Angela Ferreira

ngela FerreiraMaputo, 1958. Lives and works in Lisbon.--- ngela FerreiraHas held individual and group exhibitions at the MAAT,Lisbon; CGAC, Santiago de Compostela; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Culturgest, Lisbon; The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona; Bildmuseet, Umeå; Serralves Museum, Porto; Johannesburg ArtGallery, Johannesburg; DePaul Art Museum - Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; Berardo Museum, Belém Cultural Center, Lisbon; Stroom, The Hague; Stills, Edinburgh;ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, Cape Town; Centro de ArteModerna / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; SKD – Kunsthalleim Lipsiusbau, Dresden; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia; National Museum of Art, Maputo; Oslo Museum, Oslo; Parasol Unit, London. He has participated in the biennials of São Paulo, Lubumbashi, Gwangju, Taipei, Bucharest and Venice, in the last one he represented the Portuguese Pavilion in its 52nd edition. His work belongs to important international collections, such as: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; MACBA, ARCO Foundation, CGAC, la Caixa Foundation, in Spain; Fundação EDP, Fundação deSerralves, Coleção António Cachola, Coleção DGARTES, Culturgest, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação PLMJ, in Portugal; FRACRennes, France; Market Gallery Foundation, South Africa. Angela Ferreira was born in Maputo, Mozambique, grew up in South Africa and earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. Ferreira’s work is concerned with the continuing impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on contemporary society, an investigation she conducts in depth with the materialization of ideas in a concise and resonant formalization. She represented Portugal at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 with a continuation of her investigations into the mechanisms through which European modernism has sought, and failed on numerous occasions, to adapt to the realities of the African continent, with a project that was conceived based on the history of Jean Prouvé’s “Maison Tropicale”. Architecture also serves as a point of departure for delving deeper into her long-standing investigation into the erasure of colonial memory and the refusal to repair. On the other hand, his sculptural, audio and video tributes constantly refer to the economic, political and cultural history of the African continent, while recovering the work and image of unexpected figures such as Peter Blum, Carlos Cardoso, Ingrid Jonker, Jimi Hendrix, Jorge Ben Jor, Jorge dos Santos, Diego Rivera and Miriam Makeba.