OFF-FIELD
PRIMEIRA DESORDEM
ROGER PAULINO
TINY DOMINGOS
CLOSING EVENT SUNDAY 26 JULY 3-7 PM
To leave is, in itself, a risky gesture. Stepping outside your own comfort zone — the language, the context, the certainties — is to play off the field. That is what OFF-FIELD is about. While the world celebrates the football World Cup, this exhibition pays tribute to the courage required to step outside one’s comfort zone: three Portuguese artistic practices come together in Berlin to celebrate curiosity, perseverance and wit.
primeira desordem is a multidisciplinary project by Hugo Gomes (Lisbon, 1989) and João Marques (Lisbon, 1989) that explores the fictional potential of visual, political and social structures. Working with a variety of media – sculpture, video, installation, performance, poetry and crime – the artistic process is embraced as an ironic, self-constructed language. Hugo Gomes has a degree (BA) in Visual Arts from Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and was a guest student in Hassan Khan’s class at Stådelschule, Frankfurt am Main. João Marques has a degree (BA) in Visual Arts from Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and studied saxophone at Hot Clube de Portugal, Lisbon. They exhibit regularly in Portugal and abroad, with selected exhibitions including: ´The Ballad of Undrawing´, curated by Mattia Tosti, Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna, Italy (2024); ´Ghosts of the afterparty´, G10, Darmstadt, Germany (2023); ´The Kids Are Alright´, MONITOR, Lisbon, Portugal (2022); ´Apofenia´, curated by Bruno Marchand, Culturgest Porto, Portugal (2021)
Roger Paulino (b. 1986, Pretoria, South Africa) lives and works in Leipzig.
Studied Painting and Drawing at Ar.Co Lisbon (Porta 33 scholarship).
Diplom in Printmaking, Hochschule Burg Giebichenstein Halle, supported by a Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes scholarship. His work reworks art-historical iconography into new installation logics. Recent shows: NO BOOKS Printing Collective, Westwerk, Boxing Club Olympus, Leipzig & Whitegrid Gallery, Berlin; SCROLLS, with Sofia Mascate @ Buraco, Lisbon; WELT AM DRAHT, ROSALUX, Berlin (2026); CANTO DA TEIA, Andar de Baixo artist space, Lisbon; THE WORLD SMILES AT US, Solo show, Galeria 111, Lisbon (2025)
Studied Painting and Drawing at Ar.Co Lisbon (Porta 33 scholarship).
Diplom in Printmaking, Hochschule Burg Giebichenstein Halle, supported by a Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes scholarship. His work reworks art-historical iconography into new installation logics. Recent shows: NO BOOKS Printing Collective, Westwerk, Boxing Club Olympus, Leipzig & Whitegrid Gallery, Berlin; SCROLLS, with Sofia Mascate @ Buraco, Lisbon; WELT AM DRAHT, ROSALUX, Berlin (2026); CANTO DA TEIA, Andar de Baixo artist space, Lisbon; THE WORLD SMILES AT US, Solo show, Galeria 111, Lisbon (2025)
Tiny Domingos (b. 1968, Orléans, France). Founding director of ROSALUX (Berlin-Wedding) and co-founder of the Network of Independent Berlin Project Spaces and Initiatives. Graduate of the University of Lisbon. His work in sculpture, video and installation examines space, geology and digitality as material for questions of identity and futurity. Selected exhibitions: COSMIC LIVER, el HUB, BLAM Festival, Mexico City; DE TERRIS RARIS, Rotterdam Art Week (2025); BREATHTURN, TRACK 16 Gallery (LA); DATAMI, BOZAR, Brussels; ONS 6, KW, Berlin