Gravidade takes its title from the eponymous film, which is posed in the centre of a circular distribution of seven paintings in the exhibition space. The paintings partition a figure in the landscape, therefore forming a series of part-bodies as partial objects detached from both the figure and its imaginary surroundings. The expressive pictorial quality in the film’s staging of figures through poetic quasi-dialogue renders it as another sort of painting toward which the other images in the room gravitate. Hence the film provides an illusion of restoring the lacking totality of each image on its own.
Willem Oorebeek lives and works in Brussels. The main focus on his artistic production is the question of image and representation utilizing different printing processes, fully employing the printing procedure’s inherent principles of juxtaposition and stratification in order to explore themes of repetition, multiplication, serialization and order. More recently he has had solo shows at the Gallery Quadrado Azul (Lisbon, 2014), A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE - Institut de Carton (Brussels, 2012), Robert Miller Gallery (New York, 2011), Modern Art Gallery (London, 2011) and Culturgest (Lisbon, 2008). His group shows include: Grazer Kunstverein (2013), Generali Foundation (Vienna, 2011), Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, 2011) and Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, 2009). He is co-organizer of the Wiels Residency Programme in Brussels.
Robin Vanbesien lives and works in Brussels. His recent solo and group exhibitions include ‘lighting the throat = lighting the throat’, Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp, 2014); ‘stray fire / ships to sink like this’, Rupert (Vilnius, 2014); ‘F. Hodler’ (with Willem Oorebeek), Pinacoteca (Vienna, 2014); ‘duty-bound away from the keyboard of the screen of my face’, WIELS Project Room (Brussels, 2014) and ‘A Means to a Place’, Mu.ZEE (Ostend, 2012). Among his artistic residencies are Maumaus Residency Programme (Lisbon, 2014/15), Capacete (Rio de Janeiro, 2014), Rupert (Vilnius, 2014) and Wiels Residency Programme (Brussels, 2013). He is the author of the artist book ‘Instant Ruins’ (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2012).
The conversation will be in English and takes place in the context of Robin Vanbesien’ exhibition Gravidade which runs until 22.03.2015.
Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Seminar
Alan Read
The Dark Theatre:
Conditions of the Irreparable
11.-13.03.2020, 11 am, 2 pm
Auditorium Goethe-Institut, Lisbon
Seminar
Santiago Zabala
The Greatest Emergency is the Absence of Emergency: Anarchic Hermeneutics, Emergency Aesthetics, and Philosophical Warnings
16,18, and 19.03.2021
4 pm - 7 pm
The seminar will take place online only.
Seminar
Sjoerd van Tuinen
The Politics of Resentment
24–26.03.2021
12h–14h30, 15h30–18h
The seminar will take place online only.
Fogo Island Dialogues
Atlantic Codes
November 8–9, 2019
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lumiar Cité
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Friday, 3pm to 7pm and by appointment. Saturday to Sunday, 10am to 1pm.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70 | 21 352 11 55
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Ao descer a escada
Há um degrau p’ra me sentar.
Não há outro degrau
Onde descansar.
Não estou lá em baixo
Nem lá em cima estou.
Estou é na escada
Onde sempre estou.
Ao subir a escada
Não estou em cima, nem em baixo.
Não estou na creche,
Nem mesmo no sopé, acho.
Ideias estranhas começam a girar
Na minha cabeça
Fora do lugar!
Tonio Kröner
09.11.2019 - 02.02.2020
25.01 | 17h00 Talk with Tonio Kröner, Simon
Thompson, Jürgen Bock
Judith Barry
All the light that's ours to see
Extended until 6 December 2020
In line with revised recommendations from the authorities, we are postponing the exhibition, which was scheduled to open on 28 March. A new date will be communicated in due course.
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
Maumaus / Lumiar Cité
is funded by Ministério da Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar