The same gesture, brought indoors. In museums and galleries the practice of subtraction turns on doors, billboards, vehicles and gallery walls themselves — each exhibition a temporary excavation site, each city another layer of the record.
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Two decades of shows
The record opens with a first solo in Lisbon in December 2006 and the 2009 London show that named the signature carving method. From there it widens: institutional solos across Brazil, a city-scale takeover in Hong Kong, a first Beijing museum solo at CAFA, and large-scale institutional shows in Paris and Los Angeles.
The current museum run — MAAT Lisbon, MIMA Brussels, MUCA Munich, the Ulsan Art Museum — sits with the signature works. This page holds the depth behind it: the landmark exhibitions of the first two decades and the steady gallery circuit that ran alongside them.
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Landmark exhibitions
Zoom ⤢Imprint — CAFA Beijing
CAFA Art Museum · Beijing · 2017
Zoom ⤢Incisão — 54 Guarani Doors
Caixa Cultural · Curitiba 2014 · Recife 2015 · Brasília 2019
Zoom ⤢Debris — Hong Kong
HOCA Foundation · Pier 4 · 2016
Zoom ⤢Fragments Urbains
Le Centquatre-Paris · 2018
Zoom ⤢Annihilation — Los Angeles
Over the Influence · 2018
Zoom ⤢Selected Editions — MUDE
MUDE — Museu do Design · Lisbon · 202503
Imprint — inside CAFA
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Incisão — three Brazilian editions
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Debris — the Hong Kong takeover
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Fragments Urbains — Le Centquatre
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Annihilation — Los Angeles
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Museums and the gallery circuit
Zoom ⤢Haze
Contemporary Arts Center · Cincinnati · 2020
Zoom ⤢Diafragma
Galeria Vera Cortês · Lisbon · 2024
Zoom ⤢Alquimia
Usina Luis Maluf · São Paulo · 2023
Zoom ⤢Fractal
Delimbo Gallery · Seville · 2022
Zoom ⤢Momentum
Danysz Gallery · Paris · 2020
Zoom ⤢Dissonance
Lazarides Gallery · London · 2015
Zoom ⤢Vestiges
Magda Danysz Gallery · Paris · 2014
Zoom ⤢Entropy
Magda Danysz Gallery · Paris · 2012
Zoom ⤢Devoid
Lazarides Gallery · London · 201209
Exhibitions — a selected chronology
2006First solo — Building 3 Steps, Part I, Galeria Promontório Arquitectos, Lisbon (Vera Cortês Art Agency).
2008International breakthrough — carved portraits at Banksy's Cans Festival, London.
2009Scratching the Surface, Lazarides, London — the show that named the signature carving method.
2012Entropy at Magda Danysz, Paris · Devoid at Lazarides, London.
2014Vestiges, Magda Danysz, Paris · Incisão opens at CAIXA Cultural Curitiba.
2015Dissonance, Lazarides, London · Incisão travels to CAIXA Cultural Recife.
2016Debris — city-scale Hong Kong takeover with the HOCA Foundation.
2017Imprint — first Beijing museum solo at the CAFA Art Museum · Debris / Destroços at the Macau Contemporary Art Center.
2018Fragments Urbains at Le Centquatre-Paris · Annihilation — first US gallery solo, Over the Influence, Los Angeles.
2019Incisão closes its cycle at CAIXA Cultural Brasília.
2020Haze at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati · Momentum at Danysz, Paris.
2022–25The museum run — Prisma (MAAT), Multitude (MIMA), Strata (MUCA), Graphium (Ulsan) · Selected Editions 2008–2024 at MUDE, Lisbon.
2026INTERVAL — the new 'Non-Places' body of work at Danysz Gallery, Paris (22 May – 20 Jun) · the official portrait of President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa enters the Museu da Presidência (4 Mar), the first non-painting in the Galeria dos Retratos.
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Films
▶filmImprint — CAFA Beijing
The first Beijing museum solo, filmed by NOWNESS · 2017
▶filmAnnihilation — Los Angeles
First US gallery solo · Over the Influence · 201811
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