Ricardo Angélico
Questioning the principle of cataloging, ordering, documenting and interpretating as a basis for the scientific knowledge in the world, Ricardo Angelico (Huambo, Angola, 1973) places in the art work's space a multiplication of a small disjointed narrative fragments, or whose connection is not easily seen. His work has been exhibited throughout Portugal and Spain such as in the exhibitions "Play", "The Aronburg Mystery", Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, "O Desenho Dito", Casa da Cerca – Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Almada, Portugal, "À volta do papel", Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, "Portugal 100 artistas, Acervo. Artistas Portugueses en la Colección Navacerrada", Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Alcobendas, Espanha. His works are held in numerous public and private collections including Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal, Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal, Colecção Navacerrada, Alcobendas, Spain, Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Pamplona, Spain.
Isabel Brison
Isabel Brison studied and established herself as a visual artist in Lisbon before moving to Sydney in 2014, where she now works primarily as a web developer. She holds a BFA in Sculpture (University of Lisbon) and an MA in Communication Science/Media Art (New University of Lisbon). Her solo shows include H Henry and his Hat (2022) at Cooperativa Árvore, Porto as part of the Transeuropa festival, “Relatório Incompleto Sobre os Usos do Impossível” (2013) at Next Room, Lisboa and “O Futuro da Vida Urbana em Ruínas (2012)” at galeria Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa. In 2021 she created the online project The Adventurous Lives of Lisbon Statues, with Teatro do Bairro Alto. Recent group exhibitions include Interferences: Emerging Urban Cultures (2022) and “Expanded: Fiction and Fabrication in Post-Digital Architectural Photography” (2019) at MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon and The Common Soil (2020, online) with Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa at CHAUFFEUR, Sydney. She also talks occasionally on topics such as media art, cyberculture, and, more recently, web architecture and accessibility. Her work is represented in many private and public collections such as como a Fundação Coca-Cola, Espanha, NOVO Banco, Lisboa, Portugal e Fundação PLMJ, Lisboa, Portugal.
Isabel Brison presents new works that use digital manipulation of images as a critical tool for reinterpreting urban space. The artist creates fictional spatial environments, employing artistic strategies that go beyond a mere representation of reality. By manipulating and distorting reality, Brison offers a new way of understanding and visualizing architecture, enabling a critical reading of urban transformations and the cultural dynamics of the city. In this context, photography ceases to be just a means of capturing reality and becomes a tool for critique and reimagination. Through digital manipulation, Brison not only documents but also questions the power structures and social dynamics that shape the urban environment. This research offers a profound reflection on the relationship between space and the methodology of urban planning. In this way, the artist's work goes beyond documentary record, proposing a new way of perceiving the city and questioning its transformations.
Catarina Leitão
Catarina Leitão is an artist. Her favored mediums are drawing, sculpture, installation and the book. Key to her work, the idea that human and nature exist in continuity, the notions and processes of assembly, adaptability and hybridity play a fundamental role in negotiating a discourse between the two and the three-dimensional, the artificial and the natural, the actions of assembling and disassembling, which is materialized by a sculptural language that makes use of installation, drawing and illustration. Leitão has been exhibiting her artwork since 1992. Among the awards and residences bestowed to her, stand out the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2009, Center for Book Arts, 2007, Triangle Arts, 2006, Sharpe Foundation, 2004, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2003, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2001, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation. Leitão has a PhD from Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022, an MFA from the Hunter College City University of New York (2000), and graduated in Painting at the FBAUL, Lisbon (1993). She has been teaching at Escola Superior de Arte e Design das Caldas da Rainha since 2011 and at Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra since 2024.
"This series of drawings arises from a practice through which I have been proposing the idea that human and nature, artifice and nature, culture and nature exist in continuity. The drawings represent possible annotations; fabulations presented as fictitious scientific works that observe and take on forms, ideas, and sensations we can extract from the dimensions of the organic, the manufactured, geology and botany."
Catarina Leitão
Pires Vieira
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.