Colletion – Museu Bienal de Cerveira

Álvaro Lapa

Born in Évora, Portugal in 1939, Álvaro Lapa died in 2006. He was a painter/writer and one of the great names of contemporary Portuguese painting.
He received several awards throughout his career, namely the EDP Grand Prize.
There are those who argue that his work is autobiographical, and that it cannot be fitted into only one or any “ism”. Over time, a strong relationship between literature and painting was developed in his work.
Álvaro Lapa held his first exhibition at Galeria 111 of Manuel de Brito, in Lisbon, and since then his activity was constant. With numerous exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, he established himself as one of the most important painters of the second half of the 20th century. In 1976, he became a professor at the School of Fine Arts of Porto. He participated in several editions of the Cerveira International Art Biennale.

Ana Vidigal

Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1960, where she lives and works. Ana Vidigal completed the degree in Painting at the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon in 1984. She received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1985-1987). She did a Metal Engraving internship with Bartolomeu Cid at Casa das Artes [House of Arts] of Tavira (1989). She was a resident painter at the Museum of Contemporary Art – Fortaleza de São Tiago, Funchal (1998-1999). In 1995 and 2002, she was invited by the Lisbon Underground to create tile panels for the Alvalade and Alfornelos stations. She won the Maluda Prize in 1999 and the Amadeo de Souza Cardozo Prize in 2003. She held regular exhibitions since 1981. Her work is represented in several public and private collections. She was awarded the Revelation Prize at the III Cerveira International Art Biennale (1982).

Ângelo de Sousa

Mozambique, 1938 – Portugal, 2011

Ângelo de Sousa was born in Lourenço Marques in 1938. In 1962, he completed the course of Painting at the School of Fine Arts of Porto. Between 1967 and 1968 he attended the St. Martin’s School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, in London. During this period he became interested in the potential of film and photography. His approach to different media – painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, film and photography – was always experimental and dictated by the dynamics and results of the work process itself. The economy of means and forms, as well as the experimentation on variations within series, are characteristics of the work of Ângelo de Sousa. In his painting, elementariness is visible in the use of only black, white and the three primary colors. This principle of his program is explained by the artist: “a maximum of effect with a minimum of resources”.

António Dacosta

Born in Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal in 1914, António Dacosta died in 1990. Better known as António Dacosta, he was a Portuguese poet, art critic and painter.
His pictorial work consists of two distinct phases. Between 1939 and 1948, he worked essentially within the surrealist idiom, establishing himself as a reference figure of the movement in Portugal. He moved to Paris, where he took up residence in 1947. This was followed by a 30-year break during which he almost completely interrupted his artistic practice, dedicating himself to art criticism.
He returned to painting consistently in 1970. From then on and until the date of his death, he produced a number of different works, equally remarkable. He was awarded the Painting Acquisition Prize at the V Cerveira International Art Biennale (1986).

Artur Bual

Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1926, Artur Bual died in 1999. Artur Bual is one of the visual artists who have marked the history of the Cerveira International Art Biennales. He participated in several editions of the Biennale, having been awarded the Atelier Livre Prize in the second edition (1980). The local community and event enthusiasts remember the artist painting generously sized works live, in the energetic way that characterized him.
He had a decisive influence on art in Portugal in the second half of the 20th century. Although a sculptor and ceramist, it is as a gestural painter that his artistic work is more recognized. He held several exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. He is represented in several collections: Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, City Councils, Pegões Professional Training Center, and Regional Government of the Azores, among others.

Augusto Canedo

Born in Porto, Portugal in 1958. With a degree in Painting from the School of Fine Arts of Porto, Augusto Canedo taught the same subject at the Art School of Porto. He was assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (1988-2002). He holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Salamanca, was co-founder of the Quadrado Azul gallery, and in 1994 created the gallery “Por amor à Arte”. He was artistic director of the 15th, 16th and 17th editions of the Cerveira International Art Biennale (2009-2013).
He received several awards, among which the following stand out: the Bavarian Prize (2002); Almada Negreiros Prize (1995); Revelation 93 Prize from the Commercial Bank of Macau (1993) and Revelation Prize at the IV Cerveira International Art Biennale (1984). He held numerous solo exhibitions in Porto, Amarante, Coimbra, Toronto, Vigo, Barcelona, ​​Rotterdam, Paris and Salvador da Bahia.

Carlos Barreira

Born in Chaves, Portugal in 1945. During his training at the School of Fine Arts of Porto, Carlos Barreira benefited from a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1969-1973).
In his artistic career, he received several distinctions: the “Fernando de Castro” Prize, the “Teixeira Lopes” Prize on two occasions and the António de Almeida Foundation Prize.
In 1972 he began his activity as a graphic designer, set designer and costume designer, having worked with Teatro Experimental do Porto [Experimental Theater of Porto]. In 1977, he joined the ESBAP faculty. He is one of the few artists who participated in all editions of the Cerveira International Art Biennale, having won the Grand Prize in its 10th edition (1999).
His sculptural work has been exhibited in Portugal and abroad since the early 1970s, is part of private collections and is on display in public places in Europe and Africa.

Clara Menéres

Born in Braga, Portugal in 1943, Clara Menéres died in 2018. She studied Sculpture at the School of Fine Arts of Porto, where she was a student of Salvador Barata Feyo, Lagoa Henriques and Júlio Resende.
She received a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to study in Paris (1978-1981); she completed her PhD at the University of Paris VII (1983) and was a researcher at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies of MIT (1989-1991).
She began her teaching activity at the School of Fine Arts of Porto, was a professor at the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon (1971-1996) and an associate professor and full professor at the University of Évora (1996-2007).
Her first individual exhibition was in 1967 and she participated in numerous group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. She was present in several editions of the Cerveira International Art Biennale, having won the Grand Prize Sculpture (ex aequo) in its 5th edition (1984).

Cruzeiro Seixas

Born in Amadora, Portugal in 1920, Cruzeiro Seixas died in 2020. He was a Portuguese “man who paints” (the designation of painter/artist annoyed him) and a poet.
He attended the António Arroio School, where he made friends with Mário Cesariny, Marcelino Vespeira, Júlio Pomar and Fernando Azevedo. In the mid-1940s, he became close to the principles of surrealism. Together with Mário Cesariny, António Maria Lisboa, Carlos Calvet, Pedro Oom and Mário-Henrique Leiria, among others, he was part of Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa. He participated in the “1st exhibition of the Surrealists” in Lisbon (1949).
One of the greatest exponents of Portuguese surrealism, he settled in the Algarve in 1980, where he worked as a cultural programmer in several galleries. He collaborated in international magazines linked to surrealism. He participated in several editions of the Cerveira International Art Biennale and was honored in its 20th edition (2020).

Eduardo Nery

Born in Figueira da Foz, Portugal in 1938, Eduardo Nery died in 2013. He had an extensive professional activity in the fields of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, tapestry, tiles, stained glass, mosaic, mural reliefs, urban floor design and color projects for facades in architectural sets.
He had more than 40 solo exhibitions in Lisbon since 1964, and participated in more than 300 group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad since 1958.
He won several prizes in Portugal, such as the Bordalo da Imprensa Prize (1995) and one of the national prizes Bento Pessoa Casino Figueira (2007). Abroad, he was distinguished with six awards in Italy and Spain. He was awarded the Jorge Colaço Municipal Prize for Tiles from the Lisbon Municipal Council in 1987, 1991, 1992 and 1995. He was awarded the Photography Prize at the III Cerveira International Art Biennale (1982).

Elsa César

Born in Porto, Portugal in 1953, Gerardo Burmester currently lives and works at this city. He attended the School of Fine Arts of Porto between 1973 and 1974. From 1975 to 1978, he lived and worked in Paris. He was part of the Grupo Puzzle [Puzzle Group] (1977-1980). With Albuquerque Mendes, he founded and directed the “Associação/Galeria Espaço Lusitano”, in Porto. With his creation of installations of blatant aesthetics and experimental originality, Burmester’s work is today one of the most significant in the context of Portuguese contemporary art within the generation of artists that emerged in the 1980s. He is represented in several private and private collections, in the country and abroad.
He won the Grand Prize at the VIII Cerveira International Art Biennale (1995).

Gerardo Burmester

Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1953, the city where he currently lives and works. Attended the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes do Porto between 1973 and 1974. Lived and worked in Paris from 1975 to 1978. Was part of the Puzzle Group (1977-1980). With Albuquerque Mendes, he founded and directed the “Associação/Galeria Espaço Lusitano” in Oporto. Burmester’s work is today one of the most significant in the context of contemporary Portuguese art, in the generation of artists which emerged in the 1980s, producing installations of flagrant aesthetic and experimental originality. He is represented in various private and private collections in Portugal and abroad.
He was awarded the Grand Prize at the VIII Cerveira International Art Biennial (1995).

Helena Almeida

Helena Almeida (Lisbon, 1934 – Sintra, 2018) completed the degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon in 1955 and exhibited regularly since the late 1960s. Her first solo exhibition was in 1967 at Galeria Buchholz, in Lisbon.

Throughout her career, Helena Almeida questioned the traditional artistic media, in particular painting, a discipline from which she explored other disciplines, such as drawing, performance, video and photography. In her early works, the artist reflects on the materiality and limits of the pictorial space, working the canvas in an unconventional way, such as painting its back or adding everyday objects to it. Following those initial works, the artist found in photography the ideal medium to explore the tension between her work and her body, an ever-present theme in her artistic thinking that lead her to resort to self-representation, for which she became known nationally and internationally.

Helena Almeida represented Portugal at the Biennales of São Paulo (1979), Venice (1982 and 2004) and Sidney (2004) and had important solo exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.

Henrique Silva

Born in Paredes, Portugal in 1933. Visual artist, Henrique Silva was executive director of Cooperativa Árvore (1978-1996) and Associação Projecto – Núcleo de Desenvolvimento Cultural, director of the Cerveira International Art Biennale (1995-2007 and 2015) and director of the Higher Course of Design and Fine Arts of the Escola Superior Gallaecia. He was a fellow of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris from 1961 to 1963. In 1977 he graduated in Visual Arts for Teaching from the Universitée de Paris VIII.
He has exhibited regularly since 1958. He has held more than 50 solo exhibitions in France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Brazil and Portugal and more than 200 group exhibitions in Europe, America and Japan. He is currently interim president of the Founders’ Council of the Cerveira Art Biennale Foundation and of its Scientific Council.

Isaque Pinheiro

Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1972. Isaque Pinheiro lives and works in Porto. In addition to individual exhibitions in the galleries Caroline Pagès in Lisbon, Mário Sequeira in Braga, Presença in Porto, Esther Montoriol in Barcelona, ​​Laura Marsiaj in Rio de Janeiro, Moura Marsiaj in São Paulo and Ybakatu in Curitiba, there are also participations in group exhibitions at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, the Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Compostela and Caixa Cultural in Rio de Janeiro.
He is represented in the EDP Foundation Art Collection (MAAT), PLMJ Foundation, Museum of the Cerveira Biennale, Caixanova Foundation in Spain, Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Compostela, and Edson Queiroz Foundation in Fortaleza, Brazil, among others.
He was awarded the Acquisition Prize by the Municipality of Vila Nova de Cerveira at the XV Cerveira International Art Biennale (2009) and at the XVIII Cerveira International Art Biennale (2015).

Jaime Isidoro

Jaime Isidoro was born in Porto, Portugal. Considered the “father” of the Cerveira International Art Biennales, he was artistic director of six editions of the event (1978-1984 and 1992). He studied Drawing and Painting at the Soares dos Reis School of Arts in Porto and had his first solo exhibition in 1945. In parallel with his career as a painter, he was also a cultural manager, gallery owner and teacher, being directly associated with important moments in the visual arts in Portugal. He promoted the “Encontros Internacionais de Arte” [International Art Meetings] in the 1970s, edited the “Revista de Artes Plásticas” [Visual Arts Magazine], which had the collaboration of leading Portuguese critics and artists, and showed a particular interest in innovative cultural projects. In 1954, Jaime Isidoro and António Sampaio created the Dominguez Alvarez Academy.

João Carqueijeiro

Born in Lobito, Angola in 1954. In 1982, João Carquejeiro concluded the degree in Drawing at Cooperativa Árvore, in Porto. He also specialized in Wheel, Sandstone Glazes and Raku at La Bisbal Ceramic School, in Catalonia.
He has been teaching ceramics since 1981. As a member of Cooperativa Árvore, he has been a professor of the Ceramics Open Courses since 1986.
He participated in numerous exhibitions (individual and collective), art biennales and international symposiums, having been awarded prizes several times. He created various ceramic murals.
He is represented in public museums and private collections in Portugal and abroad.
He has participated in several editions of the Cerveira International Art Biennale, as a guest artist and workshop coordinator. In 2011, he created a three-dimensional modular mural in glazed ceramic (3×10 m) for the building of the Museum of the Cerveira Biennale.

José Rodrigues

Justino Alves

Paulo Neves

Pedro Cabrita Reis

Pedro Calapez

Pedro Casqueiro

Robert Schad

Rute Rosas

Samuel Rama

Sobral Centeno

Xurxo Oro Claro

Zadok Ben-David

Zulmiro de Carvalho

Born in Gondomar, Portugal in 1940. Zulmiro de Carvalho attended the Soares dos Reis School of Decorative Arts in Porto (1952-1958). He obtained a degree in Sculpture from the School of Fine Arts of Porto in 1968, where he would become a professor (1973-1995).
Between 1971 and 1973 he studied in London at the St. Martin’s School of Art, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
The work of the sculptor Zulmiro de Carvalho has received several national awards and has been part of numerous individual and group exhibitions, both in Portugal (Barcelos, Amarante, Braga, Porto, Coimbra, Lisbon, Santo Tirso, Guimarães, etc.), and in symposia and international exhibitions, namely in Madrid, Amsterdam, Bonn, Copenhagen, Goa, and in Brazil (Belém and Rio de Janeiro) and Cape Verde.
He won the Grand Prize in Sculpture at the III Cerveira International Art Biennale (1982).