Marta Wengorovius
Marta Wengorovius was born in Lisbon, 1963. She graduated in Painting in 1988 at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon. island Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. In 1990 he received a scholarship from the Luso-American Foundation for Development in New York, Washington and Philadelphia. He studied and taught at Ar.Co. He was Academic Observer in 1993 at Goldsmith College, London. Coordinated, with Rui Sanches, the Summer Academy for Plastic Artists, General Studies of Arrábida - Convent Conferences, 1994. In 1994, he received the União Latina Painting Prize. É Master in Visual Arts from the University of Évora. É PhD student in Contemporary Art at the College of Arts, University of Coimbra where she develops her thesisOne, two and many.
He has been exhibiting individually since 1989. His most recent exhibitions and performances includeO Dois, Galeria Diferença (2020), Taking colors where they are needed, Escola Nómada, Casa da Cerca Botanical Garden, curatorship Filipa Oliveira; Escola Nómada do One of Two and Many, Porta 14 (2019); Preto Veludo, Cooperativa Árvore (2018) curatorship Albuquerque Mendes; One, two and Many, Natural History Museum, Lisbon (2018) curatorship Paulo Pires do Vale; Escola Nómada – Appleton Square (2018); Ecstatic Sphinx. Drawing and Animism II, Centro Internacional das Artes José by Guimarães, curated by Nuno Faria (col.), 2017; One, two and many – An island on display, curated by Sarina Basta, Museu Carlos Machado, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Açores (2016) ; Transmission, Recréation et Repé ;tition, Palais des Beaux-arts, Paris, curated by Sarina Basta (col.) (2015);Focus – drawings for use, Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokolovsko, Poland (2013); Reading Hut, Library of One, Two and Many,Architecture Triennale, Lisboa; Chiado Museum (2011); Mise à agrave; nu par l´action, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris (2009).
Photo by the artist: André Silva
