Exhibitions

RITORNARE

Vasco Araújo 1 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Dear All, How does one begin a letter on the topic of 'Ritornare,' or rather, going back, perhaps by starting at the beginning, which in this case, isn't the verb, but the reason that led me to go back, to Ritornare. I think that when we return to something we've... Read more

Do Jardim, um Oceano

Panmela Castro, curated by Igor Simões 27 Jun - 14 Sep 2024 Panmela Castro: from the garden, an ocean. Arriving at the foyer of Galeria Francisco Fino, in Lisbon, we immediately see a self-portrait of Rio de Janeiro-born artist Panmela Castro in which some of the main elements of her work are apparent: the trickling that results from quick brushstrokes that attempt... Read more

La Pensée Sauvage

Adrien Missika 2 May - 15 Jun 2024 On the Wild Pansy Dehlia Hannah In a brief Appendix to his canonical work of structural anthropology, La Pensée Sauvage (1962), Claude Lévi-Strauss addresses the double entendre inherent in the book’s title, originally translated into English as The Savage Mind and more recently as Wild Thought (Portuguese O Pensamento Selvagem).... Read more

Em Frente da Porta do Lado de Fora

Pedro Paiva 19 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 ROOFLESS, AMID RUINS... «There goes a man, in his body, as he suddenly falls…»[1] . This line from The Book of Falls, by poet Casimiro de Brito, could be the gist of how events unfold across Wolfgang Borchert's play The Man Outside[2] , as well as across so many of... Read more

The Surveyor

Tris Vonna-Michell 13 Dec 2023 - 23 Feb 2024 There are six new works in this exhibition. When you walk in, immediately to your left, is a film work work called Sifting A to B: TV Radio, TV Radio, Tuner, Phono, Phono, Tape. The soundtrack is a collaboration between artist Henning Lundkvist and myself and consists of an audio... Read more

We Loved Each Other For One Month

13 Oct - 25 Nov 2023 Gabriel Abrantes, Helena Almeida, Daniela Ângelo, Vasco Araújo, José Pedro Cortes, Diogo Evangelista, Karlos Gil, Adrien Missika, Paulo Quintas, Priscila Rooxo and Marta Soares The exhibition We Loved Each Other For One Month, which lends its title to the work of Vasco Araújo, is a selection of works from the... Read more

Labirintos e abalos sísmicos

Curated by Luisa Duarte and Bernardo José de Souza 28 Jun - 30 Sep 2023 Gabriel Abrantes, Daniela Ângelo, Vasco Araújo, Anderson Borba, Vivian Caccuri, Paloma Bosquê, June Crespo, Joana Escoval, Dayana Lucas, Solange Pessoa, Diana Policarpo, Leticia Ramos, Matheus Rocha Pitta, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Tadáskía and Adriana Varejão. We live in a world where everything around us is about to collapse: the climate, capitalism,... Read more

nEYEYEght

Curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas 20 May - 17 Jun 2023 Andreas Angelidakis | Mircea Anghel | Vasco Araújo | José Pedro Cortes | Dovilė Dagienė | Joana Escoval | Diogo Evangelista | Sara Graça | Petrit Halilaj | Katja Novitskova | Tanja Ostojić | Vika Prokopaviciute | Tris Vonna-Michell Curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas Pointing to the accidental, generated or... Read more

Protagonizando a Cena

Priscila Rooxo 24 Mar - 10 May 2023 Over the last few years we have witnessed an intense historical review from an anticolonial point of view, which seeks to understand the epistemological forms of violence that have shaped art history. At the core of this change, women artists have gained increased prominence. But notice here that 'woman' should... Read more

Opening

Nuno Ramos 7 Feb - 15 Mar 2023 In a famous essay, Musil points out that the best way to forget something is to make a monument at once. Nothing is more anonymous than a public sculpture, whose name and meaning are unknown, but nevertheless confronts our gaze and our steps on a daily basis. Not by chance,... Read more

Nobody Nowhere

Gabriel Abrantes 5 Dec 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 The following is a conversation in between Gabriel Abrantes and OpenAI’s Artificial Intelligence, GPT-3. The section in italics was written by Gabriel Abrantes and the regular text by GPT-3. The following is a conversation with a wise contemporary art curator who has an understanding of how complex systems work. The... Read more

Atlas

Paulo Quintas 20 Oct - 26 Nov 2022 In his mid-first century CE treatise On the Brevity of Life, Seneca popularized Hippocrates’ old dictum ‘ars longa, vita brevis’. In both the Greek (techne) and the Latin (ars), the word refers to the task of mastering a knowledge for which life is too short, but the phrase became prevalent... Read more

Patrícia

José Pedro Cortes 15 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 Patrícia is an installation of four 16-minute videos specifically created by José Pedro Cortes for the context of Galeria Francisco Fino. Patrícia Mamona is an Olympic triple-jumper. Her training sessions usually take place twice a day and include weights and explosion exercises at the gym, as well as jumping and... Read more

Escola de Libertinagem

Curated by Alexandre Melo 8 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 Gabriel Abrantes | Tiago Alexandre | Vasco Araújo | Rosa Carvalho | José Pedro Cortes | Luisa Cunha | João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira | Carla Filipe | João Gabriel | Igor Jesus | Mané Pacheco | Carolina Pimenta | Paula Rego | Julião Sarmento | Ana Vidigal... Read more

Magnetic Fields

Diogo Evangelista 19 Mar - 27 May 2022 Magnetic Fields, Diogo Evangelista's second exhibition at Galeria Francisco Fino, brings us a new body of work including painting, video and installation. In the environment that he has configured, the artist presents a selection of works that reinforces his interest in the concept of exhibition as a generative place, an... Read more

Handle with Care

Curated by Ana Cristina Cachola 4 Dec 2021 - 12 Feb 2022 Exhibition “Handle with Care”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 04.12.2021 - 12.02.2022.
Artists: Gabriel Abrantes, Vasco Araújo, Carla Filipe, Karlos Gil, Evy Jokhova, David Maljkovic, Ursula Mayer, Adrien Missika, Rivane Neuenschwander, Diana Policarpo, Alice dos Reis, Von Calhau!, Emily Wardill, Lawrence Weiner, Yonamine.
Curator: Ana Cristina Cachola. Read more

Rehearsals

Vasco Araújo 11 Sep - 20 Nov 2021 Exhibition “Rehearsals”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 11.09.2021 - 20.11.2021.
Artist: Vasco Araújo. Read more

Body Capital

José Pedro Cortes 6 May - 24 Jul 2021 Exhibition “Body Capital”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 06.05.2021 - 24.07.2021.
Artist: José Pedro Cortes. Read more

Entre Deux Eaux

Adrien Missika 10 Nov 2020 - 15 Jan 2021 Exhibition “Entre Deux Eaux”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 10.11.2020 - 15.01.2021.
Artist: Adrien Missika. Read more

Come to Dust

Karlos Gil 12 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 Exhibition “Come to Dust”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 12.09.2020 - 31.10.2020.
Artist: Karlos Gil. Read more

HOMEBOUND

22 May - 31 Jul 2020 Exhibition “Homebound”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 22.05.2020 - 31.07.2020.
Artists: Gabriel Abrantes, Juan Araujo, Vasco Araújo, José Pedro Cortes, Diogo Evangelista, Carla Filipe, Karlos Gil, Adrien Missika, Marta Soares, Héctor Zamora.
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RESSACA / HANGOVER + Be Part of Chaos (2016 – 2019)

Carla Filipe 17 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020 Exhibition “RESSACA / HANGOVER + Be Part of Chaos (2016 – 2019)”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 17.01.2020 - 29.02.2020.
Artist: Carla Filipe. Read more

SERENDIPITY or the art of reading the signs

Curated by María Inés Rodríguez 14 Sep - 20 Dec 2019 Exhibition “SERENDIPITY or the art of reading the signs”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 14.09.2019 - 20.12.2019.
Artists: Rosa Barba, Cecilia Bengolea, Carolina Caycedo, Luísa Cunha, María Angélica Medina, Adrien Missika, Felipe Ribon and telepathically present Zak Kyes.
Curator: María Inés Rodríguez. Read more

Gaze Dithering

David Maljković 4 May - 27 Jul 2019 Exhibition “Gaze Dithering”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 04.05.2019 - 27.07.2019.
Artist: David Maljković. Read more

End User

Mariana Silva 22 Mar - 18 Apr 2019 Exhibition “End User”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 22.03.2019 - 18.04.2019.
Artist: Mariana Silva. Read more

Organic Machinery

Diogo Evangelista 24 Jan - 9 Mar 2019 Exhibition “Organic Machinery”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 24.01.2019 - 09.03.2019.
Artist: Diogo Evangelista. Read more

Paintings torn from the Night

Marta Soares 29 Nov 2018 - 16 Jan 2019 Exhibition “Paintings torn from the Night”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 29.11.2018 - 16.01.2019.
Artist: Marta Soares. Read more

Exercício de Divisão

Marcius Galan, curated by Inês Grosso 20 Sep - 16 Nov 2018 Exhibition “Exercício de Divisão”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 20.09.2018 - 16.11.2018.
Artist: Marcius Galan.
Curator: Inês Grosso. Read more

Material Longevities

Tris Vonna-Michell 10 May - 28 Jul 2018 Exhibition “Material Longevities”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 10.05.2018 - 28.07.2018.
Artist: Tris Vonna-Michell. Read more

La Morte del Desiderio

Vasco Araújo 10 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Exhibition “La Morte del Desiderio”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 10.03.2018 - 28.04.2018.
Artist: Vasco Araújo. Read more

Mirror Plant

José Pedro Cortes 27 Jan - 1 Mar 2018 Exhibition “Title”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 27.01.2018 - 01.03.2018.
Artist: José Pedro Cortes. Read more

Demain, Stabilisation

Adrien Missika 11 Nov 2017 - 11 Jan 2018 Exhibition “Demain, Stabilisation”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 11.11.2017 - 11.01.2018.
Artist: Adrien Missika. Read more

Phantom Limbs

Karlos Gil 20 Sep - 27 Oct 2017 Exhibition “Phantom Limbs”, at Galeria Francisco Fino, 20.09.2017 - 07.10.2017.
Artist: Karlos Gil. Read more

Morphogenesis

Curated by João Laia 15 May - 28 Jul 2017 Exhibition "Morphogenesis", at Galeria Francisco Fino, 15.05.2017 - 28.07.2017.
Artists: Gabriel Abrantes, Caroline Achaintre, Vasco Araújo, Irma Blank, José Pedro Cortes, Debora Delmar Corp., Alexandre Estrela, Karlos Gil, Sasha Litvintseva, Maria Loboda, Arnout Meijer, Adrien Missika, Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Diana Policarpo, Mariana Silva, Marta Soares, Tris Vonna-Michell.
Curator: João Laia. Read more

Capitol Complex

Tris Vonna-Michell 25 Jun - 23 Jul 2015 Projects 2012-15 Vonna-Michell‘s works focus on the ways histories are told and simultaneously on the act of disintegrating those same stories (and images) and transforming them into a collage of elements that craft a new history. Joining facts and fiction, coincidences and research, images and words, the artist develops narratives that evolve... Read more

Segmentos

Ricardo Jacinto 14 Nov - 6 Dec 2014 Projects 2012-15 Ricardo Jacinto’s performance (Medusa: Exploded Cello) is an explicit manifestation of a usually silent truth about the relationship between a player, a musical instrument, and a performance environment, which is that the boundaries between these three apparently separate entities are in fact mutable. Appleton Square Read more

David Maljković

28 Mar - 5 May 2014 Projects 2012-15 The turbulent recent history of Yugoslavia, and its artistic and conceptual Modernist avant-garde utopias of the 1950s and 1960s, have contextualized much of David Maljković’s work. His practice has long engaged in a non-linear dialogue with time, and a quest to reclaim and reconfigure past references and forms that have... Read more

The journey of room 53

Curated by João Silvério 23 Jan - 15 Mar 2014 Projects 2012-15 Ana Vidigal, Igor Jesus, Karlos Gil, Nuno Nunes Ferreira, Vasco Barata The exhibition’s title conveys an idea of journey, of transitoriness in time, dealing with the archive in terms of the working processes of the artists featured in the exhibition. Memory as a temporal correlate that actualises itself in the... Read more

Sabotage

Rui Valério 14 Sep - 26 Oct 2013 Projects 2012-15 In geometry, intersecting planes are planes that meet. At the intersection they split while at the same time coming together as an inseparable unit. Rui Valério’s work is similar. It materializes the intersection as unexpected connections are matched, combined and remixed. His artistic work explores three fundamental axes: an experimentalist... Read more