Inês Coelho da Silva
Born in 1996 in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal | Lives and works between Porto, PT, and London, UK.
Artist and Researcher
Art and Food Researcher and Tutor at The Gramounce.
Inês Coelho da Silva is a Portuguese artist and researcher. Her practice concerns food politics, ecology, textiles, care, botany and craft. Thinking mainly through sculpture and food-making, 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, her visual poems open discussions on local foodscapes, overlooked ecosystems and opportunities for interspecies symbiosis in a shared world.
CURRENT / UPCOMING
Edible Installation and Artist Talk | Jantar Daninho: Roots and Fungi | 26th January 2025 | Venn Canteen | Porto, PT | Book here
Artist Residency co-coordinator | The Gramounce - Food and Art Alternative MA | March 2025 | Basque Culinary Center | San Sebastián, ES
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EDUCATION
Master or Arts in Sculpture | 2022 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art - Sculpture | 2018 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
Alternative Education: Food Cosmogonies (Foundations and Expeditions) | 2023 | The Gramounce | International
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SELECTED PROJECTS
Tutor and In-House Researcher | The Gramounce | 2023 - ongoing | International | Link
Artist Residency Co-cordinator | Alchemical Kitchen | 2024 | Terzo Paesaggio | Milan, IT | Link
Eco-festival Co-production | Ponto d’Orvalho | 2024 | Freixo do Meio, Montemor-o-novo, PT | Link
Workshop Tutor | Landscape Cooking | 2024 | Domaine de Boisbuchet | Lessac, FR | Link
Edible Installation | Ecosystem: the Wetland of my Roots | 2024 | (Gentler) Futures Festival | Lisboa, PT | in collaboration with Kevin Bellò | Link
Artist Talk | Edible landscapes: art and food | 2024 | (Gentler) Futures Festival | Lisboa, PT | Link
Group Exhibition | HYPERTHYME | 2024 | Espacio Gaviota, with The Gramounce | Madrid, ES | Link
Workshop Tutor | Edible Landscape | 2024 | Green Streets of Europe + Centro de Criação Imaginarius | Santa Maria da Feira, PT
Artist Residency | The Gramounce - Food and Art Alternative MA | 2024 | Medialab Matadero + Espacio Gaviota | Madrid, ES
Group Exhibition | SEEDS | 2024 | Galeria da Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa | Lisboa, PT | Link
Kitchen Assistant | Radikal Hospitality event: Il Giardino delle Erbacce | 2024 | Il Circolino del Pane (Panificio Davide Longoni), supported by Terzo Paesaggio, Milan, IT
Artist Residency | The Gramounce - Food and Art Alternative MA | 2024 | La Foresta | Rovereto, IT
Guest Lecturer | Care Society - Across RCA | 2024 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Artist Residency | 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
Artist Residency | The Gramounce - Food and Art Alternative MA | 2023 | Institute for Postnatural Studies | Madrid, ES
Artist Residency | Joya AiR: Arte + Ecología | 2023 | Veléz-Blanco, ES | Link
Artist Residency and Group Exhibition | A Salt Anthology | 2023 | Open Call Jovens Curadorxs | Rua das Gaivotas 6 + Quinta das Relvas | In collaboration with Goethe Institut and Contemporânea | 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
Artist Residency | Female Land Artist Wanted | 2022 | Current Corporate and Bortolomiol | Valdobbiadene, IT
Group Exhibition | PROXY: MA Sculpture Exhibition 2021, Royal College of Art Satellite Event | 2021 | Cromwell Place | London, UK
Group Exhibition | RCA2021 | 2021 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Group Exhibition | Together it Seams | 2021 | Standpoint Gallery | London, UK | Link
Duo Exhibition | Tropeçar não é cair | 2020 | MUSEU, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra | Coimbra, PT | Link
Group Exhibition | So Close | 2020 | Side x Side Contemporary | Washington, USA
Group Exhibition | B#Side Peripheral Memories | 2020 | IoDeposito | Friuli Venezia Giulia, IT
Group Exhibition | MA and other Postgraduates | 2020 | Atkinson Gallery | Somerset, UK
Group Exhibition | Work in Progress | 2020 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Artist Residency | iobject | 2020 | Freud Museum, London, UK
Group Exhibition | The Ego Squared | 2019 | Royal College of Art & Edinburgh College of Art | London and Edinburgh, UK
Society Co-founder | the Fragile Matters Society | 2020 - 2021 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Group Exhibition | Below the Washing Line | 2019 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Group Exhibition | Imodo | 2019 | Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira | Feira, PT
Group Exhibition | Finding a CLICK in a Haystack | 2019 | Centro Comercial de Cedofeita | Porto, PT
Workshop Tutor | The house, the home, the prison, the catharsis: Sculpture exploration with objects of the domestic sphere | 2019 | Museu Municipal de Espinho (FACE) | Espinho, PT
Group Exhibition | Uma nota para ti próprio | 2018 | Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas, 299 | Porto, PT
Group Exhibition | Young Urban Performances Festival | 2018 | Kunsthalle Osnabrück | Osnabrück, DE | Link
Group Exhibition | Projeções 2018 | 2018 | Lugar do Desenho, Fundação Júlio Resende | Gondomar, PT
Group Exhibition | BASE Lx | 2018 | Forte Santo António da Barra | Cascais, PT
Group Exhibition | Ainda | 2018 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
Group Exhibition | HIATO | 2018 | Fórum da Maia | Maia, PT
Group Exhibition | Guimarães noc noc 2018 | 2018 | Guimarães, PT
Group Exhibition | Tubo de Ensaios | 2017 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
Group Exhibition | SIM Parte II | 2017 | CACE Cultural | 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