Bio
Tiago Margaça is native of Aveiro (Portugal), musician and Artist. His academic journey, begins in 2004, studying sculpture at the ESAD (Caldas da Rainha) University, participated in his first stone sculpture symposium at Simpetra 2004. Before he graduated he Won the third edition of the Ariane de Rothschild 2007 painting prize. On 2008 he is Resident artist in London Slade School of Arts, and makes a mural for the Lisbon Gothe Institute. After he graduated he decides to go to Berlin to learn how to develop analogue film and starts a seven month internship at ANDEC, where he worked for 8 years. While working in the lab he collected and developed extended work in super8, 16mm and 35mmn and on 2016 he shows his film work in Berlin and Lisbon. During this Berlin phase he concentrated his efforts on video art and music, where he founded Musgos, a project that combines music and analogue visuals that can be defined by arrhythmic and dissonant sound landscapes. Since 2019 he returned to his home town, made art residencies and art shows from stone sculpture, to installation, cinema festivals and concerts. Finished in 2022 the master in contemporary artistic creation at Universidade de Aveiro, currently with his studio at Aveiro’s Gulbenkian, his day to day work focuses on seeing his art practices as a dialogue with matter.
C.V.
Colective shows
-”8ª Bienal of Espinho”, Museum Municipal de Espinho, Espinho 2025
-“6ª Edição Prémio Júlio Resende”, O Lugar do Desenho – Fundação Júlio Resende, Gondomar, Portugal, 2024
-“Galeria Barata”, Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, 2024
-Open studio, Salzamt, Linz, Austria, 2024
-“CriaTech”, Santa Joana museum, Aveiro, 2021
-Bienal of Coruche, 2021
-“Silencio”, Santa Joana museum, Aveiro, 2020
-Internacional stone simposium of Rio Maior, 2019
-“Neo-saudade” Hotel 45, Berlin, 2011
-“Land Scape” Julio de Matos (mental institution), Lisbon, 2008
-“Anteciparte 08” Lisbon city museum, 2008
-“Saídos do sótão”, Jorge Shirley Gallery, Lisbon, 2008
-“ Ariane de Rothshild painting prize” Lx Factory, Lisbon, 2007
-“Tamanhos XL Formas do Corpo”, Corrente d ́Arte gallery, Lisbon, 2006
Individual shows
-“Descobrir e experienciar novos territórios”, Aveiro, 2023
-”Insidelook to a planed movement” Gulbenkian Aveiro, 2022
-“Suspention IV”, Teatro Aveirense, 2020
-“Casa Azul” at Torres Vedras, 2020
-”Reasons of Light” at “NUN”, Berlin 2018
-”Light drawings” at “ Embaixada”, Lisboa 2014
-“Tres razoes de Luz” at “Joao Coctau”, Berlin 2013
-“Propagação IV” “Performas” Aveiro 2010
-“No title” Sculpture, at Worburn Square Researsh center of Slade School of Arts, London 2008
-“No title” drawing, at Goodenough College, London 2008
Workshops
As a trainer:
-“Cinema das Flores” creative activities with the psychiatric ward at Aveiro Hospital, Portugal, 2024
-Ceramic workshop for Bienal de ceramica de Aveiro, Portugal 2023
-ceramic workshop for children, for AVI, Aveiro, Portugal 2022
-drawing workshop, for Nena Institution berlin 2016
As a participant:
-Ceramic, with Uta Minnich and Lisa Ruland, making a mural for the Goeth Institute Lisbon, Portugal 2007
-Simppetra 2004 (international symposium of stone sculpture of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal).
Education
-Master in Contemporary Artistic creation in U.A., Aveiro, Portugal 2022
-Internship in ANDEC (film lab) Berlin, Germany 2011
-Degree in Fine Arts Sculpture E.S.A.D. Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 2009
Artistic Residency
ATELIERHAUS SALZAMT, Linz, Austria 2024
Bienal de Coruche, Coruche, Portugal 2019
Slade School of Arts, London, England 2008
Prizes
“Descobrir e experienciar novos territórios”, Aveiro, 2023
-Avanca Cinema Festival 2019
-Coruche Bienal 2019
-Selected for “Anteciparte 2008”
-Winner of the third edition of the painting prize Ariane de Rothschild 2007
Methodology
My work process, is the ability to dialogue with mater, in which the plastic experimentation becomes a communication with the different work materials. If you see Plasticity as a language, each subject has different peculiarities and thus different reactions.
When you are a baby everything is new, so you pay attention of the surroundings, as we grow up, some of this curiosity fades out, specially when it is not stimulated. On Arts there is always a parallel with this way of seeing what the others ignore, some say that is a way of preserving the inner child that we have inside.
Normally my work is composed by organic shaped forms intimately connected with Nature. In my way of seeing things, the organic, irregular, accidental mistakes, are ways of disrupting with the uniformity of rigid forms and in this way a connection to the circumscribed / Nature.
By creating an artifice of organic shaped forms, the work becomes an imitation of life. There is a strangeness that stands out from the circumscribed place, the public is not expected to think about it, but to feel the experience.
When we visit a museum or an art show that deepens our concentration and we get absorbed by it, the time slows down just like when we get into a park in a big city, as deeper you walk in, the sensation invades you, the feeling increases when you stop listing to the traffic and all the noise pollution, the time slows down and you get absorbed by a healthy solitude or what I like to call state of suspension.
The purpose of showing my work is to increase the personal sensitivity by stimulating the senses with artificial organic shapes I hope to reach the public to this sensation of suspension.
More than the personal satisfaction of working with matter, I believe that creating aesthetically pieces have the capacity of capturing the attention of the spectator, it is a way to develop the sensitivity of the public, a sensitive society is a conscious one.