Márcio Carvalho is a Portuguese visual artist and an independent art curator, based in Berlin.
He holds a master degree in performing arts at HZT/UDK Berlin and a master degree in Visual Arts at ESAD in Portugal.
He is the co-founder and curator of the performance art program CO-LAB editions. The performance art program innitiated at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin and will continue its second edition in Copehagen in collaboration with LiveArt.dk organization.
In the past he was founded the artist residence program Hotel25 in Berlin and initiated programs and festivals such as “The Powers of Art”, the first international TV Show dedicated to showcasing a crossing between performing arts and paranormal activity and Plot in Situ festival of Performance art in Berlin.
Framing Statement
Carvalho’s practice for the last five years have been focused on memory and its influences upon collective groups and individual people. Science and human behavior, network sciences, appropriation and fiction are some concepts and forms used by the artist to research on autobiographical, collective and cultural memory, and its impact into social, cultural, political and economic contemporary life.
The multidisciplinary ability of crossing disciplines reframes his work in various formats such as live performance, film documentary, video art, photography and sculpture, always attempting specific relation with the context and site in which he is operating.
Education
2011-2013 Master Degree – SODA Performing Arts UDK/HZT, Berlin, Germany
2004-2006 Master Degree – Visual Arts University of art and design (ESAD) Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2001-2003 Bachelor Degree – Visual Arts University of art and design (ESAD) Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Grants/Residencies
2014
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
BBK Berlin Studio Grants, Germany
2013
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
2012
RAVY Biennial, Yaoundé, Cameroon
HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
2010
Buda Kunstcentrum, Kortrijk, Belgium
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Mousonturm, Frankfurt Main, Germany
2009
INOV Arte, DG Artes, Portugal
E.R.M. Wittemberg, Germany
2008
Avan’t Rue, Paris, France
Performances & Exhibitions (Selection)
2015
Solo show, If My Grandmother Was A Historian, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Floating Platforms, Art and Science project, Turku, Finland
Thessaloniki Biennial, Thessaloniki, Greece
Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil
Verbo Festival, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria
New Performance Turku Festival, Turku, Finland
Peninsula Project, Embassy of Italy, Berlin, Germany
2014
Solo Show and performance, Gemäldegalerie, part of Giving Contours to Shadows project by NBK and Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Giving Contours to Shadows, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
Accumulation project, Boston University’s 808 Gallery, Boston, US
Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Congress, CCH – Congress Center Hamburg, Germany
The Bodies We Tell – Collective exhibition, National Gallery for Contemporary Art Yaoundé, Cameroon
Bergen International Performance Festival, Bergen, Norway
Live Action Goteborg Festival, Goteborg, Sweden
Live Art for Born Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
Miami Performance International Festival, Miami Beach, Florida
Uprooted/Fake Nations Festival, Helsinki, Finland
LIVE Bienale of Performance Art, Vancouver, Canada
Intermedia Festival, Gdansk, Poland
Artist in Residence, Palacio das Artes, Porto, Portugal
Rapid Pulse Festival, Chicago, US
Point in Time Collective Exhibition, Aqua Carré Berlin
Collective exhibition, Time to Pretend, Harare, Zimbabwe
2012
7a11d, festival of performance art, Toronto, Canada
The Pornography of Everyday Life, 7th Berlin Biennial, Berlin
X-Choreographers, Tanz im August, Berlin
RAVY Biennial, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Blauverschiebung 5, Kub Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Paersche, performance art event, Cologne/Bonn, Germany
Extension Extra, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
Go West Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
2011
Nomadic Settlers, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Infraction Festival, Sete, France
Kontrapunkt Festival, Szczecin, Poland
24h Festival, Szczecin, Poland
Infraction festival, Venice, Italy
Colab Editions 3, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
Blauverschiebung 4, Kub Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Oh My god, Gallery 5 people, Berlin
Performer Stammtisch, Berlin
From me to you Festival, Berlin
Verão Azul Festival, CCL, Lagos, Portugal
2010
Project Brand New, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Home Sweet Home Festival, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin
ExtensionSeries 5, Grimmuseum, Berlin
Appointment, Performance project with the collaboration of Yingmei Duan, Hotel25, Berlin
M5-Differential Festival, Galerie Nord, Berlin
Plot in Situ Festival, Acud Theater, Berlin
Men Only, Kunst Fabrik, Berlin
‘The Powers of Art’, AlexTV, Berlin
Curating
2013-2016
While moving forward on time, Film Documentary, www.whilemovingforwardontime.blogspot.de
2014
Colab Editions – The Publication, Retrospective and Book Launch – supported by FRAME Finland, OCA Norway, Embassy of Norway Berlin and Pro Helvetia Switzerland, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
IPAC – International Performance Art Convention, Glogauair artist-in-residence program, Berlin
2012
Colab Editions 7, 8, 9 and 10:
Mind Pirates Gallery, Berlin | Invited artists: Olivier Foukua (Cameroon), Mark Patrick Tchambou (Cameroon), Nathalie Bikoro (Gabon), Willem Wilhelmus (Netherlands)
Freies Museum, Berlin | Invited artists: Leena Kela (Finland), Tomasz Szrama (Poland), Juha Valkeapää (Finland), Kimmo Modig (Finland)
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin | Invited artists: Jacques Van Poppel (Netherlands), Ieke Trinks (Netherlands), Jelili Atiku (Nigeria) and Lan Hungh (Taiwan)
TV Show, The Powers of Art 3 and 4, ALEX TV, Berlin
2011
CO-LAB Editions 1-6:
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin | Invited artists: Alastair Maclennan (Scotland), Nezaket Ekici (Turkey), Kurt Johannessen (Norway), Ruth Feukoua(Cameroon), Serge Olivier Fokoua (Cameroon), Antoni Karwowski (Poland), Andrés Galeano (Spain), Essi Kausalainen (Finland), Magnus Logi Kristinsson (Iceland), Márcio Carvalho (Portugal), Maurice Blok (Netherlands), Stefan Riebel (Deutschland)
2010
Founded the artist residence Hotel25 in Berlin
Plot in Situ, Live art festival, ACUD Theater, Berlin
Exhibition Curator from Hotel25, artist in residence program, Berlin
TV show ‘The powers of art’ edition 1, Press Conference, Hotel25, Berlin
TV show, ‘The Powers of Art’ edition 2, AlexTV Studios, Berlin
‘One more land be twin’ Exhibition by Luis Simões and Rita Manuel, Theaterhaus Mitte, Berlin