About

RitaGT is a critical and intervening artist, approaching themes such as memory, identity or the importance of human rights. Having lived in many different countries enables her to have a broader vision, valuing the historical points of view of many cultures. The colonial symbolism that is recurrent in her work defines her own identity and artistic language. The artist uses imagery, words and performance revealing a constant interrogation and experimentalism in both material and conceptual aspects.

RitaGT gained a BA in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, concluded the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Maumaus School of Visual Arts in Lisbon and attended to the MA program in Fine Arts from Malmö Art Academy – Lund University in Malmö, Sweden.

Solo exhibitions include:

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2021); Nano Gallery, Lisbon (2019); Carlos Machado Museum, São Miguel, Azores (2019); Decorative Arts Museum, Viana do Castelo (2019); Special projects, ARCO, Lisbon (2019); Gallery Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon (2019); Movart, Luanda (2018); Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisbon (2018); 50 Golborne Gallery, London (2018); Gallery Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon (2017); Patch, Porto (2017); MNAC, Lisbon (2015/16);

Instituto Camões, Luanda (2014); UNAP, Luanda (2012); Bienal de Viana do Castelo (2010); Empty Cube, Lisbon (2009); Gallery Reflexus, Porto (2009); and PêSSEGOpráSEMANA, Porto (2007).

Group exhibitions include:

Galerias Municipais Lisboa (2023); Venice Design Biennial (2021); Macau Biennial (2020); La Junqueira, Lisbon (2019); Outono Projects, Lisbon (2019); Príncipe Bienal, São Tomé e Príncipe (2019); Walk&Talk, São Miguel, Azores (2019; In Spite of, Porto (2019); Museu Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Lisbon (2019); ICAF, Lagos (2017); Efeito-Suruba, Lisbon (2017); Art of Kindness, London (2017); Lagos Biennial, Lagos (2017); Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017); Museu do Oriente, Lisbon (2017); Instituto Camões, Luanda (2017); The Cera Project, London (2016); Movart, Luanda (2016); Tiwani Gallery, London (2015); KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig & Freies Museum/Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2015); Art in Space, Tel Aviv (2013); MNAC, Lisbon (2013); Arts on Main - Goethe Institut, Johannesburg (2013); Soso Contemporary African Art Gallery, Luanda (2012); Museum of the City, Lisbon (2011); Tatoli Ba Kultura, Díli (2011); Museu de Artes Decorativas, Viana do Castelo (2010); CCB – Museu Berardo, Lisbon (2009); Museu da Presidência da República, Lisbon (2009); Arte Contempo, Lisbon (2007); Natural History Museum, Lisbon (2007); and the Rothschild Prize, Lisbon (2007).

Rita GT is the founder of the e-studio Luanda project and the commissioner for the Angolan Pavilion, curated by António Ole at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).

She's being working actively between Portugal and Angola managing and curating several projects.

EDUCATION

2006 Master's Degree attendance | Malmö Art Academy, Lund University in Malmö, Sweden

2004 Advanced Course in Visual Arts | Maumaus School of Visual Arts, Lisbon, Portugal

2003 Five years Degree in Communication Design | Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal

2001 Erasmus | Fine Arts Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria

CURATORIAL ACHIEVEMENTS

2018 Scope Miami Art fair. Movart Luanda Gallery Booth, Miami, USA

2017 Thomson Art House, Luanda, Angola

2015 Commissioner of the Angolan Pavilion, curated by António Ole, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy

2013 Curator of VAN: Desenhos, Pau-a-Pique e outros Registos, Centro Cultural Português – Instituto Camões, Luanda, Angola

Curator of António Ole: Memoria y Olvido, Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, Spain

e-studio Luanda project , 7ª Biennale of São Tomé e Príncipe

2012 Founder- manager of e.studio Luanda project

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021/22 Cum Laude, Galeria Municipal de Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

2021 Cum Laude, Movart, Lisbon, Portugal

2021 Unearthing, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK

2019 1919, Nano Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

Recetáculo, Museu Carlos Machado, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal

Uíge, Casa dell Arte, Lisbon, Portugal

Museu duty free, Decorative Arts Museum, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Museu duty free, ARCO Lisboa special projects, Portugal

(Re)membering/ (For)getting, Gallery Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, Portugal

2018 School next door, Movart Gallery, Luanda, Angola

Acção Doméstico-Feminista ou Estudos sobre Cerâmica Portuguesa, Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisbon, Portugal

School next door, 50 Golborne Gallery, London, UK

2017 Return to Earth, Gallery Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, Portugal

Return to Earth. I am a Blackstar, Patch, Porto, Portugal

2015/16 We Shall Overcome! Museu do Chiado, Lisboa, Portugal

2014 Faces (Caras não Caras), Instituto Camões, Luanda, Angola

2012 AIR - African Industrial Revolution (collaboration with Francisco Vidal), UNAP – National Union of Visual Artists, Luanda Angola

Agora a seguir e como, Candonga Studio (collaboration with Francisco Vidal and Feedback studio), Museum of the City of Viana do Castelo, Portugal

2011 Candonga’s Message no2: Rhino and Elephant, Candonga Studio (collaboration with Francisco Vidal), National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, Portugal

2010 Looting, Costume Museum, Viana do Castelo Biennial, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

2009 One Night [life] Event, Empty Cube, Lisbon, Portugal
Made in Europe: 10 Year Warranty, Gallery Reflexus, Porto, Portugal

2007 Tropicalismos Luso e outras Naturezas Mortas, PêSSEGOpráSEMANA, Porto, Portugal

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Black Skin, White Masks: the Black Body in Presence, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

2022 Aqui Somos Rede. MACE- Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal

2021 Design As Self Portrait, Venice Design Biennial, Italy

2020 Natura, ARTFEM Women Artists International Biennial of Macau, Macau

2019 No Place Like Home, La Junqueira, Lisbon, Portugal

Floripesfera- Príncipe Bienal, São Tomé and Príncipe

Walk&Talk, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal

Run, In Spite of, Porto, Portugal

A metade do céu, Museu Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, Portugal

2018 Frente.Verso.Inverso, UCCLA Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal

2017 Efeito-Suruba, Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisbon, Portugal

Art of Kindness, White Space Gallery, London, UK

Lagos Biennial, Lagos, Nigeria

Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

O Olhar da Sibila, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal

EU em Angola, Instituto Camões; Luanda, Angola

2016 Conexões Femininas, Galeria Sede do Banco Económico - Movart, Luanda, Angola

2015 African Industrial Revolution (A.I.R.), with e-studio Luanda, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK

Devour Part I (part of Devour! Social Cannibalism, Political Redefinition and Architecture), with

e-studio Luanda, Freies Museum in cooperation with Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

Devour Part III (part of Devour! Social Cannibalism, Political Redefinition and Architecture), with

e-studio Luanda, KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig, Germany

2013 Danalogue, Art in Space, Tel Aviv, Israel

Hetero Q.B., Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal

Arts on Main - Goethe Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa

2012 Mabaxa, Soso Gallery - Contemporary African Art, Luanda, Angola

2010 Agora, a seguir e como, Museum of Decorative Arts, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

2011 The Philosophy of Money, Museum of the City, Lisbon, Portugal

Tatoli Ba Kultura, Díli, East-Timor

2009 1 Século, 10 Lápis, 100 Desenhos: Viarco Express, Museu da Presidência da República,

Lisbon, Portugal

Amalia Nossa, CCB – Museu Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal

2007 Options & Futures: Collection of the PLMJ Foundation, Arte Contempo, Lisbon, Portugal

Anteciparte, Natural History Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

Rothschild Prize, Lisbon, Portugal

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2020 Cucumbi, Barrancão- Alentejo, Portugal

2019 La Junqueira Artist in Residency , Lisbon, Portugal

2018-9 Yorkshire Sculpture Park Artist in Residency, UK

2018-9 Walk&Talk Azores Artist in Residency, Portugal

2017 Iwaya Community - ICAF, Artists in Residence, Lagos, Nigeria

2013 Moving Africa Grant, Goethe Institut, for the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa

2007-8 INOV-Art programme at the artist residency Capacete, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil

2006-7 Artist residency at ZDB Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

2005 Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado Português

PLMJ Foundation (PT)

MNAC - Museu do Chiado (PT)

Colecção Norlinda e José Lima (PT)

Instituto Camões - Luanda (AO)

ACCA (AO)

Colecção Nuno Lima Pimentel (AO)

Colecção António Cachola (PT)

Colecção Fernando Ribeiro (PT)

Câmara Municipal Viana do Castelo (PT)

Museu de Artes Decorativas Viana do Castelo (PT)

Casa Dell Arte (TR)