Galeria Vera Cortês

Galeria Vera Cortês will be taking a short summer break and be closed from 4 - 19 August! Until then you can still visit us from Tues. - Friday from 2 to 7 PM and Sat. from 10 AM - 7 PM.

After this break, we’ll be back on 20 August with a few weeks left to visit Nuno da Luz’s solo exhibition 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙨.

We’ll keep you posted about the good news from our artists!

On the occasion of Daniel Blaufuks’ solo exhibition “The Days Are Numbered”, the book with the same title is published by for the portuguese edition and for the English edition.

The book is composed of pages 1840 to 2206 from the year 2023, going through Blaufuks’ daily ritual of composing a “non-diary” as he calls it, made of photographs, found images, documents, and written words which offer a non-linear narrative of private events and collective memories.

’ exhibition at is on view until 7 October.

The book is available online, at the museum bookstore and at the gallery.

We are thrilled to announce our participation at Frieze Sculpture 2024 with a presentation by Céline Condorelli!

Curated by Fatoş Üstekthis year’s edition carves “a place for playful encounters, socially and environmentally conscious themes, as well as conceptual and spiritual practices that expand the notion of public sculpture.”, she expounds.

Céline Condorelli will be showing ”Untitled (to Rosa Luxemburg)”, a sculpture inspired by her explorations into playground equipments, alongside “After Work”, a video work developed in collaboration with Ben Rivers and with narration of Jay Bernard. Both works tackle Céline’s interest about the intricate relationship between work and free time and her probing into the unseen efforts behind cultural production.

Save the date for Frieze Sculpture opening at the English Garden in Regents Park on 18 September!

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Images:

1- Céline Condorelli, "Untitled (to Rosa Luxemburg)", 2024. Steel, paint. 350 x 100 x 54 cm. Unique.
2- Céline Condorelli and Ben Rivers with Jay Bernard, “After Work” (still frame). 13 mins, colour, sound, 16mm transferred to HD.

Carlos Bunga and Joana Escoval are two of the selected artists in “Imaginário Coletivo”, curated by Sandra Vieira Jürgens, opening this Saturday, 13 July.

As part of the AVEIRO 2024 celebrations, this exhibition presents a selection from the State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE), including quintessential works of both artists, embodying their distinct artistic signatures.

📅 Opening: 13 July
📍 Museu de Aveiro, Portugal



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Images:

1- Carlos Bunga, Crate Painting #3, 2019. Latex paint and glue on wooden box. 95 x 124 x 19,5 cm. Unique

2- Joana Escoval, Living Metals V, 2018. Azorean volcanic stone, steel, copper, and lichens. 65 x 110 x 40 cm (approx.). Unique.

Discover Ignasi Aballí’s solo exhibition "In ictu oculi" at , in Seville through a selection of exhibition views.

Known for his conceptual approach and exploration of themes such as silence and painting, Ignasi Aballí has developed a visual language that encourages reflection and contemplation.

Curated by Geovana Ibarra, "In ictu oculi" (In the blink of an eye) seeks to create an experience of introspection. The exhibition is organized into thematic rooms, each exploring specific aspects of Aballí's work.

📍Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville
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Images:
Exhibition views

🌪️ 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙨, Nuno da Luz’s solo exhibition at the gallery may offer respite from the heat of these days!

“Filled with membranes, linings, interfaces and zones of contact between bodies, materials, and volumes, the exhibition is a longing for touch. Caresses to prepare the senses. To attune. Sensitive to the surrounding conditions—pressure, vibration, temperature, light, contact—these are the traces left by an encounter, and at the same time, what made it possible, or will make it possible”, writes Carolina Jiménez, researcher and curator, in the exhibition text.

Come visit!

Tuesday to Friday 2-7pm and Saturdays 10am – 7pm!

We are excited to share Daniel Blaufuks’ upcoming solo exhibition at MAAT ()!

“os dias estão numerados”, curated by João Pinharanda, presents works has been creating since 2018, a visual-textual diary that offers commentary on current events and his own life. There are more than 450 works, made up of photographs, collages, and clippings with personal inscriptions, referring to brief stories, quotes, and comments.

📅 From 17 July - 7 October
📍 MAAT Gallery

Carlos Bunga is presenting a solo exhibition of new and previously unseen works at the New Art Gallery Walsall, UK.

“Carlos Bunga: Citizen of the World”, curated by Zoë Lippett, delves into Carlos Bunga’s perspective as a migrant, featuring early video works, drawings, and specially commissioned sculptures that explore his childhood experiences with social housing.

Bunga's large-scale, site-specific architectural installation, composed of cardboard columns and other architectural forms, reflects the often precarious nature of physical constructs.

🗓️ Opening 5 July — 27 October 2024
📍 The New Art Gallery Walsall

We are happy to share that Daniel Blaufuks, Joana Escoval and John Wood and Paul Harrison will have works on view with different invited institutions participating at FARRA, Festa da Arte em Rede da Região do Alentejo, opening Friday and Saturday in Elvas!

Daniel Blaufuks’s work is part of State Collection of Contemporary Art (CACE) exhibition, “Jarra Humana”, curated by Francisca Portugal and Sandra Vieira Jürgens and which will take up the MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas.

Joana Escoval will be showing two sculptures with Spirit Shop’s project “Plano Aberto”, curated by Pedro Barateiro at the Military Museum and Casa da Guarda - Portas de Olivença, which will transform the club's grand hall into an informal gallery. Joana Escoval’s work will also be presented with Coleção AA, an exhibition titled "Era e não era", curated by Ana Antunes and António Albertino at Casa Particular.

John Wood and Paul Harrison, as well as Joana Escoval again, participate in “...daquele que é (des)objeto I” with works that are part of the Fundação Leal Rios Collection, curated by Miguel Leal Rios, at Forte Santa Luzia.

The FARRA project will be on view from 28 June to 25 August, 2024 presenting exhibitions, workshops, talks and a series of other events. Check the full program .

GALERIA VERA CORTÊS is the next guest in the cycle "Galerias com História” (Galleries with History), organized by the Amigos do Museu do Chiado (Friends of the Chiado Museum).

✨ Join us for an exciting conversation with Vera Cortês and Luís Silva as they delve into the gallery's journey. In this 11th session, they will reflect on the past 20 years of this project, revisiting spaces, exhibitions, and friendships.

🗓️ Date: Thursday, 27 June, 2024
🕡 Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: MNAC, Lisbon

Alexandre Farto aka is presenting a solo exhibition at MIMA Museum, in Brussels, opening 28 June!

“Multitude: Carving Memories in the Digital Age” explores the intricate relationships with the cities, featuring wall carvings, billboards, cityscapes, videos, and installations across MIMA.

Vhils creates artworks that delve into identity, the interplay between people and their environment, and the essence of contemporary urban life, by removing layers of walls and other media.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Vhils has also created a new permanent public wall in central Brussels, set to be inaugurated on 26 June.

📅 28 June, 2024 – 5 January, 2025
📍MIMA Museum, Belgium

📸: José Pando Lucas

OPENING TOMORROW: Nuno da Luz’s solo exhibition 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙨 opens tomorrow, 20 June at the gallery.

"The exhibition is an example of how a complex structure can be synthesized to make it almost invisible, or how coherence can be maintained without sacrificing provisional ramifications or under-the-radar paths", says Carolina Jiménez in the curatorial texts.

Join us tomorrow from 5.30 - 8.30 pm!

We are elated to share the unveiling of "Strates Urbaines" by Alexandre Farto aka . This 34-meter-long mosaic will be officially revealed at the new Orly station today, 19 June!

"Strates Urbaines" is Vhils' first foray into using traditional Portuguese ceramic tiles. This artwork comprises over 11,000 tiles to capture the essence of Greater Paris in a quintessential exploration of contemporary urban life.

🔨 We are almost done setting up Nuno da Luz’s 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙨.

's solo exhibition 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙨 opens this Thursday, 20 June at .

Join us 20 June from 5.30 - 8.30 pm!

While we are installing Nuno da Luz’s 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙨, take a look back at some of his previous exhibitions.

Nuno da Luz blends the auditory and the visual, creating immersive experiences through sonic events, installations, and printed material.

Swipe through to (re)visit his previous shows ➡️

𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙨 opens on Thursday, 20 June, from 5.30 - 8.30 pm

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Images:

1. Nuno da Luz, "Untitled (for Eleanor Weber)", 2015. Survival blankets, aluminium rail. 360 x 1048 cm. At exhibition O nosso silêncio é um aviso / O nosso silêncio é sólido in Galeria Vera Cortês, 2012

2. O nosso silêncio é um aviso / O nosso silêncio é sólido, exhibition view, at Galeria Vera Cortês, 2012.

3. Transverberation, performance / concert by duo Gabriel Ferrandini (drums) and Pedro Sousa (saxophone) at Galeria Vera Cortês, 2019

4. Transverberation, exhibition view at Galeria Vera Cortês, 2019

5. Poetry as an echological survival, exhibition view at Galeria Vera Cortês, 2019

“Ignasi Aballí. In ictu oculi” opened yesterday at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), in Seville, and we are thrilled to share some exhibition views!

Ignasi Aballí's solo exhibition, curated by Geovana Ibarra, explores the interconnected subjects of silence and painting and is organized into rooms, each focusing on specific aspects of Ignasi Aballí's work. Themes include the flicker, symbolizing the intermittency of visual perception and the transience of time; the visible and the invisible, challenging our notions of perception and reality; and the relationship between text and image, questioning how we understand and represent the world through different languages.

“Ignasi Aballí. In ictu oculi” is on view until 10 November, 2024

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Images: exhibition views

🌙 Last days to visit André Romão’s solo exhibition "Calor"

Curated by .ines, the exhibition is on view until this Sunday, 2 June, make sure to visit!

With the selection of new works on view, transports us to a nocturnal, dreamlike landscape filled with shadows and unsettling presences. Human, animal, and vegetable forms blur together, challenging contemporary society's tendency to classify and hierarchise species based on normative or discriminatory practices.

Charbel-joseph H. Boutros presents 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘭𝘦 at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles 🌠

Curated by Jean de Loisy and Bice Curiger, the group exhibition "Van Gogh and the Stars" illuminates the connections of Van Gogh's magnum opus, offering a fresh perspective on the sources that inspired the piece.

𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘭𝘦 is a work which opens like a book at the centre of which the artist carved a void to hold a night of a specific geography. In ' work, invisibility is charged with intimate, geographical, and historical layers and finds poetic lines that extend beyond the realm of existing speculations and realities.

"Van Gogh and the Stars" is on view from 1 June to 25 August, 2024.


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Image:

Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘭𝘦, 2012-23. Carrara marble, 1 cm3 of night from Forest in Mount Lebanon, metallic hinges. 109 x 23 x 23 cm. Unique in an ongoing series

LAST DAY at ! You still have time to check our Booth F01 at Cordoaria Nacional.

Here are some highlights of works by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, André Romão, Daniel Blaufuks, Gonçalo Barreiros, Ignasi Aballí, and Joana Escoval.
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Images:

1. Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, Recede Series #02, 2023.
Hand-carved and laser-cut advertising posters. 115 x 87,5 x 7 cm (framed). Unique
2. André Romão, Iris, 2024. Sculptural fragment (plaster, Sweden, 1900’s), sculptural fragments (copper, England, 2000’s), oxidation, plaster, plexiglas plinth. 40 x 40 x 35 cm. Unique
3. Daniel Blaufuks, Tropical Untitled, from the series ‘Tropical Melancholy’, 2023. Collage on Canson paper (photograph, ink, various clippings. 22 x 31 x 3 (framed). Unique
4. Gonçalo Barreiros, Untitled, 2024. Painted iron. 142 x 64 x 54 cm. Unique
5. Ignasi Aballí,CMYK Sea (Atlantic Sea), 2014. Digital printing on paper. 57 x 73 cm (framed). Unique
6. Joana Escoval, We do not work alone. To do the work and let it go, 2022. Earth, water, fire, air. 106,5 x 54 x 40 cm. Unique

📸: Bruno Lopes

Today is 𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟯 at ARCOlisboa! Join us this weekend and visit our 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝟬𝟭 at in Cordoaria Nacional.

We are showing works by

◼️ Alexandre Farto aka Vhils
◼️ André Romão
◼️ Daniel Blaufuks
◼️ Gonçalo Barreiros
◼️ Ignasi Aballí
◼️ Joana Escoval

ARCOlisboa is on view until Sunday, 26 May.

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📸: Bruno Lopes

Along with our participation at ARCOlisboa, we have Céline Condorelli’s exhibition at .

𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙢 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 presents Céline Condorelli’s latest works, focusing on the research driven by her 2023 Residency at the National Gallery.

This exhibition is rooted in the exploration of the unseen elements that shape our world, what she calls “support structures.” As the artist puts it: “There’s a third public that (...) becomes obvious when you start spending a lot of time in the galleries: it’s not just the painters, but all these bodies that inhabit the canvases and stare back at you from the rooms.”

🕙 Come visit us this week from 𝟭𝟬 𝗮𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝟳 𝗽𝗺!

Welcome to our Booth F01 at ARCOlisboa 2024!

◼️Alexandre Farto aka Vhils
◼️André Romão
◼️Daniel Blaufuks
◼️Gonçalo Barreiros
◼️Ignasi Aballí
◼️Joana Escoval

Today is DAY 1 at , . See you at the fair!

ARCOlisboa is on view until Sunday, 26 May.




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📸: Bruno Lopes

🟥 ARCOlisboa opens tomorrow and we are almost ready to welcome you! Here is a highlight of the works by

◼️Alexandre Farto aka Vhils
◼️André Romão
◼️Daniel Blaufuks
◼️Gonçalo Barreiros
◼️Ignasi Aballí
◼️Joana Escoval

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils presents new works with traditional Portuguese tile.
André Romão and his research for the solo exhibition currently on display at the Museum with present nocturnal landscapes, blending animal and human forms in a fusion.
Daniel Blaufuks with his latest works, inspired by his travels to São Tomé e Príncipe, delves into the complexities of colonial practices and exoticism, following the show at Porto de Mós.
Gonçalo Barreiros and his approach to sculpture and drawing expanding the limits of expression, offering a new dynamic to his craft.
Ignasi Aballí’s works feature fragments of photographs from newspapers, showing parts of the sea without context, turning them into challenges to the viewer’s perspective, a key element of his practice that can be seen at the exhibitions at and .
Joana Escoval, known for her sculptural work, unveils recent works and a new painting.

Don't miss your chance to experience these works at ARCOlisboa! From 23 - 26 May at Cordoaria Nacional

📍𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝟬𝟭

Check our Online Viewing Room ➡️ Link in bio
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Images:

1. Joana Escoval, 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, 2024. Bronze, brass, magmatic rock, lichens. 156 x 90 x 200 cm
2. Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 #04, 2024. Embossed glazed ceramic tiles. 143 x 100 cm. Unique
3. Gonçalo Barreiros, 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥, 2024. Painted iron. 142 x 64 x 54 cm. Unique
4. André Romão, 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬, 2023. Bronze. 27 x 12 x 15 cm. Unique
5. Ignasi Aballí, 𝘊𝘔𝘠𝘒 𝘚𝘦𝘢 (𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘢), 2014. Digital printing on paper. 57 x 73 cm (framed). Unique
6. Daniel Blaufuks, 𝘚𝘢̃𝘰 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘦́ 𝘐 (𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵ã𝘰), 2023. Inkjet print on baryta paper. 100 x 150 cm. Edition 3 + 2 AP