Ana Vieira / Works





Ana Vieira, O Desenho da Menina a Fugir do seu Suporte, 2014. Multimedia installation consisting of three digital video projections, without sound and on loop. 250 x 630 x 770 cm. Variable dimensions








Ana Vieira, O Desenho da Menina a Fugir do seu Suporte, 2014. Multimedia installation consisting of three digital video projections, without sound and on loop. 250 x 630 x 770 cm. Variable dimensions
Ana Vieira, Ana Vieira: Cadernos de Montagem, 2024-2025. Exhibition view at Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira, Portugal
Ana Vieira, Ana Vieira: Cadernos de Montagem, 2024-2025. Exhibition view at Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira, Portugal
Ana Vieira, Ana Vieira: Cadernos de Montagem, 2024-2025. Exhibition view at Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira, Portugal
Ana Vieira, Ana Vieira: Cadernos de Montagem, 2024-2025. Exhibition view at Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira, Portugal
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira. El hogar y la huida (Ana Vieira. The Home and the Escape), Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 21.02.20-30.08.20 © of the works of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu, 2020. Photographer: David Bonet
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira. El hogar y la huida (Ana Vieira. The Home and the Escape), Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 21.02.20-30.08.20 © of the works of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu, 2020. Photographer: David Bonet
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira. El hogar y la huida (Ana Vieira. The Home and the Escape), Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 21.02.20-30.08.20 © of the works of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu, 2020. Photographer: David Bonet
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira. El hogar y la huida (Ana Vieira. The Home and the Escape), Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 21.02.20-30.08.20 © of the works of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu, 2020. Photographer: David Bonet
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira – Uma Antologia. Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal, 2017-2018
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira – Uma Antologia. Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal, 2017-2018
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira – Uma Antologia. Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal, 2017-2018
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira – Uma Antologia. Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal, 2017-2018
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira, Shelter Walls, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira, Shelter Walls, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira, Shelter Walls, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.
Exhibition view: Ana Vieira, Shelter Walls, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.
Ana Vieira, Untitled, 1968. Wood and enamel paint. 173 x 100 x 10 cm. © of the work of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu. Photographer: David Bonet
Ana Vieira, Untitled, 1968. Wood and enamel paint. 173 x 100 x 10 cm. © of the work of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu. Photographer: David Bonet








Ana Vieira, A Arte da Fuga, 2016. Linoleum/vinyl, sheet, foam mattress, and wooden furniture, restored and painted. 300 x 400 x 400 cm
















Ana Vieira, A Arte da Fuga, 2016. Linoleum/vinyl, sheet, foam mattress, and wooden furniture, restored and painted. 300 x 400 x 400 cm
Ana Vieira, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe 77, 1977. Slide of Édouard Manet’s painting “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and tablecloth with objects. 187 x 247 cm.
Ana Vieira, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe 77, 1977. Slide of Édouard Manet’s painting “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and tablecloth with objects. 187 x 247 cm.
Ana Vieira, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe 77 (detail), 1977. Slide of Édouard Manet’s painting “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and tablecloth with objects. 187 x 247 cm.
Ana Vieira, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe 77 (detail), 1977. Slide of Édouard Manet’s painting “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and tablecloth with objects. 187 x 247 cm.
Ana Vieira, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe 77 (detail), 1977. Slide of Édouard Manet’s painting “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and tablecloth with objects. 187 x 247 cm.
Ana Vieira, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe 77 (detail), 1977. Slide of Édouard Manet’s painting “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and tablecloth with objects. 187 x 247 cm.
Ana Vieira, A Passagem da Senhora M.L.T., 1967-2007. Wood and acrylic paint. 80 x 116 x 74 cm. Unique. © of the work of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu. Photographer: David Bonet
Ana Vieira, A Passagem da Senhora M.L.T., 1967-2007. Wood and acrylic paint. 80 x 116 x 74 cm. Unique. © of the work of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu. Photographer: David Bonet
Ana Vieira, Ensaios, 2000. Box, fiberglass, and painted wood. Two elements. 127 x 78 x 40 cm.
Ana Vieira, Ensaios, 2000. Box, fiberglass, and painted wood. Two elements. 127 x 78 x 40 cm.
Ana Vieira, A Senhora M.M.T.S., 1967. Wood, mirror, and enamel paint. 100 x 80 x 23 cm. © of the work of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu. Photographer: David Bonet
Ana Vieira, A Senhora M.M.T.S., 1967. Wood, mirror, and enamel paint. 100 x 80 x 23 cm. © of the work of art, Ana Vieira State, 2020 © of the photograph, Es Baluard Museu. Photographer: David Bonet
Ana Vieira, Untitled, 2000. 60 x 42 x 46 cm.
Ana Vieira, Untitled, 2000. 60 x 42 x 46 cm.
Ana Vieira, Ambiente, 1971. Metal structure, nylon net, acrylic paint, table, plates, glasses, forks, knives, spotlight, and cassette tape. 250 x 300 x 300 cm (exterior)
Ana Vieira, Ambiente, 1971. Metal structure, nylon net, acrylic paint, table, plates, glasses, forks, knives, spotlight, and cassette tape. 250 x 300 x 300 cm (exterior)
Ana Vieira, Objecto-Porta, 1975. Arch, wooden door with mirrors and painted cotton curtain. 194 x 94 x 50 cm.
Ana Vieira, Objecto-Porta, 1975. Arch, wooden door with mirrors and painted cotton curtain. 194 x 94 x 50 cm.

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Bio

Ana Vieira was born in Coimbra in 1940, spent her childhood and early years on the island of São Miguel in the Azores, and lived most of her adult life in Lisbon, where she died in 2016. She graduated in Painting from the School of Fine Arts (1966) and was awarded the AICA Prize in 1991.

Ana Vieira started exhibiting her work regularly in the late 1960s and established herself as one of the key figures of Portuguese contemporary art in the decades that followed. Anchored in a critical thinking and an artistic language that explores the limits and the traditional supports of art, particularly painting and sculpture, her practice aligns with the conceptual art movement and is markedly influenced by the exploration of everyday objects, spaces, and situations. Often in the form of installations, Vieira plays with representations of passages, half-spaces and transparencies, creating hybrid territories simultaneously visible and inaccessible, welcoming and hostile. These scenic creations allow for different possibilities for the experiencing of objects, freeing them from their function and inscribing them in a poetic dimension that lies between allegory and simulacrum.

 

Her work has been the subject of two major retrospective exhibitions, at the Serralves Museum in 1998 and at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Modern Art Center in 2011, institutions with significant collections of the artist’s work. In 2017, the Graça Morais Art Center presented a major posthumous solo exhibition, and in 2020, the Es Baluard Museum, in Spain, dedicated an important retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work. More recently, the exhibition “Ana Vieira: Cadernos de Montagem” has brought renewed attention to the work of one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century, studying, documenting, and exhibiting a collection of emblematic works.

 

Her work has been regularly featured in group exhibitions at national and international institutions, including: MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, and EDP Foundation (Lisbon, PT); MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art (Lisbon, PT); José de Guimarães Arts Center (Guimarães, PT); Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, PT); Serralves Museum (Porto, PT); CAV – Visual Arts Center (Coimbra, PT); Berardo Collection Museum (Lisbon, PT); Culturgest (Lisbon, PT); and also MARCO – Vigo Art Museum (Vigo, ES); SESC Pompeia (São Paulo, BR); National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, USA); La Monnaie de Paris (Paris, FR); Afro-Brazil Museum (São Paulo, BR), among others.

Ana Vieira’s work is represented not only in the collections of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Modern Art Center (CAM), Serralves Museum, Culturgest, State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE), Contemporary Art Museum – Belém Cultural Center (MAC/CCB), but also in the EDP Foundation, Carmona e Costa Foundation, and Musée Cantonal de Beaux-Arts, Switzerland.

 

The artist’s archival collection is on deposit at the BAC (Banco de Arte Contemporânea).

Ana Vieira nasceu em Coimbra em 1940, passou a infância na ilha de S. Miguel, nos Açores e viveu grande parte da sua vida adulta em Lisboa, onde faleceu em 2016. Concluiu o curso de Pintura na Escola Superior de Belas-Artes (1966) e foi distinguida com o Prémio AICA em 1991.

Começa a expor com regularidade no final dos anos 1960, afirmando-se nas décadas seguintes como uma das figuras incontornáveis da arte contemporânea portuguesa, com um pensamento crítico e uma linguagem artística que explora os limites e suportes das disciplinas, em particular da pintura e da escultura. A sua prática, alinhada com os movimentos da arte concetual, é marcadamente influenciada pela exploração dos objetos comuns, pelos espaços e situações do quotidiano, muitas vezes sob a forma de instalações onde jogos de transparências criam territórios híbridos, simultaneamente visíveis e inacessíveis, acolhedores e hostis. Estas criações cénicas oferecem outras hipóteses para a experiência dos objetos, libertando-os da sua função e inscrevendo-os numa dimensão poética que se insinua entre a alegoria e o simulacro.

O seu trabalho foi objeto de duas grandes exposições antológicas, no Museu de Serralves, em 1998, e no Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, em 2011, instituições com relevante acervo da artista. Em 2017, o Centro de Arte Graça Morais apresenta uma grande exposição individual póstuma, e, em 2020, o Museu Es Baluard, em Espanha, dedica-lhe uma importante exposição retrospetiva. Mais recentemente, a exposição “Ana Vieira: Cadernos de Montagem”, confere renovada atenção à obra de uma das mais icónicas artistas do século XX, estudando, documentando e expondo um conjunto de obras emblemáticas.

A sua obra vem sendo apresentada regularmente em exposições coletivas, em instituições nacionais e internacionais, de entre as quais se destacam: MAAT – Museu de  Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia e Fundação EDP (Lisboa, PT); Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (Lisboa, PT); Centro de Artes José de Guimarães (Guimarães, PT); Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, PT); Museu de Serralves (Porto, PT); CAV – Centro de Artes Visuais (Coimbra, PT); Museu Coleção Berardo (Lisboa, PT); Culturgest (Lisboa, PT); e, ainda, MARCO – Museu de Arte de Vigo (Vigo, ES); SESC Pompeia (São Paulo, BR); National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, EUA); La Monnaie de Paris (Paris, FR); Museu Afro-Brasil (São Paulo, BR), entre outros.

O trabalho de Ana Vieira está representado não só nas coleções do Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM) – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, do Museu de Serralves, da Culturgest, da Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado (CACE), do Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Cultural de Belém (MAC/CCB), como também da Fundação EDP, da Fundação Carmona e Costa e do Musée Cantonal de Beaux-Arts, na Suíça.

 

O espólio documental da artista está em depósito no BAC (Banco de Arte Contemporânea).

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