Artworks
Nuno Cera
Janela Infinita
18 NOVEMBER 2022 - 7 JANUARY 2023
I'm using photography as a way to investigate and try to understand these seas. I attempted to make them more artificial and less natural.
Nuno Cera in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Exhibition Views
Photographic documentation
The scale and technique used in the presentation impels the observer to submerge into the photographs, merging with the matter.
Susana Ventura in Janela Infinita´s exhibition text
Among the one-person exhibitions we can single out: “Drawings”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation; “Body Building”, Loja da Atalaia, Lisbon; “Rui Sanches, Retrospective”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation and “Museum”, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Some important group-exhibitions were: the 19th São Paulo Bienal; “PASTFUTURETENSE”, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery; “Tríptico”, Europália 91. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent; “From Silence to Light”, Watari-Um, Tóquio; “Abstract/Real”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Viena; “Dentro y Fuera” Cáceres and “Serralves 2009 – The Collection”, Museu de Serralves, Porto. During the 1980’s his work was based on the deconstruction of paintings and genres of painting.
In his work, Lisbon based photographer and video artist Nuno Cera addresses spatial conditions, architecture and urban situations through poetic and documentary forms. His work has been internationally published, commissioned and exhibited by cultural institutions, curators and exhibition platforms. It is represented in several public and private collections.
Cera was resident artist in Berlin (Künstlerhaus Bethanien), New York (ISCP International Studios and Curatorial Program), Paris (Recollet) and Macau (Fundação Oriente). For his artistic investigation on 9 mega cities Futureland (2008 - 2010), internationally exhibited and published until today, he received grants from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and the EDP Foundation. His multi-annual video and publication project The Symphony of the Unknown (2012 - ongoing) is supported by the Foundación Botin and the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.
Solo exhibitions include The Blur City (2019, Fundação Oriente, Macau), Hora Certa (2019, Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon), Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (2016, Grand Palais, Paris), Symphony of the Unknown (2016, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin), Alpha Béton (2015, CAPC, Coimbra), FANTASMAS (2006, CCB, Lisbon), The Prora Complex and other works (2005, Play Gallery, Berlin), Berlin - a super-8 movie (2003, I-20 Gallery, NYC).
Group exhibitions include Álvaro Siza – IN/DISCIPLINA (2019, Museu de Serralves, Porto), Haus Wittegenstein (2018, MAAT, Lisbon), Demo:Polis (2016, Akademie der Künste, Berlin), ZOOM! (2015, Pinakothek der Moderne, München).
Cera was the guest artist of the Portuguese representation at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial, Public without rhetoric.
Artist Bio
Solo exhibitions include The Blur City (2019, Fundação Oriente, Macau), Hora Certa (2019, Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon), Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (2016, Grand Palais, Paris), Symphony of the Unknown (2016, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin), Alpha Béton (2015, CAPC, Coimbra), FANTASMAS (2006, CCB, Lisbon), The Prora Complex and other works (2005, Play Gallery, Berlin), Berlin - a super-8 movie (2003, I-20 Gallery, NYC).
Group exhibitions include Álvaro Siza – IN/DISCIPLINA (2019, Museu de Serralves, Porto), Haus Wittegenstein (2018, MAAT, Lisbon), Demo:Polis (2016, Akademie der Künste, Berlin), ZOOM! (2015, Pinakothek der Moderne, München).
Cera was the guest artist of the Portuguese representation at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial, Public without rhetoric.
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
In his work, Lisbon based photographer and video artist Nuno Cera addresses spatial conditions, architecture and urban situations through poetic and documentary forms. His work has been internationally published, commissioned and exhibited by cultural institutions, curators and exhibition platforms. It is represented in several public and private collections.
Cera was resident artist in Berlin (Künstlerhaus Bethanien), New York (ISCP International Studios and Curatorial Program), Paris (Recollet) and Macau (Fundação Oriente). For his artistic investigation on 9 mega cities Futureland (2008 - 2010), internationally exhibited and published until today, he received grants from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and the EDP Foundation. His multi-annual video and publication project The Symphony of the Unknown (2012 - ongoing) is supported by the Foundación Botin and the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.
Artist Bio
In his work, Lisbon based photographer and video artist Nuno Cera addresses spatial conditions, architecture and urban situations through poetic and documentary forms. His work has been internationally published, commissioned and exhibited by cultural institutions, curators and exhibition platforms. It is represented in several public and private collections.
Cera was resident artist in Berlin (Künstlerhaus Bethanien), New York (ISCP International Studios and Curatorial Program), Paris (Recollet) and Macau (Fundação Oriente). For his artistic investigation on 9 mega cities Futureland (2008 - 2010), internationally exhibited and published until today, he received grants from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and the EDP Foundation. His multi-annual video and publication project The Symphony of the Unknown (2012 - ongoing) is supported by the Foundación Botin and the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.
Solo exhibitions include The Blur City (2019, Fundação Oriente, Macau), Hora Certa (2019, Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon), Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (2016, Grand Palais, Paris), Symphony of the Unknown (2016, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin), Alpha Béton (2015, CAPC, Coimbra), FANTASMAS (2006, CCB, Lisbon), The Prora Complex and other works (2005, Play Gallery, Berlin), Berlin - a super-8 movie (2003, I-20 Gallery, NYC).
Group exhibitions include Álvaro Siza – IN/DISCIPLINA (2019, Museu de Serralves, Porto), Haus Wittegenstein (2018, MAAT, Lisbon), Demo:Polis (2016, Akademie der Künste, Berlin), ZOOM! (2015, Pinakothek der Moderne, München).
Cera was the guest artist of the Portuguese representation at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial, Public without rhetoric.