HISTORIES: Works from the Serralves Collection | Museum
from 29 MAY 2014 to 21 SEP 2014
‘Histories’ is a three-part exhibition drawn from the Serralves Collection, highlighting the importance of narrative in recent art making. Marking the 15th anniversary of the opening of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition invites fresh thinking around art collecting and contemporary art in the twenty-first century. The exhibition includes over 60 works in painting, sculpture, film and video installation, photography and performance, many recently acquired, together with a selection of works by artists planned for the Collection.
Presented over the summer of 2014 in the Serralves Museum, Villa and Park, ‘Histories’ proposes three inter-related moments, in which visitors are invited to consider new trajectories in art across time and space.
AT SERRALVES MUSEUMLeonor Antunes, Miroslaw Balka, Tacita Dean, Haris Epaminonda, Liam Gillick, Sanja Ivekovic, Ana Jotta, On Kawara, Tala Madani, Lucy McKenzie, Albuquerque Mendes, Jorge Molder, Paulo Nozolino, Paulina Olowska, Amalia Pica, Charlotte Posenenske, Walid Raad, Paula Rego, Wilhelm Sasnal, Tino Sehgal, Nedko Solakov, Simon Starling, Luc Tuymans, Danh Vo, Franz West, Haegue Yang, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Akram Zaatari
The inaugural exhibition of the Serralves Museum, ‘Circa 1968’, highlighted a critical decade in art making, one that marked the beginning of post-modernist thinking centred around questions of concept and expanded forms. ‘Histories’ reflects on more recent approaches in contemporary art in which concept and form are in the service of narratives of history and culture, identity and representation, truth and fiction. Staged visual narratives shift between real-life accounts and fictional tales, personal stories merge with current events, and the blurring of historical facts with supposition and hearsay assume the form of archives that propose a meditation on time and memory.
Recent works in the exhibition appropriate histories of aesthetic form, from archaic symbolism to Enlightenment positivism and modernist rationalism, to articulate questions of value and authenticity. Others suggest a performing of culture in which abstraction becomes a carrier for ideological conditioning and reinterpretation.
Curator: Suzanne Cotter
Image: Amalia Pica, 2013. Courtesy Herald St, London. Col. Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto. Aquisição 2013
Related Activities OPENING
27 JUN (FRI), 22:00, FREE ENTRANCE GUIDED VISITS
Access: by purchase of Museum+Park ticket
18 JUL, 19h30, Museum
By artist Leonor AntunesMore information here
27 JUL, 12h00, Museum
By storyteller Carla Pinto
More information here
10 SEP, 17h30, Park
By artist Luisa Cunha
More information here GUIDED TOURS
07 JUN, 15h00-16h00, Museum - for Members
By Serralves Museum Curator Marta Moreira de Almeida
More information here
08 JUN, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Rita Roque
More information here
14 JUN, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Raquel Sambade
15 JUN, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Raquel Sambade
28 JUN, 15h00-16h00, Park and Villa - for MembersBy Serralves Museum Curator Marta Moreira de Almeida
05 JUL, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Rita MartinsMore information here.
05 JUL, 17h00-18h00, Villa
By Rita MartinsMore information here.
13 JUL, 12h00-13h00, Park
By Rita RoqueMore information here.
09 AGO, 16h00- 17h00, Museu - em inglês
By Rita Martins
09 AUG, 17h00-18h00, Museum
By Rita Martins
31 AUG, 12h00-13h00, Villa
By Rita Roque
05 SEP, 18h30-19h30, Museum
By Ricardo Nicolau, Deputy to the Museum DirectorMore information here
13 SEP, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Rita Roque
13 SEP, 17h00-18h00, Villa
By Rita Roque
21 SEP, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Raquel Sambade
28 SEP, 12h00-13h00, Park
By Raquel Sambade
WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES
21 JUN, 15h00-18h00, Sala Multiusos
Collectors of Memories, Family workshop by Raquel Sambade and Rita Roque
WORKSHOPS FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS
07-10 JUL, 15h00–18h00, VillaHistories Broadcasted, by Rádio Manobras and Serralves Education Service
Project "Serralves - Património Classificado" co-financed by Exclusive Sponsor of the Museum and the Exhibition
Presented over the summer of 2014 in the Serralves Museum, Villa and Park, ‘Histories’ proposes three inter-related moments, in which visitors are invited to consider new trajectories in art across time and space.
AT SERRALVES MUSEUMLeonor Antunes, Miroslaw Balka, Tacita Dean, Haris Epaminonda, Liam Gillick, Sanja Ivekovic, Ana Jotta, On Kawara, Tala Madani, Lucy McKenzie, Albuquerque Mendes, Jorge Molder, Paulo Nozolino, Paulina Olowska, Amalia Pica, Charlotte Posenenske, Walid Raad, Paula Rego, Wilhelm Sasnal, Tino Sehgal, Nedko Solakov, Simon Starling, Luc Tuymans, Danh Vo, Franz West, Haegue Yang, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Akram Zaatari
The inaugural exhibition of the Serralves Museum, ‘Circa 1968’, highlighted a critical decade in art making, one that marked the beginning of post-modernist thinking centred around questions of concept and expanded forms. ‘Histories’ reflects on more recent approaches in contemporary art in which concept and form are in the service of narratives of history and culture, identity and representation, truth and fiction. Staged visual narratives shift between real-life accounts and fictional tales, personal stories merge with current events, and the blurring of historical facts with supposition and hearsay assume the form of archives that propose a meditation on time and memory.
Recent works in the exhibition appropriate histories of aesthetic form, from archaic symbolism to Enlightenment positivism and modernist rationalism, to articulate questions of value and authenticity. Others suggest a performing of culture in which abstraction becomes a carrier for ideological conditioning and reinterpretation.
Curator: Suzanne Cotter
Image: Amalia Pica, 2013. Courtesy Herald St, London. Col. Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto. Aquisição 2013
Related Activities OPENING
27 JUN (FRI), 22:00, FREE ENTRANCE GUIDED VISITS
Access: by purchase of Museum+Park ticket
18 JUL, 19h30, Museum
By artist Leonor AntunesMore information here
27 JUL, 12h00, Museum
By storyteller Carla Pinto
More information here
10 SEP, 17h30, Park
By artist Luisa Cunha
More information here GUIDED TOURS
07 JUN, 15h00-16h00, Museum - for Members
By Serralves Museum Curator Marta Moreira de Almeida
More information here
08 JUN, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Rita Roque
More information here
14 JUN, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Raquel Sambade
15 JUN, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Raquel Sambade
28 JUN, 15h00-16h00, Park and Villa - for MembersBy Serralves Museum Curator Marta Moreira de Almeida
05 JUL, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Rita MartinsMore information here.
05 JUL, 17h00-18h00, Villa
By Rita MartinsMore information here.
13 JUL, 12h00-13h00, Park
By Rita RoqueMore information here.
09 AGO, 16h00- 17h00, Museu - em inglês
By Rita Martins
09 AUG, 17h00-18h00, Museum
By Rita Martins
31 AUG, 12h00-13h00, Villa
By Rita Roque
05 SEP, 18h30-19h30, Museum
By Ricardo Nicolau, Deputy to the Museum DirectorMore information here
13 SEP, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Rita Roque
13 SEP, 17h00-18h00, Villa
By Rita Roque
21 SEP, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Raquel Sambade
28 SEP, 12h00-13h00, Park
By Raquel Sambade
WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES
21 JUN, 15h00-18h00, Sala Multiusos
Collectors of Memories, Family workshop by Raquel Sambade and Rita Roque
WORKSHOPS FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS
07-10 JUL, 15h00–18h00, VillaHistories Broadcasted, by Rádio Manobras and Serralves Education Service
Project "Serralves - Património Classificado" co-financed by Exclusive Sponsor of the Museum and the Exhibition
