Exhibitions

Current

À Flor da Pele
Solo Show by Manuela Pimentel 24 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE gallery presents on September 24 in Lisbon, 'À Flor da Pele' - a solo exhibition by the Portuguese artist Manuela Pimentel, which pays tribute to the recently deceased journalist, writer, and editor João Paulo Cotrim, author of the text that gives the exhibition its... Read more

(IM)MATERIALITY
International Group Show at Águeda Arts Center 1 Oct 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 Following 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 reflection on the concepts of materiality and immateriality, highlighting works by artists from a wide variety of cultural and geographical... Read more

Past

Blue Grid
Solo Show by Pedro Besugo 23 Jun - 22 Jul 2022 Associação Mutualista Montepio presents the exhibition 'Blue Grid' by the Portuguese artist Pedro Besugo, between June the 23rd and July the 22nd, at atmosfera m, in Lisbon. The show is curated by Graça Rodrigues and Sónia Ribeiro and brings together about 40 works of painting, drawing and assemblage - mostly... Read more

(IM)MATERIALITY
GROUP SHOW - Not a Museum - Rua Castilho 3, Lisbon 20 May - 12 Aug 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 drawing, to sculpture, photography and installation. The exhibition promotes a reflection on the concepts of materiality and immateriality, highlighting around... Read more

The Green Line
SOLO SHOW BY PEDRO PIRES 5 May - 25 Jun 2022 THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE Contemporary Art Gallery presents in Lisbon 'The Green Line,' a solo exhibition by the Luso-Angolan artist Pedro Pires, which marks his return to the Portuguese capital after more than a decade of a growing presence in the international art scene. The exhibition is curated... Read more

Reflect #2 - FRAGMENTS, FRAGILITIES, MEMORIES
GROUP SHOW - THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART, BELGRADE (SERBIA) 13 Apr - 31 Aug 2022 The exhibition 'Reflect#2 - FRAGMENTS, FRAGILITIES, MEMORIES,' held at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade (Serbia) in collaboration with THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE Art Gallery, contains carefully selected works by Angolan artists, representative of what is, in a broad spectrum, the artistic production and intellectual reflection of... Read more

MUSAMBIQUE
Group Show by Manuela Pimentel and Jas 30 Mar - 7 May 2022 Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo presents the exhibition MUSAMBIQUE, a group show by the Portuguese artists Manuela Pimentel and João Alexandrino (Jas). This exhibition results from an artistic residency organized with the two artists in May 2019 in Maputo and Mozambique Island. Since then, Manuela Pimentel & JAS... Read more

LOOT
Solo Show by Barbara Wildenboer 5 Feb - 9 Apr 2022 'LOOT' is the first solo exhibition by the South African artist Barbara Wildenboer in Portugal. The show presents about 30 unpublished works, divided into three distinct nuclei. Among these is the artist's most recent body of work, which gives the exhibition its name. 'LOOT - Spoils of war' stems from... Read more

Weaving The Entropy
Solo Show by Patrick Bongoy 8 Oct - 31 Dec 2021 THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE is pleased to present "WEAVING THE ENTROY", a SOLO SHOW with new series of sculptural works and paintings BY PATRICK BONGOY.
The exhibition celebrates and recognises Bongoy's significant contribution on a critical view of the sociopolitical and artistic art scene in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Curated by Graça Rodrigues and Sónia Ribeiro, the exhibition includes 15 unreleased works from the artist's personal archive.
Patrick Bongoy explores the themes of migration, displacement, and the enormous human cost involved in the struggle for natural resources.
Produces his works from recycled rubber strips, evoking dark narratives.
Although resident in South Africa, the artist's work continually refers to his hometown of Kinshasa, DRC, and to explore the broad themes of alienation through the loss of homeland, as well as migration and the resulting effects on identity. In particular, it examines the specific aspects of dehumanization that occur when whole people and communities are plagued by toxic historical narratives, sociopolitical violations, and rapidly degrading physical environments. Read more

DIAPASÃO
Group Show by Manuela Pimentel and João Alexandrino 4 Oct 2021 - 28 Feb 2022 “Diapason”, from Greek roots “dia”, which means “through” and “pasōn”, which means “all”, suggests something that transposes, that traverses several realities. It also defines the device that allows determining the frequency of vibration of sound waves, serving as a tuning resource and as a mechanism to debug, purify and temper... Read more

EXTRAVAGANT DISSIDENCE - BUILDING A LOCAL PRAXIS
Solo Show by Osvaldo Ferreira 10 Sep - 31 Dec 2021 THIS NOT A WHITE CUBE inaugurates a SOLO SHOW BY THE ANGOLAN ARTIST OSVALDO FERREIRA. 'Extravagant Dissidence: Building a Local Praxis', will be held at GALERIA BANCO ECONÓMICO, in Luanda, FROM SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2021 and opens the new artistic season in the city. The project follows his recent award by... Read more

IN MEMORY WE TRUST
Solo Show by René Tavares, Lisbon and Luanda 27 May - 17 Jul 2021 In its 5t h year of existence the contemporary art gallery THIS NOT A WHITE CUBE expands its international presence with the OPENING OF A NEW SPACE IN LISBON, IN CHIADO, ON MAY 27th. To mark the occasion, that same day, the gallery will simultaneously present in its two branches,... Read more

BORDERS
Solo Show by Mariana Dias Coutinho Lisbon 24 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE art gallery, in partnership with MEXTO, presents Mariana Dias Coutinho's solo show 'BORDERS'. The exhibition gathers around 50 works by this Portuguese artist, produced between 2013 and 2019, tracing a retrospective view on her work. 'Borders' is curated by Graça Rodrigues and Sónia Ribeiro... Read more

DISCOURSES OF DECOLONIALITY
Group Show, Not a Museum, Lisbon 24 Jun - 30 Sep 2020 THIS 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 24th and July 31st at NOT A MUSEUM space, in Lisbon (R. Castilho, 3) and can be visited from Tuesday... Read more

Migrações e Coisas. Retalhos de uma História Só.
Galeria Banco Económico, Luanda, Angola 21 Mar - 27 May 2020 In partnership with the Banco Económico, This Is Not a White Cube, presents from March 21 to May 27, 2020, the first solo show of the Santomean artist, René Tavares, in Luanda, Angola. “Migraçōes e Coisas, Retalhos de uma Historia Só”, integrates around 40 works produced between 2012 and 2020,... Read more

Luís Damião - Photography
Solo Show, Luanda 18 Dec 2019 - 31 Jan 2020 THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE Art Gallery presents from December 18, 2019, to January 31, 2020, solo photography exhibition by the Angolan artist LUÍS DAMIÃO. The exhibition includes a set of 20 unpublished works, made over the last year, which reflect Luís Damião's latest production process in the field... Read more

Intersections - Within the Global South
Group Show, Galeria Banco Económico, Luanda 26 Nov 2019 - 16 Jan 2020 THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE art gallery with the Banco Económico and the South African Gallery MOMO, presented between the 28-11-19 and 31-01-20, in Luanda, the exhibition “Intersections - Within the Global South”. The exhibition puts in dialogue 16 international contemporary artists and seeks to promote through their work... Read more

PEDRO PIRES: PH7 – INTERFACES / BODY AND ARCHITECTURE
Solo Show, Natural History Museum, Luanda 6 Jun - 6 Jul 2019 PEDRO PIRES is back in Luanda with pH7 - INTERFACES \ BODY AND ARCHITECTURE, individual exhibition with about 25 unpublished works, among sculptures, installation and drawings with paper intervention. In this exhibition, the artist proposes not one, but multiple dialogues with the city through the body and architecture, in this... Read more

SPACES IN BETWEEN
Group Show, Old Palace, Lisbon 17 - 28 May 2019 Installed in a palace in 'ruins' in downtown Lisbon, the exhibition aims to reinforce the participation of THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE at ARCO Lisboa 2019, whose focus will be on African research, creation and collecting. With African artists from different geographical and professional backgrounds, the exhibition, divided into... Read more

PANORAMA
Solo Show by Mónica de Miranda, Banco Económico Gallery, Luanda 22 Nov 2018 - 25 Jan 2019 Panorama is the first solo exhibition of Mónica de Miranda in Angola, an artist whose multimedia work deals with themes related to geographies of affection, poetics of belonging and the processes of construction of identities. Angola is one of the artist’s geographies of affection and Panorama marks her return to... Read more

SER.CIDADE
Group Show, Banco Económico Gallery 21 Jun - 27 Jul 2018 Read more

Ambundulando
Solo Show by Januário Jano, Instituto Camões, Luanda 26 Jul - 19 Aug 2017 Ambundulando is a research-based project by artist Januário Jano. The exhibition is the result of a method of work developed over the last year and a half, where the artist explores the complexities and idiosyncrasies of the processes of the construction of Identity. In recovering practices and rituals typical of... Read more

Representation of the Human Figure in Angola
Group Show, Banco Económico Gallery 10 Mar - 14 Apr 2017 A Exposição, que representa cerca de 60 artistas angolanos em 89 obras de arte (pintura, escultura, fotografia, instalação e vídeo), comporta ainda uma secção dedicada a outros meios de expressão como a Banda Desenhada e a Street Arte, bem como reproduções de pinturas e postais cedidos, a partir de 1850... Read more

Nelo Teixeira: Not Bok - Conglomeration in space and memories
Solo Show by Nelo Teixeira, Banco Económico Gallery 18 Nov 2016 - 12 Jan 2017 The solo exhibition of the artist Nelo Teixeira, “Not Bok: Conglomeration in space and memories” will be open to the public from November 18th until 12th January 2017, at the Gallery of Banco Economico, in Luanda. Organized by the gallery THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE, in partnership with Banco... Read more

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