Caminho para as estrelas
By Mónica de Miranda
Curated by Paula Nascimento

“”Caminho para as estrelas” reflects the dialectical relationships between past, present and
future through creative engagement with historical traces to project and imagine new
futures. It presents a worldview that tends towards new ways of understanding human
subjectivity, advancing the necessary discussion around the relations between human
dimensions, such as language and politics, and the environment in which we live.”

– by Paula Nascimento

The film Path to the stars is produced by Geração 80, supported by The Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Jahmek Contemporary Art, Carlos Carvalho Arte
Contemporânea and Beyond Entropy. Music and composition by Xullaji

Mirages and deep time
By Monica de Miranda
Curated by Azu Nwagbogu

“Monica De Miranda explores a multi-media exhibition, Mirages and Deep Time through her characters, embodied personages from photographs, moving images and embroidered printed matter. These characters manifest as a form of intervention that bring her messaging on the materialising new world order emergent from the dissolution of the past histories into new histories as human activity shapes the evolving world. This so called anthropocene has created multiple time lines and for the artist de Miranda, the artist the artefacts of our time can never be reduced to mediums, illustration and narratives. All of these converge into Mirages and Deep Time and are embodied through her characters. There is a great reveal with this showing as identities and obfuscated narratives ostensibly crop-up from her visual cues and metaphors.” by Azu Nwagbogu

The Island
By Monica de Miranda
Curated by Renée Mussai and Mark Sealy

The Island contemplates the complex experiences of Afrodiasporic lives and Europe’s colonial past. Fusing fact and fiction, The Island explores a long trajectory of black presences in Portugal by bringing together intertwined narratives, African liberation movements, migratory experiences, and identity formations through a black feminist lens.

The exhibition features two new Autograph artist commissions seen for the first time: a 35-minute film work The Island, and an associated photographic series part of Autograph’s 2021 project ‘Amplify – Stranger in the Village: Afro European Matters’, supported by the Art Fund.

Berlin Biennale
With works from “Path to the stars” by Monica de Miranda
Curated by Kader Attia in collaboration with Ana Teixeira Pinto, Đỗ Tường Linh, Marie Helene Pereira, Noam Segal, and Rasha Salti.

On the occasion of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, titled Still Present!, artists from around the globe engage with the legacies of modernity and the resulting state of planetary emergency. In addition to their works, the exhibition features historical documents, including political and activist publications from the Archiv der Avantgarden Egidio Marzona (AdA). The contributions reveal connections between colonialism, fascism, and imperialism, and propose decolonial strategies for the future, oriented around a set of questions: How can a decolonial ecology be shaped? What role can non-Western feminist movements play in the reappropriation of historical narratives? How can the debate on restitution be reinvented beyond the return of plundered goods? Can the field of emotion be reclaimed through art?

The film Path to the stars is produced by Geração 80, supported by The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Jahmek Contemporary Art, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea and Beyond Entropy. Music and composition by Xullaji.

No longer with the memory but with its future
By Monica de Miranda
Curated by Paula Nascimento

The exhibition brings together a new body of work by Mónica de Miranda and is structured around a video work Path to the Stars (2022) that finds inspiration in Agostinho Neto’s homonymous poem and was shot in the River Kwanza, Angola’s longest river. The vitality and strength of the ecosystem of the river function as an analogy between the body and water and its relationship to history– the river is linked to the history of the Atlantic. The exhibition also features photographic work exploring the entanglements between femininity and nature and a text-based installation. Through an oppositional gaze towards history, Mónica’s works advance important discussions about belonging and future-making in the contemporary Anthropocene era.

Une Comunautée Imaginée (An Imagined Community)

SÉRGIO CARRONHA | MÓNICA DE MIRANDA | MUSA PARADISIACA | RITA SOBRAL CAMPOS

Curator: Miguel Amado

For this 33rd edition of Ateliers Internationaux, Laurence Gateau gives carte blanche to Portuguese artists, curated by Miguel Amado!

The link between art, politics and territory is usually at the heart of residencies and exhibitions that present artists in a country other than their own. This type of projectcan be seen as an instrument of nation-building, as the works produced by the artists and/or exhibited attempt to embody the identity of their country. But a country is an “imagined community,” as theorist Benedict Anderson puts it, and so any such project must take into account that national identities are inherently contingent.

The artists’ research focuses on representation, that is, on what allows one person to identify with another, establishing (or not) an intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual connection.

Event organized as part of the France-Portugal 2022 season with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – Delegation in France.

Curators: António Pinto Ribeiro, Katia Kameli, Aimé Mpane


This exhibition presents 21 artists whose family origins are in the former colonies in Africa. Born and raised in a post-colonial context, their work has become indispensable in contemporary European art, proposing reëections on their heritage, memories and identities.


The artistic productions presented in Europa Oxalá foster an original reëection on racism, the decolonization of the arts, the status of women in contemporary society, or even the deconstruction of colonial thought. Guided visits (in Portuguese and French) of the exhibitions will be available throughout March-June. Check the dates!