Past exhibitions
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3 December 2022 - 4 February 2023 'I MISS MY PRE-INTERNET BRAIN', said a 2021 poster in uppercase as part of a series of works by Canadian artist, researcher and author Douglas Coupland. 'I miss my pre-Internet brain' still seems, even ten years later, to resonate as a relevant allegory of contemporary life, since we go through,... Read more -
Sonia Andrade
10 September - 5 November 2022 A Galeria Athena tem o prazer de apresentar a videoinstalação Sem Título (2005) de Sonia Andrade. Ao entrar no espaço, o público se depara com uma das paredes em chamas. O tempo passa, mas o fogo não para de queimar. É a “magia” ou “ilusão” do vídeo, que parece controlar... Read more -
Desali: Quebra demanda
10 September - 5 November 2022 A Galeria Athena tem o prazer de apresentar Quebra-Demanda, exposição individual-coletiva de Desali. Neste projeto inédito, o artista retoma duas das questões fundamentais de sua produção: o intercâmbio entre a rua e os espaços expositivos, e o desejo de subverter hierarquias, tanto artísticas quanto sociais. Ao mesmo tempo uma exposição... Read more -
The Raw and the Cooked
14 May - 2 July 2022 'A myth of myths', so Lévi Strauss defined 'The Raw and the Cooked', the first and ambitious volume of his Mythologiques, published in 1964. In the uninterrupted flow of those hungry pages, there is an anthropologist who is interested in operating in a 'logic of the sensitive qualities' by connecting... Read more -
Andrew Silva: Ramal Apoteose
10 March - 20 April 2022 The city is a disputed territory, and carnival is a form of combat between the body and death; a sacrificial rite of the reencounter between the individual and the possibility of life, as a collective experience of the reconstruction of being on the street and in the world. This is... Read more -
Matheus Rocha Pitta: Pop Commandment
10 March - 20 April 2022 Matheus Rocha Pitta, in sync with the current public debate about the visibility of images of violence, tackles, through the body of work that forms the Pop Commandment (Mandamento Pop) exhibition, the perenniality and fleetingness of photographs of conflicts. Through inscription in stone (literally infusing newspaper clippings into cement tombstones),... Read more