BELO CAMPOInformation
Belo Campo is an epiphyte space for contemporary cultures initiated and run by artist Adrien Missika, currently curated by Francisca Portugal and hosted by Galeria Francisco Fino. It is located in the basement of the gallery in a former wine cellar.
Belo Campo is a not-for-profit structure that aims to infuse and diffuse ideas, experiment with space and time, propose and question formats of contemporary cultures.
Founder and Director: Adrien Missika
Curator: Francisca Portugal
Artist
ExhibitionDate
Diogo PintoDiplomacia
24.01.2025 - 03.05.2025
Inês Mendes Leal and Maria Máximo
Force Majeure 28.11.2024 - 18.01.2025
Emmanuelle Lainé & Benjamin Valenza
Apenas nós dois02.05.2024 – 14.09.2024
Henrique Biatto curated by Ana Grebler
Canil17.02.2024 – 20.04.2024
Bruno Bogarim, Beatriz Neves Fernandes, Fox Maxy, Sofia Montanha, Mariana Tilly curated by Pedro Barateiro
Private Property13.12.2023 – 27.01.2024
Ana Manso, Geum Beollae 금벌레, Bernat Daviu, Ana Santos, Gonçalo Sena, Shreyas Karle श्रेयसकर्ले, Rosa Tharrats, André Romão and Hetamoé curated by Joana Escoval
Good evening. Do not attempt to adjust your radio. There is nothing wrong. 24.03.2023 – 17.06.2023
Kinga Kielczynska
Wild Type, Desired Property 05.12.2022 – 15.03.2023
Mané Pacheco
Bestas 15.09.2022 – 19.11.2022
Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld
Ironing Materialism 19.06.2021 – 06.01.2022
Hannah Rowan
Triple Point 18.09.2020 – 22.10.2020
Bless studio, Marta Costa Reis, Ligia Dias, Raquel Dias, Jorge Dias,Patrícia Domingues, Julien Fronsacq, Jenna Kaës, Katie Lagast, LRC designers, Vera Pinto
The Corner Piece 18.09.2020 - 15.01.2021
Carlos Monleón curated by Margarida Mendes
Gastrula Stage 03.05.2019 – 27.07.2019
Saâdane Afif, John M. Armleder, Kinga Kielczynska, Fabian Knecht, Isa
Melsheimer, Steve Paul Steven Paul, Mandla Reuter, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton curated by Adrien Missika
SAM M LUNG 15.02.2019 – 20.04.2019
David Horvitz
Água Viva 14.05.2018 – 28.07.2018
Diana Policarpo
Dissonant Counterpoint 27.01.2018 – 01.03.2018
Gina Folly
Follow You 11.11.2017 – 11.01.2018
Diana Policarpo
Dissonant Counterpoint27.01.2018 – 01.03.2018
The performance-installation Dissonant Counterpoint is another chapter in Diana Policarpo’s extensive research, ransom and reinterpretation of the oeuvre of ultramodernist composer Johanna M. Beyer (1888-1944), a seminal name – albeit rendered highly invisible and marginalized – in electronic music and experimental composition. By bringing into dialogue Beyer’s work and life, according to a feminist political perspective and resorting to a device that is set in motion by parallel trajectories – sound, text, sculpture –, Diana Policarpo appropriates, inscribes in the present and breathes life into the musical legacy of the German-American composer, drawing attention to the historical discrimination and invisibility of women (a single, immigrant woman of the 1930s, in Beyer’s case) as well as to a fundamentally androcentric and limiting artistic canon. Dissonant Counterpoint repositions and reworks two compositions by Johanna M. Beyer. Status Quo/Music of the Spheres (1938), an un nished political opera adapted by Policarpo in The Spheres (2017), and Three Songs for Soprano and Clarinet (1934), whose three corresponding poems, elegies to the movements of the cosmos and life written by Beyer, are also present in this installation in a situation of constant tension with the holistic character of Music of the Spheres – Beyer considered rhythm and sound as antagonists, both in music and in nature and the cosmos. Policarpo also evokes Beyer’s words using excerpts of her letters (1935-41) to American composer Henry Cowell in a spoken word audio piece by Emily Beber. In line with the spirit of the politically powerful nale of Music of the Spheres, in Dissonant Counterpoint Diana Policarpo o ffers a sort of posthumous social-political catharsis for Johanna M. Beyer.
Mariana Duarte