All Manuel Vilariño’s work is developed in relation between poetry and photography. His landscapes are emotional spaces; the artist connects the outside world using photography as a meditation process. He fuses poetry with photography, showing how can these two different paths are inseparable in his work.

Manuel Vilariño has been exhibiting regularly since 1984. His most noteworthy solo exhibitions include Tectónica, (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, 2015), Fragmentos de un viaje (Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz), Manuel Vilariño Fío e sombra (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea . Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2002). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including La Colección (Fundación Barrié. A Coruña, Spain, 2011), A little history of photography (curated by Manuel Segade, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo . Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Paradiso Spezzato (52ª Bienal de Veneza, Pabellón de Espanha . Venice, Itália), Colección Permanente. Novas Incorporacións (CGAC . Santiago de Compostela, Espanha, 1998), Spanish Arts Festival, (The Photographer’s gallery . Londres, England, 1994), Cuatro direcciones. Fotografía contemporánea española 1970-1990 ( Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía . Madrid, Spain, 1991) and Grotesque, Natural Historical & Formal-dehyde Photography, (Rijksmuseum, Leiden, Holanda, 1989). He is represented in various public and private collections namely the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, Fundación Arte y Tecnología, Telefónica, Madrid, Fundación Coca-Cola España, Madrid, Colección Galerie de Phographie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse, Centre de la Photographie, Genebra among others. In 2007, Manuel Vilariño was chosen to represent his country at the Venice Biennale. In the same year he was the recipient of the Spanish National Photography Award.

To Mónica Capucho the word, text and image are parts of the same visual territory, because of the use of contrast elements through color, texture, pattern or opting for a harmony of tones, shapes and meanings. In any case, it is always a discourse in which the observer is an active part because vision and reading is interpretation and interpretation is always construction.

The artist has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions such as Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal (2012, 2019, 2007), no CAC Málaga, Málaga, (2012) IVAM, Valência, Spain, (2013), Museu de Arte Moderna de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia (2012), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Santiago do Chile, Chile (2012) and Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil (2011). Her works are held in numerous public and private collections including those of the OCDE, Paris, France,PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal, Portuguese Embassy at Buenos Aires, Argentina, Athens, Greece, Copenhagen, Denmark, in Pretória, South Africa.

José Bechara was born in 1957, in the city of Rio deJaneiro where he lives andworks. Bechara has shownhis works in individual and group exhibitions at renownedinstitutions, among them MAM Rio de Janeiro–BR;Culturgest–PT; Ludwig Museum(Koblenz)–DE; Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz–BR; Fundação Iberê Camargo–BR;Fundação CalousteGulbenkian–PT; MEIAC–ES;Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderna–ES; MACParaná–BR; MAM Bahia–BR;MAC Niterói–BR; Instituto Tomie Ohtake–BR; Museu Vale–BR; Haus der Kulturen der Welt–DE; Ludwig Forum Fur IntlKunst–DE; Kunst Museum–DE;Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (MuBE)-BR; Centro Cultural  São Paulo–BR; ASU ArtMuseum–USA; Museo PatioHerreriano (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español)–ES; MARCO de Vigo–ES; Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma–ES; Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa–PT; CAAA–PT; Musee Bozar–BE; Museu Casa das Onze Janelas–BR; Casa de Vidro/Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi–BR, Museu Oscar Niemeyer–BR; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (CAC Málaga)–ES; Museu Casal Solleric–ES; Fundação Eva Klabin–BR, to name a few.Bechara’s works are represented in private and public collections as Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro-BR; Centre Pompidou-FR; the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo-BR; Ludwig Museum (Koblenz)–DE; ASU Art Museum USA; Museu Oscar Niemeyer-BR; Es Baluard Museu d’ArtModern i Contemporani de Palma–ES; Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection/MAM RIO-BR; Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz–BR; MAC Niterói–BR; Instituto Itaú Cultural–BR; MAM Bahia–BR; MAC Paraná–BR; Culturgest–PT; Benetton Foundation-IT; CAC Málaga-ES; MOLAA–USA; Ella Fontanal Cisneros–USA; Universidade Cândido Mendes–BR; MARCO de Vigo–ES;Brasilea Stiftung–CH; Fundo BGA–BR, among others.

Since the 1980s, Roland Fischer (Saarbrücken, Germany, 1958) has been developing different series of work on a solid and consistent career using architecture and portraiture as subjects presenting them on a large scale photographs. 

Roland Fischer‘s lives and works between Munich and Beijing. His work has already been shown in 120 museums and art institutions worldwide including Musée d’art Moderne in Paris, the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, The Photographers Gallery in London, Museum of Art Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, Museo DA2 in Salamanca, Centre Culturel la Maison Rouge in Paris, Institute d’Art Contemporain in France, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in Paris (FNAC), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC). His work is represented in many public and private collections such as Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina, USA, Bibliotheque National, Paris, France, DRAC, Ile de France, France, DZ Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany, European Patent Office, the Hague, Netherlands, EZB, The European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany, FLATZ Museum, Dornbirn, Austria, Fondation La Maison Rouge – Collection Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France, FRAC Lyon, Lyon, France, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France, FDAC Seine-Saint-Denis, France, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France, Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France, Mudam, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne, Straßbourg, France, Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand Hornu au Musée d’Art Moderne, Lille, France, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Germany, and many others.

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.