About Balcony Modern Artwork Gallery
Since 2017, Balcony Modern Artwork Gallery has develop into a pivotal addition to Lisbon’s vibrant inventive panorama. Nestled within the Alvalade neighborhood throughout the historic Edifício América, the gallery occupies a reworked previous retailer with a beneficiant exhibition house of over 220 sq. meters unfold throughout two thoughtfully designed flooring. This format permits for a dynamic vary of exhibition circuits and immersive inventive experiences, making it a flexible venue for established and rising artists.
The gallery promotes various nationwide and worldwide expertise, offering a platform for artists to have interaction with the broader artwork neighborhood. Its dedication to cultivating inventive development by taking part in distinguished nationwide and worldwide artwork festivals elevates the visibility of its artists and fosters worthwhile networking alternatives.
Along with conventional exhibitions, The Balcony Modern Artwork Gallery is thought for its progressive method to showcasing artwork by a collection of ongoing interdisciplinary tasks. These initiatives usually mix numerous media and inventive expression types, encouraging collaboration and experimentation. By supporting these tasks, the gallery not solely enriches the cultural cloth of Lisbon but additionally reinforces its mission to join artists with a broader viewers and encourage dialogue round up to date artwork.
Represented artists: Aires de Gameiro | Ana Vidigal | Dealmeida Esilva | Hugo Brazão | Mané Pacheco | Nuno Nunes-Ferreira | Rodrigo Oliveira | Rudi Brito | Rui Castanho | Sara & André | Tiago Alexandre
CURRENT EXHIBITION: HAPPILY EVER AFTER BY HUGO BRAZÃO
About Hugo Brazão
Hugo Brazão (b. 1989, Madeira) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. His inventive follow encompasses portray, sculpture, and textiles, specializing in the fiction/actuality paradox and exploring narrative potentialities inside his supplies. Brazão earned the VIA Arts Prize 2018 and the Helen Scott Lidgett Studio Award in 2015. He holds an MA in High-quality Arts from Central Saint Martins (2015) and a BA in Portray from Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisbon (2013).
Current solo exhibitions embody: “Toad on the Moon” (2023, Casa A. Molder Gallery, Lisbon), “Snake in a Cookie Jar” (2023, Voda Seoul Gallery, South Korea), and “What’s for Dinner?” (2022, Balcony Gallery, Lisbon). He has participated in group exhibitions throughout the UK, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, in addition to a number of artwork residencies in Germany, Norway, France, Portugal, and the UK.
Fortunately Ever After
In “Fortunately Ever After,” Hugo Brazão interrogates the connection between optimism, apathy, and the cultural obsession with linear progress. Influenced by Lauren Berlant’s idea of “merciless optimism,” the exhibition challenges the assumption in an final decision, framing it as an untenable fiction that obscures the complexities of lived expertise and enforces poisonous positivity.
Brazão’s small-scale wall sculptures depict imagined narratives, equivalent to a canine in perpetual longing or a bear distracted from a e-book on decision-making, reflecting a fragile collective psychology.
Central to the exhibition is “Fortunately By no means After,” a big set up impressed by the cyclical lunar calendar. In contrast to fairy-tale endings, the moon’s phases characterize a continuing strategy of decline and renewal, selling a story that embraces uncertainty and flux. Via gestures of hope and upkeep, Brazão highlights the stress between cultural beliefs and the realities of unfinished aspirations—what stays when the promise of “fortunately ever after” dissolves into an infinite regress of deferred endings.
