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
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 LUNG15.02.2019 – 20.04.2019



Fundação Belo Campo
This exhibition is the starting point of Belo Campo’s damp basement as a museum space. The Missika Schönfeld Collection has been relocated from Berlin to Belo Campo’s friendly host, Galeria Francisco Fino. Belo Campo will present a permanent exhibition of sorts, which will be intersected by temporary projects. Guests will be invited to curate new presentations of the collection on an irregular basis. This project’s set of rules is arbitrary, temporary, unstable, playful, and wishes to engage with legitimate and dissident cultural structures.
Belo Campo faces climate challenges of its century: being underground and sitting on a riverbed which can rise at any
moment. Its humidity level fluctuates between 85% and 100%, hence, and since we are rather serious about conservation matters, all delicate works may be displayed sealed in vacuum transparent bags.

1+1= 3
Our collection relates to love, the partnership of two people in space and time, in life, translating often into the collectivization of their interests and things. Therefore, it articulates bits of the history of each of us before we met, as well as the one building from our shared life.
As in our case, an artist couple’s collection grows out of works exchanged with artist friends, with peers. The notion of value here doesn’t wish to be quantifiable or monetized. Works are exchanged or given on different occasions such as a birthday, a wedding, a friends-visit or an exhibition. Our collection is not only an art collection: we also collect objects that embody personal obsessions.
Sarah and I have put this collection together and, although there is intention poured in it, there is also chance – some works are gifts from beloved friends and, even though they were not “selected”, they are warmly welcomed in the
collection. This chance quality resembles the French saying “On a les amis que l’on mérite” (“one has the friends one deserves”) or, in this case “we have the collection we deserve”.

SAM M LUNG
combines objects carrying different status, which have in common the emotional value bestowed on them. All of them have achieved enough emotional relevance to be kept close, archived and now shown for the first time. Some are objects gifted by friends, most are artworks and others are things gathered overtime, like the set of “Almost Spherical Stones” collected in nature one by one. The narrative driving this exhibition is non-linear, as opposed to the horizontal display of suspended shelves. We hear a polyphony of tales emerging like a choir, and more voices await to join.