Paulo Nozolino

Paulo Nozolino is one of the central figures of contemporary photography. His journey begins in the 70's in London where he went to live. Then Paris, from the late 80s and throughout the 90s, was his basis for a long series of travels across the Arab World, as well as Europe, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Books like Penumbra and Solo are good examples of his political concerns with a changing society. He returned to Portugal in 2002, after an anthological exhibition – Nada – at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. In 2005, Museu de Serralves, in Porto, invited him to a new anthological– Far Cry – first time ever to show work by a Portuguese photographer.

A frontal artist, Nozolino sees photography the same way he sees life, using it to understand both the world and himself and taking it to the limits of his quest, his answers and his experiences. There is no room for complacency in his work. Destruction means destruction, death means death. Constant cycles in his historical time ‘par excellence’, the Twentieth Century, and even more alive in the present moment, as is stated in his most recent works, bone lonely, Makulatur, Usura and Loaded Shine.

Public recognition accompanies the artist's work from the beginning. Awards such as the Villa Médicis (1994), in France, or the Grande Prémio Nacional de Fotografia (2006) and the Prémio Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (2013), in Portugal, are reflections of such notoriety.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011 — Makulatur, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2007 — Paulo Nozolino, Galeria Visor, Valencia, Spain
  • 2022 — Oracle, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon
  • 2009 — bone lonely / Far Cry, Atelier des Forges, Rencontres d’Arles, France
  • 2009 — bone lonely, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2005 — Far Cry, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  • 2012 — Usura, BES Arte & Finança, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2006 — Scalati, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2015 — J'étais là, Espace Leica, ParisPhoto, Paris, France
  • 2017 — Loaded Shine, Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2018 — Loaded Shine, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
  • 2015 — Make do, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2013 — Bloom, Palais de Luppé, Rencontres d'Arles, France
  • 2017 — Loaded Shine, PhotoEspaña, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
  • 2013 — Gloom, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal

Group Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2021, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa, Portugal
  • 2016, Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisboa, Portugal
  • 2022, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 2009, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  • 2007, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2006, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2011, Art foyer – DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2008, MUDAM, Luxembourg
  • 2013, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  • 2023, Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris, France
  • 2015, Ostlicht Galerie, Vienna, Austria
  • 2019, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
  • 2017, Complesso del Vittoriano, Milano, Italy
  • 2020, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
  • 2021, Museo I.C.O., Madrid, Spain
  • 2024, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  • 2015, C/O Berlin Foundation, Germany
  • 2014, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2017, Fundacíon Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
  • 2020 — 13 ONZE 15, Grilles du Jardin May-Picqueray, Paris, France
  • 2024, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2014, Art foyer – DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2015, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2018, Le Botanique, Bruxelas, Bélgica
  • 2024, Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2014, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  • 2024, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Awards

  • 1989, Fondation Leica, France
  • 2012, Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, Silver Medal, Stuttgart
  • 2006, Prémio Nacional de Fotografia, Portugal
  • 2005, Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, Stuttgart
  • 1998, Oskar Barnack Award, Honorable Mention, Arles
  • 1995, Grand Prix de la Photographie, Vevey
  • 1994, Villa Médicis Hors les Murs, Paris
  • 1984, Prémio de Fotografia, CAM, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
  • 1988, Prémio Kodak, Portugal
  • 1995, Bourse Leonard de Vinci, Paris
  • 2013, Prémio Autores 2013 - Artes Visuais, Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, Lisbon

Collections

  • , Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
  • , Centre National d’Arts Plastiques, Paris
  • , Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
  • , Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
  • , Ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche, Paris
  • , Collection FNAC, Paris
  • , Centre Régional de la Photographie, Nord-Pas-de-Calais
  • , Musée Fenaille, Rodez
  • , Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse
  • , Centre Méditerranéen de la Photographie, Bastia
  • , DZ Bank, Frankfurt
  • , MUDAM, Luxembourg
  • , Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • , Musée Suisse de l’Appareil Photographique, Vevey
  • , Caja de Ahorros El Sol, Sevilha
  • , Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia
  • , Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz
  • , Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona
  • , Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto
  • , Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto
  • , Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
  • , Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
  • , Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon
  • , Banco Privado, Lisbon
  • , Fundação EDP, Lisbon
  • , Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon
  • , Colecção BESart, Lisbon
  • , Colecção PLMJ, Lisbon
  • , Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra
  • , Museu Carlos Relvas, Golegã

Works

Berlin, 2013

Silver gelatin prints on aluminium

120 x 80 cm

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