Gonçalo Sena

Using drawing as a starting point, Sena’s artistic practice develops mainly through sculptural and spatial processes. Adhering closely and poetically to materials’ tactile identity and visual qualities, his work often concerns topics that merge the industrial and the natural through sculptural fragmented narratives, auto-biographic references, and relations between language structures and spatial perception. Sena’s recent works explore encounters between hybrid non-functional concrete structures, everyday objects and organic materials. Using the exhibition format as a temporary publication responding to specific site and contexts, Sena explores work production and installation processes exhaustively, responding to the architectural environment aiming for mutability and displacement.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2013 — Exposure, Modules Palais de Tokyo – Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France (cur. by Daria de Beauvais)
2011 — Due linee in un lago + Colonna in Silenzio, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Milan, Italy
2015 — drawn onward, die raum, Berlin, Germany
2019 — Rochas Roucas, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 — Lo-Fi Strata, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin, Germany
2018 — Praia Falha, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2012 — Distant Smoke, Baginski Galeria/Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 — Erosion Horizon, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 — Colourless green ideas sleep furiously, Syntax, Lisbon
2015 — Geometrias Subterrâneas, Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain
2017 — Walls and Torsos, Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2014 — Corso Aperto, Villa del Grumello – Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy (cur. Simone Menegoi)
2012 — Túmulo Desenho, 102–100 Galeria de Arte, Castelo Branco, Portugal
2014 — Movements towards inertia, Krome Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 — Porous Structures, Porcino Gallery, ChertLüdde, Berlin, Germany
2014 — Obsolete and Symmetric, , A Certain Lack Of Coherence, Porto, Portugal

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2013 — [szkmr], Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany (ATLAS Projectos)
2019 — Vanishing Point | Works from the António Cachola Collection, Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 — Canal Caveira, Galeria do Torreão Nascente, Cordoaria Nacioanal, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 — QA XXX (P3), Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 — QAXXX (P1), Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon and Porto, Portugal
2013 — Cinq Saynetes Pour Deux, Glassbox, Paris, France (cur. Deratisme)
2007 — Anteciparte Millenium BCP 2007, Museu de História Natural, Lisbon, Portugal (cat.)
2006 — O Pavilhão de Augusta Narval, R. Alecrim 28b, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 — Gótico, Parkour, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 — BYTS – Bosh Young Talents Show 2011, Stedelijk Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, Neitheirlands (cat.)
2010 — Display: Objects, Buildings and Space, Palácio Quintela, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 — On The Razor's Edge, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain (cur. Pablo Floréz)
2008 — Tracção, Arte Contempo, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 — the cloud continues and the spot diminishes without even the hint of a glow, IG Metall, Berlin, Germany
2017 — 6 of cups / Pleasure, La Pétanque, Paris, France
2018 — Grid Systems / Rastersysteme, (with Dominique Hurth), Büro Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, Germany
2018 — WELT (Apophenia), Gr_und, Berlin, Germany
2016 — Segunda Natureza, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
2014 — Untitled, Artissima with Krome Gallery, Turin, Italy
2018 — Low Strength Structures (with Jellyfish), , Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt at Arco Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2015 — Cidra, Da Luz, Escoval, Manso, Mendes, Romão, Sena, Ar Sólido, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 — Antes que a Produção Cesse, Avenida 211, Lisbon, Portugal (cat.)
2006 — A Derrota, Galeria Municipal Lagar de Azeite, Oeiras, Portugal (with André Romão)
2013 — Thermodynamic Twilight, Galeria Monumental, Lisbon, Portugal (org. Judith Sönnicken e Marius Schmidt) (cat.)
2012 — The Exact Weight Of Lightness, Travessía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (cur. Luiza Teixeira de Freitas e Thom O'Nions)
2011 — Como proteger-se do tigre, , XVI Bienal de Cerveira, Portugal (cur. João Mourão and Luis Silva) (cat.)
2010 — GoodTripBadTrip.reloaded, Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, Neitherlands (cur. Mark Kremer)
2009 — JENSEITS, Enblanco Kunstraum, Berlim, Germany
2008 — Finisterra, Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Portugal (cur. Maria do Mar Fazenda) (cat.)
2016 — Sala dos Gessos, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 — Asthenia No.6, Hot Wheels Projects, Athens, Greece
2019 — Findings, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 — Berlin Art Prize, District, Berlin, Germany
2019 — No habrá nunca una puerta. Estás adentro., Santander Art Room, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain
2013 — La Méthode Jacobson – Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (cur. Marc Bembekoff) (cat.)
2009 — EDP New Artists Award 2009, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal (cat.)
2008 — A river ain't too much to love, Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom
2016 — Rinoceronte-Ananás, Galeria Múrias Centeno, Porto, Portugal
2013 — Past Future, V Biennale d'Anglet – Villa Beatrix Enea, Anglet, FR (cur. Cécile Bourne-Farrel) (cat.)
2009 — Chloe Brooks and Gonçalo Sena, The Mews, London, United Kingdom (with Chloe Brooks)
2008 — Desenho – Projectos Editoriais, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal (ATLAS Projectos)
2008 — Eurásia, Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, Lisbon, Portugal (cat.)
2008 — Ocorrência, Bagisnki Galeria/Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 — I used to be indecisive... now I'm not sure, Galeria Alecrim50, Lisbon, Portugal (with Diogo Evangelista)