José Bechara (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1957) works on a wide field of research such as space, volumetry, surface, composition showing the result of his investigation through a series of work using painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and installation. The artist often reuses truck canvas tarps, manipulates oxides of carbon, copper and steel to produce diptychs, triptychs or polyptics with different intensities exploring cores, lines and patterns.

The artist had shown his work in various institutions such as: Eva Klabin Foundation, Brazil; Culturgest, Portugal, MEIAC, Spain; Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Spain; MAM Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Tomie Ohtake Institute, Brazil; Ludwig Museum, Germany, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany; Ludwig Forum Fur Intl Kunst, Germany, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal, among others. He is represented in several collections such as MAM RJ, Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Brazil, Center Pompidou, France, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu Brasil or Ludwig (Koblenz), Germany.

Marguerite Bornhauser's (1989, Paris) work has been shown at the museum of European Photography in Paris and Paris Photo in 2019, in the streets of Cincinnati for the Cincinnati Art museum, in Arles during the festival of Photography, in Deauville during the Festival Planches Contact, at BETC agency, Agnès B, in the festival MAP Toulouse, in London, etc. Marguerite Bornhauser adds editorial work to her photographic research. Her first book, Plastic Colors, was selected among the finalists of the first book award of Mack books in 2015 and published in 2017. Her book "8" was published by Poursuite in 2018. In 2019 she published Red Harvest with the same publisher. She also collaborates with french and international magazines and newspapers as a photoreporter and portrait photographer as well as a fashion photographer. Red Harvest, Poursuite Editions, 2019, 8, Poursuite Editions, 2018, Plastic Colors, Les Editions du Lic, 2017, Carnet de Résidence du Hameau des Baux, Poursuite Editions, 2017, Fisheye photobook, 2017, 8, Self published, 2016, Festival de créations photographiques à Deauville Edition 6, Filligranes Editions, 2015, Echappées Belles, Edition Diaphane, 2015, Plastic Colors, Self published, January 2015. In 2020 she won the Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer of the Year Award. Currently she is making a residency in Le Grand Palais and showing her work in the exhibition Rouge at Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.

Carla Cabanas’s (Lisboa, 1979) work revolves around the methodologies of stretching the defined borders of the photography medium while dwelling on the issues of collective and cultural memory. She has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions including MAAT Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisbon (2020); Balcony Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon (2020); Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2020); Aa Collections Gallery, Vienna (2019); Sternstudio Gallery, Vienna (2019); Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Ribeira Grande, Açores (2019); Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa (2019); Biennale de l’Image Tangible, Paris (2018); Grimmmuseum, Berlin (2018); Centre D’art Contemporain, Meymac, France (2018); GlogauAIR, Berlin (2018); Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora (2017); Gallery Carlos Carvalho – Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2017); Castello Visconteo Di Legnano, Milan, Italy (2017); Panal 361, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017); Ox Warehouse, Macau, China (2016); Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisboa (2015); Lisbon Municipal Photographic Archive, Lisbon (2014); City Museum, Lisbon (2014); 7ª Biennial São Tomé e Príncipe (2013); National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon (2012); Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (2012) and CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2009).

Her work is held in prominent collections, including the National Gallery of Art Washington, DC; Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), Lisbon; LPS Collection (Stanislas y Leticia Poniatowski), Colección Kells, Santander; PLMJ Foundation Collection, Lisbon; Novo Banco Art Collection, Lisbon; Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe, Lisbon; Lisbon City Hall, Lisbon; Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, Lisbon; Marín Gaspar Collection, Lisbon; José Carlos Santana Pinto Collection, Lisbon; and other private collections.

Catarina Leitão (Stuttgart, 1970) is an artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and artist books. The artist has exhibited her work at P.S.1/MoMA, the Aldrich museum, Connecticut, Socrates Sculpture Park, Wavehill, Glyndor Gallery and Grounds, Andrea Rosen Gallery, the Bronx Museum, Pedro Cera Gallery, Carlos Carvalho Contemporary Art, among others. She had solo museum shows at the Berardo Collection, Sintra, and Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, Portugal. Awards and residencies include The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2009, Center for Book Arts, 2007, The Triangle Arts Residency, 2006, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, 2004, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2003, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2001, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação Luso-Americana, 1997-1999. Catarina Leitão has an MFA from Hunter College (2000), and a Painting degree by the University of Lisbon, Portugal (1993).

Noé Sendas (Brussels, Belgium, 1972) lives and works in Berlin, Madrid and Lisboa. Sendas began presenting his work in the late Nineties. Explicit and implicit references to artists and literary, cinematic or musical creations are part of his raw materials. Specific concerns about the reflection and practise of visual arts can also be added to his repertoire. These include: the body, as an entity that is simultaneously theoretical and material; the observer’s perception mechanisms; or the discursive potential of exhibition methods.

His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including CAV Center for the Visual Arts, Coimbra, PT; Contretype – Centre d’art contemporain pour la Photographie, Brussels.B; Porto’s Municipal Gallery, Porto, PT; Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM), Moscow; Maat Museum, Lisboa; Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin Calouse Gulbenkian Museum, Lisboa; MEIAC Museu Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo Badajoz; C/O Berlin Foundation, Berlin; MNAC The National Museum of Contemporary Art-Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, DesignhausDarmstadt, Darmstadt, DE; VAC-Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, Texas, USA; Patio de la Infanta - Ibercaja, Zaragoza, SP; Goethe-Institut/ Instituto Cervantes, Stockholm; TENT, Rotterdam, ND; CAHO-Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica, Río de Janeiro, BR; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa, La Coruña, SP; Museu Fundación ICO, Madrid.ES; Kunstmuseum Bonn, G; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin (a.o.)

Among the approximately 45 solo exhibitions he has held, the highlights are 'Trash - Artist's Trash', at Museu Coleção-Berardo, 2019, 'Pires Vieira Antológica', from painting to painting, at MNAC - Chiado and Fundação Carmona e Costa, 'Faites vos jeux, Rien va Plus' at Sala do Veado at MNHN, 'Like a Painting - Up Close... It is a Big Mess', at Appleton Square, in Lisbon; 'Pires Vieira', at the White Pavilion of the City Museum; 'Talk to Me', at CAM-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 'Geometries' at Fundação Museu das Comunicações. Refering to his group shows we have to distinguish 'Stories: Works from the Serralves Collection', Serralves Museum; 'Permanent Exhibition (1969/2010)', Berardo Museum, CCB; 'One Path, Two Directions', at MNAC/CHiado; 'Language and Experience', at the Palácio do Egipto Cultural Centre, at the Grão Vasco Museum and at the Aveiro Museum; 'Alternativa Zero', at the National Gallery of Modern Art, organized by Ernesto de Sousa. He is represented in numerous collections such as: CAM-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, MNAC/Chiado, Culturgest/CGD, Colecção/Museu Berardo, Fundação/Museu de Serralves.