Filipa Guimarães
Born in 1983, Porto, Portugal
Lives and works in London
Academic Background
2011 Masters Degree in Visual Language of Performance at the Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London.
2008 Masters Degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices, Porto University School of Fine Arts.
2006 Degree in Visual Arts Painting, Porto University School of Fine Arts.
Solo exhibitions and Projects in public space (p.s.)
2010 Takt Kunstprojektraum artist residency, Photoautomatraum project, Berlin (p.s.).
2009 CCB Fora de Si Festival, Resíduos Urbanos project, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (p.s.).
2009 Outonarte event, Xardín and A Castañeira projects, A Coruña, Spain (p.s.).
2008 Informal presentation of Acervo de heterónimos project in the Balleteatro auditorium, Porto.
2008 Galeria Ambulante, Cirurgias Urbanas space, Porto.
2008 Heteronymus (Azul, Vermelho, Preto), streets of Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (p.s.).
2008 Semi-Quadrúpede Prisioneiro, streets of Porto (p.s.).
2008 Lépido Sacripanta, streets of Lisbon (p.s.).
2007 Férias na Praia dos Leões, performance at Praça dos Leões, Porto (p.s.).
2007 Galeria Ambulante, Miguel Bombarda street and at the entrance of Serralves em Festa, Porto (p.s.).
2007 A fazer uma Obra de Arte, Sala Maior art gallery, Miguel Bombarda street, Porto.
2007 JARDIM, Plano B cultural space, Porto.
2007 A fazer uma Obra de Arte, Metropolitan Stations of Porto (p.s.).
2007 VOLTO JÁ, Praia da Luz space, Porto.
2007 JARDIM, streets of the centre of Porto (p.s.).
2006 ASERÉJÁ, Foz do Douro, Porto (p.s.).
2006 Dar pombas ao milho, Ribeira, Porto (p.s.).
2006 Tiraz, Praça da Batalha, Porto (p.s.).
2006 Bela Adormecida, Foz do Douro, Porto (p.s.).
2006 Lixo, Boavista, Porto (p.s.).
2006 Passagem de Peões, Porto (p.s.).
2006 Guarda-chuvas, Torre dos Clérigos, Porto (p.s.).
Group exhibitions and Festivals
2011 Curator/organizer of the performance event Me and... , project of collaboration with BBB Johannes Deimling, Simon Vincenzi & Fleur Despointes, Stefan Riebel and Alex Kovacs, Wimbledon College of Art Theatre, London.
2011 Invited to perform in the piece Naked Singularities presented at the event More Soup and Tart, Barbican Theatre, London.
2011 Invited to the event The Dismantled Cabaret organized by the novelist Alex Kovacs, The Art of Making Money performance, Chats Palace, London.
2011 From Me To You performance presented at ]performance s p a c e [ as part of the Performancestate event, London.
2010 Final presentation of the workshop PAS – What is important? with BBB Johannes Deimling, Art Prostitute performance, Flutgraben e.V., Berlin.
2010 DA2010 - Direct Action Performance Festival, organized by Stefan Riebel, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin.
2010 Motion 5/Differential Performance Festival, curated by Richard Rabensaat, project space Kurt/Kurt, Berlin.
2010 Performance at Turn Berlin Gallery, Photoautomatraum project, Berlin.
2009 Performance and exhibition at Mariana Jones Gallery, Estendal project, Porto.
2009 Invited to the Festival dImages Artistiques Vidéo, Catania, Italy.
2009 Invited by the commissioner Nilo Casares for the Outonarte 2009 event, projects Xardín and A Castañeira, A Coruña, Spain. 2009 Selected to the festival CCB Fora de Si, organized by Centro Cultural de Belém, Resíduos Urbanos project, Lisbon.
2008 Invited to the En Tránsito Festival 2008, organized by La Casa Encendida (presentation of Acervo de heterónimos project in the auditorium), Madrid, Spain.
2008 Invited to the commemoration event of the 15 years of Ernesto de Sousa Scholarship Contest of Intermedia Experimental Art (a joint initiative by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso-American Development Foundation and Experimental Intermedia Foundation (NYC), Espaço Avenida, Lisbon.
2007 PACK, exhibition of Postgraduation, curated by Fernando José Pereira and Cristina Mateus, Chancellery of Porto University, Porto.
2007 Exhibition of the video of Tiraz project in Batalha Cinema, Porto.
2007 Performances ASERÉJÁ and Servartes, Servartes cultural space, Porto.
2006 SET festival, organized by ESMAE (School of Music and Performing Arts), Porto.
2006 POST-IT CITY [porto] CIUDADES OCASIONAIS-Centre D´Art Santa Mónica(CASM)+Centre de cultura contemporània de Barcelona(CCCB), Artes em Partes Space, Porto.
2006 Barrigas de Freira exhibition of Painting Course finalists of Fine Arts School of Porto at Corpus Christi Convent.
Artist Residencies
2010 Takt Kunstprojektraum artist residency, Berlin, Germany.
2008 Artist Residency at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
2006 MUGATXOAN Artist Residency: Arteleku (Donostia - San Sebastián), Spain/Fundação Serralves (Porto), Portugal.
Grants & Awards
2009 Criar 2009, National Contest of Creative Ideas – European Year of Creativity and Innovation, Lisbon, Portugal.
2008 ANTECIPARTE 2008 Contest, Lisbon, Portugal.
2007 Honourable Mention in the 2006/2007 Ernesto de Sousa competition (a joint initiative by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso-American Development Foundation and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation (NYC)).
Other
2010 PAS-Performance Art Studies with BBB Johannes Deimling, Berlin.
2008 Invited to give a lecture about personal artistic project in the discipline of Performing Arts of the Art History course at the Literature Faculty of Porto University.
2007 Greatest classification in the project for Circuitos Artísticos discipline, taught by Jürgen Bock (director of MauMaus School of Visual Arts in Lisbon, and curator of Portuguese participation in Venice Biennale 2007).
2007 Responsible for the Logo design drawing for Pedro Abrunhosa (Portuguese musician, singer and composer) on his music album Luz and his BOOM Studios record label.
2007 Workshop of performance by Miguel Pereira (Portuguese performer).
