Musa paradisiaca

Musa paradisiaca is an artistic project by Eduardo Guerra (Lisbon, 1986) and Miguel Ferrão (Lisbon, 1986). Founded in 2010, with the presentation of a set of podcasts at www.musaparadisiaca.net, Musa paradisiaca’s practice has been pluralized since. Within either discursive, participatory or in exhibition contexts, Musa paradisiaca can be seen to produce sculptures, films, drawings and performative actions, among others. Through dialogue and the benefits of merging distinct perspectives and competencies, Musa paradisiaca has gathered different entities, practitioners, experts or references, be they collective or individual, with whom they establish an affinity of thinking that shares and reveals many voices. This ongoing process can be seen as an open-ended dialogue that brings together temporary interlocutors, activates longstanding references, benefits from occasional technical expertise, and relies on long-term complicities.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2023 — Solar, Appleton Square [Box], Lisbon, Portugal
2024 — Mamma, sono qui, Artissima, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Turim, Itália
2025 — Arlequim, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2020 — The I of the Beeholder, curated by Filipa Oliveira, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 — João, O Armário, Lisbon, Portugal
2014 — Come back Sir, you're not from that world. Please come back Sir, you're from this world, Dan Gunn Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 — Alma-Bluco, CRAC Alsace - Centre Rhénan d'Art Contemporain, Altkirch, France
2016 — Masters of Velocity, Dan Gunn, Berlin, Germany
2017 — Man with really soft hands, Frieze London, Galeria Múrias Centeno, London, United Kingdom
2018 — Curveball Memory, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2022 — New People, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2014 — Flowers' audition, 3+1 Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 — Animal-house, BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Complexo Municipal dos Coruchéus, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 — Man with really soft hands, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra, Portugal
2021 — An animal with a backpack, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisboa, Portugal
2014 — Machines' audition, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 — Animal-house, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida / Sociedade Harmonia Eborense, Évora, Portugal
2017 — Man with really soft hands, Galeria Múrias Centeno, Lisbon, Portugal

Performances

2017 — How to catch a fugitive, Workplace Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2016 — How to catch a fugitive, CIAJG, Guimarães, Portugal
2015 — Canteen-Machine, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2013 — How to catch a fugitive? - Exhibition of conversable objects, CAM - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 — Scripts revision: cycle of staged conversations + Assemblies, Curator's Lab, Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012, Guimarães, Portugal
2017 — The Intimate Knowledge of Things, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2015 — How to catch a fugitive, ARCO Madrid, Dan Gunn Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2013 — Impossible tasks (The Servant and the Cenacle), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Screenings / Auditions

2021 — Monumento para Amadores — Solar Boat, ‘Quero ver as minhas montanhas’, BoCA – Bienal das Artes Contemporâneas, Faro, Portugal
2018 — Mestres da Velocidade, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2017 — Ecstasy and Eden, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2016 — Caça, Êxtase, Fome, Walk&Talk Gallery, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Portugal
2015 — Ecstay and Eden, Videoex Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 — Souls' comission, Palácio Foz, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 — Emulation play, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 — Drop shooting, Old school, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 — The most beautiful party I've ever seen, Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 — The speechless oracle, www.musaparadisiaca.net
2010 — First smell, first thought, www.musaparadisiaca.net
2018 — Emulation play, Fábrica de Pólvora de Vale de Milhaços - Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal, Corroios, Portugal
2017 — Animal Hunger, Vdrome
2015 — Ecstay and Eden, Fábrica da Pólvora, Vale de Milhaços, Portugal
2012 — The permanence of speech and action, www.musaparadisiaca.net
2017 — Ecstasy and Eden, ISELP, Brussels, Belgium

Talks

2023 — Práticas Artísticas e Pensamento da Comunidade, ESAD - Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2024 — Mutantes, BoCA – Bienal das Artes Contemporâneas, CCB, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 — I AM, Escola Secundária Artística António Arroio, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 — The House and the World. A Dialogue, Open House - Lisbon Architecture Triennial, EDP Headquarters, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 — I AM, Malmö Art Academy - Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
2014 — Valdevinos after dead, Expedição, Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal
2024 — Sobre a natureza e as causas da autonomia dos artistas, EAAD, Guimarães, Portugal
2018 — I AM, Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2015 — Musa paradisiaca in conversation with Heidi Ballet, Dan Gunn Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024 — Como plantar bananeira em Portugal?, Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2023 — Under the Surface, Horanggasy Artpolygon, Gwangju, South Korea
2022 — Entre as Palavras e os Silêncios, Entre as Palavras e os Silêncios, Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira, Portugal
2019 — European Dream: Works from the Norlinda and José Lima Collection, Centro de Cultura Contemporânea de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
2024 — Vanishing Intimacies. Surrounding Nan Goldin, MAC/CCB, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 — Artists' Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2017 — 10000 Anos Depois entre Vénus e Marte, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2016 — Conversations: Recent Portuguese Art in the Serralves Collection, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
2015 — Sonae Media Art Prize, MNAC - Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2014 — Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças, CRAC Alsace - Centre Rhénan d'Art Contemporain, Altkirch, France
2013 — EDP Novos Artistas Prize, Galeria Fundação EDP, Porto, Portugal
2012 — Tem calma o teu país está a desaparecer, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 — Meia Noite, Ano Zero, Bienal de Coimbra, Portugal
2021 — Na Cohorte de De Chirico, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra, Portugal
2023 — O Meu Corpo é o Teu Corpo — O Futuro como Aventura, CAPC, Coimbra, Portugal
2019 — The Path Finders, Rua da Bempostinha 64C, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 — Afasia, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 — SCHMALTZ, Guimarães, Viena, Áustria
2017 — Later is Now, Workplace Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2016 — Off the beaten track, CIAJG - José de Guimarães International Arte Centre, Guimarães, Portugal
2015 — ISSO - In one way or another, Plataforma Revólver, Lisboa, Portugal
2013 — Novo Novo México, Palha de Abrantes, Abrantes, Portugal
2022 — Negócios Estrangeiros, CAC Torres Vedras, Portugal
2021 — The Secret Life of Plants, Casa da Cerca, Almada, Portugal
2023 — A drawing was it one day, Biblioteca Municipal de Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal
2019 — Trabalho Capital: Ensaio sobre gestos e fragmentos, Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira, Portugal
2024 — Time is the (...) unit (LUCY), Museu Militar, Elvas, Portugal
2018 — Artists' Film International, MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 — Collaboration, Teatro Máximo, Quetzal Art Centre, Vidigueira, Portugal
2016 — Odd objects: An Essay on Proto-sculpture, CIAJG - José de Guimarães International Arte Centre, Guimarães, Portugal
2015 — All Rights Reserved: Coisas do Mundo na Colecção Norlinda e José Lima, Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira, Portugal
2013 — The perpetual interview, 1ª Avenida, Edifício Axa, Porto, Portugal
2022 — Une communauté imaginée, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
2023 — QAXXXV, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 — Por um rio, Por um fio, Hotel Vila Galé, Elvas, Portugal
2018 — Collaboration, Teatro Máximo, Jachthuis schijf, Schijf, The Netherlands
2017 — O Factor Cavalo, Bienal de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
2016 — Labyrinth and Echo: Permanent Collection and Other Works, CIAJG - José de Guimarães International Arte Centre, Guimarães, Portugal
2015 — The Coming Museum, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
2013 — Apesar de tudo, nunca se sentia só ou triste, o futuro fazia-lhe companhia ou Le petit Lenormand (cartomancia e probabilidade), Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 — Ghost of Chance, La Nave Sánchez-Ubiría, Madrid, Spain
2024 — Espanto, Casa do Comum Univ. do Porto, Portugal
2018 — Do Tirar Polo Natural. Inquérito ao Retrato Português, MNAA - Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 — Portugal em Flagrante - Operação 3, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisboa, Portugal
2016 — Ponto de Partida: Uma Selecção de Obras da Colecção de Arte Contemporânea Figueiredo Ribeiro, Galeria Municipal Quartel, Abrantes, Portugal
2015 — Le lynx ne connaît pas de frontières, Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
2024 — Perspectiva 24, Fórum Cultural, Cerveira, Portugal
2018 — A sedução de uma vírgula bem colocada, MACE _ Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas, Portugal
2016 — Colecção António Cachola: Musa paradisiaca and Mauro Cerqueira, Espaço Fidelidade Chiado 8, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 — El buen caligrama, The Goma, Madrid, Spain
2024 — A Revolução na Noite, Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira, Portugal

Residências

2021, BoCA – Bienal das Artes Contemporâneas, Faro, Portugal
2022, Ateliers Internationaux, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
2024, AiR 351 / Centro de Artes e Criatividade, Cascais / Torres Vedras, Portugal
2022, Art by Translation, Paris, France
2022, Ateliers Internationaux, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
2018-19, Fábrica de Pólvora de Vale de Milhaços - Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal, Corroios, Portugal
2017-18, BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Lisbon/Évora, Portugal
2016, Horanggasy Creative Studio, Gwangju, South Korea
2015, RAUM, www.raum.pt / MNAC, Lisbon, Portugal
2014, Fábrica da Pólvora de Vale de Milhaços - Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal, Corroios, Portugal
2013, Essentia Foundation, Príncipe, São Tomé and Príncipe
2012, Portuguese Cultural Centre - Camões Institute, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe
2022, Anozero – Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
2016, Walk&Talk, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal
2012, Novo Novo México, Palha de Abrantes, Abrantes, Portugal
2022, Art by Translation, Paris, França
2012, Curator's Lab, European Capital of Culture 2012, Guimarães, Portugal