Blind Date, 2010
Fernando J. Ribeiro was born in Lisboa. Lives and works in Lisboa.
fernribeiro@gmail.com
Education
– 1997-2000 – Master thesis Nomadism(s). Art / Fashion, Communication Sciences, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Lisboa.
– 1988-1994 – Graduation in Visual Arts – Painting, FBAUL, Fine Arts Faculty Lisboa.
– 1987-1988 – Attends Sculpture Graduation, FBAUP, Fine Arts Faculty, Porto.
– 1983-1986 – Experimental Course in Visual Arts, Free Atelier At.Re, António Arroio high school, Lisboa.
– 1978-1984 – Graphic Arts Course, António Arroio high school, Lisboa.
Solo shows
2023
Naked Gaze, curated by António Olaio, Quarto 22, Colégio das Artes , Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra
2021
Private, curated by Luís Alegre, Stolen Books, Lisbon
Private, curated by José Cruzio and Paula Magalhães, CAOS. Casa de Artes e Ofícios, Viseu
From Here to the Light (with Susana gaudêncio), in Liga/3, curated by João Fonte Santa, Zaratan, Lisboa
2015
Sessões da Buganvilia # 6, Screening: Fernando J Ribeiro, curated by António Caramelo, Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa,
2014
Self-Service, curated by Óscar Faria, Sismógrafo, Porto,
2013
Untitled (Thank You, Danke, Xie Xie), Projecto A Montra, Lisboa.
2012
Close-up, Espaço Campanhã, Porto.
2009
– Horizonte e Outros Brilhos, Galeria Presença, Porto.
– Untitled: Neons and Chanel, curated by Isabel Ribeiro, Espaço A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto,
2004
– Endless Light, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra.
– Todos os Desejos, em Saldos, Galeria Monumental, Lisboa
2002
– Chickenflot (+ Rui Silvares), projecto “Too Drunk to Fuck”,curated by João Fonte Santa, Largo Chão do Loureiro, Lisboa,
– Always There (+ António Caramelo), projecto “In.Transit”,curated by Paulo Mendes, Edifício Artes em Partes, Porto,
1996
– Galeria Arte Periférica, Massamá
1984
– Quem Perdeu a Colher?,curated by Pedro Morais, Escola Secundária António Arroio, Lisboa.
Books
- Private book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_hWxr9ox8I
An artist’s book by FERNANDO J. RIBEIRO
Edition _ IN.TRANSIT editions and STOLEN BOOKS
A selection of 32 drawings, made between 2014 and 2019, in graphite pencil on paper, with the dimension of 20 x 29.7 cm, from the Private series by Fernando J. Ribeiro.
First edition in 2020 in a print run of 50 numbered and signed copies.
Special Edition of 6 numbered and signed copies, accompanied by an original drawing.
Design _ Paulo Mendes and Luís Alegre
76 pages, format 21×30,7 cm
ISBN 978-989-54589-5-0, Lisbon, 2020
“The drawings reproduced in Private have their genesis in images collected on the web, to be submitted to successive approximations, until the field of vision is confined to the narrow contact of the bodies.
As the gaze gets closer and loses the ability to identify the characters, the field of fantasy can establish a vertigo of the senses, diluting the limits of the bodies and their compulsive acts.
When the body matter is abandoned, the drawings are taken over by the intensity of black graphite and the texture of the paper, making the recognition of the bodies possible only at a distance.
In the solitary appropriation of public images underlies the construction of an inner time, in which multiple partners materialize the duration of a single amorous encounter, configured in a volume in the shape of a black box”.
Fernando J. Ribeiro
Performances
2015
– Home Sweet Hole, in International Performance Festival, curated by Bruno Schlaeter and Dominik Lipp, Noseland, Zurich
https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=pQz6eV607_o&video_referrer=watch
2012
– Untitled (LOL SPAM LOL), Festival VerãoAzul, curated by Ana Borralho and João Galante, Lagos, Portugal
2010
Tell Me My Name, Projecto Contentores, curated by Sandro Resende and José Jesus, Docas de Alcântara, Lisboa.
– Blind Date, Galeria Caroline Pagès, Lisboa.
2002
– Don’t Look Now (with António Caramelo), Free Manifesta, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt am Main
– Until You Become History (with António Caramelo), Arte-Público, curated by Óscar Faria, Culturgest, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisboa
Group shows
2024
- Lápis Azul, Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea. Lisboa.
- No Retrovisor, curated by António Olaio, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra
2023
– The Types Beween, curated by Hugo Barata & Paulo T. Silva, Stolen Books, Lisboa
– DUSK Contemporary Art festival. Stones last a wee bit longer, curated by Inês Valle and Nuno Sacramento, 18-21 june, Montemo-o-Novo (Alentejo) and Lagoa da Nave do Barão (Algarve). https://www.duskfestival.art/about
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– No Future, No Cry, in Festival Verão Azul, curated by Ana Borralho, João Gante and Daniel Matos, Centro Cultural de Lagos
2022
– Political Capital, curated by Paulo Mendes, Umbigo magazine #81
– LOVERS, curated by Fábio Colaço & Bárbara Bulhão, Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa
2021
– Centro Cultural do Carro, curated by Tiago Gandra and Daniel Vasconcelos Melim. itinerant exhibition by Portugal several cities.
– 9:11, curated by João Fonte Sante, Nariz Entupido, Lisboa.
2020
– Trabalho Capital . Greve Geral, curated by Paulo Mendes, Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira.
– Fonte – Source, curated by Ana F. Cravo, Biblioteca Municipal de Portalegre, Portalegre.
2019
– Trabalho Capital . Ensaio sobre Gestos e Fragmentos, curated by Paulo Mendes, Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira.
– Pansy: Amores Perfeitos, curated by Ana F. Cravo, biblioteca municipal de Portalegre
2018
- Uma Loja, Cinco Casas, Uma Escola, curated by João Fonte Santa, Casa Bernardo, Caldas da Rainha.
- Uma Loja, Cinco Casas, Uma Escola, curated by João Fonte Santa, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra.
2017
- Them or Us, Um Projecto de Ficção Científica, Social e Política, curated by Paulo Mendes, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Palácio de Cristal, Porto
- A Arte como Experiência do Real: Colecção de Ivo Martins em Depósito no Museu de Serralves, curated by Nuno Faria, Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães, Guimarães.
- Que Farei Eu com esta Espada?, curated by António Caramelo, Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa
- Rrevolução, curated by António Olaio, Pedro Pousada, Alice Geirinhas, josé Maças de Carvalho e Ana Rito, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra
2016
– Building New Aarau, Noseland, Aarau, Switzerland, curated by Bruno Schlater
http://buildingnewaarau.blogspot.pt/2017/01/bruno-schlatter-das-digitale-museum.html
2015
– Oitenta Anos de Desenho, Escola Secundária António Arroio, Lisboa
2014
– Bees Colonies, Noseland, Aarau, Switzerland, curated by Bruno Schlater
– Art Stabs Power. Que se Vayan Todos!, Bermondsey Project, London, curated by Inês Valle
– Art Stabs Power. Que se Vayan Todos!, Plataforma Revólver, Lisboa, curated by Inês Valle
– A Boca do Inferno / Hell’s Mouth, Sismógrafo, Porto, curated by Óscar Faria
– Sem Quartel. Without Mercy, Sismógrafo, Porto, curated by Óscar Faria
2013
– International Exhibition of Road Signs, Aarau, Switzerland, curated by Bruno Schlater
– Muro Liquido, Facultad de Bellas Artes y Humanidades de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colômbia, curated by Oscar Salamanca
– The Death Screening, Feira Morta, Centro Comercial Imaviz, Lisboa, curated by António Caramelo
2012
– Riso. Uma Exposição a Sério, Museu da Eletricidade, Lisboa, curated by João Pinharanda and Nuno Crespo
– Limbo, Plataforma Revólver, Transboavista/VPF/Arte Edifício, Lisboa, curated by Pedro Cabral Santo
2010
– Invasões Contemporâneas: Arte nas Comemorações do Bicentenário das Linhas de Torres, Vila Franca de Xira, curated by David Santos
– MONO (a propósito do grupo GICAPC/CORES CAPC 1976/1978), curated by António Olaio, CAPC Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra
– Small is Beautiful, curated by Caroline Pagès, Galeria Caroline Pagès, Lisboa,
2009
– A Nossa Língua não Cura, curated by Isabel Ribeiro, Espaço Avenida 211, Lisboa
2005
– The Artcard, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
– Toxic. O Discurso do Excesso, curated by Paulo Mendes, Angar K7, Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras
2004
– Proximidades e Acessos: Obras da Colecção de Ivo Martins, curated by Miguel Wandschneider, Culturgest, Porto
– Quartel. Arte Revolução Trabalho, ruas do Porto, curated by Óscar Faria
– Correi Lágrimas Minhas, Disse o Polícia, galeria ZDB, Lisboa, curated by Fernando J. Ribeiro, João Fonte Santa and Pedro Amaral
2003
– Imperial, Pêssego p’ra Semana, Porto, curated by Paulo Mendes, André Sousa and Mafalda Santos
2001
– URBANLAB. Bienal Maia 2001, Urbanlab Factory (antiga fábrica Fimai), Maia, curated by Paulo Mendes
– Regras do Jogo da Glória, Artemosferas, Porto, curated by Paulo Mendes
2000
– Plano XXI, Portuguese Contemporary Art, Cinema & Music, G-MAC (Glasgow Media Access Centre),Glasgow, curated by Paulo Mendes and António Rego
– Passos 2000, Liceu Passos Manuel, Lisboa, curated by Luísa Cunha
1999
– Perverse Space Room, W.C. Container, Edifício Artes em Partes, Porto, curated by Paulo Mendes
– Acasos & Materiais # 2, CAPC, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra, curated by Paulo Mendes
– Artistas com Timor, Armazém 7, Santos, Lisboa
1998
– Acasos & Materiais # 1, CAPC, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra, curated by Paulo Mendes
– Index 3, Galeria João Graça, Lisboa, curated by Paulo Mendes, Fernando José Pereira and Miguel Leal
1996
– FAC (Feira de Arte Contemporânea), Galeria Periférica, Porto
– Galeria Arte Periférica, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa
1994
– Os Finalistas FBAUL 1994, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisboa
1986
– Que a Mão no Olhar Percorre, curated by Pedro Morais, Escola Secundária António Arroio, Lisboa.
Participation in Performances and Installations
2012
– António Caramelo’s Make a Revolution at Tavira, 5.8.2012, exhibition Declínio do Mundo pela Magia Negra, Casa das Artes de Tavira, http://vimeo.com/48230031
2011
– Ana Borralho & João Galante, Artists Screams, 2011, Artadentro, Faro
http://anaborralhojoaogalante.weebly.com/artists-screams.html
Participation in Books, Magazines, Fanzines, and Online Projects
2019
Private drawings, in wrongwrong online magazine, “L´Anée Érotique,” http://wrongwrong.net/artigo/private
2017
- Compulsive Skin in António Olaio (coord.), O Colégio das Artes em Directo do Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra
– http://pt-performance.blogspot.pt/, organized by Susana Mendes Silva
2013
– Art.sy #8 Outubroo 2013, http://cargocollective.com/st-art
– Art.sy #6 Junho 2013, http://cargocollective.com/st-art
2011
– Ascensor nº 0, Julho 2011, Ascensor_Contemporary Art Uni. Lda
2010
– Alice Geirinhas (ed.), Alice’s Guest Book, artist book, http://transboavista-vpf.net/2010/06/if-i-cant-dance-i-dont-want-to-be-part-of-your-revolution/
2009
Homeless Monalisa, http://homelessmonalisa.darq.uc.pt
1998
– Index 3, http://www.virose.pt/hospedaria/index3/IndexProjectos.html
Curatorial work
2024
- Micropolíticas, com Sandra Vieira Jurgens, Centro de Arquelogia e Artes, Beja
- California Dreamin’, of João Fonte Santa, Stolen Books, Lisboa
2023
- Non Finito: Obras da Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado, CCCCB, Centro de Cultura Contemporânea de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco
2004
– Correi Lágrimas Minhas, Disse o Polícia (+ João Fonte Santa, Pedro Amaral), Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisboa
– O Homem Invisível (+ João Fonte Santa, Pedro Amaral), Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisboa
Collections
– Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (Ivo Martins’s Collection),
https://www.serralves.pt/pt/museu/a-colecao/obras-por-artista/?l=R&col=&cat=
- Collection Dan Perjovschi, Budapeste, Romania
– Museu do Neo-Realismo, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
– Galeria Presença, Porto, Portugal
– Galeria Arte Periférica, Lisboa, Portugal
– Museu da Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Porto, Portugal
– Several private collections, Portugal
Fernando J. Ribeiro 