Ana Vieira: Installation Manuals
19 october 2024 — 9 march 2025
Curator: Antonia Gaeta, Astrid Suzano e Sofia Gomes
Ana Vieira: Installations Manuals focuses on the oeuvre of Ana Vieira (1940-2016), one of the most influential Portuguese artists of the 20th century, a pioneer in more experimental and expanded artistic practices, such as installation, marked by her scenic and theatrical constructions. The project aims to study, document and present a set of works by the artist, together with her respective drawings and annotations, which form part of an exhibition project that aims to produce the assembly notebooks, as a means to ensure their preservation and presentation in future exhibitions.
With a distinguished artistic career, Ana Vieira held two important exhibitions – at the Serralves Museum, in 1998, and at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in 2011. Posthumously, her works have been exhibited in Portugal and abroad, including the anthological exhibition at the Graça Morais Art Centre in Bragança in 2017 and the retrospective dedicated to her by the Es Baluard Museum in Spain, in 2020.
Ana Vieira: Assembly notebooks, the exhibition and editorial project has been coordinated by the curator Antonia Gaeta, architect Astrid Suzano and conservator and researcher Sofia Gomes, in collaboration with the Banco de Arte Contemporânea (BAC) and the heirs to the artist’s estate – her children, Miguel and Paula Nery. Promoted and organised with a grant from the first Support Programme of Portuguese Contemporary Art Network (RPAC) and with the partnership of Gnration, Braga, the Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura (CAAA), Guimarães, and the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (MACE), Elvas.
The exhibition has been conceived by the curator Antonia Gaeta, architect Astrid Suzano and conservator and researcher Sofia Gomes.
Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
Antonia Gaeta (1978, Lanciano, ITA) has a BA degree in Conservation of Cultural Property from the University of Bologna, a Master’s degree in Curatorial Studies from the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts (FBAUL), and a PhD in Contemporary Art from the University of Coimbra’s College of Arts. Antonia Gaeta has developed research projects and exhibitions with various art institutions in Portugal and abroad, and has also published numerous texts in catalogues, specialised magazines and exhibition programmes.
Astrid Suzano (1981, Paris) has a BA degree in Architecture and has worked in architectural studios in Rotterdam, Holland and Mexico City. She returned to Lisbon in 2013, accepting a new challenge as co-director of the contemporary art gallery – Galeria Graça Brandão. She was an advisor to the Lygia Pape Project where she also helped organise, produce and stage international exhibitions such as the retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum in New York (2017) or the solo exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2018). In 2016 she co-founded Passa Ao Futuro, a non-profit association that aims to connect designers with artisans, in order to innovate, preserve, activate, promote and thereby ensure the continuity of Portugal’s intangible cultural heritage.
Sofia Gomes (1983, Lisbon) has a BA degree in Painting Conservation and Restoration (Faculty of Science and Technology- Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and a Master’s degree in Painting Techniques and Conservation from the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University, Porto (2007-2009). She has a PhD in Heritage Conservation and Restoration from the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2017-2023). Since 2020, she has been a member of the management team of the Armando Martins Museum of Contemporary Art (MACAM) in Lisbon, as Collection Manager. She is interested in the conservation and materiality of contemporary art, in particular art installations and their re-materialisation inside and outside a museum context.
SIDE PROGRAM
November 16 | 15:00 | Workshop with families with Joana Ribeiro
November 24 | 11:00 | Guided tour with Mariana Rocha
December 5 | 15:00 | Tour in LGP with Ângelo Costa
December 28 | 15:00 | Workshop with families with Joana Ribeiro
January 9 | 13:30 | Pausa dedicated to Ana Vieira by Miguel Almeida
January 18 | 16:00 | Guided tour with Antonia Gaeta, Astrid Suzano e Sofia Gomes
February 1st | 15:00 | The House 1st session with Joana Ribeiro
February 6 | 13:30 | Pausa dedicated to Ana Vieira by Miguel Almeida
February 15 | 15:00 | The House 2nd session with Joana Ribeiro
March 1st | 15:00 | The House 3rd session with Joana Ribeiro
19th April | 15:00 | CAAA (Guimarães) | Guided tour with Mariana Rocha
10th May | 10:00 | CAAA (Guimarães) | Workshop with families with Joana Ribeiro
10th May | 15:00 | CAAA (Guimarães) | Pause dedicated to Ana Vieira by Miguel Almeida
24 May | 10:30 | gnration (Braga) | Family workshops with Joana Ribeiro
25 May | 15:00 | MACE (Elvas) | Guided tour with Mariana Rocha
Exhibition views © Dinis Santos
