J. Gafarot's photos with the keyword: Joana Vasconcelos

Again, here...with one of her works. She represented Portugal at the 2013 Venice Biennale, after making an international statement in the exhibition he held at the Palace of Versailles, at the invitation of the institution’s President, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, in 2012, following up on the contemporary art program started in 2008.

She represented Portugal at the 2013 Venice Biennale, after making an international statement in the exhibition he held at the Palace of Versailles, at the invitation of the institution’s President, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, in 2012, following up on the contemporary art program started in 2008.

Lisbon 2012. After the American Jeff Koons, the French Xavier Veilhan and Bernar Venet and the Japanese Takashi Murakami, Joana Vasconcelos will be the first woman and the youngest contemporary artist to exhibit in Versailles, an exhibition that had the highest number of visitors in the last fifty years to the your date.

Her fantastic works . . .

The artist Joana Vasconcelos, and her well-known work built with metal pans by Silampos. After having traveled all over the world, the Silampos pans and the entire "I'm Your Mirror" exhibition, which brings together more than 30 pieces, were until June 24, 2019 in Serralves near Porto. Here Lisbon, CCB, 9 years before that, the astonishment.

Floating ties by Joana Vasconcelos. Vasconcelos was born in 1971 in Paris, France. Her family returned to Portudal in 1974.She studied at the Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual in Lisbon.In 2009 she received the Order of Prince Henry. Vasconcelos exhibited at the 2005 Venice Biennale where she included A Noiva (The Bride), a 20 ft. high chandelier made of over 14,000 OB Tampons. In June 2011, the installation "Contaminação" opened the group exhibition The World Belongs to You, held at Palazzo Grassi. In 2012, Vasconcelos showed her work at the major annual contemporary art exhibition in the Palace of Versailles. She was the first woman and the youngest contemporary artist to exhibit in Versailles. In 2013 the artist represented Portugal in a solo show at the country's pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The work "Trafaria Praia" was installed in an anchored boat and at the same time a floating art gallery. In 2018 Vasconcelos presented the retrospective exhibition "I'm Your Mirror" at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in Spain, having been the only Portuguese artist to accomplish the honor. The exhibition comprised 30 works representing 25 years of her artistic career. In 2020, Vasconcelos created a massive site specific work, "Valkyrie Mumbet" at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Museum (MAAM) in Boston, MA. This exhibition was her first solo show in the United States. The work is part of a series of large scale pieces the artist creates for specific spaces, in homage to inspiring women connected with that location. This particular work honors Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, an enslaved person in Massachusetts who sued to win her freedom. She lives and works in Lisbon.

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Joana Vasconcelos exhibition in CCB-03-2010