Galeria Bruno Múrias Gallery in Lisbon

Madragoa · Contemporary programme

Editorial Profile

Galeria Bruno Múrias is a Lisbon-based contemporary art gallery operating from Madragoa, with a program that positions itself between emerging and mid-career practices, often emphasizing conceptual rigor and dialogue across media. Founded by Bruno Múrias, the gallery has developed a curatorial identity attentive to painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and lens-based or research-driven practices, presenting both Portuguese and international artists. Its exhibition program has featured artists such as André Romão, Carla Filipe, Luís Lázaro Matos, and Sara Bichão, reflecting an interest in practices that move between narrative, material experimentation, and critical inquiry. Within the broader context of contemporary art in Lisbon, the gallery contributes to a decentralized ecosystem in which commercial spaces increasingly overlap with curatorial and discursive functions, particularly in neighborhoods such as Madragoa and nearby cultural corridors.

The gallery’s activity extends beyond local exhibition-making through participation in international art fairs and collaborations that connect Lisbon’s scene to wider European and global networks. Its programming often privileges solo and tightly framed thematic exhibitions, allowing individual artistic vocabularies to unfold with clarity while maintaining continuity across the program. In relation to other galleries in Lisbon, this space stands out for a measured, research-oriented approach rather than a purely market-driven profile. Its location also places it within reach of key institutions in Lisbon, where institutional and independent initiatives intersect, reinforcing the role of the area as an active node within the city’s contemporary art landscape.

Selected Artists

António Júlio Duarte

Portuguese

Photography
About

A photographer whose work follows restless urban encounters, uneasy bodies, animals, and improvised situations, using the camera to register tension, disquiet, and the strange theatricality of everyday life.

Bruno Cidra

Portuguese

SculptureDrawing
About

An artist whose sculptures synthesize drawing and three-dimensional form, often combining iron, bronze, or paper to explore tensions between weight and fragility, resistance and instability.

Isabel Simões

Portuguese

PaintingDrawing
About

A painter whose work transforms everyday spaces, objects, light, and bodily perception into suspended compositions, examining how images shift between material presence and sensory ambiguity.

Jorge Queiroz

Portuguese

PaintingDrawingPrintmaking
About

An artist known for paintings and works on paper that create dreamlike, unstable worlds, where figures, stains, gestures, and fragmented narratives resist fixed interpretation.

Marcelo Cidade

Brazilian

SculptureInstallationSite-Specific
About

An artist whose practice questions modernist architecture, public space, and social inequality by displacing urban materials, barriers, and signs into sculptural and installation-based situations.

Pablo Accinelli

Argentine

SculptureDrawingInstallation
About

An artist who uses geometry, objects, tools, and analytical systems to investigate perception, function, order, and the shifting boundary between the literal and the metaphorical.

Ricardo Jacinto

Portuguese

Sound ArtInstallationSculpture
About

A musician, visual artist, and architect whose installations explore relationships between sound, space, territory, and bodily perception through sculptural environments and acoustic systems.

Vera Mota

Portuguese

PerformanceSculptureDrawing
About

An artist whose practice uses the body as a generative method, translating gesture, material resistance, and corporeal politics into sculpture, drawing, and performance-based forms.

Selected Exhibitions

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Group show2025

António Júlio Duarte, Marcelo Cidade, Marco Franco, Pablo Accinelli, Paulo Lisboa, Vera Mota

About

A group exhibition considering technological mediation, sensory perception, virtuality, and corporeal weight, assembling photography, monotypes, drawings, sculptural objects, and bronze works around instability, signals, and transformed spatial codes.

Curated Group ShowDrawingSculpture

How to make birds cease their song

Solo show2025

Paulo Lisboa

About

A solo exhibition of photodegraded black flannel works, using light, shadow, subtraction, and icon-like presentation to question pictorial perception, material decay, and the unstable emergence of symbolic images.

PaintingMixed MediaConceptual Art

Live Angle

Solo show2025

Marco Franco

About

Marco Franco’s second exhibition at the gallery focused on folded metal sculptures, linking geometry, drawing, sound memory, and material tension through triangular forms in steel and oxidized copper.

SculptureDrawingMixed Media

Destino común

Solo show2024

Pablo Accinelli

About

A solo exhibition built from everyday objects, replicas, padlocks, umbrellas, containers, and drawings, reflecting on use, movement, precarious material culture, and unstable hierarchies between things.

SculptureInstallationDrawing

Panorama

Solo show2024

Jorge Queiroz

About

A presentation of paintings, drawings, and small mixed-media objects in which spectral portals, knots, traces, and fragmented references create unstable narrative passages between abstraction, figuration, and mental landscapes.

PaintingDrawingMixed Media

HEAVY METAL

Solo show2024

Henrique Pavão

About

An installation centered on iron meteorites, theremin sound, transport cases, and symbolic imagery, connecting metallurgy, cosmic matter, accident, music history, and ritual ideas of transformation and return.

InstallationSound ArtSculpture

PERFORMING MATTERS

Solo show2024

Vera Mota

About

A solo exhibition treating sculpture as an encounter between body and matter, using marble, basalt fibre, silicone, aluminium, and steel to examine gesture, fatigue, resistance, and performative material behavior.

SculpturePerformanceInstallation

One Second Plan

Solo show2024

Teresa Murta

About

Teresa Murta’s first exhibition at the gallery presented paintings in varied formats, exploring abstraction, layered images, restless gestures, suspended perception, and the unresolved relationship between composition and disappearance.

Painting

Gallery Overview

Galeria Bruno Múrias
City
Lisbon
Area
Madragoa
Address
Rua dos Navegantes 53A, 1200-730 Lisboa, Portugal
Type
Gallery
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