Bio

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

2022 – “Symbiosis” – Museum of Work Michel Giacometti, Setúbal
2021 – “Antonieta Martinho” – Circle Arts
2020 – “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

2023
– “25 Years of Expo98 – from Past to Future” – IPDJ Lisbon Youth Center
– XLI International Painting Competition Castillo de San Fernando – Bolaños De Calatrava (Espanha)
– III International Art Competition Salvador Victoria Albentosa – Teruel (Espanha)
– FOZ ‘ARTE 2023, Porto
– International Exhibition Virtual Capital Culture House Gallery (NEXUS),Madrid
– XVI International Exhibition Virtual Museum MundoArti , Valência
– Cuttoo Art Fair, Madrid
2022
– “Cities of the Future”, Executive Art’s Hotel, Lisbon
– XXII International Biennial Art of Cerveira
2021
– X Coruche Biennial
– XXII Avante Biennial
– Emerging Scene – Dubai (short list)
– X Moita Biennial
– “Black & White” Art Show
– 4ª Biennial International Art Gaia
2020
– Portuguese Emerging Art, of EMERGE – (short list)
2019
– Let me tell about … >>, MAED, Setúbal
– “Discovering the Master” – New Ways, Sardoal
– XXI Biennial – AVANTE
2018
– IX Moita Biennial
– 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 of Modern Art, Gouveia
2014
– Inatel Foundation, Gallery of the Portuguese Sculpture and Painting Association, Lisbon
– «Arte Hoje», SNBA., Lisbon

AWARDS

2023 – 2nd Award, 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 – Coruche Bienal Distinction Routes with Art
– Digital Photography Honorable Mention – Grey Cube Gallery
– 3D Honorable Mention  – Fusion Art
– Painting Honorable Mention  – 2018 – Painting Honorable Mention  – S.N.B.A.
– 3rd Photography Prize – OM
2016 – Painting Honorable Mention – ART-MAP
2014 – Photography Honorable Mention  – OM

ARTISTIC RESIDENCE

2018 -ParkArtes, Lisbon Casino
I’m part of the collective park.arte

PUBLICATIONS

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, expanding the work, I felt the need to have a physical space in which freely, and as an author, I could realize the work, conditioned by the manifestations and contradictions of the artistic field and the desire for internationalization.