rosalux

RUI MOURÃO is a young Portuguese artist with an interesting work in video, photography and installations. Rosalux is pleased to show his work to a German audience for the first time. This exhibition, as the title suggests, presents all his video work of the past 5 years. It is an original and significative production of 15 videos, whose last piece is a new creation that will be projected here for the first time. A catalogue of the exhibition will also be launched at the opening.

rosalux
Strelitzer Straße 3
10115 Berlin

Opening: February 27th 2010, 7 pm

Exhibition: February 27 to March 13 2010,
Wednesday - Saturday, 3 - 6 pm and by appointment

catalogue (pdf)

Rui Mourão (b. 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.

He has studied photography and contemporary art at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and acting / cinema at Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. He has studied visual arts at Maumaus - Escola de Artes Visuais / Visual Arts School, Lisbon, and at Konsthögskolan i Malmö / Malmö Art Academy, Sweden.

He was selected to the Portuguese national show of Young Creators / Jovens Criadores, video section (2006 and 2007), to LOOP – The Video Art Festival, Barcelona (2007 and 2008) and to Anteciparte – A Selection of Portuguese Up Coming Artists (2009).

He made artistic collaborations for Coco Fusco (2002) and Erwin Wurm (2008).

Selected solo exhibitions: Por Bem, National Palace of Sintra, Sintra (2009); Coup d’Art, CAPC – Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra / Visual Arts Circle of Coimbra, Coimbra (2009); A Vida Segue a Um, Sala do Veado, National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon (2008).
Selected group exhibitions: Anteciparte, Orient Museum, Lisbon (2009); Looking For Some Small Marks / Waiting For The Right Moment, Voyeur Project View, Lisbon (2009); At/By/For/Into/Around The House, Pavilhão 28, Hosp. Júlio de Matos, Lisbon and Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen (2008); Liquid Room, NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2008); Private Office, Espaço Avenida, Lisbon (2007); After Urban, Monkey Town, New York (2007); Tudo Menos a Palavra?… / Everything But The Word?…, Instituto Camões, Lisbon (2007); LOOP, distritoQuinto, Barcelona (2007).

“Recibos verdes e liberdade” - About Rui Mourão’s work, text by Tiny Domingos (English | German | Portuguese)

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