ROOTS 2025 > Guest Artist > Amadeo Carvalho (Cape Verde) Amadeo Carvalho (b. 1985, São Vicente, Cape Verde) is a contemporary visual artist who works across painting, poetry, and photography.…
ROOTS 2025 > Guest Artist > Marilú Mmaapengo Námoda (Mozambique) Marilú Mmaapengo Námoda is a visionary artist, healer, and post-activist who engages with the politics of birthing other futures. His…
ROOTS 2025 > Guest Artist > Sara Baga (Portugal) Sara Baga lives in Portugal and builds her work from her poetic and symbolic view of the world, keeping human ecology…
ROOTS 2025 > Guest Artist > Modou Dieng Yacine (Senegal) Modou Dieng Yacine is a contemporary African visual artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Dieng Yacine has spent the last 20…
ROOTS 2025 > Co-curator > Francisco Vidal (Portugal / Angola) Born in Lisbon in 1978, the son of a Cape Verdean mother and Angolan father, Francisco Vidal has been exploring…
The ROOTS 2025 artist residency brings together artists from Portugal, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Senegal, inviting them to reflect on roots as displacement, uprooting, and transformation, and the multiple layers…
Academias MIL were created with the aim of supporting those taking their first steps in the music industry. Aimed at emerging artists and professionals at the beginning of their careers…
ARTURb 2025 > Guest artist > Patrícia Mariano (PT) Patrícia Mariano (b.1988) is a Portuguese painter whose art can be found in various galleries and murals. She is a self-taught…
ARTURb 2025 > Guest artist > Moami (PT) MOA-MI31, a Graffiti writer and Streetartist, began her journey in Graffiti art in 2004 with "SUPER FUNK STYLE" and continues to do…
ARTURb 2025 > Guest artist > Kiã (PT) Carlos Stock, artistically known as Kiã, is an emerging artist on the urban art scene in Portugal. His artistic journey gained momentum…