João Ferro Martins

João Ferro Martins
(Santarém, 1979)

João Ferro Martins graduated in Fine Arts at ESAD, Caldas da Rainha. Lives and works in Lisbon. Three-dimensional constructions, production related to painting and relations with the area of sound form the framework of his artistic practice. He also develops various actions that include spoken word, performance and video. His work is concerned with processes where ideas, memories, symptoms and other immaterial aspects find their substance, their particular physical existence, through the manipulation of objects from everyday life and musical culture. Recent solo shows include: Eternally Collapsing Objects, curated by Tobi Maier, Pavilhão Branco (Galerias Municipais de Lisboa), Lisbon (2020); condition report, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2020); Fermata, CAPC, Coimbra (2019); Sotille sfumatura di rumore, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2017). Important collective exhibitions include:: Garganta, curated by Raphael Fonseca, Centro Internacional de Artes José de Guimarães, Guimarães (2022); The Happy Death of Images, curated by Bruno Humberto & Franek Ammer, Muzeum Ksiazki Artystycznej, Lódz, PL (2022); Painting: Campo de Observação Part II, curated by João Pinharanda, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon (2021); Ensaio para uma Comunidade, curated by Paulo Mendes, MAAT, Lisbon, PT (2021); Dear Image (Part I), 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT (2020); Constelações III, Museu Berardo, Lisbon (2020); Or that we cannot raise, curated by Kasia Sobczak & PADA Studios, Fábrica Tinco, Barreiro, PT (2020); Wait, Berardo Musem, Lisbon (2019); Cosmo/Politics Cycle #2 - Conflicto e Unidade, Museum of Neo-Realism, Vila Franca de Xira (2018); Germinal – O Núcleo Cabrita Reis na Coleção de Arte Fundação EDP, MAAT, Lisbon (2018); THEM OR US! Um Projecto de Ficção Cientifica Social e Política, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto (2017); Committed artists? Maybe, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2014); EDP Novos Artistas Fundação EDP Award, Porto (2013); Visões do Desterro, Caixa Cultural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013); I wish this was a song, Music in Contemporary Art, Nasjonalmuseet, Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo (2012); 7 Artists ao 10º Mês, FC Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2008). Co-creator and on-stage interpreter of: O Declive ea Inclinação and A Morte nos Olhos with Alexandre Pieroni Calado. Producing original sound themes for theater and film since 2013. Cenography and figurines for the play O limpo eo sujo by Vera Mantero, 2016. Co-founder of the collective A kills B, with Hugo Canoilas, which was present in Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, 2008; exhibited the project A mata B at FC Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2012; and performed at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013. Co-founder, along with André Tasso and Bruno Humberto, of the improvised music project, Catarata. Relevant collections: Fundação EDP, Portugal; Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, Portugal; Bjorn & Gundorph Collection, Denmark; Coleção Nasjonalmuseet, Noway; Marin Gaspar Collection, Portugal; Contemporary Art Collection of Portuguese State, Portugal