Conference Cycle Great Artists on Campus 2

Monthly conference series organised by DCAM – Department of Cinema and Media Arts, ULusófona, with central artists of contemporary Portuguese art.

Programme

9 September at 15:00
Grace Ndiritu

17 September at 15:00
Daniel Blaufuks

• Daniel Blaufuks has worked on the relationship between public and private memory, a theme that is one of the constant questions in his work as a visual artist. He has exhibited widely in museums, contemporary art galleries, and festivals, working primarily with photography and video, presenting the results through books, installations, and films. In 2007, he published the book *Under Strange Skies* (Tinta-da-China), based on his 2002 film of the same title, which received the best photography book award at Photoespaña.
• He was also awarded in 2007 for his work on Terezín, a concentration camp in the Czech Republic, about which he edited a book (Steidl, 2010) and made the film *As If* (2014). He holds a doctorate from the University of Wales, for which he wrote about Photography and Cinema in relation to the texts of W. G. Sebald and Georges Perec, as well as their connection to memory and the Holocaust.
• In 2016, he received the AICA award for the exhibitions “Attempt to Exhaust” and “Lexicon,” having recently published the text and photography books *No Father* (Tinta-da-China, 2019) and *Lisbon Cliché* (Tinta-da-China, 2021). His films (expanded photographs) have been presented at various film festivals, and he has recently worked on the resistance to the German occupation in Brittany and colonialism in São Tomé and Príncipe, as well as his non-diary *The days are numbered*.

8 October at 15:00
Vasco Araújo

• Vasco Araújo, born in Lisbon in 1975, completed a degree in Sculpture at FBAUL and attended the Advanced Course in Fine Arts at Maumaus in Lisbon. He also participated in residency programmes such as Récollets (2005), Paris; and Core Program (2003/04), Houston.
• In 2003, he received the EDP New Artists Award, Portugal.
• Since then, he has participated in several solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally: *A Moment Apart*, MAAT – EDP Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (2019); Vasco Araújo, M-Museum, Leuven, Belgium (2018); *Decolonial Desires*, Autograph ABP, London, UK (2016); *Potestad*, MALBA – Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015); *Under the Influence of Psyche*, The Power Plant, Toronto (2014); *Debret*, Pinacoteca of São Paulo State, São Paulo (2013); *Eco*, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2008); *Live Contact*, 28th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2008);

9 October at 18:00
Daniel Barroca and Catarina Laranjeiro (Film Screening – *Fire in the Wolf* 2023)

• Unal is a village of rice producers whose inhabitants played a decisive role in the liberation struggle of Guinea-Bissau against Portuguese colonialism. They were the first to engage in armed rebellion, mobilising their ancestral spirits for guerrilla warfare. To this day, every gesture in the rice cycle is haunted by memories of the war. A trauma inscribed in today’s rituals, bodies, landscapes, and techno music. An immersion into a blend of religious forms and political unrest, where war veterans coexist with restless youth, claiming their future in contemporary Guinea-Bissau.
• Winner of the INATEL Foundation Prize for Best Film on Cultural Practices and Traditions and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, DocLisboa 2023. Winner of the Special Jury Prize in the feature-length competition at the Apricot Tree International Documentary Film Festival, Debed, 2024.

(to determine)
Leonor Antunes

• Leonor Antunes (Lisbon, 1972) is a contemporary Portuguese artist based in Berlin. Her work explores the intersection between art, architecture and design, drawing inspiration from influential female figures of the 20th century. By measuring architectural and design elements, Antunes translates these measurements into unique sculptures, using materials such as rope, leather, cork, wood, brass and rubber. His practice not only honours traditional craftsmanship, but also invites visitors to establish a close relationship with his works, often defined as ‘sculptures created in space’. With exhibitions at renowned institutions such as the Serralves Museum and the Whitechapel Gallery, Antunes represents a distinctive voice in contemporary art, where the dialogue between objects and space reveals the aesthetic heritage of modernity and the transformative potential of sculpture.

22 October at 3:00 pm
João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira (Visual Arts. On display at the Serralves Museum and at Appleton/Communication Sciences

• João Pedro Vale (b. 1976, Lisbon) has a degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and studied at the Maumaus School. Since 1999, he has participated in solo and group exhibitions, both in Portugal and abroad. Vale works with a wide range of media, including sculpture, photography, performance and experimental cinema. In 2002, he was nominated for the Latin Union Prize and, in 2004, he won the City Desk Prize for Sculpture. In continuous collaboration from an early age with Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, he has explored themes linked to identity, pop culture and LGBTQIA+ issues, always with a critical and humorous approach. Together they have produced experimental feature films and collaborated with various institutions, such as the National Ballet Company and the Prague Theatre. Their works are part of important collections such as the Serralves Foundation, Tate Modern and Museu do Chiado.
• Nuno Alexandre Ferreira (b. 1973, Torres Vedras) studied Sociology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and, since the 1990s, has collaborated with João Pedro Vale in various interdisciplinary projects that include sculpture, photography, performance and cinema. Ferreira and Vale co-founded the multidisciplinary project BREGAS in 2014 and have worked on set and costume design for theatre and dance, as well as curating exhibitions and dance, as well as curating exhibitions and editing themed publications such as "P-Town"

23 de outubro às 18h00
Pedro Barateiro (Film Screenings – *Monologue for a Monster* 2021 / *Love Song* 2023)

• Pedro Barateiro, born in 1979 in Almada, lives and works in Lisbon. His artistic practice crosses various media such as drawing, video, sculpture and writing. Barateiro trained at the Malmö Art Academy in Sweden and the Maumaus School of Visual Arts in Lisbon. He has developed his career through various international artist residencies, including the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), ISCP (New York) and Spike Island (Bristol).
• With solo exhibitions at institutions such as Museu de Serralves (Porto), Museu Coleção Berardo (Lisbon) and Spike Island (Bristol), Barateiro's work has also been featured in international biennials such as the 29th São Paulo Biennial, 16th Sydney Biennial and the 5th Berlin Biennial. He has also presented performances in prestigious venues such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the Rivoli Theatre (Porto). He is also one of the founders of Parkour, an independent art space in Lisbon.

6 November at 18:00
Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela (Film Screening – *The Dance of the Cypress* 2020)

• Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela licenciaram-se em Pintura pela Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto e colaboram enquanto dupla desde 2010. A sua prática é desenvolvida através de um uso privilegiado da imagem em movimento, tanto através da realização de filmes, como na intersecção com ambientes instalativos e site-specific, em conjugação com desenho, pintura, fotografia ou escultura. O interesse pelo diálogo entre o biológico, o vernacular e o cultural é um elemento recorrente no seu trabalho artístico.

19 November at 15:00

• Pedro Falcão

26 November at 15:00
Joana Machado

• Joana Machado, born in 1978 in Porto, is a communication designer with vast experience and recognition in the field of graphic and editorial design. She graduated in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (2002) and complemented her studies with a postgraduate course in the History and Aesthetics of Electronic Art at Mecadi/Esdi in Barcelona (2004). Throughout her career, Joana has collaborated with various cultural and academic institutions, developing graphic and editorial design projects and visual identities. Her partners include the Serralves Foundation, the Porto Book Fair, the Porto Municipal Gallery and the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar. In 2014, he was a jury member at the prestigious ‘Art Directors Club’ international competition in New York. Recently, in 2022, he won the AIGA's ‘50 Books | 50 Covers’ award, and in 2023, his work was nominated for the ‘Best Book Design From All Over the World 2025’ award, organised by the Stiftung Buchkunst Foundation.

3 December at 15:00
Rui Chafes

• Since the mid-1980s, he has developed his work exclusively in iron or steel. He has exhibited in Portugal and abroad, notably at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and 2013, and at the São Paulo Biennial in 2004. His work has been shown in various museums and institutions, mainly in Europe but also in Brazil, Japan, and South Korea, and he has also held exhibitions in public, natural, or urban spaces, such as Sintra, Matera, or Bamberg. In 2004, he was awarded the Robert-Jacobsen Sculpture Prize in Germany, in 2015 he received the Prémio Pessoa, and in 2021, the AICA Prize.