Artist Statement.
In a state of constant movement, my multidisciplinary artistic practice revolves around the landscape format, exploring themes of identity, memory, and experience.
My work unfolds as a visual and material essay on the physical landscape, shaped by sustained observation, reflection, and the embodied experience of walking through it. I am particularly interested in how landscapes exist not only as external spaces but also as imprints in memory and imagination.
Using video, photography, and archival documentation, I record the passage of the seasons, inquiring into the essence of the landscape itself. Deeply inspired by the history of art and the Romantic tradition, I embrace my role as a Portuguese landscape artist, capturing the interplay between the seen and the remembered.
About Me.
Laura Vitorino Rebelo (Funchal, 1985).
Lives and works at Herdade da Burquilheira, Alcáçovas.
PhD Art History researcher at Centro de História de Arte e Investigação Artistica, Master's in Artistic Practices in Visual Arts, and BA in Visual Arts from the School of Arts at the University of Évora.
In 2023 and 2019, Laura was selected to be part of the edition of the book Portuguese Emerging Art.
In a constant state of itinerant nomadism, Laura's multidisciplinary artistic practice focuses on the Landscape format, questioning the themes of identity, memory, and experience.
It emerges as a plastic and visual essay of the physical landscape, focusing mainly on the permanent observation, reflection, and experience of the body while wandering in the Landscape and the Landscape that crosses memory and the imaginary.
Laura uses video, photography, and classification documentation to explore the passing of the seasons, inquiring about the essence of the Landscape itself.
Laura has exhibited since 2014. Of the individual exhibitions, the following stand out: Subtle Landscape (2019, Casa da Avenida, Setúbal, Portugal), OffarqLisboa (2018, Pátria Interiores, Lisbon, Portugal), There are more seas than roses, with rare exceptions (2018, Casa da Cultura, Comporta, Portuga), (un) inhabited landscapes (2017, Casa da Luz Museum, Funchal, Portugal). Participated in several group exhibitions, including Exposed Opposites (2017, Eugénio de Almeida Forum, Évora, Portugal), Rotterdam International Art Fair (2016, Laurensekerk, Rotterdam, Netherlands), and Périplos - Arte Portuguesa de Hoje (2015, Modern Art Center, Malaga, Spain).
Her works belong in the public and private collections of Casa da Luz Museum (Portugal), Luciano Benetton Collection (Italy), and Center for Contemporary Art of Malaga (Spain).
CV.
LAURA VITORINO REBELO
Funchal, 1985
EDUCATION
2021 - until today
PhD researcher Art History, at Centro de Historia de Arte e Investigação Artistica, University of Évora, with national funds from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Investigation Theme:
On Landscape in Gabriela Albergaria and the reinvention of the relationship between Art and Nature by Women Artists of the 20th and 21st centuries
2016/2017
Master in Artistic Practices of Visual Arts, Arts School, University of Évora, Portugal.
2015/2016
Attends Master in Painting in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, Portugal.
2010 - 2014
Graduated in Visual Arts – Painting, School of Arts, University of Évora, Portugal.
2004 - 2007
Bachelor in Business Administration, European University, Barcelona, Spain.
2005 - 2006
Painting night course, Ar.co, Lisbon, Portugal.
2003
Attends the Bachelor in Architecture, Lusíada University, Lisbon, Portugal.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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conversa entre a memória e o imaginário, 2022, Cru Creative Hub, Porto
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uma Paisagem, 2020, Fábrica Features, Benetton Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal.
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Subtil Paisagem, 2019, Casa da Avenida, Setúbal, Portugal
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OffarqLisboa, 2018, Pátria Interiores, Lisboa, Portugal
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Há mais mares que rosas, salvo raras excepções, 2018, Casa da Cultura, Comporta, Portugal
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(Un) Habit Landscapes, 2017, Galeria T10, Évora, Portugal
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(Un) Habit Landscapes, 2017, Museu Casa da Luz, Funchal - Madeira Island, Portugal
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Em torno de mim, 2014, Pátria Interiores, Lisbon, Portugal
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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The Other Art Fair — Virtual Edition, 2022, by Saatchi
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Casa da Cultura, 2019 Comporta, Portugal
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Opostos expostos, 2017, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
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Rotterdam International Art Fair, 2016, Laurensekerk, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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12x12x2016, 2016, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States of America
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Périplos – Today Portuguese Art, 2015, CAC Málaga, Spain, Málaga
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9thEhibition Shair, Emergents2015, Gallery, Braga., Portugal
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Levantamento das Pestes, 2014, Casa da Zorra, Évora, Portugal
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Colecção B, 2014, Saint Vicent Church, Évora, Portugal
BIENNALS
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VIII Bienal of Small Size Painting, 2017, Moita, Portugal
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VII Bienal of Small Size Painting, 2015, Moita, Portugal
PUBLICATIONS
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Portuguese Emerging Art, 2019, EMERGE, Portugal, ISBN 978-989-20-9994-1
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Portugal: Open window to the world, the contemporary artist from Portugal, 2015, FABRICA, Italy, ISBN 978-88-98764-75-4.
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Rotterdam International Art Fair, 2016, catalogue, Global Art Agency.
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VIII Bienal de Pintura de Pequeno Formato, 2017, catalogue, Câmara Municipal da Moita, ISBN 428937/17
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VII Bienal de Pintura de Pequeno Formato, 2015, catalogue, Câmara Municipal da Moita
COLLECTIONS
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Museu Casa da Luz, Untitled, 2017, enamel on prepared unbleached cloth, 88 x 134 cm, Portugal.
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Luciano Benetton Collection, Castro-Verde, 2015, enamel on prepared unbleached cloth, 9 x 11cm, Italy.
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CAC-Málaga, Untiled, 2015, enamel on prepared unbleached cloth, 9 x 11 cm, Spain.
