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Carla Rebelo, 1973 Lisbon
Lives and works in Lisbon 

Academic Education:
1994-2000 - Degree in Visual Arts - Sculpture by FBAUL

1989-1992 - Textile Design Course – António Arroio Artistic School, Lisbon

Additional training (selection):

1994 - Scenography Course - Interpretative Arts Center, ARTICO, Trafaria

93/94 - Audiovisual Communication Course - CGTP-IN Training Center, Lisbon

92/93 - IAO Tapestry Course - Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva Foundation

92/94 - Artistic training course in Drawing of the National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon

1994 -  Participation in the training action "Orientar para Insert" - CECOA, with stage design at the Malaposta Cultural Center

 

Scholarships:

2010/11 - Grant for Artistic Creation of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

2009 – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation exhibition production grant, Lisbon

1998 -  Erasmus Scholarship at École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Bourges France

 

Artist Residencies:

17/18 - We Cultivate Culture, São Luís, Portugal

2015 - Inter.meada - Artist Residencies, Alvito, Portugal

2013 - NCCA Kronstadt - National Center for Contemporary Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia

2012 - FelipaManuela in collaboration with Columpio – Proyectos de Dibujo integrated in the event jugada a 3 Bandas, Madrid

2011 – Self-organized residence in the city of Berlin following the artistic project Journey to the interior of the lived cities

2011 – Artist residency at Drawing Spaces, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon

2010 - Self-organized residence in the city of Istanbul following the artistic project Journey to the interior of the lived cities

Individual Exhibitions:

2020 – According to its own time, Galeria Diferença, Lisbon

2018 - A moment that continually repeats itself, Galeria Águas Livres 8, Lisbon

2018 - Private Landscapes,  Difference Gallery, Lisbon

2017 - A pentagon, a circle, eight books, Municipal Library of São Lázaro, Lisbon

2017 - Watermark, Money Museum, Lisbon

2016 - Becoming Water, Marquês de Pombal Palace, Oeiras, Portugal 

2015 - “Fate followed our trail like a madman with a razor in hand, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga

2014 - An almost imperceptible movement related to the flight, Monumental Gallery, Lisbon

2011 - Drawings in the shadow - Drawing Spaces, Fábrica do Braço de Prata, Lisbon

2010 - The Other Side - Paços Galeria, Torres Vedras, Portugal

2009 - Trip to the interior of the imagined cities – Octávia, Round the Corner, Lisbon

2002 - We weave - Theater Chapel  Taborda, Lisbon

2000 - kid's play - the house – 30 days Gallery, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

1999 - Cistern of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, Convento de São Francisco, Lisbon

 

Collective Exhibitions (selection):

2021-  Specific Objects, part 1, from the Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection - Curated by Ana Anacleto and João Silvério - MIAA, Iberian Archeology and Art Museum, Abrantes, Portugal 

2021 - O beards, describe the landscape!  Works from the Marin Gaspar collection, curated by Mariana Marin Gaspar  - Coimbra House of Culture 

2021-  Artist Books by Women Artists - curated by Ana Barata Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon 
2021 - Alter(action) - curated by Marta De Menezes - Center for Art and Culture - Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, Évora 

2021 - Be(coming) - curated by Marta De Menezes, Academia do Marvão, Portugal

2020 – Glória - Vasco Barata - Appleton, Lisbon

2020 – With(tact), Cultivamos Cultura, São Luís, Odemira, Portugal 

2020 – Palimpsest, Municipal Museum of Penafiel, Penafiel, Portugal

2020 - Trajectory(s), 100 years of Artistic Teaching, National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon 

2019 - Strictly Libri, Biennale del Libro d´Artista, Galleria della Fondazione dei Monti Uniti, Foggia, Italy  

2019 – FACTT Lisbon - (Be)Coming, Pavilion 31, Lisbon

2019 - Exhibition of Artist's Books in the Modern Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon 

2019 - Constellations: a choreography of minimal gestures, Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon 

2019 - FACTT Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

2019 - Roots, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Lisbon

2018 - Hypermnesia, Underground Gallery, 40, Lisbon

2018 - FACTT Mexico, Mexico City Digital Cultural Center, Mexico
2018 - FACTT USA, School of Visual Arts, New York 
2018 - FACTT Lisbon, Livraria Ler Devagar, Lisbon

2017 - The book Disperso, Sput&Nic The Window, Porto

2017 - Exhibition of Artist Books from the Art Library Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, FCG, Lisbon

2016 - Continuous past/ Residents in transit, Espaço Adães Bermudes, Alvito, Portugal 
2015 - Periplos, Portuguese Art of Today, CAC, Malaga, Spain

2015 - Dibujando con Números, Providencia Cultural Center, Santiago de Chile, Chile

2015 - Consequência do Olhar, Landscape in the MG collection, Espaço Adães Bermudes, Alvito, Portugal

2014 - Kronstadt Stories, NCCA Art Program, Kronstadt, St. Petersburg Museum of History, St. Petersburg, Russia

2013 - Parérgon, Paços Municipal Gallery, Torres Vedras

2012 - I would prefer not to, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon

2012 - 3 en el 3º, FelipaManuela + Columpio, proyectos de dibujo, Madrid, Spain

2011 - Between two times, part 2, Galeria Arte Contempo, Lisbon

2009 - Drawing by Numbers, Espaço Avenida, Lisbon

2009 - Between two times, part 1, Espaço Avenida, Lisbon

2007 - Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 2005, Teatro Municipal Baltasar Dias, Funchal, Madeira

2006 - Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 2005, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon

2005 - Hans Christian Andersen 1805-2005, Museum of work Michel Giacometti, Setúbal.

2004 - Dressing up Nature, Monteiro Mor Park, National Costume Museum, Lisbon

2003 - Habitar o Habitar, Academia das Artes de Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores

2002 - Changes, Ephemeral Occupations III, Av. 24 de Julho nº96, Lisbon

2002 - 7 for a secret never to be told, Ephemeral Occupations II, Rua do Arco a São Mamede nº79, Lisbon 

2002 - Ver Paiva 2002 – Artistic Activities in public spaces, where he carried out the public art project “Serpentina” in Vila Nova de Paiva

2002 - The suitcase game, Caldas late night, Caldas da Rainha

2002 - This ghost raised the tiles in the hallway, Occupations Ephemeral I, Rua das Furnas 18, Lisbon

2001 - 1st International Drawing Biennial, Melbourne 2001, Australia

2001 - 2nd Biennial of Young Creators of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries, Ferreira Borges Market, Porto

2000 - Alchemy of Thoughts in the Arts, Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra

2000 – microArt, Portugal Pavilion, Expo2000, Hannover

2000 - Viewer's Digest, 37th Congress of Young Philosophers, Lisbon

2000 – Nonstopopeninglisboa, Zé dos Bois Gallery, Lisbon

2000 – Emergencies, Common Place, Fábrica da Pólvora, Barcarena, Portugal 

1999 - National Exhibition “Young Creators 99”, Braga, Portugal

1999 - After-Eight, Zé dos Bois Gallery, Lisbon

1999 - Rooms, chambres, zimmer, rooms, running water at Convento de São Francisco, Lisbon

 

It is represented in several public and private collections where it stands out:

Collection of artist books from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library

CAC Malaga

Luciano Benetton Collection

Kronstadt History Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Torres Vedras City Council

Vila Nova de Paiva City Council

Polish Art Foundation – Melbourne, Australia

MG Collection

Figueiredo Ribeiro Art Collection

 

Scenography:
2015/16  - Sónia Delaunay's trip, educational theater play staged by Vera Alvelos and presented at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Modern Art Center in the context of the exhibition  The Delaunay Circle

2000 - Creation and execution of the set design by Luke Ross - 11th Amadora Comic Book Festival

1994 - Set design, costumes and masks for the play created from an original text by Guillaume Apollinaire As Mamas de Tiresias, by Associação Sinopse - Coimbra, Portugal


Interviews and public presentations:

2021 - Conversation with curator João Sílvério – Rama, Artist Residencies

2019 - Open Day Universities - Artist's Books from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Modern Collection with Carla Rebelo - presentation of the Blind Book II

2018 -  Side by Side Conversations: "The impossibility of the present" with Alexandre Castro Caldas, Carla Rebelo, Inês Tello Rodrigues and Francisco Vidal 

2017 - Readings guided by authors of artist books from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Art Library collection - Carla Rebelo 

2017 - Meet the Artist – Carla Rebelo, International Audiovisal and Multimedia Week - Artists at work, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon

2017 – Meeting with Artists and Curators – Watermark - Carla Rebelo, Leonor Nazaré and Manuel Valente Alves at Museu do Dinheiro, Lisbon

2017 - The importance of Space in Project Methodology – Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, Portugal

2017 - Readings by authors of Artist's Books from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Art Library collection - Carla Rebelo 

2011 - “Conversation with Carla Rebelo about the experience of the place. Five questions about the distance between drawing and memory”. Drawing Spaces with Sara Barriga

2011 - "The Other Side", the contradictory sculptures by Carla Rebelo - Margarida P. Prieto, 2nd International Congress CSO'2011, FBAUL

2005 - “Dressing Up Nature” invited project for the Bloom International Seminar – Art and Ephemeral Gardens - Fábrica da Pólvora in  Barcarena, Portugal

2003 - “The unconscious weaving” Meeting with Carla Rebelo in the context of the Textile Art course at the Antonio Arroio Artistic School, Lisbon

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