1 — 3 November, 2024

Turin, Italy

ARTISSIMA

Solo project with Galeria Quadrado Azul in the Monologue section, curated by Antonia Gaeta.



2018 — 2024
FPVM-Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal
Vale de Milhaços, Portugal

RESIDENCY AT FÁBRICA DE PÓLVORA DE VALE DE MILHAÇOS

Between 2018 and 2020, Musa paradisiaca has been in residency at Fábrica de Pólvora de Vale de Milhaços, a post-industrial heritage site located in Corroios, classified as a monument of public interest since 2012, and part of the Seixal Municipal Ecomuseum since 2001.

“Animal-house” (2017) — a sculpture for the public space — has been installed on site since 2019, celebrating this long term partnership between Ecomuseum, Seixal’s Municipal Council and Musa paradisiaca, as a space for other residencies, particularly with students.

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May 23 — 26, 2024

Lisbon, Portugal

ARCO LISBOA

Participation in the sixth edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO Lisboa, at the Cordoaria Nacional in Belém, with Galeria Quadrado Azul (booth D05), together with Francisco Tropa, Isabel Carvalho, Luísa Jacinto, Musa paradisiaca, Paulo Nozolino, and Willem Weismann.



March 21 — August 31, 2024

Porto, Portugal

ESPANTO

Group exhibition at Casa Comum of U.Porto, curated by Fátima Marques Pereira and Ana Anjos Mântua, relating Norlinda and José Lima Collection and the Natural History and Science Museum of U.Porto.



October 28, 2023 — February 24, 2024

Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal

PERSPETIVA 24

Group exhibition at Fórum Cultural de Cerveira, curated by Helena Mendes Pereira and João Ribas, celebrating 50 years of the relationship between the cycle “Perspectiva 74” and dealing with the principle of Freedom and the perspective of art, artists, cultural agents in 2024, 50 years after the April 25th Revolution.


October 21, 2023 — March 12, 2024

São João da Madeira, Portugal

A REVOLUÇÃO NA NOITE

Group exhibition at Centro de Arte Oliva, in São João da Madeira (Portugal), curated by Ana Anacleto, with works from Colecção de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea Norlinda e José Lima, Colecção de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea da Coleção Millennium bcp and from Colecção de Arte bruta e outsider Treger Saint Silvestre.



September 29 — October 31, 2023

Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal

A DRAWING WAS IT ONE DAY

Group exhibition at Biblioteca de Albergaria-a-Velha, with Adriana Molder, André Romão, Andreia Santana, Carolina Serrano, Catarina Domingues, Daniel Moreira e Rita Castro Neves, Diogo Evangelista, Jorge Molder e Capucine Herveau, Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela, Musa paradisiaca, Sara Bichão and Von Calhau!, curated by Susana Ventura.


SOLAR

“Solar” is a solo exhibition by Musa paradisiaca, conceived by Miguel Ferrão, Eduardo Guerra and Claudia Pestana, to experience “Solar Boat” (2021) in the Appleton [BOX], co-produced by Balaclava Noir.

May 11 — June 10, 2023

Lisbon, Portugal


January 19 — March 18, 2023

Lisbon, Portugal

QAXXXV

Group exhibition at Galeria Quadrado Azul, with works by Ana Santos, Arlindo Silva, Hugo Canoilas, Isabel Carvalho, Isabel Ribeiro, Luísa Jacinto, Musa paradisiaca, Pedro Tropa, Renato Ferrão and Rigo 23, curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez.


October 2022

CONTEMPORÂNEA #8

Special LP edition (500 c.) dedicated to sound as a is cross-disciplinary medium in the context of contemporary art, featuring António Poppe, Diana Policarpo, Gisela Casimiro, Henrique Pavão, Igor Jesus, Isabel Cordovil, Luís Lázaro Matos, Luisa Cunha, Mariana Vilanova, Musa paradisiaca, Nuno da Luz, Odete feat. DRVGジラ, Pedro Barateiro, Ricardo Jacinto, Von Calhau!



April 9 — June 5, 2022

Paris, France
Torres Vedras, Portugal

AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES / NEGÓCIOS ESTRANGEIROS

Program of simultaneous venues France (Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers + Ygrec, Paris) and in Portugal (Centro de Artes e Criatividade, Torres Vedras + Palácio Nacional de Belém, Lisbon) with Vinit Agarwal, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Keren Benbenisty, Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, Jesse Chun, Clémence de Montgolfier, André Guedes, Mark Geffriaud, Laura Genes with Helder Silva (Impacto Visual), Vir Andres Hera, Géraldine Longueville, Musa paradisiaca, Pratchaya Phinthong, Joshua Schwebel, João Paulo Serafim, João Simões, Maria Trabulo, Fabien Vallos and students, curated by Maud Jacquin + Sébastien Pluot (Art by Translation) and Luísa Especial (AiR 351).



November 25, 2021 — February 26, 2022

Lisbon, Portugal

NEW PEOPLE

Solo exhibition by Musa paradisiaca at Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon.


October 2021

Lisbon, Portugal

FLAD DRAWING PRIZE

Musa paradisiaca shortlisted for the first edition of FLAD Drawing Prize, together with Adriana Molder, AnaMary Bilbao, Gonçalo Pena, Mattia Denisse, Pedro Henriques, Pedro Tropa, Pedro Tudela, Sara Chang Yan and Sara Bichão

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January 25 — March 7, 2020

Lisbon, Portugal

THE I OF THE BEEHOLDER

Solo exhibition curated by Filipa Oliveira at Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal,

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May 2019

CONTEMPORÂNEA #3

Special edition of Contemporânea about the possibilities of sculptural language, with an extensive essay by Susana Ventura on Musa paradisiaca's work, out now!


February 2019

VIEWS ON MISUNDERSTANDING

First monograph of Musa paradisiaca’s work, edited with Sofia Lemos and Claudia Pestana, co-published by BOM DIA Books and Galeria Municipal do Porto, out now!