The solo exhibition “The Day Tarrare Ate Che”, by Diogo “Gazella” Carvalho, opens on April 3, Thursday, at 6:00 pm, at the School of Arts of the Autonomous University of Lisbon, with free entry.

In this exhibition, which opens the annual programme of the School of Arts, the multidisciplinary artist seeks to reflect on the condition of artists from peripheral contexts and the inseparability forged (among others, by institutions) between the work produced and this same context as an act of subsistence. Based on an anthropophagic movement that digests and then regurgitates counter-culture into a cake, that is, into a homogeneous mass, “Gazella” raises the following issues: “When (our) place at the table depends on being the food served, is that access? […] Can someone from a peripheral context talk about issues that extend beyond marginalisation? Trauma?”

In the words of the artist, the works exhibited in “The Day Tarrare Ate Che” question “the role that each person plays in this process […] If nothing else, through the very attempt to denounce that, being aware of what he is part of, he constitutes himself – consciously – as just another element of that same menu. The artist who, in order to sustain himself, allows himself to be devoured… me”.

Diogo “Gazella” Carvalho was born in 1997 in Lisbon, which expelled him and his family to a suburb, the Sintra Line. Diogo’s artistic life began early, but it was only in France that he discovered his artistic vision and way of thinking. With several exhibitions, Diogo even won a national comics competition in France. He never forgot where he grew up, and he immersed himself in meaningful and profound audiovisual projects and, in 2018, he created the artistic collective UniDigrazz with the musician Tristany and the visual artist Onun Trigueiros, bringing the freshness of “Sintranagem” to the Portuguese cultural circuit.

He produced the cover for “Labanta Braço”, a compilation of black musicians promoted by SOS Racismo. In 2019, he was part of the Lisboa Criola project. In 2020, he conceived the series “Baxu Ku Riba”, nominated for best film by the Official Brazilian Festival Mimb-4o – Mostra Itinerante de Cinemas Negros. He was responsible for directing music videos for Julinho KSD, Trista, Yuran and Kibow from the group Instinto 26, and for Tristany. In 2022, he exhibited at MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), with the collective UniDigrazz in the collective “Interferências”, curated by Carla Cardoso, Alexandre Farto and Brito Guterres. In 2022, he participated with a collective piece at IMINENTE MARSEILLE, with the collective Unidigrazz, presenting “kintal”. In 2022, he created TEATRU DIGRA with the artist SEPHER AWK, acting as writer and director. “UNDEU” is the name of the play presented for the first time at the Ano0 festival. In 2022, he also directed the short film “Nha Fidju”, which was shown at the “Interferências” exhibition at MAAT and has since been selected by several film festivals (Lisbon Film Rendezvous, Lift – off Global Network, Squardi – European Independent Short Film Night, Festival Estendal).

The exhibition “The Day Tarrare Ate Che”, by Diogo “Gazella” Carvalho, is part of the annual exhibition programme of the School of Arts of the Autonomous University of Lisbon. The programme aims to showcase works by emerging artists, promoting the most diverse languages and expressions of contemporary art, and simultaneously promoting the transfer of knowledge between the academic context, the professional sector and civil society.

Visual artist Filipa Tojal will be part of the artistic residency program In the Rubble, at the invitation of the School of Arts of the Autonomous University of Lisbon. The residency is scheduled to take place between July and August 2025 at the company's facilities in Póvoa de Varzim.

Filipa Tojal (b. 1993) is a visual artist who lives and works in Porto. She graduated in Fine Arts (Painting) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) and completed her Masters in Painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts, in Japan, where she lived for four years. She has participated in artistic residencies in Spain, France, India, Indonesia and Australia, and has presented her work in group and solo exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, with emphasis on the United States, China and Japan. She is currently a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at FBAUP.

Her artistic practice begins with painting and expands to installation, reflecting an intimate and sensitive relationship with space. She explores the landscape through the act of contemplation, where the memory of a place and the direct experience of the present intersect, approaching them through the materiality intrinsic to painting. Her compositions emerge from a process of subtle gradation, displacements and overlaps, in a sensitive research of the elements that surround her. She explores an intuitive and attentive approach to space, where materiality is not limited to painting, but also extends to the objects and territories that surround her.

In turn, the Artistic Residencies in Entulho – RANE -, promoted by Artworks Since 2018, they have been aimed at emerging artists and aim to address unusable or surplus materials from the industry as material for creation. The focus of RANE is the creation of an exploratory platform open to different agents, which is open to welcoming original or ongoing projects. The aim of this program is to stimulate artistic production in an industrial environment and create a learning environment for both artists and national and international artistic agents.

Alongside the artistic residency, artist Filipa Tojal will also present a solo exhibition at the Escola das Artes, in Lisbon, scheduled for the second half of the year.

Entitled “Aos Papéis”, the collective exhibition of the finalists of the Postgraduate course in Illustration opens on March 1st, at Livraria Baobá, in Lisbon, at 6:00 pm.

“Aos papeles” is a collective exhibition that marks the presentation of the final course work of the students of the Postgraduate Course in Illustration at the School of Arts of the Autonomous University of Lisbon for the academic year 2024/25.

From the four Russian seasons to the attic where everything happens, to the clothesline of Madeiran embroidered tablecloths and the loves and dislikes for food, people, cities, in this exhibition, the students invite you to browse through the illustrated albums, in their most diverse manifestations and understandings, with which, under a free theme, we mark the end of this academic journey which, like so many ends, is also a beginning, of our individual journeys as illustrators and storytellers.

The exhibition features works by Igor Correia, Inês Duarte, Giulia Galindo, Maria Giovanna Mura, Nani Brunini, Sofia Pires, Sofia Luz, Tatiana Fernandes and Yulia Malinina, and is curated by professors Inês Viegas Oliveira and Carolina Celas. Admission is free and the exhibition will be open until April 1.

Cabeça Colectiva is a series of six conversations with and for artists, which aims to foster discourse(s) around contemporary painting.

The sessions will be led by invited artists who will discuss artworks and texts of their choice. Their selection reflects on specific and broad themes—such as identity, performance, and digital media—to address subject positions within the field of painting.

The guest artists are Ana Manso, Bruno Pacheco, Evy Jokhova, Leyla Gediz, Max Ruf and Tomás Cunha Ferreira.

Six two-hour sessions are planned, after work hours. The sessions will take place at the School of Arts of the Autonomous University of Lisbon, between February and June.

Applications may be submitted through this form.

The group of selected candidates will be announced at the end of February. Those selected must participate in the entire cycle. If selected, the candidate must pay a registration fee of 30 euros.

Cabeça Colectiva is an initiative of the School of Arts, coordinated by visual artist Ana Cardoso.

The deadline for applications is February 21st.

Von Calhau! brings together several worlds in the same broadcast. A journey inspired by the early days of radio, when science and the beyond were confused. Eternity in a piece of static, the absurd without a break.

Marta Ângela and João Alves are members of the teaching staff at Postgraduate in Interarts, being responsible for the curricular units Project I and Project II.

The program, entitled “Osso Gesto” and commissioned by Aveiro 2024 – Portuguese Capital of Culture, was broadcast by Antena 3 and is available on RTP Play.

Applications for the 2025 edition of the postgraduate course remain open.