Joana Vasconcelos

Joana Vasconcelos was born in 1971. She lives and works in Lisbon. She has exhibited regularly since the mid-1990s. After her participation at the 51st International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia in 2005, her work became known internationally. Recent highlights of her career include Trafaria Praia, project for the Pavilion of Portugal at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (2013); a solo exhibition at the Château de Versailles, France (2012); participation in the group exhibition The World Belongs to You at the Palazzo Grassi/François Pinault Foundation, Venice (2011); and her first retrospective, held at the Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2010).

Vasconcelos has had solo exhibitions and projects at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (2015); Waddesdon Manor – The Rothschild Foundation, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom (2015); Manchester Art Gallery (2014); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2013); Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisbon (2013); CENTQUATRE, Paris (2012); Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, -Denmark (2011); Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2009); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2008); Palazzo Nani Bernardo Lucheschi, Venice (2007); The New Art Gallery Walsall, England (2007), CaixaForum, Barcelona (2006); Passage du Désir/BETC EURO RSCG, Paris (2005); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain (2003); Museu da Eletricidade, Lisbon (2001); and the Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2000).

Vasconcelos has participated in numerous group exhibitions in institutions such as Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (2015); Kulturhuset Stadteatern, Stockholm (2014); Shanghai Sculpture Space, Xangai (2014); Grand Palais, Paris (2013); FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France (2013); ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2012); the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (2011); Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2010); Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2009); FRAC Île-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris (2008); MUDAM, Luxembourg City (2007); Istanbul Modern (2006); MUSAC Léon, Spain (2005); Stenersenmuseet, Oslo (2004); MARCO, Vigo, Spain (2003); Mücsarnok, Budapest (2002); and the XXVI Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra, Spain (2000).

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Flow, La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
2020
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Beyond, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Valkyrie Rán, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Valkyrie Mumbet, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2019
  • Joana Vasconcelos, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Gateway, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK
  • Joana Vasconcelos: I’m Your Mirror, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Maximal, Max Ernst Museum, Bruhl, Germany
  • Joana Vasconcelos: I’m Your Mirror, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Glacée dorée. Seconde partie, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2018
  • Joana Vasconcelos: I’m Your Mirror, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2016
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Textures of Life, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
2014
  • Joana Vasconcelos: A Ilha dos Amores, MAM Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • Joanna Vasconcelos: A Ilha dos Amores, MAM Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Casarão, Casa Triangulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Time Machine, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2013
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Lusitana 2013, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Joana Vasconcelos, Galería Horrach Moya, Catalunya 4, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
2012
  • Joana Vasconcelos, Haunch of Venison, London, London, UK
2011
  • Joana Vasconcelos, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2010
  • Joana Vasconcelos: Loft, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (Cloître Saint-Merri), 4e, Paris, France
  • Joana Vasconcelos: I Will Survive, Haunch of Venison, London, London, UK
2008
  • Joana Vasconcelos Où le noir est couleur, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (Cloître Saint-Merri), 4e, Paris, France
2007
  • Joana Vasconcelos, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Artists à la Une: Togeth’Her 2020, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
2020
  • ProjectoMap 2010–2020: Map or Exhibition, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2019
  • Spinning ideas. Weaving art, IVAM Alcoi, Alcoy, Spain
  • Imagined Realities, MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels, Belgium
  • Techo de cristal, Galería Horrach Moya, Sadrassana, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
  • Sculpt-Ure, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
2018
  • Stage of Being, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
  • Saudade, China & Portugal: Contemporary Art, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Quel Amour!?, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Ellos y nosotros (Them and Us), Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
  • GERMINAL. The Cabrita Reis section in the EDP Foundation Art Collection, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal
  • 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair, London, UK
  • GERMINAL. The Cabrita Reis collection, part of the EDP Foundation Art Collection, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal
  • Lace Unravelled, Nottingham Castle Project, Nottingham, UK
2017
  • Women House: A group exhibition of women artists, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
  • Acts Of Transgression, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong (Pedder), Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Revival, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Downtown, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
  • Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2016
  • Love: Contemporary Art Meets Amour, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
2015
  • The Violet Crab At DRAF, The Roberts Institute of Art, London, UK
2014
  • Reigning Cats and Dogs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2013
  • How to tell the future from the past, Haunch of Venison, New York, Midtown, New York, USA
2012
  • In Between, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • Vasconcelos Versailles, Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France
2011
  • A New Hook: Re-Thinking Needlework, ZAZ Bellerive, Zürich, Switzerland

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