Cordoaria Nacional
Av. da Índia 1300-598
Lisboa, Portugal

Mónica de Miranda will take part at ARCOlisboa fair with Sabrina Amrani Gallery.

ARCOlisboa 2023 will, once again, turn the Portuguese capital into a meeting place for collectors, gallery owners, artists and professionals from all over the world. In its sixth edition, from 25th to 28th May, the Cordoaria Nacional will host the artistic content of the galleries selected by the Organising Committee and the curatorial teams of the different sections.

ARCOlisboa 2023 will open its doors on 25th May, dedicating this first day to the professionals. Access for the general public will be from 26th to 28th May.

Cordoaria East Tower Gallery
Edifício Cordoaria Nacional, Av. da Índia
1300-299 Lisboa

Contemporary Art Collection of Lisbon City Council

The group presented at the exhibition corresponds to the last two years of acquisitions and reaffirms the CML’s desire to continue to build and develop its collection, with a view to incorporating other creators in the future and enhancing the representation of those who are already a part of it. In addition to supporting the contemporary art scene, the CML collection also aims to incentivise collecting. Whether public or private, creating a collection is a commitment interwoven with the history of art and artists and makes it possible for present and future generations to understand the foundations of their culture and its choices, concerns, and aesthetic, political and social transformations.

Prior to any exhibition, it is necessary to catalogue, care for, preserve, study and systematise the works/collections – a burdensome and often forgotten set of tasks undertaken by institutions, in this case the Museu de Lisboa/EGEAC. By continuing to develop, preserve and exhibit their collections, institutions play an indispensable role in solidifying artistic developments and in the formation of the public and their aspirations and cultural ambitions.

The artists that comprise this exhibition are each at different stages of their career and have unique artistic languages, some reinventing media and pushing the boundaries of their respective artistic disciplines, others remaining more faithful to their areas of operation. Each was in any case considered indispensable by the commission who, in making their selections, took into account different genres and generations, the career status of the artists in question, the need for stimulation at the various stages of the artists’ production, and the diversity of the galleries that represented them.

SIMA 2023
IFEMA Madrid
Av. del Partenón, 5
28042 Madrid
Spain

Bringing History Forward: Creating an Inclusive Narrative


“South Circular” is exhibited at the Idealista stand at the Salão Imobiliário de Portugal (SIL) – it will also be exhibited at the Madrid Real Estate Fair (SIMA), which runs from May 24 to 27 – having won the 5th edition of the competition Idealista Contemporary Art Prize 2023. “It is a project of investigation and mapping of the city of Lisbon, that is, of an invisible city. The city that exists on the outskirts and is linked to migratory flows and diaspora”, she tells idealista/news, considering that “there is another Lisbon that is hidden”.


“South Circular” is a reflection on the city of Lisbon, more specifically on the military defense wall that was built in 1899 to keep the French away from the Portuguese capital and that, a century later, became a territory inhabited by Africans from the former Portuguese colonies along with people from rural areas without the means to live in the desired prosperity. This fortified line, called Campo de Trincheiras, consists of a circular line that skirts the northern side of the Portuguese capital and runs along much of the southern bank. In these spaces. The artist visited to ruins and areas recently inhabited by African communities and developed a narrative and visual framework of places and moments of historical significance, where memory, nostalgia and a vision of the modern city and its inhabitants coexist.

Adapted text by Elisa Hernando

Museu do Porto 
Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão
Triplex
Praça de Carlos Alberto 71
4050-157 Porto

Deep blue

Deep Blue is a group exhibition curated by Mónica de Miranda that explores questions of identity, memory and ecology. The artists evoke spiritual and political symbolisms, metaphysical reflections and explore questions around non-Western spirituality and knowledge systems. As a premise for transformative, regenerative and empathetic futures, this exhibition features re-interpretations of the past from a space of healing, addressing significant secular issues.

Curator: Mónica de Miranda

Artists: Athi-Patra Ruga, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Faisal Abdu’Allah, Helena Uambembe, Kudzanai Chiurai, Mónica de Miranda, Sandim Mendes, Sethembile Msezane, Silvia Rosi, Xaviera Simmons, Zineb Sedira

Curatorial assistants: Marcela Canadas, Anca Usurelu

31 Project
Les Verrières
41 rue de Seine
Paris, France

A group show with Bianca Baldi, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Inès di Folco, Kendell Geers, Binelde Hyrcan, Hélène Jayet, Maurice Mboa, Mónica de Miranda, Sabelo Mlangeni, Obi Okigbo, Gerard Sekoto, a Songye mask maker, Divine Southgate-Smith and Raquel Van Haver 
Curated by Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape

Sabrina Amrani Gallery
Calle Sallaberry 52
28019 Madrid
Spain

Opening date: 6th of May 2023

The sun does not rise in the north is an art project that aims to capture the intricate psyche
of the immigration system between Africa and Europe and the after fall of diaspora experiences in Europe.
The project refers to the irony of the dual metaphor of the sun standing as a search for pleasure and touristic leisure and on the other side being the light to flee poverty.

The narrative of the film is a critical process of historical de-construction and re-reading of the African and European experience and collective memory. Through the dialogues and monologues of the characters, which shape their portraits, the film reflects on the historical past of colonialism, the independence and liberation struggle in Africa against colonial forces. At the same time, the film reflects on the complex entanglements between historical time and deep time (which refers to the common history of the planet), bringing together human history with the material/natural dimension that grounds its existence, reflected in the landscapes separating Europe and Africa in the strait of Gibraltar.

In collaboration with Fourminds Films, LE18 – Marrakesh, and many others, the exhibition will be presented in April 2023 in Sabrina Amrani Gallery.

Chiostri di San Pietro
via Emilia San Pietro, 44/c
Reggio Emilia

Friday 28th of April 6PM Opening of the Festival

Saturday 29th of April 11AM Talk with Cédrine Scheidig and Tim Clark

The Island is centred on the recognition of African histories and cultures in their autonomy and diversity. It dismantles prejudices that have taken root in Portuguese society, giving value and respect to the active and dynamic participation of men and women of African origin who have lived and continue to live in Portugal, and whose achievements and contributions are central to the histories of the places in which they are integrated today. From a female biographical point of view, it weaves toigether several stories that challenge patriarchal narrative conventions.

The series questions standard notions of identity based on categories of race and gender, through a counter-narrative constructed by complex and intersecting biographies.

The Island is situated outside the Eurocentric gaze, being developed from a black feminist perspective, and implementing through its narrative the operation of the oppositional gaze (bell hooks) in which stereotypical representations of gender and race are deconstructed.

International Contemporary Art Fair

Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Harbour Road
Hong Kong, China

The Art Basel Fair brings the international art world together.

Monica de Miranda’s work will be represented by Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid.

Monica will be speaking at the event: Conversations | Time Travelers: When Artists Remix the Past to Reframe the Present and there will be a screening of her film The Island.

International Contemporary Art Fair

The Arco Madrid fair celebrates it’s 42nd edition at IFEMA MADRID.

Monica de Miranda’s work will be represented by Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid and Carlos Carvalho – Arte contemporânea, Lisbon.

Uppsala Art Museum

The work portrays the human endeavour to understand the world we live in. In this exhibition, eight internationally active artists together explore the series. Through narration and fiction, they delve into the cultural and planetary crisis we are currently in the midst of.
Artists: Mónica de Miranda Eglė Budvytytė, Alma Heikkilä, Johannes Heldén, Signe Johannessen, Håkan Jonson, My Lindh and Imani Jacqueline Brown

Curator: Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson