SMILE / Ways to Measure Time
Galeria Diferença, Lisbon, Portugal
7 September – 5 October 2022
Opening on 7 September 2022 from 4 pm to 8 pm
COVID-19: Please note the new dates
Across the gallery wall, a painted horizontal line that seems to continue infinitely. On a large framed paper, a multi-layered print whose pattern appears to transcend the surface to a new dimension. Gateways that lead to the beyond. Works by Sílvio Salgado are ephemeral and infinitive, yet they are physical interventions that have a beginning and an end, an existence in space and time. In the viewer, the works trigger both visual and conceptual sensations.
SMILE is a passing moment or a state of mind. It is the joy of realizing an exhibition postponed due to the pandemic. SMILE expresses the confusion with the sufferings and manifests the ephemerality of life.
Salgado engages the viewer in the tasks the artist undertakes in the production of an artwork, be it references to the artist’s performing body, his personal history, the preparatory research, or the characteristics of the exhibition space. He explores the history of objects and events and reveals their temporal character and physical limitations. He proves how our perceptions of reality are constructs of our collective past. He addresses the relation between human action and its consequences. Salgado leads the viewer to consider her or his role in time and space and, ultimately, address the mystery of human existence.
Sílvio Salgado is a Portuguese artist living in Bogotá, Colombia and Helsinki, Finland (born in Mozambique in 1968). He has exhibited in various solo and group shows in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, the UK and other countries. He also works as an independent curator (e.g. Camoes Institute of Culture, Lisbon, Baluarte de la Candelaria, Cadiz, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku). Since 2001, Salgado presides over the Vienna International Apartment art association, an independent exhibition platform that creates opportunities for artists to collaborate internationally. Salgado studied sculpture and visual arts in London (Central St. Martin, Chelsea, Slade School of Arts) and graphic design in Lisbon (Antonio Arroyo). From 1989 to 1994, he was the Head of Photography and Printmaking at the Apart Oficina de Arts, Lisbon. The exhibition SMILE / Ways to Measure Time is Salgado’s first solo exhibition in Portugal.
Galeria Diferença
Rua São Filipe Nery 42 C/V, Lisbon, Portugal
Tel. +351 21 383 2193
Open from Tuesday to Friday 2 pm – 7 pm, Saturday 3 pm – 8 pm
Closed on Mondays, Sundays and holidays
Opening on 7 September 2022 from 4 pm to 8 pm. The Exhibition will be opened at 18:30 by H.E. Ms. Satu Suikkari-Kleven, Ambassador of Finland to Portugal
Exhibition catalogue will be available. For any enquiry, please contact via.salgado.silvio@gmail.com.
Supported by:
Taike - The Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Vienna International Apartment Art Association
Embassy of Finland, Lisbon
in situ / ways to measure time
29 April - 20 May 2017
Sílvio Salgado
19 - 20 June 2015
Walt van Beek, Ariel Hassan, Ida Koitila, Jukka Korkeila, Roland Persson, Jussi Niva, Marguerite van Sandick
13 December 2014 - 18 January 2015
Sílvio Salgado
19 June - 8 August 2010
Panagiotis Balomenos, Sabine Jelinek, Jukka Korkeila, Leung Hoi Yat Jonathan, Céline Prestavoine, Walt Van Beek, Tamara Van San
18 December 2009 - 28 February 2010
Michel Couturier, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Korneel Devillé, Jörn Quandt, Philippe Van Wolputte, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou
building dwelling thinking across the horizon line
18 - 31 July 2009
Sílvio Salgado
4 December 2008 - 30 January 2009
Jan Verbruggen
15 May - 20 June 2008
Aglaia Konrad, Willem Oorebeek, Krüger & Pardeller
Welcome to the Kingdom of Belgium. Homage to Marcel B.
22 November - 20 December 2007
Panagiotis Balomenos, Petri Huurinainen, Lukas Schaller, Sílvio Salgado
11 May - 8 June 2007
Panagiotis Balomenos, Aku Korhonen, Nikola Uzunovski
23 November - 21 December 2006
Charlie Birch, Hannaleena Heiska, Midori Mitamura
This is not a Finnish landscape
2 - 21 June 2006
Sílvio Salgado
In This (Our) Country. Art from Poland
25 November - 22 December 2005
Dorota Buczkowska, Pawel Ksiazek, Robert Kusmirowski, Marcin Maciejowski, Marzena Nowak, Jan Simon
26 May - 23 June 2005
Panagiotis Balomenos, Philippine Hoegen, Tiina Laitanen, Hannele & Helena Romppanen, Jürg Schmoll
22 October - 26 November 2004
Päivi Häkkinen, N.I.C.J.O.B., Elin Strand
14 May - 11 June 2004
Anja Behrendt, Colin Guillemet, Sabine Jelinek, Kalle Turakka Purhonen, Tine Thorup
20 November - 12 December 2003
Sílvio Salgado
8 May - 4 June 2003
Laura Cull, Ursula Mayer, Niamh McCann, Elena Nemkova, Anna Nyberg, Johanna Rille
16 October - 16 November 2002
Charlie Birch, Lali Chetwynd, Sabine Jelinek, Paola Junqueira, Doris Krüger, Silvia Reneses, Elin Strand, Marta Traquino, Sylvia Wagner_Weger
25 April - 15 May 2002
Petri Huurinainen, Susi Jirkuff, Suse Krawagna, N.I.C.J.O.B., Marina Seilern, Gerhard Treml
15 November - 14 December 2001
Sílvio Salgado
In Situ (zuerst müssen wir lernen, miteinander zu arbeiten)
5 - 28 July 2019, Mittelhessischer Kultursommer, Hirzenhein & Geder, Hesse, Germany
32 artists from 12 counties incl. Walt van Beek and Silvio Salgado by Vienna International Apartment
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in situ / ways to measure time
29 April - 20 May 2017, room.f.54, Finnish Artists' Studio Foundation, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Sílvio Salgado
What colour has the sky got now?
22 May 2010, SECONDroom/ moorDNOCES Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Martha Traquino
19 December 2008 - 1 March 2009, Museum Baluarte de la Candelaria, Cádiz, Spain
Adel Abidin, Panagiotis Balomenos, Päivi Häkkinen, Minna L. Henriksson, Petri Huurinainen, Kati Immonen, Jukka Korkeila, Harri Pälviranta, Roi Vaara. Curated by Silvio Salgado
16 April - 9 May, 2008, IC - Instituto Camões, Lisbon, Portugal
Adel Abidin, Panagiotis Balomenos, Päivi Häkkinen, Minna L. Henriksson, Petri Huurinainen, Kati Immonen, Jukka Korkeila, Harri Pälviranta, Roi Vaara. Curated by Silvio Salgado
building dwelling thinking across the horizon line - work II
Project in Stilissimo design studio, Brussels, Belgium, 2007
Sílvio Salgado
The landscape within
Project in a private apartment, Lauttasaari, Helsinki, Finland, 2007
Sílvio Salgado
building dwelling thinking across the horizon line
Project in the Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, 2007
Sílvio Salgado
4133 Strokes - 4133 vetoa
Project in a private apartment, Lönnrotinkatu, Helsinki, Finland, 2006
Sílvio Salgado
It Could Be You
20 December 2006 - 7 January 2007, Gallery Nunes, Helsinki, Finland
Jonathan Stiles
Without Boundaries
30 Sept. - 27 Nov. 2005, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art - Turku City Art Museum, Turku, Finland
Panagiotis Balomenos, Pirmin Blum, Karin Frank, Colin Guillemet, Petri Huurinainen, Doris Krüger & Walter Pardeller, Sabine Jelinek, Paola Junqueira, Niamh McCann, Anna Nyberg, Hannele & Helena Romppanen, Unstable Society of Flexible Production: Linus Elmes, Milo Lavén & Elin Strand. Curated by Silvio Salgado
Intermission: without Sibelius
12 January - 13 February, 2005, Sibelius Museum, Turku, Finland
Sílvio Salgado
PILOT International Art Forum
15 - 18 October, 2004, Limehouse Town hall, London, UK
Päivi Häkkinen, nominated by Sílvio Salgado
8 September - 29 October, 2004, Thomas K. Lang Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Sílvio Salgado
4 January - 29 February 2004, Franssintalo Culture Centre, Halikko, Finland
Sílvio Salgado
Aurinkoinen tulevaisuus - Solig Framtid
6 June - 15 July 2004, Westers - Mathildedal - Salo, Finland
Environmental art exhibition with 25 artists
Sílvio Salgado: "Beyond the Museum: Art, Institutions and People"
8 November 2007, in the series of Thursday Lectures at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Sílvio Salgado: "Please come in!"
15 February 2003, Christine König Gallery, Vienna, Austria A discussion on private/public spaces and their relation to the viewer in contemporary art presentation, with the focus on the Vienna International Apartment. In the series of Saturday Lunch Lectures at the Christine König Gallery
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