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.

For Maria Condado (Lisboa, Portugal, 1981) landscape is not only a pictorial field of research but also a political and a social one. The artist freewheeling painting style, with its different layers of abstract fluid and vibrant colors, pretends to understand landscape as a cultural construction, a product of cultures, experiences that reveal ways of seeing the world. The artist has exhibited widely in group and in solo exhibitions throughout the country namely A Play of Boundaries (Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, 2018), Uma loja, cinco casas, uma escola (Casa Bernardo, Caldas da Rainha, 2016), Ensaios sobre a (in)flexibilidade do natural – parte 2 (Ministério do Ambiente, Lisboa, 2014), Onde é a China?, (Museu do Oriente, Lisboa, 2016), 16º Programa de Exposições (Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa 2009), Hangart 7, (Salzburg, Áustria, 2009), Vestígio (Pavilhão 28, Hospital Júlio de Matos, Lisboa, 2005) and II Rothschild Bank Painting Prize Finalists Exhibition – Palácio das Galveias, Lisbon. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections such as PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, Grupo RAR, Porto.“Hortus” is the name of her artist book edited in 2016 by Stollen Books, Lisbon.

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.