Art - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

João Hogan Grant, Berlin. Work by Daniel Barroca,
given its public presentation in August, 2008.
of the protocol established
with the aforementioned Berlin
institution, was André Sousa.
In August 2008, an exhibition
was held at the Künstlerhaus
Bethanien of the works produced
by the previous award-winner,
Daniel Barroca. This exhibition
received fulsome praise and
was accompanied by a catalogue,
financed by the Foundation, in
partnership with the Instituto Camões.
The Casa de Velázquez Grant – 4th year
Launched in 2005, this grant provides
for a six-month artistic creativity
internship at the Casa de Velázquez
in Madrid. Out of a total of
23 applications, João Tengarrinha
was unanimously selected both
for the quality of his work and
the solid and impressive nature
of his artistic career so far.
Artistic residency grants
in New York – 4th year
In partnership with flad, the
agreement was continued with
two American institutions of great
international prestige in the field
of the visual arts – iScp (International
Studio and Curatorial Program) and Location One, both in New York. The objective of these
artistic residency grants is to enable the selected artists to develop the specific projects that they
presented in their application and to exhibit them publicly, helping them to promote their work
on the international art circuits. In 2008, João Pedro Vale was awarded the six-month grant
for iScp and André Gonçalves the five-month grant for Location One.
Artistic residency grants at acme – 1st year
In view of the success enjoyed by the artistic residencies programme, as a privileged
way of contributing to the development of innovative and experimental projects and to the
internationalisation and dissemination of the work of our artists, the Department has broadened
the range of host institutions to include acme (acme Housing Association Limited) in London.
The Jury assessing the work of the applicants included the director of acme and representatives
from the Foundation’s UK Branch. Margarida Gouveia was the artist who won this award
for the very first time.
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Annual Report 2008