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Filipa Pontes Lança (1978, Beja -Portugal)

EDUCATION

2020 PhD in Fine Arts/Drawing, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL), Lisbon (Portugal) / 2007 Post-graduation in Creative Illustration and Visual Communication Techniques, EINA School of Art and Design, Barcelona (Spain) / 2001 – 2003 Master Degree in Graphic Design, School of Art and Design (ESAD.CR), Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) / 1997 – 2001 Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design, School of Art and Design (ESAD.CR), Caldas da Rainha (Portugal)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Desarmonia Fluente Maputo – Mozambique/ 2014 Werner Thoni Artspace, Barcelona – Spain / 2010 Galeria Cirurgias Urbanas Oporto – Portugal/ MAM BA Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, LuzNoPátio co-authored by Nuno Carvalho (Salvador da Bahia, Brazil) / 2009 CartografiarElSol co-authored by Nuno Carvalho, Praça del Sol (Barcelona, Spain) 2008 Centre Civic Can Felipa, Barcelona – Spain

SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2022 Enclave Land Art Alicante – Spain / Festival of Invitations Narva -Estonia 2021 5 Minutes of Drawing CIEBA-FBAUL (online) 2020 Field/Works. Kaleidoscopic activities between anthropology and art Antart project (online) 2017 Western Curater Compelled to Show Critical Art in Mainland China, Sowerart Space (Shanghai, China) / Em Linha at Bessa Pereira Gallery, Lisbon – Portugal / A Salto Festival, Elvas – Portugal / Cultura Fest Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture, Dublin – Ireland / Hoje como Ontem, diferente de Amanhã, Caldas da Rainha – Portugal / 2016 Maga Visual Art Festival, Caldas da Rainha – Portugal / Art Book China, Beijin – China / Art Book China, Shanghai – China / Moçambiques at ENAV, Maputo – Mozambique / Maga Visual Arts Festival, Caldas da Rainha – Portugal/ 2012 2nd Biennal of ISARC, IC Maputo – Mozambique / Bastidores Fanzine, Maputo – Mozambique / 2010 Niños Consentidos Festival at Freedonia, Barcelona – Spain) / DelicARTessen9 Esther Montoriol Gallery, Barcelona – Spain /Artafacta collective at Privat Space Barcelona Gallery, Barcelona – Spain / Exposição Luso in Cat Gracia Arts Project (Barcelona, Spain) /2009 8ª Mostra d’Art Jove de Mataró, Galeria Espai F (Mataró, Spain)/ 2008 Maga, Mostra de Artes Visuais (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal)

RESIDENCIES

2022 Enclave Land Art (Alicante, Spain) / Närva Art Residence NART (Närva, Estonia) 2019 Kunstanarhuset Messen (Ålvik, Noruega) / 2018 Kunstanarhuset Messen (Ålvik, Noruega) / 2017 Festival A Salto (Elvas, Portugal) / 2016 Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai, China) / 2015 RésVés Loulé (Alte, Portugal) / 2014 Werner Thoni Artspace (Barcelona, Spain) / 2010 Nau Côclea  (Camallera, Spain)

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2015 Kulungwana, Maputo (Mozambique) Processes: the Work defying the Artist – Invited artists: Butcheca (Mozambique), Jorge Fernandes (Mozambique) and Rafael Mouzinho (Mozambique) / 2014 Kulungwana, Maputo (Mozambique) Processes: Artist, Work, Public – Invited artists: Félix Mula (Mozambique), Gemuce (Mozambique) e Maimuna Adam (Mozambique)/ 2013 Kulungwana, Maputo (Mozambique) Processes: the Artist confronting the Work – Invited artists: David Mbonzo (Mozambique), Jorge Dias (Mozambique) and Berry Bickle (Zimbabwe)

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR

2022 Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL) Postgraduation in Illustration and Visual Narrative, Portugal – Reinventing the city / Walkshop, Berlin, Germany Decolonizing the city 2019 Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, Germany – Rethinking the everyday / 2018 Kvam Kulturskule, Hordaland, Norway – Art Classes /  2017 Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL), Lisbon, Portugal – Drawing and autoethnography: the experience of the place / Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Oporto (FBAUP), Oporto, Portugal – Drawing and autoethnography: the experience of the place / 2016 School of Art and Design of Caldas da Rainha (ESAD.CR – IPL), Caldas da Rainha, Portugal – Drawing as the experience of the place: autoethnography in artist books / 2014 Portuguese School of Mozambique Maputo (EPM-CELP), Mozambique – Teachers training course on Drawing and Illustration techniques / Franco-Mozambican Cultural Center Maputo (CCFM), Mozambique – Inventando I (Imagining II) – Illustration classes for children in collaboration with Ruth Bañon / 2013 Portuguese School of Mozambique Maputo (EPM-CELP) Maputo, Mozambique – Teachers training course on Illustration as a tool for enlarging the critical view / Franco-Mozambican Cultural Center (CCFM) Maputo, Mozambique – Inventando I (Imagining I) – Illustration classes for children in collaboration with Ruth Bañon / 2010 Museum of Modern Art (MAM BA) Eu Desejo (I Desaire) – Drawing atelier for children and parents in collaboration with Nuno Carvalho / 2009 Barceloneta Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain – Illustration atelier for artists / 2007 Soares dos Reis National Museum (MNSR) Oporto, Portugal – Ilustration atelier for artists / 2004 and 2005 Atelier Arte e Expressão, Caldas da rainha, Portugal – Ilustration atelier for artists

TEACHER / LECTURER – GUEST ARTIST

2022 Estonian Academy of Arts EKA EKA TV-NART (Tallinn, Estonia) / School of Art and Media, University of Brighton (England, UK) Department of Drawing Research (online lecture): Drawing in a pluriversal world. Invitation by professor Philippa Lyon / Faculty of Visual Arts (FAV-UFG), Goiás (Brazil) NuPAA – Center for Autobiographical Artistic Practices (online lecture): Drawing and autobiography/autoethnography. Invitation by professor Manoela dos Anjos Afonso Rodrigues 2021 Cascais School of Arts (CSA), Lisbon (Portugal) Visual and Digital Arts course (online lecture): Autoethnography in contemporary art practices. Invitation by professor Camila de Sousa / School of Art and Design (ESAD.CR-IPL), Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) Fine Arts course, (online lecture): Autoethnography in contemporary art practice. Invitation by professor Isabel Baraona / School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná, Curitiba (Brazil) Drawing and Creative Processes online talks: The ArtistDictionaries series. Invitation by professor Luciana Paes / Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa (Brazil), Labareda – Laboratory for Drawing and Anthropology (online lecture): Drawing and autoethnography – ArtistDictionaries series. Invitation by professor Aina Azevedo 2017 Faculty of Fine Arts of Oporto (FBAUP), Porto (Portugal) Drawing and autoethnography. The Experience of Place. Activity integrated into the doctoral research. Coordination by professor Pedro Maia 2011 -2013 Assistant Professor, Art and Design Department at Higher Institute of Arts and Culture (ISARC), Maputo (Mozambique) 

COMMUNICATIONS 

2022 CSO’2022 Congress of Creators About other Works, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal A dimensão (de)colonial no trabalho de Márcio Carvalho / Still Landscapes Symposium University of Évora (Portugal) The power of mountains in the Hardangerfjord 2021 InSEA Congress The International Society for Education Through Art, Virtual Congress Cracks and provocations in the teaching and learning of the arts, Cusco (Perú) Desenhar para aumentar o mundo. Memórias, histórias, ficção e reflexão – desenho e pensamento decolonial / Field/work talks #4, Field/Works Kaleidoscopic activities between anthropology and art, ANTART project curated by Jean Clarke and Maxime Le Calvé 2019 XIV Jovens Cientistas Socias, CES, Coimbra (Portugal)/ Drawing Heritage(s) Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Évora (Portugal) 2018 Conference Expressão Múltipla II – Teoria e prática do desenho (Multiple Expression – Theory and practice of drawing ) FBAUL, Lisbon (Portugal) / 2017 Conference Expressão Múltipla – Teoria e prática do desenho (Multiple Expression – Theory and practice of drawing ) FBAUL, Lisbon (Portugal) / Conference Modos de Fazer. Modos de Ser: Práticas Artísticas na e com a  Antropologia (Modes of Doing. Modes of Being: Artistic Practices in and with Anthropology) MNE, Lisbon (Portugal) / 2016 VI International Congress CSO’2015 Criadores sobre outras obras (Creators about other works) FBAUL, Lisbon (Portugal)

PUBLICATIONS

Lança, Filipa Pontes (2021) “The Experience of the Place. Transcending Vision“. In Tatovic N. and Hossain S. (org.) Drawing Heritage(s). UNESCO, University of Évora, 67-75. / Lança, Filipa Pontes (2016) “A inquietação de Maria ‘Barraca’: desenho como exorcismo” [The unquietness of Maria “Barraca”. Drawing as exorcism] In Croma, Estudos Artísticos. Lisbon, FBAUL, 18-26. / Lança, Filipa Pontes (2016) “A dimensão autoetnográfica dos desenhos de Pitseolak” [The autoethnographic dimension of Pitseolak drawings] In Gama, Estudos Artísticos. Lisbon, FBAUL, 34-42. /  Lança, Filipa Pontes (2017) “A dimensão autoetnográfica do Projeto Dicionários de Artista” [ the autoethnographic dimension of the ArtistDictionaries Project] In Expressão múltipla : teoria e prática do desenho. Lisbon, FBAUL, 117-144.

CULTURAL PRODUCTION

2013 Xiquitsi – Maputo Classic Music Season, Kulungwana (Association for Cultural Development), Maputo (Mozambique) / Viver Neste Mundo (Living in this World) – Visual Art Exhibition curated by Mário Macilau, ICMA ( German – Mozambique Cultural Institute) and Mediateca BCI, Maputo (Mozambique) / 2012 Biennal of Contemporary Art – Muvart (Contemporary Art Movement of Mozambique), Maputo (Mozambique) / 2011 6 Dockanema Documentary Festival of Maputo, Maputo (Moçambique) 

MUSEUMS

2023 Grassi Völkerkunde Museum, Leipzig (Germany) Live speaker / 2006 MNSR (Soares dos Reis Nacional Museum) – Education Service Department, Oporto (Portugal) / 2005 José Malhoa Museum – Education Service Department, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) 

PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP

2004 Atelier de Arte e Expressão Cultural Association, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal)