MÁRIO MACILAU Galeria Belo-Galsterer Rua Castilho 71, RC, Esq. 1250-068 Lisboa - Portugal www.belogalsterer.com galeria@belogalsterer.com +351-213815914
VITA Mário Macilau Nasceu em Maputo, Moçambique (1984), onde vive e trabalha. Born in Maputo, Mozambique (1984), where he lives and works. www.mariomacilau.com FORMAÇÃO EDUCATION Centre for Photographic education and documentation, Maputo, Mozambique PRÉMIOS E BOLSAS AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2016 Foreign Policy award, US Government, Washington, USA 2015 Scholarship African Arts Centre of Johannesburg for a residency in Miami (Dec. 2015) 2013 UNESCO Brasil Aschberg, Award for Fine Arts, Brazil 2012 1st Award The Protection Project, Photography Contest, Washington DC, USA VISA pour la Création, Residency from L Institut Franceis, Paris, France AIR 2012 (Artist in Residency) by Kuona Trust, Nairobi, Quénia Crossing Point Residency Program during the festival Rencontres d Arles 2012, France Shortlisted for Prix Pictet 2012 Photographers Portfolio Meeting - organized by Goethe Institut Johanesburg, South Africa 2011 Finalist Hasselblad Master Shortlisted for BES Photo 2011, Lisbon-São Paulo 3rd Award Stiftung EVZ (Fundação EV), 8th Photography Competition 3rd Award Bienal TDM, Maputo, MZ Award Talento Moçambicano from the French Embassy in Maputo and the Centre Culturel Franceis for Women with Power Award Photo Contest Creation Award, AECID (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo) and the Spanish Embassy in Maputo, Prémio Santa Lucia, Spain Program Artist in residency, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa CACAU Casa das Artes Criação Ambiente Utopias, São Tomé 2009 Shortlisted for Unicef Photo of The Year Honorable Mention Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo, Mozambique 1st Award Amandla Magazine, Joanesburgo, South Africa 2nd Award Festival da Baia, Maputo, Mozambique RESIDÊNCIAS RESIDENCIES 2016 Residência Artística FAAP, Fundação Armando Alvares Pentado, São Paulo, Brasil BIENAIS BIENNIALS 2015 56ª Bienal de Veneza 56th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Solo Project, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, Portugal Rostos e Espaços, Espaço Luanda Arte, Luanda, Angola VOLTA NY, New York, USA 2015 Nada como o Tempo, Galeria e Associação Kulungwana, Maputo, Mozambique Discovery Show, exhibition with 50 new photographies of the artist, Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland Ida e Volta, Forum Cultural Almodovar, Trienal no Alentejo The Road not Taken, The Auction Room, London, United Kingdom 2014 Fora da Cidade / Out of Town, Blank Projects, South Africa Moments of Transition, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, part of the 2nd Ed. of Festival Encontros da Imagem em Lisboa 2013 Destino Irónico, ICMA/ Goethe Zentrum, Joanesburgo, South Africa Tempo, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, Portugal Esquecidos, Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Maputo, Mozambique 2012 Taking Place, Gallery Influx Contemporary, Lisbon, Portugal 2011 Life goes on, Mediateca do BCI, Maputo, Mozambique Wood and Deforestation, Kokopelli Festival 2011, Belgium 2009 Terra de Boa Gente, Instituto Camões, Maputo, Mozambique EXPOSIÇÕES COLECTIVAS GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 LAGOSPHOTO Festival, Lagosphoto Foundation, Nigeria The CERA PROJECT, London, UK Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design, CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain 2015 56th BIENNALE of Venice, Italy Fototrienale Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Making Africa - a contintent of contemporary design, Vitra Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany InconTRAART / EnconTRAART - 40 Anos da Independência de Moçambique, Villa Casalegno - Galleria d Arte Contemporanea, Comune di Pianezza, Italy 2014 Bienal Foto Fest 2014, Houston, USA ARCO Madrid, with Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Madrid, Spain Paperworks, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, Portugal 2013 Exhibition of the 9th Edition of Rencontres de Bamako, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Joburg Art Fair, with the project Tempo Real Time, Joanesburgo, South Africa Tempo Real Time, Galeria Kulungwana, Maputo, Mozambique ARTICULATE, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom NATURA, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal Private Lifes, Centro Cultural de Cascais CCC, Cascais, Portugal Viver Neste Mundo, exhibitions galleries at Banco BCI, Maputo, Mozambique 2012 Expo Photo, Fondation Blachère, Paris, France Convergências, Alliance Franceise, Madrid, Spain & King s Place, London, United Kingdom Dak art Biennial OFF 2012, Dakar, Senegal Crossing Point Residency, Les Rencontres d Arles 2012, France
2011 Africa. See me, see you! Photo Spring Festival, Beijing, China /África: See me, see you! Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy /África: See me, see you! Officine Fotografiche, Rome, Italy BESPhoto, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, BR / BESPhoto, Berardo Museum Collection, Lisbon, Portugal BIENAL de São Tomé 2011, Island of São Tomé RENCONTRES DE BAMAKO, 2011, Mali Common Language, Miguel Amado, for Collection PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal Hasselblad Master Finalist, Studio, London, UK /Hasselblad Master Finalist, Siren Studios, Los Angeles, USA / Hasselblad Master Finalist, Shoot NYC, (La Venue), New York, USA / Hasselblad Master Finalist, Delight Studios, Berlin, Germany 2010 Africa. See me, see you!, Pavilhão Preto, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa, Tarifa, Spain VI Certamen de Fotografia Digital, Santa Lucia, Spain 32ste Internationaal Fotofestival, Knokke-Heist, Bélgica Lagos Photo, Lagos, Nigéria Mulheres e Fronteiras - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Maputo, Mozambique Dockanema Film Festival, Maputo, Mozambique Bamako Maputo, Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Maputo, Mozambique FotoArt, Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Maputo, Mozambique Gwanza Photo Festival, Museu Nacional de Arte de Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe 2009 Bienal da TDM, Museu de Arte, Maputo, Mozambique Gwanza Photo Festival, National Art Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe Month of Photography, Cape Town, South Africa Cozinhas Ambulantes, Centro de Formação e Documentação Fotográfica, Maputo, Mozambique Finalista do UNICEF PHOTO OF THE YEAR COLECÇÕES COLLECTIONS Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart- Berlin, Germany Saatchi Collection, United Kingdom Fondation Blachère, Paris, France AAF African Artists Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria French Embassy, Maputo, Mozambique Collection PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal Collection José Lima e Norlinda, S. João da Madeira, Portugal & important private collections from Africa, France and Portugal.
TEXTOS TEXTS CATÁLOGOS e Ensaios CATALOGUES and Essays (Cat.) In Principio... la Parole si fece Carne, Pavilhão do Vaticano na 56ª Bienal de Veneza, 2015. Roma, 2015. (Cat.) Mário Macilau, in: Common Language II, 2015, PLMJ, texts and works selected by Miguel Amado, p. 62-67. (Cat.) Moments of Transition, Galeria Belo-Galsterer, 2014 (Cat.) Private Lifes, Cascais, PT, 2013 (Cat.) BES Photo 2011, Lisbon & S. Paulo, 2011 (Cat.) Bienal de Bamako 2011 (Cat.) Bienal de São Tomé 2011 Amado, Miguel: (Cat.) Idioma Comun Common Language, Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, 2011. Couto, Mia: Viemos do mar..., in: (Cat.) BES PHOTO 2011, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011. p. 23 Cristallini, Elisabetta: Percorsi erratici dell artista contemporaneo Monika Bravo, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Mário Macilau, in: (Cat.) In Principio... la Parole si fece Carne, Vatican Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale, 2015. Roma, 2015, p. 30-45. Galsterer, Alda: Natura. Paisagem e Natureza, in (Cat.) NATURA. Paisagem e Natureza, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal, 2013. Forti, Micol: La Genesi delli Immagini tra parola e materia: un dinamismo dialettico a tre voci, in: (Cat.) In Principio... la Parole si fece Carne, Vatican Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale, 2015. Rome, 2015, p. 18-29. Mauro, Alessandra: Mário Macilau. Dopo aver respirato profondamente / ora posso comunicare. La fotografia de Mário Macilau, in: (Cat.) In Principio... la Parole si fece Carne, Vatican Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale, 2015. Roma, 2015, p. 112-158. Ondjaki: dentro de um home, chove..., in: (Cat.) BES PHOTO 2011, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon - Pinacoteca do
William Kremer: Mario Macilau: The street child who became a top photographer, in: BBC News, Magazine, September 2015 (56º Biennal de Veneza 2015)
Rita Bertrand: Mário Macilau, um olhar moçambicano no Alentejo, in Revista Sábado, Gps, 2015 (Trienal no Alentejo)
Visão Se7e, April 2015 (Trienal no Alentejo)
Domus Design, 2016