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Music Between Companion Species
May - November 2023

Music between Companion Species is a series of concerts conceived and performed for and with dogs, their human companions and other more-than-human presences who may join these sessions. Inspired by Donna J. Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto and by cientific studies about dog’s preferences for sound and music, the concerts will take into account these animals’ unique sensibilities and hearing capabilities. Curated by Lovers & Lollypops.

Curated by Lovers & Lollypops
Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize
17.06-20.08.2023

Created by the City Council as a tribute to the late Councillor for Culture Paulo Cunha e Silva (1962 – 2015), a central figure for the city’s artistic life, the award, held every two years in Porto, recognises the talent of new generations of national and international artists. This year’s edition underlines the Prize’s commitment to fostering creation and cultural exchange by establishing a partnership with three world-recognised residency programmes: Arquipélago Centro de Artes in S. Miguel, Azores, Cove Park, on Scotland’s west coast, and Pivô, in São Paulo, will all host one of the nominated artists, appointed by a jury of three members.

The Nominators for the 2023 edition of the Art Prize are:
Artist Ângela Ferreira, Jan van Eyck Academie Director Hicham Khalidi, and cultural programmer Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura.

With
Euridice Kala, Márilu Namoda and Luis Santos (nominated by Ângela Ferreira); Rouzbeh Akhbari, Kent Chan and Hira Nabi (nominated by Hicham Khalidi) and Maren Karlson, Malik Nashad Sharpe aka Marikiscrycrycry, and Eve Stainton (nominated by Tabitha Thorlu-Bandura).
 Duet
Maria Paz and Joan Jonas
16.09 – 19.11.2023

 
Duet is an invitation for two artists to share an exhibition space. It started as a proposal for a young artist from Porto to think of an artist they would like to share an exhibition with. Recalling the impact of her survey show at the Serralves Museum, Maria Paz invited Joan Jonas to share the exhibition space of the Galeria Municipal do Porto. In this transatlantic exchange of generations, the two artists will reveal their common investigations of forms, colours and materials.

Curadoria de Filipa Ramos

 The Sylvan and Harsh North
09.12.2023 – 10.03.2024

What are the meteorological patterns, the myths and stories, the rhythms, colours and shapes, the human and nonhuman inhabitants that make up the Iberian Northwest, in its reality and fiction?
Wondering about the rituals and expressive modes of people, animals, plants, elements and minerals, we went looking for the roots, terminations and tentacles of the Iberian Northwest, trying to locate the places where they might reside. In doing so, we considered the past but above all faced the present-future of these concrete and imagined spaces between seas, woods and settlements. The Sylvan and Harsh North is an exhibition that follows roads and lines of intensity, centrifugal forces that take us beyond Porto, towards those supposed margins where permutations erupt, to discover and share the references, stories, words and connections to these places with a long past and an even longer future.

Curated by Filipa Ramos and Juan Luis Toboso
  • Opening: 14.11.2026

    Exhibition: Isabel Carvalho
    Galeria Municipal do Porto is dedicating an exhibition and a publication to the life and work of artist Isabel Carvalho (1977, Porto). With an artistic career spanning more than twenty-five years, her practice crosses the visual arts, literature and public life in many different ways, ranging from independent book publishing to drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and music. This exhibition marks a decisive period in the artist's career.
    Curated by João Terras

    Floor 1
  • Opening: 14.11.2026

    Exhibition: Basel Abbas e Ruanne Abou-Rahme
    Working together since 2009, artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme are among the most prominent contemporary artists experimenting with sound and image. Combining Abbas's experience in sound and music production with Abou-Rahme's background in cinema, the pair produce works of image and movement resulting in totally immersive environments. They subvert archives, expanding the boundaries of their content to challenge linear narratives and discourses. The duo creates porous spaces, understanding installation as a space that is simultaneously fictional and documentary, where one can investigate and question social and political conditions of the past.
    Curated by João Laia

    Floor 0
  • Opening: 14.11.2026

    Exhibition: Leonor Parda
    Leonor Parda (1986, Porto) is a visual artist, post-romantic poet, existential experimentalist and dreamer who believes in art as a poetic means of inhabiting the world. In her exhibition at Galeria Municipal do Porto, she continues to explore themes that characterise her work, such as the interactions between power dynamics, social structures and the human condition. She observes how these themes manifest in bodies, objects and identities through a multidisciplinary proposal combining sculpture, visuals and sound recordings.
    Curated by Isabeli Santiago

    Floor -1

    Image credits: Leonor Parda, "Now I wanna be your doggy dog", 2023. From the exhibition "Self Will Run Riot" at Mala, Lisboa. Photo: Beatriz Pereira.
  • Ongoing

    Exodus for Schools
    To participate in the Exodus, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
    All routes are carried out on foot. 
    Meeting point to be defined.
     
    Thursday and Friday, 10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Duration: 120min
  • Visitas-Pavão to the Exhibitions

    Visitas-Pavão to the Exhibitions
     To participate in the Visitas-Pavão, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
    Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.
     
    Duration: 90 min.

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