Diogo Evangelista (Portugal, 1984) graduated in Fine Arts from the Lisbon University of Fine Arts in 2008.
Diogo Evangelista

Diogo Evangelista (1984, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon. Graduated in Fine Arts from the Lisbon University School of Fine Arts in 2008. With a multidisciplinary practice, his work revolves around themes of desire and transformation, exploring the animist potential that the human imagination has to appropriate concepts, images and environments.
Recent exhibitions include: Plant Revolution! (CIAJG, Guimarães, 2019), Constellations: a choreography of minimal gestures (Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, 2019), Spinning Wheel (CAC Vilnius, 2018), Espaço de Fluxos ( ZDB, Lisbon, 2017), 10 000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte (Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2017), Utopia/Dystopia ( MAAT, Lisbon, 2017), The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?) (11th Gwangju Biennale, 2016), Matter Fictions (Museu colecção Berardo, Lisbon, 2016 ), H Y P E R C O N N E C T E D ( MMOMA, Moscow, 2016), Magician’s Right Hand, ( Futura, Prague, 2016 ), Hybridize or Disappear (Museu do Chiado – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2015), As one hand touches the other (Videoex, Zu- rique, 2015), Between the spider and the mind there is a hand – Outdoor I (Warm, São Paulo, 2015), BES Revelação ( Serralves Museum, Oporto, Portugal, 2014), The World of Interiors (The Green Parrot, Barcelona, 2014).
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Born in 1984.
He lives and works in Lisbon.
EDUCATION
2008 – BA in Fine Arts – Painting, FBAUL, Lisbon, PT.
2006/07 – Attended a painting course at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, Turin, IT.
RESIDENCIES
2017 – Residency at CRIPTA747, Turin, IT.
2012 – Residency at Budapest Galéria, Budapest, HU.
2011 – Campus, pilot art school, Caja Madrid, Barcelona, ES.
2010 – Residency at Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, PT.
SOLO SHOWS
2019
Old Sins, O Armário, Lisbon, PT.
Organic Machinery, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon, PT.
2018
Spinning Wheel, CAC – Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT.
2017
Scent, Auditorium theatre of Campanhã, Oporto, PT.
Space of Flows, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, PT.
2016
A driver who indicates left and then turns to the right, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, PT.
2013
Sunset, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, PT.
Diogo Evangelista, Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon, PT.
2012
Right Lobe, Old School, Lisbon, PT.
No Future in that Place, Parkour, Lisbon, PT.
Preparations for an Eclipse, A Certain Lack Of Coherence, Oporto, PT.
GROUP SHOWS (SEL.)
2019
Plant Revolution!, CIAJG – Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães, Guimarães, PT.
Active Synthesis, Fórum Arte Braga, Braga, PT.
Constellations: a choreography of minimal gestures, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, PT.
Vanishing Point. Works from the António Cachola Collection, Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria, Lisbon, PT.
Towards the last Unicorn, 55SP (curated by Art Research Map and No.Stereo), São Paulo, BR.
2018
Segunda Categoria, Rua da Bempostinha 64, Lisbon, PT.
Untitled (How Does it Feel), Solmar Avenida Center, Ponta Delgada, Azores, PT.
2017
10 000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, PT.
Greater than the Sum, DRAF, Londres, UK.
Quote/Unquote, MAAT, Lisbon, PT.
Utopia/Dystopia, MAAT, Lisbon, PT.
2016
The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, KR.
Hyperconnected, 5th Moscow International Biennale, Moscow, RU.
Matter Fictions, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT.
Magician’s Right Hand, Futura, Prague, CZ.
2015
Sonae Media Art Award, The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, PT.
As one hand touches the other, Videoex Film Festival, Zurich, CH.
Hybridize or Disappear, The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, PT.
Outdoor I, Warm, São Paulo, BR.
2014
BES Revelação, BESArte e Finança, Lisbon, PT.
World of Interiors, The Green Parrot, Barcelona, ES.
BES Revelação, Serralves Museum, Oporto, PT.
2013
Transatlantic Cubiszm, Boutique, Köln, DE.
From Radiance and Dissolution, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
, DE.
… Le petit Lenormand, Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon, PT.
Entre lo fugitivo y lo infinito, Galeria Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, ES.
A Quest for Flight or the Aurora of Psychedelia, Barber Shop, Lisbon, PT.
PUBLICATIONS
“Right Lobe”, self-publishing, Lisbon, 2012.
“Owners Workshop Manual”, self-publishing with Kunstalle Lissabon, Lisbon, 2011.
“Duo (Display)”, self-publishing by Ana Bouza, Lisbon, 2010.
Organic Machinery
Galeria Francisco Fino
Lisbon, 2019
Spinning Wheel
CAC – Contemporary Art Center
Vilnius, 2018
Space of Flows
Galeria Zé dos Bois
Lisbon, 2017
Utopia/Dystopia
MAAT
Lisbon, 2017
Fiction Matters
Museu Collecção Berardo
Lisbon, 2016
The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?)
11th Gwangju Biennale, 2016
Hybridize or Disappear
The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado
Lisbon, 2015
Down in the Valley (Sonae Art Award)
The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado
Lisbon, 2015
Isle (Res Art Award)
Serralves Museum
Porto, 2014
Blind Faith | Escola de Artes da Universidade Católica do Porto | Porto | 13.02.20 – 30.04.20
2012 2020 Obras da Coleção António Cachola | MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas | Elvas | 18.01.20 – 03.01.21