Antonieta Martinho
My name is Antonieta Martinho.
I was born in Kalima, then Kingdom of Belgium.
After a career in science I joined the Painting course at FBAUL, fr
om 2009 to 2014 at the same time I attended the Practical Painting Course at SNBA, 2012 to 2014.
Member of the governance of SNBA-Biennium 2015/16.
I live and work in Lisbon. I dedicate myself exclusively to art since my academic artistic formation, in 2009.
My first individual exhibition was in 2016, assuming a choice, in which the abstract component has its own meaning in the language I use.
INDIVIDUAL EXIBITIONS
2025/26 – INFINITUDE – Maritime Museum King D.Carlos, Cascais
2024/25 – “MEDUSA-DO-TEJO” – ATRIUM Building, OEIRAS
2022/23 – “Symbiosis” – Museum of Work Michel Giacometti, Setúbal
2021 – “Antonieta Martinho” – Circle Arts
2020/21 – “BEYOND THE PLASTIC” – Casino Lisbon
2020 – “THE LINE WALK” – Municipal Library of Setúbal
2019 – “CHANGING TRANSPARENCY” – DGAJ, Lisbon
2019 – “STILLNESS…”, Gallery of Modern Art, S.N.B.A., Lisbon
2018 – “recoding-recodificar”, FMP, Oeiras
2017- “CHANGING DIALOG” – Lisbon Municipal Chamber
2016 – “deconstruction” Gallery of Modern Art, S.N.B.A., Lisbon
COLLECTIVE EXIBITIONS - Selection
2025
– PESTANA EXHIBITION – Pestana Cidadela Cascais
– ART BEAT FAIR – Cordoaria Nacional, Lisboa
– FOZ’ARTE 2025, O’Porto
– BIALE, Estremoz
2024
– FOZ’ARTE 2024, O’Porto
– Exhibition at the OASIS Room, by ETHICAL ASSEMBLY, in the Beato Innovation District
– “PORTALEGRE 24”
– “MIRRORS OF THE FEMININE” Amilak, Lisbon
2023
– “25 Years of Expo98 – from Past to Future” – IPDJ Lisbon
– XLI Castillo de San Fernando International Painting Competition – Spain
– III Salvador Victoria Albentosa International Art Competition – Spain
– FOZ ‘ARTE 2023, O’Porto
– International Virtual Exhibition Capital Culture House Gallery – Madrid
– XVI International Virtual Exhibition Museum MundoArti , Valência
– Cuttoo Art Fair, Madrid
2022
– “Cities of the Future”, Hotel Executive VIP ART’S, Lisbon
– XXII International Art Biennial of Cerveira
2021
– X Coruche Biennial
– XXII AVANTE Biennial
– Emerging Scene, Dubai (short list)
– X Moita Painting Biennial
– “Black and White” Art Show
– 4th Gaia International Art Biennial
2020
– Portuguese Emerging Art, by EMERGE – (short list)
2019
– Let me tell about …, MAED of the District of Setúbal
– “Discovering the Master” – Novos Caminhos, Sardoal
– XXI Biennial – AVANTE
2018
– IX Biennial Moita
2016
– ART-MAP, Ponte de Lima
– Bocage, Seen and Interpreted by Contemporary Art, Galeria do 11, Setúbal
– X Biennial “Salão das Artes”, Vidigueira
2015
– 6th edition of the Abel Manta Painting Prize, Municipal Museum, Gouveia
2014
– Inatel Foundation, Lisbon
– «Arte Hoje», SNBA, Lisbon
AWARDS
2023 – 2nd Prize, Sculptor Irene Vilar – Foz Arte – Porto
– Green Art Merit Award – Grey Cube Gallery
2022 – Abstract Art Merit Award – Grey Cube Gallery
– Abstract Art Special Recognition LightSpace Time
2021 – 1st Coruche Biennial Prize Percursos com Arte
– Honorable Mention Digital Photography – Art Room Gallery
– Honorable Mention 3D – Fusion Art
– Honorable Mention Painting – Grey Cube Gallery
2018 – Honorable Mention Painting – S.N.B.A.
– 3rd Photography Prize – OM
2016 – Honorable Mention Prize – ART-MAP
2014 – Honorable Mention Photography – OM
ARTISTIC RESIDENCE / ART FAIRS
2025 – ArtBeat Fair – National Cordoaria, West Pantheon – Lisbon
2018 -ParkArtes, Lisbon Casino
I’m part of the collective park.arte
PUBLICATIONS/PARTNERSHIPS
2024 – Live Drawing (Amilak and Park-Arte)
– Mirrors of the Feminine Exhibition Commemorating Women’s Day (Amilak and Park-Arte)
2022 – We Must Take Action – XXII Biennial of Cerveira
2021 – Breathing Art with Sustainability – Biennial of Coruche
2020 – PEA 2020
2016 – Art Exhibition, moving curatorial project
COLLETIONS
Abel Manta Museum; C.P. Refugees; Lisbon City Council; Marquês de Pombal Foundation; DGAJ; Lisbon Casino; Museum of Work Michel Giacometti; UFAFDM
Private – Spain, Angola and Portugal
WHY
Anyone who visits the Site probably arrived via a search engine or out of interest in one of the works presented and looking to find out more about them, as I intend for each work to be an expression of the conscious and unconscious self of what I create.
After a career in the sciences, the opportunity arose to begin training in fine arts by attending art schools, developing the technical content and theoretical approaches necessary to pursue an artistic career.
In 2014, SNBA created the Experimental Atelier and from that year on, I began to dedicate myself to researching “things”, investigating the plasticity of materials and materials in the 21st century, I began to acquire new ideas and concepts regarding the construction of the contemporary image.
In my search, I found new support material, almost as if it were a new beginning of what had been apprehended so far. By understanding and experimenting with its characteristics (physical and chemical), I created and explored the relationship between the main elements (color, shape and void in 2D form.
The great malleability of the material allowed, through cutting and thermofusion, to create 3D pieces. The preliminary conception of the idea and the desig evolve throughout the execution of the pieces. Later I used PET material (material used in our daily lives) to create new works.As a visual artist, the constant need to innovate and create led me to use various supports, different painting techniques and materials that allowed me to recreate and renew based on acquired experiences. The use of technology developed my aesthetic and sometimes poetic conception, to affirm a plastic scope of my own in the manifestation of what I perceive of the world.
Over time I felt the need to acquire an arts space in which, freely, and as an author, I could carry out larger works and simultaneously develop other artistic activities. In a contemporary way of being, I tried to combine a studio/workshop as a space for research and creation. Presently and in the future, I seek to bring together people with common interests, hold workshops, exhibitions and establish partnerships and original solutions with a view to expanding the artistic horizons of everyone involved in an attempt to progress the artistic-cultural process.