Galeria Foco Lisboa Gallery in Lisbon

Arroios · Contemporary programme

Editorial Profile

Galeria Foco Lisboa is an independent contemporary art space in Arroios, a district increasingly associated with emerging cultural initiatives within contemporary art in Lisbon. Its program appears oriented toward experimental and interdisciplinary practices, with an emphasis on presenting emerging and mid-career artists through solo and group exhibitions that privilege installation, painting, photography, and conceptually driven work. Operating within a neighborhood known for its mix of artist studios, alternative venues, and younger galleries, the space participates in a more decentralized and fluid ecosystem than the historically commercial clusters elsewhere in the city, contributing to the broader network of galleries in Lisbon through a locally embedded yet outward-looking curatorial approach.

The gallery’s exhibitions and projects suggest an interest in contemporary artistic research and in formats that encourage dialogue between artists, audiences, and the spatial conditions of exhibition-making itself. Like several younger venues shaping the current Lisbon scene, it seems to balance formal experimentation with accessibility, reflecting the city’s growing role as a point of convergence between Portuguese and international contemporary art practices. Within this context, Arroios has become increasingly relevant as a site for newer initiatives operating alongside more established institutions in Lisbon, and this gallery contributes to that evolving landscape by supporting practices that engage with material, conceptual, and socially inflected modes of production.

Selected Artists

Pauline Guerrier

French

Textile ArtSculptureDrawing
About

A Paris- and Lisbon-based artist trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris who collaborates with weavers, glassblowers, and mosaic makers across the world to create textile works, sculpture, and drawing that confront ancestral craft with ecology, faith, and the natural sciences.

Francisco Trêpa

Portuguese

CeramicsSculpture
About

A Lisbon sculptor who works almost exclusively in glazed ceramics, creating bodies of work that investigate ecological and affective symbioses — pollination, hybridism, plant-animal entanglements — as metaphors for transmutability and the human mark on the Anthropocene.

Gabriel Ribeiro

Brazilian

SculpturePhotographyMixed Media
About

A Rio de Janeiro- and Lisbon-based artist combining sculptural assemblages in blown glass, cast aluminium, and stainless steel with camera-less photographic processes — cyanotype and fire-printed photograms — to probe bodily anatomy, fluid matter, and organic transformation.

Mia Dudek

Polish

PhotographySculptureInstallation
About

A Lisbon-based Polish artist whose practice spans photography, sculpture, and installation, examining the charged relationship between body and brutalist architectural space through concrete, latex, resin, and foam — recurring themes include displacement, intimacy, and inhabitation.

Luísa Salvador

Portuguese

PaintingMixed MediaDrawing
About

A Lisbon artist and researcher with a PhD in Contemporary Art History who produces layered mixed-media works weaving motifs drawn from nature, time, and esoteric knowledge, while also active as founder of the publication Almanaque — Reportório de Arte e Esoterismo.

Bartolomeu Santos

Portuguese

PaintingMixed MediaSculpture
About

A Portuguese artist who graduated from the Lisbon School of Fine Art and builds a personal, symbolic visual language by merging objects, materials, and sensory experience into works rooted in self-related memory and the passage between states.

Selected Exhibitions

Zangbeto: The Night Hunters

Solo show2026

Pauline Guerrier

About

A solo show presenting research from a 2024 residency at the Fondation Zinsou in Benin, translating the Zangbeto and Egungun spiritual guardians of Vodoun tradition into fabric sculptures dyed with natural pigments, straw marquetry, and watercolor drawings.

Textile ArtSculptureDrawing

Reservoir

Solo show2025

Gabriel Ribeiro

About

A solo exhibition treating the gallery as a speculative experimental laboratory, with sculptural networks of tubes, vessels, and porous containers exploring water, failure, and bodily anatomy alongside cyanotype photograms and fire-printed photographic works.

SculptureMixed MediaPhotography

Retomar o passo

Solo show2025

Luísa Salvador

About

Salvador's first solo at the gallery, presenting large mixed-media canvases evoking cartographic and geological imagery alongside a floor-level sequence of handwritten phrases developed over a hundred-day journal practice, weaving landscape, memory, and inscription.

PaintingMixed MediaDrawing

Flor Cadáver

Solo show2024

Francisco Trêpa

About

Trêpa's first solo at the gallery, centering on the Rafflesia — a parasitic plant that mimics decay to attract pollinators — as the departure point for a glazed ceramic universe populated by pollinators, keepers, killers, and drone figures examining ecological crisis and the fragility of planetary life.

SculptureCeramics

Motobody.zip

Group show2023

Diana Barbosa Gil, Francisco Narciso, Francisco Trêpa, Gabriel Ribeiro, Manon Harrois, Manuel Tainha, Mia Dudek, Nádia Duvall, Pauline Guerrier, Tomás Jones

About

A curated group exhibition transforming the gallery's former car showroom into a psychosomatic exploration of the body, with ten artists working across sculpture, textile, video, and photography to examine bodily experience, corporeal awareness, and the porous boundary between the physical and the mental.

InstallationMixed MediaCurated Group Show

Inside Out

Solo show2023

Mia Dudek

About

A solo exhibition combining large-scale oil paintings depicting brutalist residential interiors, sculptural benches in concrete and resin incorporating mushroom growth, and photographic works, probing the charged relationship between architectural space, domestic inhabitation, and the body.

PaintingSculpturePhotography

Feelers

Solo show2020

Mia Dudek

About

Dudek's first solo at Galeria Foco, presenting photographic series of Lisbon housing structures alongside freestanding objects in concrete, silicone, and latex, examining the tension between the advancing brutalism of urban space and the yielding, fluid human body.

PhotographySculptureInstallation

Gallery Overview

Galeria Foco Lisboa
City
Lisbon
Area
Arroios
Address
R. Antero de Quental 55A, 1150-041 Lisboa, Portugal
Type
Gallery
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