Catarina Gentil
Born in Cascais in 1998, Catarina’s artworks explore themes that encompass time, memory and place. From domestic and family objects deformed by the passage of time, Catarina moves to work on the rural landscape, using formal expressions such as land art and painting. In her latest work, poetically fusing naturalism and impressionism, the artist links the image of rural houses with the vision of home in memory. Concepts such as community, ephemerality, and sharing are reflected in Catarina’s artworks, which serve as a vehicle to establish a tacit dialogue between the artist and the public.
For Catarina Gentil, art is not only a visualization process, but a way of feeling the world and registering her experience of it along with others, thus, art becomes a space in which the collective experience of the human condition are echoed. Her studies in Fine Arts at the University of Porto, her internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation in Venice, and her participation in different exhibitions and artistic residencies, reiterate and enhance this path, in which the work is reconfigured in time and memory.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Crómatica, Biennial of Young Painters, Ourense, Spain
2022 Ultraterrestrial Phenomenologies, Peniche
2022 National Day of Historic Centers, Palácio das Artes, Oporto
2022 19th Anniversary of the House of Arts Mário Elias, Mértola
2022 Itinerant Space, Lisbon
2022 Patio nº2, Lisbon
2021 Fieldwork: from the possibilities of what is visible, RAMA Studios, Torres Vedras
2021 Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores, Vila Nova de Gaia (restricted list)
2021 Jov’arte, Galeria Municipal Vieira da Silva, Loures (short-listed)
2021 Foz’arte, Forte São João Batista, Oporto (short-listed)
2021 Mostra Up 2021, Oporto
2020 It is what it is, Casa da Associação, Porto
2019 Religar. Artistic Residency: Displacements #02, International Museum of
Contemporary Sculpture, Santo Tirso
2019 Tubo de Ensaios, Faculdade de Belas Artes do Porto
2019 Drawing in Uncertainty, oMuseu, Porto
2018 The Transparent Body, Reitoria of the University, Porto
ART RESIDENCIES
2022 19th anniversary of Casa das Artes Mário Elias, Art is Underground, Mértola
2021 Water as a source of community, Creation grant, RAMA Studios, Torres Vedras
2019 Religar. Artist Residency: Displacements #02, International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Santo Tirso
