João Maria Gusmão
b. in 1979, Lisbon, Portugal
lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
“ALVORADA”, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, DE
“Lusque-Fusque Arrebol”, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Porto, PT
2021
“Día Eléctrico”, Alexandre Estrela and João Maria Gusmão, Travesía Cuatro, Mexico City, MX
2020
“Variations — Eugène Frey’s Light Set Projections presented by João Maria Gusmão”, curated by Célia Bernasconi, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco, MC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS WITH PEDRO PAIVA
2021
“Terçolho”, Museu Serralves, Porto, PT
2019
“A Pele do Fantasma seguido d’A Sueca” (with Gonçalo Pena), Colecção Maria e Armando Cabral, Lisbon, PT
2018
“Lua Cão” (with Alexandre Estrela), La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
“Where The Sorcerer Doesn’t Dare To Stick His Nose and Another Ghost Show, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
“Estudos de Labirinto”, Planetário, Lisbon, PT
“Lua Cão”(with Alexandre Estrela), Kuntsverein Munchen, Munich, DE
2017
“Avantesma Fantasma and a ghost show”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
“Avantesma Fantasma”, BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary, Teatro Dona Maria II, Lisboa, PT
“Animais que ao longe parecem moscas”, Fábrica Oliva – São João da Madeira, São João da Madeira, PT
2016
“The Sleeping Eskimo”, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
“João Maria Gusmão; Pedro Paiva: Peacock”, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
2015
“Papagaio”, Kw Berlin, Berlin, DE
“The Missing Hippopotamus”, Kkv Kolnischer Kunstverein, DE
“One month without filming”, REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA (catalogue)
“Papagaio”, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2014
“Papagaio”, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, IT
2013
“Onça Geométrica”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2012
“Voltair’s Armpit”, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, BE
“Trilemma: Over a Ghostly Conception”, Fri Art – Centre d’art de Freibourg / Kunsthalle Freiburg, Freiburg, CH
“Those animals that, at a distance, resemble flies”, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, CH
“Since you have eaten the horse, you can travel to Rome by donkey: on dwarf philosophy”, Kunsternernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2011
“There’s nothing more to tell because this is small, as is every fecundation”, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, IT
“… as in all circumstances of life, and especially those that, not being anything in themselves, will become everything in the results”, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania, IT
“Alien Theory”, Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris, FR
“Tem gwef tem gwef dr rr rr”, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE
““Desinit in Piscem”, More Precisely Ending in Fishtail”, IMO Projects, Copenhagen, DK
2010
“Index”, Stockholm, SE
“Analogy, the description of the world”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2009
“Experiments and Observations on Different kinds of Air”, Official Portuguese Representation of The 53rd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT (catalogue)
“About the presence of things”, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, DE (catalogue)
“Magnetic Resonance On Abissologic Experiments”, Mercer Union – Centre For Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto, CAN
2008
“Articulações”, Allgarve, Minas de Salgema, Loulé, PT (catalogue)
“Passengers 1.7”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA (catalogue)
“Horizonte de Acontecimientos”, Matadero, Madrid, ES
2007
“Crevasse”, Laboratório 987, Museu de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, ES
2006
“Eflúvio Magnético (Síntese)”, Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Guarda, PT
2005
“Intrusão: The Red Square”, Museu do Chiado, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT (catalogue)
2003
“O Ouro dos Idiotas”, Projecto InTransit, Artes em Partes, Porto, PT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
“O Canto do Bode”, Casa da Cultura da Comporta, Comporta, PT (participation and museography)
“Matéria Luminal”, Museu Berardo, Lisbon, PT
“No Reino das Nuvens: Os artistas e a Invenção de Sintra”, Museu das Artes de Sintra, Sintra, PT
2019
“A Terceira Margem”, Bienal de Coimbra, Coimbra, PT
“La plage”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS WITH PEDRO PAIVA
2021
“Fotograf Festival”, National Museum of Agriculture, Prague, CZ
“Matéria Luminal”, Museu Berardo, Lisbon, PT
“No Reino das Nuvens: Os artistas e a Invenção de Sintra”, Museu das Artes de Sintra, Sintra, PT
“Flora”, Atelier-Museu júlio Pomar, Lisbon, PT
2020
“Um Oasis ao Entardecer”, MAAT, Lisbon, PT
“Presente Contínuo: Aquisições recentes da coleção Norlinda e José Lima”, Centro Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira, PT
“Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life”, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, FR
“Variations – Eugène Frey’s Light Sets presented by João Maria Gusmão”, NMNM Villa Paloma, MC
2019
“La Plage”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
“A Terceira Margem”, Bienal de Coimbra, Coimbra, PT
“Black Box – Potlatch”, Museu do Caramulo, Caramulo, PT
“There will never be a door. You are Inside. Works from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid, ES
“Les Saisons n°2 • João Maria Gusmão et Pedro Paiva”, Les Saisons, Paris, FR
“Muitas vezes marquei encontro comigo próprio no ponto zero”, Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon, PT
“El fantasma de una oportunidad”, La Nave Sánchez-biría, Madrid, ES
2018
“Haus Wittgenstein”, MAAT: Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, PT
“Black Light Secret traditions in art since the 1950s”, CCCB – Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
“The pull of a well placed comma”, MACE, Elvas, PT
“Homebodies, Away Teams”, UTAH Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA
2017
“Like a Moth to a Flame”, OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni and Fondazione, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
“VER – Travessa da Ermida”, Aldeia Histórica de Idanha-a-Velha, Idanha-a-Velha, PT
“Quote / Unquote. Beteween appropriation and dialogue”, MAAT, Lisbon, PT
“”Under Your Nose”, Gare Marítima de Alcântara, Lisbon, PT
“Them or us!”, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Oporto, PT
“More Than Just Words [On the Poetic]”, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, AT
“The String Traveller”, S.M.A.K. Citadelpark, Ghent, BE
“Jardin Infini. De Giverny à l’Amazonie”, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris, FR
2016
“Celluloid”, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
“Ficciones y territorios _ Arte para pensar la nueva razón del mundo”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, ES
“Coleção António Cachola João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Francisco Tropa”, Espaço Chiado 8 / Fidelidade, Lisbon, PT
“From Slow to Stop”, The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, Manchester, UK
“SeMA Biennale Madiacity”, Seoul, KR
“The Shadow Never Lies, 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
“O Enigma – Arte Portuguesa na Coleção Berardo”, Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, PT
2015
“EPPUR SI MUOVE”, Art and technology, a shared sphere, Mudam Luxembourg, LU
“CRU – Comida, Transformação e Arte”, CCBB, Brasília, BRA
“Au Sud D’Aujourd’hui”, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian Paris, Paris, FR
“Twist the Real”, Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, PT
“In Favour of a Total Eclipse”, Volcano Extravaganza 2015, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, IT
“Imagine Reality”, RAY 2015 Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt, MMK Frankfurt, DE
“Deseos y necesidades. Nuevas Incorporaciones a la Colección MACBA”, MACBA Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
“Überschönheit”, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, DE
“Prologue to a fiction of a space that does not yet exist, ODD, Bucharest, RO
“DEVOUR!”, Freien Museum Berlin, Berlin, DE
“Fobolia. Opere dalla Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
“After Dark”, MAMCO Genève, Geneva, CH
2014
“Kunisaki Art Festival”, Kunisaki, JPN
“Anthropocène Monument”, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR
“Alimentário _ Arte e patrimônio alimentar brasileiro”, MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, BRA
“The Disappearance of the fireflies”, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
“On the Road”, Santiago de Compostela, ES (catalogue)
“Art Unlimited”, Art Basel, Basel, CH
“Inelcom Collection”, Madrid, ES
“Nouvelles de la Kula”, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Saint-Fons, FR
“Propaganda fur die Wirklichkeit”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
2013
“Film as Sculpture”, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, BE
“The Encyclopedic Palace”, 55th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice, IT
“Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice”, Ukrainian Collateral Event on The 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT (catalogue)
“Rhythm in it”, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
“Nouvelles Impressions de Raymond Roussel”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
“It is Only A State Of Mind”, NGBK_ Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, DE
“1966-79”, IAC, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR
“Zweiter Streich”, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, DE
2012
“The Castle in the Air. Séance of Imagination”, Centre of Culture ZAMEK, Poznan, PL
“S.F. [Art, science & fiction]”, MAC’s– Grand Hornu, Hornu,BE
“21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012”, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, PL
“In the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center”, Cambridge, USA
“When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes”, CCA Wattis Institute Ghosts in Machine, New Museum, New York, USA
“Collecting Collections and Concepts”, Fábrica Asa, Guimarães, PT
“Arte Portuguesa do Século XX 1960 – 2010”, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, PT
“VI Bienal de Arte e Cultura de São Tomé e Príncipe”, São Tomé e Principe, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, PT
2011
“Octopus 11: The Matter of Air”, Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne, AU
“Kunst und Philosophie”, n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE
“The Art of Narration changes with Time”, Sprueth Magers, Berlin, DE
“Experimental Station”, CA2M, Madrid, ES (catalogue)
“Exposição permanente do Museu Colecção Berardo (1960-2010)”, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT
“Staging the Archive”, MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elva, PT
“THE LAST FIRST DECADE”, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, PT (catalogue)
2010
“Responsive Subject”, MUZee, Ostend, BE
“10,000 Lives”, the 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, KR (catalogue)
“Leopards in the Temple”, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
“A Culpa não é minha / Coleção António Cachola”, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT
“Magic Show”, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK (catalogue)
“FAX”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, USA
“FAX”, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, HKG
“FAX”, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, CA
“FAX”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX
“FAX”, Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, College at Cortland, Cortland, USA
2009
“FAX”, Contemporary Museum Baltimore, Maryland, USA
“FAX”, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
“FAX”, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
“Magic Show”, The Hayward Gallery Touring, QUAD, Derby, UK
“Monument for Transformation”, City Gallery Prague, CZ
“Corpo, Densidade e Limites”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, PT
“Options & Futures”, Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, PT
2008
“Feitorias”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal, Funchal, PT
Manifesta 7, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, IT
“Rendez-vous Nowhere–” Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria Gasteiz, ES
“Part of the Process 3”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
“Múltiplas Direcções, arte portuguesa de 1850 até á actualidade”, Museu do Chiado– Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT
“Parangolé: Fragmentos desde los 90 en Brasil, Portugal y España”, Patio Herreriano– Museu de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, ES
“O’Presente: Uma Dimensão Infinita”, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT
“L’art contemporain en Europe”, Domaine Pommery, Reims, FR
“Fables Du Doute/ Tales Of Disbelief”, La Galerie– Centre d’art contemporain, Noisy le Sec, Paris, FR
2007
“Portugal Agora– À propos des lieux d’origine”, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, LU
“Colecção António Cachola: Algumas Paisagnes”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, PT
“Tiempo Al Tiempo/ Taking Time”, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, ES
“Passengers”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
VI Bienal de Mercosul, Porto Alegre, BRA
“Sobreposições”, Museu do Chiado– Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT
“IX Prémio União Latina”, Culturgest, Lisbon, PT
“Edit! Fotografia e filme na Colecção Ellipse”, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, PT
“Intro”, Espace photographique Contretype, Brussels, BE
I Trienal de Luanda, Luanda, ANG
2006
XXVII Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BRA
“Laberinto de Museos”, Instituto Cervantes, Beijing, CN
“Open House”, Ellipse Foundation, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, PT
“Empirismos”, Museu de Imagem e do Som, São Paulo – Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo, São Paulo, BRA
“25 Frames por Segundo: Vídeos da Colecção Fundação PLMJ”, Cinema São Jorge, Lisbon, PT
“Options & Futures #2”, Galeria Arte Contempo, Lisbon, PT
2005
“Mar Atlântico– Portuguese Video Art”, FVNM Screening Room 1307, Chicago, USA
“Portuguese Screen Videoart– loop.05, Barcelona, E, Museu do Chiado– Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, BRA
“Toxic, o discurso do excesso”, Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras, PT
“Emprirismos / LisboaPhoto”, Palácio da Ajuda, Lisbon, PT
“Del Zero al 2005– Perspectivas del Arte en Portugal”, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, ES
2004
“Drafting Deceit (special screening)”, Apexart, New York, USA
“Prémio EDP Novos Artistas”, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, PT (catalogue)
“Recontre international de lieux de culture indépendants”, Bizart, Shanghai, CN
“Video Zone 2”, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, ISR
“Re-Produtores de Sentido”, SESC Rio, Rio de Janeiro, BRA
“Quartel– Arte, Trabalho e Revolução”, PêSSEGO prá SEMANA, Porto, PT
2003
“How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era”, International Center ofPhotography, New York, USA
“Veneer/ Folheado”, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, UK
“Os Meus Cromos da Arte Contemporânea”, Bienal de Foz Côa, Moncorvo, PT
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021
“Barber Shop” by Gonçalo Pena, curated by João Maria Gusmão, Museu Serralves, Porto, PT
2019
“A Pele do Fantasma seguido d’A Sueca”, Gonçalo Pena, Coleção Maria e Armando Cabral, Lisbon, PT
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS WITH PEDRO PAIVA
2016
“Unfinished Mandarin”, KM – Kunstverein München. München, DE
2015
“Oracular Spectacular: Desenho e Animismo” (edition of Gonçalo Pena work on display), CIAJG, Guimarães, PT
2014
“Monkey Trip”, Gonçalo Pena, ZERO…, Milan, IT
SELECTED SCREENINGS WITH PEDRO PAIVA
2019
Filmilindifestival, Tallinn, EE
2014
“L’artiste en ethnographe et l’ethnographe en artiste”, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, FR
“Animales que de lejos parecen moscas”, Parkourt, Lisbon, PT
“Animales que de lejos parecen moscas”, Xcèntric, CCCB, Barcelona, ES
2013
Migrating Forms Program 5, Sequence 0, BAM cinematek, New York, USA
2012
Instructions on death avoidance and the eternal energy flow, Film presentation by Alexandre Estrela, Project Space, Basel, CH
2010
Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
Inhotim Cultural Center, Minas Gerais, BRA
