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
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)
