Open Class | Ângela Ferreira

The fourth session of the 2022 cycle of Open Classes will take place on April 21, at 6:30 p.m., in the Ilídio Pinho Auditorium. The guest is the artist Ângela Ferreira.

The presentation will focus on the component of the artist's practice that deals with the unravelling of the relationship between the West and Africa, focusing on the continuing impact of colonialism, post-colonialism and the de-colonial project on contemporary society. It presents an investigative artistic practice whose ideas are distilled and transformed into concise and resonant installations. Projects such as Sites and Services (1991), Hotel da Praia Grande (The State of Things) (2003), Zip Zap Circus School (2002-2), Maison Tropicale (2007), For Mozambique (2008), Entrer dans la Mine (2013), Pau a Pique (2016) or A Spontaneous Tour of some Monuments of African Architecture (2021) will serve as prototypes for thinking about different starting points such as architecture, film or music. Showing how these lend themselves to a reflection on the political utopias of the African revolutions and on the idea of a deep political consciousness. 

The Open Classes 2022 programme of the School of Arts of the Porto Regional Centre of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa integrates artists, researchers and activists from different areas and contexts. The meetings aim to contribute to contemporary debates surrounding artistic practices and critical thinking.

Already confirmed are the Open Classes with Rosangela Rennó (April 28), Filipa Lowndes Vicente (May 12), Jessica Sarah Rinland (May 19) and Marinho de Pina (May 26).

The Open Classes have free admission and will take place in the Ilídio Pinho Auditorium every Thursday (6.30 p.m.), between February and May 2022, at the School of Arts.

BIO

Ângela Ferreira was born in Maputo (1958), she currently lives and works in Lisbon. She studied sculpture (1983) at Cape Town University, South Africa. Since 2003, she has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. In 2007 she was invited to represent Portugal at the Venice Biennale in Italy. She has also participated in the Istanbul Biennale (1999), Turkey; São Paulo Biennale (2008), Brazil; and Gothenburg Biennale (2015), Sweden. She won in 2015 the Novo Branco Photo Prize, Lisbon, Portugal.

She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in public and private institutions all over the world, such as: Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon; Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Marborough Contemporary, London; Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; Frieze Art Fair, London; ARCO, Madrid, Spain; Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA; Centro de Artes Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; MARCO, Vigo, Spain; MACBA, Barcelona, Spain; Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Parasol Unit (2008), London.

Her work is present in several public collections, such as: CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Market Gallery Foundation. Johannesburg, South Africa; South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; The Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; MEIAC - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain; Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy; The Walther Collection Neu-Ulm/Bulafingen, Germany; and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England.

She is a visiting artist at the School of the Arts in 2021/2022. +info