Bete Marques Brazil, b. 1975
Overview
Bete Marques often incorporates into her artistic practice the use of everyday objects to create bold assemblies inspired by the visual plasticity of South American favelas, which promote an intense exploration of pigments and shapes.
Covered in light and colour and sometimes accompanied by small hand-ignited music boxes, her installations reflect the social reality of many of the cities in her home country. These monumental favelas materialize the artist's gaze on Brazilian social reality and popular culture, comprising the image of a living and material structure whose interpretation depends on the historical analysis of local and global urban development. In her installations, Bete Marques also explores broader issues, such as ecology, globalized migrations, socioeconomic structures, and identity.
Works
Exhibitions
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(IM)MATERIALITY
Group Show: Águeda's Art Center 1 October 2022 - 15 January 2023Following the success achieved during the presentation in Lisbon, and at the invitation of Águeda's Municipality, the exhibition (IM)MATERIALITY will itinerate to Águeda Arts Center in October. “(IM)MATERIALITY” promotes a...Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
GROUP SHOW: Not a Museum 20 May - 12 August 2022'(IM)MATERIALITY' is curated by Graça Rodrigues, Sónia Ribeiro, Katherine Sirois, Lourenço Egreja, and Diogo Bento, and exhibits, through three distinct nuclei, a significant combination of media, ranging from painting to...Read more -
DISCOURSES OF DECOLONIALITY
Group Show: Not a Museum 24 June - 30 September 2020THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE art gallery, in partnership with Not A Museum - Art Mexto, presents the exhibition “Discourses of Decoloniality'. It will be on display between June...Read more -
Intersections - Within the Global South
Group Show: Galeria Banco Económico 26 November 2019 - 16 January 2020THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE art gallery, the Banco Económico, and the South African Gallery MOMO, present, in Luanda: “Intersections - Within the Global South”. The exhibition puts in...Read more
Art Fairs
Press
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Artists show collective performance at the Banco Económico gallery
Jornal O País, 28 November 2019 -
Painting of eight countries in collective show
Mário Cohen, Jornal de Angola, 29 November 2019 -
(IM)MATERIALITY Águeda's Art Centre
RTP, 8 October 2022 -
(IM)MATERIALITY - Daniel Madeira em ARTE & CULTURA para a Umbigo Magazine
Umbigo, 13 February 2023 -
(IM)MATERIALITY: NOT A MUSEUM receives international art exhibition
por VÁRIOS, VOU SAIR , 14 August 2022 -
Águeda Arts Center hosts exhibition of more than 40 artists: a reflection on the materiality and immateriality
Comunidade Cultura e Arte, 26 September 2022 -
Collective Exhibition: Intersections - Within the Global South
Juciria Rodrigues, Jornal Mercado, 2 December 2019 -
Lusophone Artists arouse interest at the AKAA Fair
Catarina Falcão, rfi, 26 October 2022 -
This Is NOT A White Cube e MOMO Gallery promovem exposição “Intersections – Within the Global South”
Jucíria Rodrigues, Jornal Vanguarda, 1 January 2020
Video
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Discourses de Decoloniality
24 June - 30 September 2020 23 March 2023Read more -
Cereja no topo do bolo #13 - Chat with Elisabete Marques
Podcast by Susana Cereja 18 May 2022Thirteenth episode of the “Cereja no topo do bolo” podcast. This time I'm talking with the incredible artist Elisabete Marques. We talked about art, about...Read more -
Art can help to overcome the post-colonial Portugal-Africa stigmas
Interview with Graça Rodrigues and João Paulo Sacadura 6 June 2022Interview with Graça Rodrigues, conducted by journalist João Paulo Sacadura for the Portuguese radio station 'Observador' - podcast 'Convidado Extra.' Graça Rodrigues is co-artistic director...Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
international art exhibition 1 July 2022Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
INTERNATIONAL GROUP SHOW AT ÁGUEDA ARTS CENTER 1 October 2022Read more
Events
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Discourses de Decoloniality
24 June - 30 September 2020 23 March 2023Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY - Daniel Madeira em ARTE & CULTURA para a Umbigo Magazine
Umbigo 13 February 2023Exposição coletiva, com obras de 35 artistas, patente no Espaço Expositivo do Centro de Artes de Águeda , (IM)MATERIALITY é uma abordagem, em três instâncias,...Read more -
Lusophone Artists arouse interest at the AKAA Fair
rfi 26 October 2022Read more -
AKAA - Also Known As Africa 2022
Group Show: Barbara Wildenboer, Bete Marques, and Pedro Pires 21 - 23 October 2022AKAA - the primary art fair dedicated to artists from Africa and its diaspora in France - returns this year for its seventh edition between...Read more
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(IM)MATERIALITY Águeda's Art Centre
RTP 8 October 2022RTP interview with Katherine Sirois about the Exhibition (IM)MATERIALITY in Águeda's Art Centre - THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE by Daniel CatalãoRead more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
Group Show: Águeda's Art Center 1 October 2022 - 15 January 2023Following the success achieved during the presentation in Lisbon, and at the invitation of Águeda's Municipality, the exhibition (IM)MATERIALITY will itinerate to Águeda Arts Center...Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
INTERNATIONAL GROUP SHOW AT ÁGUEDA ARTS CENTER 1 October 2022Read more -
Águeda Arts Center hosts exhibition of more than 40 artists: a reflection on the materiality and immateriality
Comunidade Cultura e Arte 26 September 2022Read more
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(IM)MATERIALITY: NOT A MUSEUM receives international art exhibition
VOU SAIR 14 August 2022Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
international art exhibition 1 July 2022Read more -
Art can help to overcome the post-colonial Portugal-Africa stigmas
Interview with Graça Rodrigues and João Paulo Sacadura 6 June 2022Interview with Graça Rodrigues, conducted by journalist João Paulo Sacadura for the Portuguese radio station 'Observador' - podcast 'Convidado Extra.' Graça Rodrigues is co-artistic director...Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
GROUP SHOW: Not a Museum 20 May - 12 August 2022'(IM)MATERIALITY' is curated by Graça Rodrigues, Sónia Ribeiro, Katherine Sirois, Lourenço Egreja, and Diogo Bento, and exhibits, through three distinct nuclei, a significant combination of...Read more
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Cereja no topo do bolo #13 - Chat with Elisabete Marques
Podcast by Susana Cereja 18 May 2022Thirteenth episode of the “Cereja no topo do bolo” podcast. This time I'm talking with the incredible artist Elisabete Marques. We talked about art, about...Read more -
DISCOURSES OF DECOLONIALITY
Group Show: Not a Museum 24 June - 30 September 2020THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE art gallery, in partnership with Not A Museum - Art Mexto, presents the exhibition “Discourses of Decoloniality'. It will...Read more -
This Is NOT A White Cube e MOMO Gallery promovem exposição “Intersections – Within the Global South”
Jornal Vanguarda 1 January 2020Read more -
Collective Exhibition: Intersections - Within the Global South
Jornal Mercado 2 December 2019Read more
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Painting of eight countries in collective show
Jornal de Angola 29 November 2019Read more -
Artists show collective performance at the Banco Económico gallery
Jornal O País 28 November 2019Read more -
Intersections - Within the Global South
Group Show: Galeria Banco Económico 26 November 2019 - 16 January 2020THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE art gallery, the Banco Económico, and the South African Gallery MOMO, present, in Luanda: “Intersections - Within the Global...Read more