Pedro Calapez

Calapez began taking part in exhibitions in the 1970s and had his first solo show in 1982. 

His work has been shown in various galleries and museums, both in Portugal and abroad, and his solo and group exhibitions include: Stories of Objects, Casa de la Cittá, Rome; Carré des Arts, Paris; C. Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Petit jardin et paysage, Salpêtriére Chapel, Paris (1993); Petit jardin et paysage, Salpêtriére Chapel, Paris (1993). Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Petit jardin et paysage, Salpêtriére Chapel, Paris (1993); Campo de Sombras, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Mallorca (1997); Madre Agua, Museo MEIAC, Badajoz and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (2002); Obras escolhidas, CAM-Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2004); piso zero, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela; Lugares de pintura, CAB-Centro de Arte Caja Burgos (2005); There is only drawing, Luís Seoane Foundation, A Coruña, Galicia (2013); O Segredo da Sombra, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon (2016). His various group exhibitions include his participation in the Venice (1986) and São Paulo (1987 and 1991) Biennials; Days of Darkness and Light, Kunstmuseum Bonn (1999); EDP. ARTE, Serralves Museum, Porto (2001); Beaufort Inside-Outside, Triennial of Contemporary Art, PMMK Museum, Ostend (2006); La colección, Fundación Barrié, A Coruña (2011); Euroscope (BEI Collection), Cercle Cité, Luxembourg (2015); Backstories, FASVS, Vieira da Silva Museum, Lisbon, and Mudas, Madeira Museum of Contemporary Art (2016); Quote/Unquote. Between appropriation and dialogue, MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (2017); A Collection=A Museum 2007/2017, MACE, Elvas (2017); Studiolo XXI, Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, Évora (2019). Fóra de Foco, AColección, AFundación, A Coruña; Festa Fúria Femina, FLAD Collection, MAAT Museum, Lisbon (2020); Fluxus and Metamorphosis (what a collection is made of), CACC - Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, 2021; Coincidencias, Dialogues between painting, sculpture and photography in the 9915 Collections and the Alcobendas Photography Collection, Centro de Artes Alcobendas, Madrid, 2022; Stories of a Collection. Modern and Contemporary Art from CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2023.

Pedro Calapez is represented in various private and institutional collections, both in Portugal and abroad.