Inês Coelho da Silva | Born in 1996 in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal | Lives and works between Porto, PT, and London, UK.
MA in Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
In-House Researcher, Press Coordinator and Residency Support at The Gramounce’s Food and Art Alternative MA.
Food Cosmogonies: Foundations and Expeditions, The Gramounce, Online course.
BA in Fine Arts - Sculpture, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Porto, PT.
Inês is a Portuguese artist and researcher based in London/Porto. Thinking mainly through sculpture, ceramics, and food-making, Inês engages with local ingredients, ethically sourced textiles, and more-than-human collaborations in slow and gentle configurations that oppose capitalist velocity. In recent works, she identifies the kitchen table as a multi-layered topos for reflecting upon shared traditions, identities and emotions, while thinking about the simultaneous acts of eating and being eaten as forms of care. Between crockery and tablecloths, collections of intimate details and visual poems open discussions on local foodscapes, overlooked ecosystems and opportunities for symbiosis in a shared world.
CURRENT / UPCOMING
Tutor of Edible Landscape workshop | April 2024 | Green Streets of Europe + Centro de Criação Imaginarius | Santa Maria da Feira, PT
SEEDS Group Exhibition | May 2024 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, PT
AiR The Gramounce - Food and Art Alternative MA | June 2024 | Medialab Matadero + Espacio Gaviota | Madrid, ES
Tutor of Landscape Cooking workshop | August 2024 | Domaine de Boisbuchet | Lessac, FR | Link
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ARTIST RESIDENCIES
AiR The Gramounce - Food and Art Alternative MA | 2024 | La Foresta | Rovereto, IT
SEEDS Project - Means for a Sustainable Art Practice | 2023/2024 | Quinta das Relvas and Oficinas do Convento, PT, Chorus, GR, and Rural Contemporánea, ES | Link
AiR The Gramounce - Food and Art Alternative MA | 2023 | Institute for Postnatural Studies | Madrid, ES
Joya AiR: Arte + Ecología | 2023 | Veléz-Blanco, ES | Link
A Salt Anthology | 2023 | Open Call Jovens Curadorxs | Rua das Gaivotas 6 + Quinta das Relvas | In collaboration with Goethe Institut and Contemporanea | Albergaria-a-velha + Lisboa, PT
Culinary Research: Bodies of Water | 2023 | Nature Design Camp | In collaboration with UNESCO Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal | Kulturraum Burgruine Blumenegg, AT | Link
Female Land Artist Wanted | 2022 | Current Corporate and Bortolomiol | Valdobbiadene, IT
B#Side Peripheral Memories | 2020 | IoDeposito | Friuli Venezia Giulia, IT
iobject | 2020 | Freud Museum, London, UK
10 Artiste Selezionate - Female Land Artist Wanted 2019 | 2019 | Treviso, IT
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
Culinary Research: Bodies of Water | 2023 | Nature Design Camp | Kulturraum Burgruine Blumenegg, AT | Link
PROXY: MA Sculpture Exhibition 2021, Royal College of Art Satellite Event | 2021 | Cromwell Place | London, UK
RCA2021 | 2021 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Together it Seams | 2021 | Standpoint Gallery | London, UK | Link
Tropeçar não é cair | 2020 | MUSEU, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra | Coimbra, PT | Link
So Close | 2020 | Side x Side Contemporary | Washington, USA
MA and other Postgraduates | 2020 | Atkinson Gallery | Somerset, UK
Work in Progress | 2020 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Below the Washing Line | 2019 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Imodo | 2019 | Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira | Feira, PT
Finding a CLICK in a Haystack | 2019 | Centro Comercial de Cedofeita | Porto, PT
Exposição de Vidro e sobre Vidro | 2019 | Palacete Santiago, Museu de Alberto Sampaio | Guimarães, PT
Uma nota para ti próprio | 2018 | Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas, 299 | Porto, PT
Young Urban Performances Festival | 2018 | Kunsthalle Osnabrück | Osnabrück, DE | Link
Projeções 2018 | 2018 | Lugar do Desenho, Fundação Júlio Resende | Gondomar, PT
BASE Lx | 2018 | Forte Santo António da Barra | Cascais, PT
Ainda | 2018 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
Desenhar na incerteza — Do Processo ao Projeto | 2018 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
HIATO | 2018 | Fórum da Maia | Maia, PT
Sal | 2018 | Guimarães noc noc 2018 | Guimarães, PT
Objetos têxteis | 2018 | Escola Artística Soares dos Reis | Porto, PT
Sobre o Estado do Tempo | 2018 | Galeria Geraldes da Silva, Porto, PT
Tubo de Ensaios | 2017 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
SIM Parte II | 2017 | CACE Cultural | Porto, PT
Imagens do Corpo Interior | 2016 | Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
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PUBLICATIONS
A Salt Anthology, interview with Kevin Bellò by Maria Kruglyak | Ed. 04-05-06 /2023 | Contemporânea, PT | Link
U+ZINE 4, Food | 2021 | Plurality University Network, FR | Link
Portuguese Emerging Art 2020 Green Edition | 2020 | Emerge AC, PT
Issue 1 - The Studio | May 2020 | Haus_a_rest, UK
Magazine Archive | 2020 | Leap, PT Link
IMODO” três artistas feirenses da década de 90 partilham a terra natal e a paixão pela arte | 2019 | Diário da Feira, PT
Universo da Escultura: Inês Coelho da Silva | March 2019 | Andromeda, PT | Link
ALT CULTURAL - Portugal Emerging & Independent Arts | January 2019 | L8NDSCAPES, FR | Link
S/CISMO, 70th anniversary of TUP | December 2018 | Teatro Universitário do Porto, PT | Link
Issue 6 - Interior | October 2018 | L8NDSCAPES, FR | Link
Issue 2 - CACE SIM FAZEM, CACE SIM MARÇO | March 2017 | Independent art magazine SIM, PT
Issue 1 - A revista não é amarela e não tem cor | March 2016 | Independent art magazine NÃO, PT
Issue 1 - Casca | December 2015 | Independent art magazine SIM, PT
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COLLABORATIONS
Kitchen Assistant of Radikal Hospitality event: Il Giardino delle Erbacce | 2024 | Il Circolino del Pane (Panificio Davide Longoni), supported by Terzo Paesaggio, Milan, IT
Communications and Archive Associate | 2023 | The Gramounce | Link
Collaborative work at The Ego Squared Exhibition | 2019 | Royal College of Art & Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Workshop The house, the home, the prison, the catharsis: Sculpture exploration with objects of the domestic sphere | 2019 | Museu Municipal de Espinho (FACE) | Espinho, PT
Alt | 2018 | Founder and artistic director
Illustrations for A Vida de X | 2016 | Miguel Ângelo doublebass | Link
Co-Curator of the group exhibition Metrónomo | 2015 | Tube station of S. Bento | Porto, PT