We here at Hiive Lisbon and ArtRoom invite you to join us on March 14th to the opening of Lisboa and Lonely, a group show consisting of 8 local artists, each presenting 2 pieces exploring the topic of lonliness in the media of their choice. The artist lineup consists of artists who were born and artists who came here much later in life.
Paulo Albuquerque (Rio de Janeiro, 1988) is an artist, graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. His works are mostly paintings, illustrations and murals, where he presents dynamic compositions developed from different elements, colors and textures that interconnect and tell stories. Inspired by human relationships, social habits, spaces and objects, his work is expressed through metaphors of his experiences and his daily life. “I just try to expose my view of the world and society, some personal concerns and thoughts. My work starts from what I observe and what I absorb. From there, I try to create atmospheres and try to tell stories.”
Originally from Venice, California, Sam has been living and working in Lisboa for the past 10 years. Self-taught and ever evolving stylistically, his approach is unique to himself. For the past several years, his focus has been on painting (oil on wood and panel) snapshots from ordinary life in both Lisboa and Venice, with many of his reference photos being taken directly out of his driver's side window. Light, shadows, saturated colors and the juxtaposition of leafy nature within an urban landscape tickle his fancy. Sam has been building his own frames for several years and customizes each one to compliment the tone of the painting.
Ike Ferreira (born 1982, Sao Paulo, Brazil). Enrolled in Architecture and Urbanism at FAAP (São Paulo, Brazil) in 2002 and was awarded the first place in a group competition representing the university for the 6th International School Competition of the 6th. International Architecture Biennial at São Paulo in 2005. In 2006 he moved to Brisbane, Australia to deepen his knowledge on such fields of Photography and Architecture at Queensland University of Technology. Having graduated in 2008 at Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, he worked with architecture until 2015, having worked among the biggest architectural companies in the world. In the pursuit of his passion for art he then decided to make it his main activity since 2016. When he moved from Sao Paulo to Lisbon. In his work, the relations between the human being and the space in which they inhabit are constantly represented by visual and non-visual structures often imposed by society, culture, politics and the individual behaviour. It's always about an image of an imaginary space created by ourselves and art is what that image represent to each of us.
Giulia Giu is a photographer and a visual artist. With a background in the film and music industry and as a news reporter, she likes to stage the reality as she observed reality often goes beyond fiction. Thus through a whimsical universe, her work documents and questions the absurd social themes of our modern societies.
Mami Pereira is a Lisbon-based slow writer and fast thinker. She is also an epicurean traveler, having spent twenty winters in the tropics, which she chronicled in Portuguese newspapers. She is responsible for three books, several Lisbon city guides, a monograph on the relations between Portuguese Cinema and Political Propaganda as well as a photography project about old Portuguese shops called "Arqueolojista." She holds a master's degree in Art History focusing on Medieval Iconography, an interest she enjoys enthusiastically. Her current main passion is Classical Music History, with her ultimate goal being to become Bernstein in skirts. Lisbon has always been her great muse, despite years of touristification. She is now in the process of reconnecting with the city but exploring her inspiration through mediums of art
Inês Prats (Lisbon, 1988), holds a degree in fine arts from ESAD Caldas da Rainha. After numerous travels, a year of art curating master's studies, and some roles as an art director, she discovered her expressive outlet through ceramics. While living in Argentina, she studied for three years under sculptor and visual artist Veronica Funes. It was there that "Pratos da Prats" was born, her full-time project and brand since 2017. The underlying theme of her work is Memory, materializing the past into today's pieces, and creating objects inspired by traditional embroidery patterns. Inês's portfolio is a fusion of distinctive collaborations between client aesthetics with her artistic vision.She has been crafting exclusive capsule collections for both private and public spaces, as well as pieces showcased in art exhibitions. Her contribution to this exhibit is meant to explore how we are losing our identity these days, and how her home is changing from a tiled wonderland to a less recognizable cold shape with no obvious meaning, and the impact on this shift has on people.
Originating from the north east of the United States, Brian J Strout is now found hunkered down in Lisbon. After departing from pursuing a degree in Art Education, he spent the greater part of two decades as a tradesmen based out of Boston’s working class neighborhood, Roxbury. Brian can now be found distributing art and poetry, left shyly at bars and galleries for strangers, as he tries to tackle his longing for community and expression, while still at odds with modern day social structures and capitalism. Whether shared, or stowed away in his family’s basement, his pieces tend to revolve around his personal relationships and ongoing quiet dances with mental health.
Hana Tischler is a figurative painter who works across various mediums such as acrylic, oil on canvas and charcoal on paper. Born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1988, she studied and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts after which she worked for a couple of years as an art and art history teacher. In 2016, she moved to Portugal to pursue her career as an artist. Hana’s love for painting women from different cultural backgrounds only grew in her new living environment, and her work is about exploring femininity, diversity, as well as sensuality, beauty and confidence. She has had several solo and group exhibitions around Europe and is living and working in Lisbon as a part of the Mitó Creative Site studio and artist collective. In 2022 she won the biggest global drawing and fashion illustration awards (FIDA).