Carla Filipe. da cauda à cabeça

Carla Filipe was born in a C.P. house (a house provided by the Portuguese railway company to their employees) in a small locality named Póvoa do Valado in the district of Aveiro, Portugal. She lives and works in the city of Porto, where she did her studies. From 2003 to 2007, she helped organise activities at two artist-run projects in Porto – Salão Olímpico and Projecto Apêndice. This was an intense period for independent art spaces in the city and it was there that Carla Filipe developed her work. In 2009, she won a scholarship from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian for a residency at ACME Studios (London). In 2014, Carla Filipe will take up a residency at the invitation of the AIR Antwerpen project (Antwerp).

Her solo exhibitions include da cauda à cabeça, Museu Coleção Berardo (Lisbon, 2014); As primas da Bulgária (part one), Kunstverein (Milano, 2012); Um olhar periférico sobre uma cultura (London – UK), Der Vierte Raum (Bremen, 2012); Bordas de Alguidar, Galeria Graça Brandão (Lisbon, 2011); Experiência Flutuante – Paisagens Gráficas, Galeria Nuno Centeno (Porto, 2011); Arquivo Surdo-Mudo / Deaf and Dumb Archive, Tranzit Display (Prague, 2011), Saloio, Greenhouse of Tapada das Necessidades (Lisbon, 2011); O povo reunido, jamais será – Representações gráficas, Museu do Neo-Realismo (Vila Franca de Xira, 2010); É um espaço estranho e maravilhoso, o ar é seco, quente e insípido – Precarious, Escape, Fascination, Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon, 2010); Estas coisas levam tempo, Espaço Campanhã (Porto, 2009); Desertar, In.Transit (Porto, 2007); Zona de Estar, Salão Olímpico (Porto, 2004).

Notable group exhibitions in which she has participated include 12 Contemporâneos – Estados Presentes, Museu de Serralves (Porto, 2014); Mom, am I Barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013); 1813. Assedio, incendio y reconstrucción de Donostia, San Telmo Museoa (San Sebastián, 2013); R E D U N D A N C Y, GFLK (Bad Tölz, 2012); Les Prairies, Les Ateliers Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Rennes (2012); Gravity & Disgrace Ep. 1, CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (Santiago de Compostela, 2012); V Bienal de Jafre (2011); Transporto sempre uma viagem, Galeria Quadrum (Lisbon, 2011); Región de Murcia en diálogo con el Norte de África, Manifesta 8 (Murcia and Cartagena, 2010); Hospitalidade, Hospital de São João (Porto, 2009); part-ilha, Spike Island (Bristol, 2008); Busca Pólos, Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães, 2006), Pavilhão Centro de Portugal (Coimbra, 2006); Toxic, o Discurso do Excesso, Projecto Terminal (Oeiras, 2005); Pág. 133, PêSSEGOpráSEMANA (Porto, 2003).

Among various publications, Carla Filipe has edited As primas da Bulgária (Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon) and Boletim CP (Editorial Concreta, Valencia) in 2013, and An illustrated guide to the British Railway to my study (author’s edition) in 2010. There is also da cauda à cabeça, the first monograph dedicated to the artist’s work (Museu Coleção Berardo and Archive Books, 2014).