MARTIM BRION
Lisboa (PT), 1986
Bio
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Residencies
Collections
Work
Biography
Although the beginning of his training was in an area that led him to study at Monfort University (United Kingdom) and IE Business School (Spain), he turned to artistic practice in 2011 after attending Sotheby's Institute of Art (United Kingdom), and later in 2017 at the Royal College of Art (United Kingdom).
Martim Brion's work investigates the continuous aesthetic potential of a simplified language of color and form.
His work is a combination of various coalescing interests, from the use of literary references, to the search for a polished, balanced form in his sculptural work, passing by his visual diary exposed in his photography or the focus on digitally created work. It is a diverse and evolving practice, which has come to englobe more fields and interests as it has matured, without ever losing its consistency and focus.
Recently the focus has expanded into the various intersections between the various art medium and also art and politics and art and literature, how all these points can be meshed and integrated and turn into an object, and how this might further one’s perception of art.
Martim, lives in Munich and works between Portugal and Germany.
Solo exhibitions
2023 "produção (re) produção", Galeria NAVE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022 "O que fazer?" MIAA Iberian Museum of Archeology and Art / Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, curated by João Silvério Abrantes (Portugal)
2022, "Matter informs form - Language informs thought", Galeria NAVE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022 “Ponto Contraponto”, Galeria do Parque, curated by João Pinharanda, Vila-Nova-da-Barquinha (Portugal).
2021 “Res Extensa”, Centro Cultural Raiano, Idanha-a-Nova (Portugal).
2020 “Pontos de Intersecção”, Galeria Sá da Costa, Lisboa (Portugal).
2020 “Repetições – Mudanças Incrementais”, MUDAS. Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira, Madeira, (Portugal).
2019 “Capela – Altar – Janela – Uma paisagem com as cores do Mar”, Travessa da Ermida, Lisboa (Portuga).
2018 “Kontrapunkt”, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlim (Germany).
2017 “Pontos de Fuga”, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (Portugal).
2016 “Objecto Mar”, Clube Naval do Funchal, Madeira (Portugal).
2015 “Object Opinion”. L’H Gallery, Lisboa (Portugal).
2014 “A Precise Sense of Form”, Artistas Unidos, Teatro da Politécnica, Lisboa (Portugal).
Group Exhibitions
>>> 2023 "WANDERLUST", Artes Mota Galiza (Porto, PT)
2022 "(0/1) o zero e o um", MUHNAC National Museum of Natural History and Science, (Lisbon, PT)
2022 "Formsache - das digitale sehen der dinge" Lycra Room, duo exhibition, Hamburg (Germany)
2022 "Nachtsicht", Schafhof Galeria Municipal, Freising (Germany).
2022 "Form Constriction", Oqbo, Berlim (Germany).
2020 “Matérias Incertas”, Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos (Portugal).
2020 “Incremental Abstractions”, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlim (Germany).
2019 “Área de Diálogo”, Galeria Municipal Banco de Portugal, Leiria (Portugal).
2019 “Areal3 – Uma exposição de António, Sofia e Martim Areal”, Museu Carlos ReisPraça do Peixe, Torres Novas (Portugal).
2018 “Boese, Brion e Tecedeiro”, Centro Cultural de Ponte de Sor, Ponte de Sor (Portugal).
2018 “Apropriação, Memória e Desejo”, Galeria Municipal Banco de Portugal, Leiria (Portugal).
2017 “Apropriação, Memória e Desejo”, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa (Portugal).
2017 “Exposição de finalista da Residência de Belas Artes”, Royal College of Arts, Londres (United Kingdom).
2017 “XIX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira”, Vila Nova de Cerveira (Portugal).
2016 “Aqui”, com Ado & Comenius, curated by Andreas Blättler, Rua Madalena Project, Lisboa (Portugal).
2016 “Colectiva”, Pedro Calapez, Sofia Areal, José de Guimarães, between others, Galeria Vera Cruz, Aveiro (Portugal).
2016 “Arte de Bolso”, Galeria Sete, Coimbra (Portugal).
2016 “Arte Hoje Premiados”, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa (Portugal).
2015 “Colectiva”, Pedro Calapez, Sofia Areal, José de Guimarães, Pedro Proença between others, Galeria Vera Cruz, Aveiro (Portugal).
2015 “Prémio Ibero Americano”, Galeria 32, with the Embassy of Brazil and the Bank Itaú, Londres (United Kingdom).
2015 “A Mostra”, Project Patrícia Pires de Lima, Lisboa (Portugal).
2014 “Salão de Inverno”, A Pequena Galeria, Lisboa (Portugal).
2014 “Arte de Bolso”, Galeria Sete, Coimbra (Portugal).
2014 “21 Artistas Plásticos no Teatro da Politécnica”, Alberto Carneiro, António Sena, Jorge Pinheiro, Jorge Martins, Nikias Skapinakis, Pedro Chorão, Pedro Proença, Sofia Areal, between others, Artistas Unidos, Lisboa (Portugal).
2014 “Pixels of Identities”, Palazzo Albrizzi, Veneza (Italy).
2014 “Arte Hoje”, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa (Portugal).
Residencies
2017, Residence in Fine Arts at the Royal College of Art (United Kingdom).
Collections
MUDAS. Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira, Calheta
Coleção Figueiredo Ribeiro, Abrantes
Centro das Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor, Ponte de Sor
Museu Carlos Reis/Municipio de Torres Novas, Torres Novas
Múnicipio de Leiria, Leiria
Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos
Centro Cultural Raiano, Idanha-a-Nova.
