance and video-installation, image materialities, transmedia platforms, curatorship and programming.

Her curatorial projects include the She is a Femme Fatale exhibition, held at the Fundação de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea Museu Coleção Berardo in 2009; One Woman Show, Film Cycle organised in collaboration with the Temps d’Images Festival, held at the Fundação de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea Museu Coleção Berardo in 2009; She is a Femme Fatale#2, held at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the Nova University of Lisbon, Caparica Campus Library, Almada in 2010; Observadores  – Revelações, Trânsitos e Distâncias [OBSERVERS – Revelations, Transits and Distances], held at the Fundação de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea Museu Coleção Berardo, (Co-curators Jean-François Chougnet and Hugo Barata); Curating the Domestic – Images@home, Lisbon Architecture Triennale in 2013; A Imagem Incorporada/The Embodied Vision – Performance for the camera, National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado (MNAC), co-curated by Jacinto Lageira, in 2014.

In 2017 she curated the exhibition of José Maçãs de Carvalho Archive and Democracy, MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.

 

Vasco Araújo

Vasco Araújo was born in 1975 in Lisbon, where he still lives and works. He received a degree in Sculpture from the FBAUL and took the Advanced Course in Visual Art at Maumaus in Lisbon.  Since then he has taken part in various solo and group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, and has been involved in residency programmes such as Récollets in Paris (2005) and Core Program in Houston (2003/04). In 2003 he won the EDP New Artists Award.

His work has appeared in various books and catalogues and features in several public and private collections, including that of the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art Modern (France), the Museu Colecção Berardo, Arte Moderna e Contamporânea, (Portugal); the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Centro de Arte (Spain), the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (USA) and the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil).

 

Paula Pinto

Paula Pinto has a degree in Sculpture and a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester (NY, USA), where she specialised in the history of photography. She was the founder and co-editor of the urban culture magazine InSi(s)tu (2001–2005) and has edited a number of photographic works. As a freelance researcher and exhibition curator, she has worked at the museum of the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Porto and at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves. She is currently showing two exhibitions that can be visited by the public: Stefano Serafin: arte em estado de guerra [Stefano Serafin: Art in a time of war], at the Centro Internacional de Arte José de Guimarães (Guimarães), and Ernesto de Sousa: a mão direita não sabe o que a esquerda anda a fazer [Ernesto de Sousa: the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing], at the Cerveira Biennial.

 

Noé Sendas

Noé Sendas’s singularity in the landscape of Portuguese art over the past few decades is due to the way in which he has been able to trace a coherent path, with his solid conceptual foundation and distinctive rhythm, oblivious to the superficial fluctuations of the current day. In his recent works, one can perceive the increasing value placed on the notion of the system rather than on the object. A system that goes beyond the realm of installation when it seeks to describe the genesis of a work, its predecessors and its contextual implications, while proposing spatial relations between objects. Work, exposition and installation constitute an indivisible concept in which each piece requires and describes a museography of the whole, according to a process in which the artist controls even the smallest detail.

Between 2005 & 2015 Noé Sendas was one of 5 directors of the artists run space Invaliden1 galerie in Berlin.

Invaliden1 in a 10 years period presented over 60 exhibitions working with over 80 artists (Solo shows by Annika von Hausswolff, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ming Wong, Reynold Reynolds, Jorge Molder, Ulf Aminde a.o) until is closure in August 2015.

Noé Sendas currently lives between Belin, Madrid & Lisbon.

 

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