Hugo Canoilas

Hugo Canoilas works from a chaos that exists in the universe of the painter, formed by all the paintings existing a priori in his head, and by the artistic, political and social events which are excessively multiplying in contemporary life. This is how we watch the development of a work in a constant mutation, freely using a wide range of languages and media, and manifesting itself in a heterogeneous way between the scholar and the popular, the social and the artistic, especially bringing together several forms, in a mimesis between the author’s ethos and praxis.

Canoilas wants to renew the view about what was already said and done, freeing up the cliché in art, reinforced by a way of exhibiting the works in installations or constellations conceived by himself. The permanent immediacy, the affectedness of the work by the one that comes after, is implied. It requires the viewer, often through a “horizontal platform” between him and the work, as it happens in the street interventions, where a priori nothing indicates that the object in front of the one that passes on the street is an art work. Instead, it establishes a relation between an entity (the work) and another (the Other).

Hugo Canoilas has been internationally participating in several solo and group shows, and was selected for the last edition of the São Paulo Biennial.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2006 — Propaganda, Workplace gallery, Gateshead/Newcastle, United Kingdom
2006 — English paintings and other works, Palácio da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 — Vota Octávio Pato - Ten reasons to be a member, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2010 — A painting is getting its kicks, Galerie 1M3, Lausanne, Switzerland
2010 — To fall in height, Galerie Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2009 — A corridor between M. e K, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2015 — Passos dias a voar, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2016 — Debaixo do Vulcão, MNAC/SONAE ART CYCLES, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 — Can it be that it was all so simple then, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania, Italy
2019 — Antes do Início e Depois do Fim: Júlio Pomar e Hugo Canoilas, Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 — Oh spider! Big spider! Do you bring the cure, spider?, (with Antónia Labaredas), Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2020 — Cnidarian Polyps repaired by the Eye of the Observer, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
2021 — On the extremes of good and evil, MUMOK | Museu Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Áustria
2022 — Phantasmagoria, CAV, Coimbra, Portugal
2021 — Buoyant, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
2015 — The sun in darkness, Gallery Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, Germany
2013 — Fierce: Riding the wave fiercely with no fear, Workplace London, London, United Kingdom
2012 — Pássaros do Paraíso, 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
2008 — Endless Killing, Huarte - Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Huarte, Spain
2011 — Spoken words and white walls, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 — Unfaithful to daydreams, Workplace Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2019 — Was life that beautiful?, Às Segundas na ZBD, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 — Sculptured in Darkness, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
2015 — Someone a long time ago, now, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Escócia, Reino Unido
2009 — Paisagens, Certamen Explum, Puerto Lumbreras, Spain
2008 — Labyrinth, Galerie Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg, Luxemboug
2012 — The isle of the dead, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2011 — Provisoriamente Definitivos ou definitivamente Provisórios, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal
2013 — Ve.sch, Galeria Nosbaum&Reding, Luxembourg (with Martin Vesely)
2016 — Amo-te na boca, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 — Peinture , Sculpture, Architecture, Politique, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 — Opere nomadi, Galeria Collicaligreggi, Catania, Italy
2013 — Wound, Ve.Sch, Vienna, Austria
2016 — Meanwhile, what about Socialism?, AV Festival 2016, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, United Kingdom
2013 — Spirit of the air, WAF Kunstbuero, Vienna, Austria
2011 — Untitled (we can be altogether), Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 — I’ll devour your eyes, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
2013 — Magma, Workplace Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2015 — A Foreign Encounter, Galerie Foe 156, Munich, Germany
2010 — Originalfunktional, Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2010 — Bienal PortugalArte10 - Personal freedom, Pavilhão de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 — Entre Muros (Junho das Artes 10), Óbidos, Portugal
2010 — People, Fundação EDP, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 — Drawing Time, Galerie Poirel Nancy – FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
2010 — Broken fall (geometric), Enrico Astuni Studio, Bologna, Italy
2010 — Don't stand so close to me, Ragnarhof, Vienna, Austria
2009 — KAAP, Fort Ruigehoek, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2009 — Fiac 2009, Galerie Nosbaum & Reding Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2007 — Dear painter paint me… with heart and reason, Trafó Contemporay Art Center, Budapest, Hungary
2007 — Antimonuments, AH Galeria de Arte Contemporânea, Viseu, Portugal
2009 — De Malangatana a Pedro Cabrita Reis – obras da CGD, CCC - Caldas da Rainha, Centro Cultural de Sines and Mosteiro de Tibães, Portugal
2009 — Landscape, Gallerie Nosbaum & Reding Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2014 — Ciao!, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania, Italy
2019 — Do Lugar onde estou já fui embora, Galeria Liminare, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 — Transitioning Spaces, Art+Text Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2017 — Publishing as a Toolbox: 1989-2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2018 — COSMO/POLÍTICA #3. O Mundo começou às 5 e 47, Museu do Neo-Realismo, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
2020 — Dissonances, curated by Adelaide Ginga and Emília Tavares, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 — Ernesto de Sousa, Exercises of Poetic Communication with Other Aesthetic Operators, Galeria Avenida da Índia, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 — Flotsam & Jetsam, Quadrado Azul Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 — TA PANTA RHEI, Park of the Chiers - Differdange, Luxemburg
2022 — O Verdadeiro Lado da Manta , Palácio Vila Flor, Guimarães
2011 — Wallpaperism, Motel Campo, Carouge/ Genève, Switzerland
2008 — 8th Gyumri Biennial – parallel histories , Portuguese Representation, Gyumri, Armenia
2012 — Are you still awake?, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 — Apartment, Baumgasse 60, 1030 Vienna, Austria
2013 — General Strike, Dienstag Abend at The Mews Project and ArtReview project space, London, Reino Unido
2019 — The Path Finders, Rua da Bempostinha 64C, Lisbon, Portugal
2014 — Um cadáver esquisito para o século XXI, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 — Colore Uniti, Win Messe, Vienna, Austria
2017 — Maieutics, Fluc, Vienna, Austria
2018 — Ver as Vozes dos Artistas, Saco Azul Associação Cultural, Porto, Portugal
2020 — FOUR FLAGS, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 — ESAD 90 -10. 20 years of fine arts, Edifício Somafre, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 — Articulações, Allgarve, Antiga Fábrica da Cerveja, Faro, Portugal
2013, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2021 — Film as Muse, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
2012 — Drawing Quote!, Pigna Project Space, Rome, Itália
2014 — When elephants come marching in, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 — Another Destination, Parallel Wien, Alte Post, Vienna, Austria
2017 — THEM OR US! A Project on Scientific, Social and Political Fiction, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2018 — Segunda Categoria, Rua da Bempostinha 64C, Lisbon, Portugal
2020 — Facts n' Figures, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria
2008 — Second nature, Dexia Bank, Luxembourg, Luxembourgo/ Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
2014 — Liberdade, College of Arts, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2013 — Parallel Vienna 2013, Vienna, Austria
2021 — The Small World, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 — NeoSI: neue Situationiste Inter...nationale, Shattendorf Kunstverein, Austria
2012 — Porta Nigra: Black Gate, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2015 — Crocodile, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
2017 — Silly Symphony, Hoast, Vienna, Austria
2018 — Variations Portugaises, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France
2020 — Chaos and Rythm #1, curated by Nuno Faria, José de Guimarães International Arts Centre, Guimarães, Portugal
2021 — Osmose, Quinta do Quetzal, Portugal
2012 — Critical Alliances, PM Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2014 — syllabus 1_talking about art and life, Galleria collicaligreggi, Catania, Italy
2011 — Just photography, Martos Gallery, New York, USA
2013 — Was ist Kunst? - Mirrors of Production, Jaqueline Martins Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2015 — Arquipélago, Matadouro, Porto, Portugal
2017 — Constructing Paradise, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, USA
2018 — Germinal - O Núcleo Cabrita Reis na Colecção de Arte Fundação EDP, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2014 — Arbeiter kehrt heim, Franz Josefs Kai 3 Gallery, Wien, Austria
2012 — Strata, Sammlug Lenikus, Vienna, Austria
2011 — The days of this society are numbered, Abrons Art Center, New York, USA
2013 — On Things - On Minds, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf, Austria
2015 — Ficarra Contemporary Divan, Ficarra, Italy
2018 — What is going to happen is not the future, but what we are going to do, ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2021 — Carnivalesca What Painting Might Be, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
2012 — Infinite tasks, Museu Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 — Dio Horia in Mykonos, Dio Horia, Greece
2021 — Flora, Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisboa, Portugal
2012 — Beyond history, Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal
2015 — Import Export, Skulpturinstitut, Vienna, Austria
2021 — Climate Care - Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures, MAK, Vienna, Austria
2012 — CCC _ Collecting Collections and Concepts, Guimarães 2012, Fábrica ASA, Guimarães, Portugal
2015 — Dromosphere, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania, Italy
2015 — Cold Places, Galerie Andreas Hueber, Vienna, Austria
2015 — Granpallazzo, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy
2015 — Destination Wien 2015, Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsplatz 1, Wien, Austria