PORTO.- Galeria Municipal do Porto announces its current programme: solo exhibitions by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Vivian Caccuri and Rita Caldo.

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha: Surface Disorder
October 26, 2024–February 16, 2025
Curated by João Laia

Surface Disorder is the first large-scale solo exhibition by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (b. 1979, Porto), whose practice unfolds at the intersection of sound, installation, performance and moving image. Presented in the GMP’s ground floor, Surface Disorder shapeshifts the space into an immersive AI-controlled environment defined by light, sound and sculptural elements. The operatic setting addresses contemporary tensions arising from the relationship between humans and machines, the ongoing ecological collapse and the ubiquity of capital materialising as apocalyptic energy flows.

Vivian Caccuri: Electric Jungle Fever
October 26, 2024–February 23, 2025
Curated by Bernardo de Souza

Moving between tropical forests and urban jungles, Vivian Caccuri’s (b. 1986, São Paulo) work builds ethereal and tangible sonic landscapes, fostering a transtemporal detour projecting overlapping historical timeframes. The series of existing and newly produced work highlight the aesthetic and political research Caccuri developed for over a decade: sound as a central element of life, whether as a form of communication between species, or as a language, like music, an artistic manifestation that mobilises humanity through ritual and hedonistic expressions.

Electric Jungle Fever is the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition in Portugal.

Rita Caldo: As in Heaven, So On Earth
October 26, 2024–March 2, 2025
Curated by Patrícia Coelho

Drawing on the work of psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud and Donald Winnicott, Rita Caldo (b. 1998, Porto) explores how the alliance of storytelling, space design and playful figuration may be employed to create imaginary places. Caldo’s handmade sculptural compositions inhabit maze-like microcosm to generate a metamorphic dreamlike space.

As in Heaven, so on Earth is the inaugural project of GMP’s new exhibition room dedicated to artists working in Porto.