cv — João Freitas

João Freitas
Born in 1989 in Coimbra (PT)
Lives and works in Brussels (BE)

Solo Exhibitions (selection) :
2026 — Hold the line, Galleria Fuoricampo, Siena (IT)
2023 — Twofold, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena (IT)
2022 — Unshielded, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Brussels (BE)
2020 — Heimat, Centre Tour à Plomb, Brussels (BE)
2020 — Into the open, Centre d’art Dominique Lang, Dudelange (LU)
2019 — Frühlingsstimmen, Centre d'Art de la Chapelle de Boondael, Brussels (BE)
2018 — Isolated moments, Galleria Fuoricampo, Siena (IT)

Group Exhibitions (selection) :
2025 — R24, TAMAT, Musée de la Tapisserie et des Arts Textiles de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Tournai (BE)
2024 — Transformation Papier, Haus des Papiers, Berlin (DE)
2024 — hosting, CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels (BE)
2024 — La Terra Muta, Ulìa art project, Ostuni (IT)
2023 — Sculpting Surfaces, with Charlotte Stuby, curated by murmur, firma, Brussels (BE)
2023 — Doublures, with Baptiste Rabichon, Reuter & Bausch Gallery, Luxembourg (LU)
2023 — SaarArt - Au rendez-vous des amis, Laboratorium - Institut für aktuelle Kunst, Saarlouis (DE)
2023 — Particles of Reality, mia-ART, Antwerp (BE)
2023 — Passe-partout, LIAR - Luxembourg Institute for Artistic Research, New York (US)
2022 — 11 Years of Residencies, Carrefour des Arts Foundation, Vanderborght Building, Brussels (BE)
2022 — I maestri del colore, a vision by Francesco Carone, Galleria FuoriCampo, Siena (IT)
2022 — Dialogues funèbres, curated by Stéphane Roy, Funeral galleries of the Laeken cemetery, Brussels (BE)
2022 — Iris Sidus, curated by Laurent De Meyer, Artist Residency Huet-Repolt, Brussels (BE)
2021 — Brave New World Order, curated by Kevin Muhlen, Triennale Jeune Création, Rotondes & Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg (LU)
2020 — Young Belgium, Opus I - Ineffable, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Brussels (BE)
2020 — Inside-out, curated by Maëlle Delaplanche, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels (BE)
2019 — /tʁɛ/ (traits), Fondation Moonens, curated by Laurent de Meyer as part of the Brussels Drawing Week, Brussels (BE)
2019 — To the bone, with Nasrin Tork, curated by Yuna Mathieu-Chovet, Plagiarama, Brussels (BE)
2019 — Prix Médiatine 15#1: Manifeste pour une création visuelle actuelle, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
2018 — ISLAND/ISH, curated by Emmanuel Lambion, Institut Culturel Italien, Brussels (BE)
2017 — INTRO_, curated by Fanny Weinquin, Konschthaus beim Engel, Luxembourg (LU)
2017 — Foyer, curated by Serena Vestrucci & Francesco Maluta, Studi Festival, Milan (IT)
2016 — Paperworks, curated by Odie Rynell Cash, Antena, Chicago (US)
2015 — One way or another, Carrefour des Arts Foundation, Brussels (BE)

Education & Residencies :
2027 — RAVI (Résidences-Ateliers Vivegnis International), Liège (BE)
2024 — Paper Residency, Haus des Papiers, Berlin (DE)
2024 — Recherches, TAMAT, Musée de la Tapisserie et des Arts Textiles de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Tournai (BE)
2017 — Isola Comacina, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Ossuccio (IT)
2016 — Summer residency, Fondation Moonens & Platform102, Brussels (BE)
2015 — Friche, LaVallée, Brussels (BE)
2015 — Madeinfilandia, Filanda, Pieve A Presciano (IT)
2014>2015 — Carrefour des Arts Foundation, Brussels (BE)
2009>2014 — Master’s degree in Visual Arts awarded with high distinction, Drawing Department, ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels (BE)

Awards & grants :
2026 — SOFAM Grants 2025/6, laureate, Brussels (BE)
2026 — Creation Support Grant (Hold the Line), Ministry of Culture (LU)
2024 — International Residency Support Grant, Wallonie-Bruxelles International (BE)
2024 — Edward Steichen Award, nomination by Dr. Andreas Bayer – Institut für aktuelle Kunst (DE)
2024 — Career Development Grant, Kultur | lx (LU)
2023 — Creation Support Grant (Twofold), Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE)
2022 — Edward Steichen Award, nomination by Marc Scozzai – Rotondes (LU)
2021 — Creation Support Grant (Brave New World Order), Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE)
2020 — Neistart Lëtzebuerg, Research Grant, Ministry of Culture (LU)
2019 — Edward Steichen Award, nomination by Fanny Weinquin (LU)
2019 — Publication Support Grant, Monograph (LaSpore), Focuna (LU) & Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE)
2019 — Creation Support Grant (Frühlingsstimmen), Ministry of Culture (LU)
2018 — Médiatine Prize, laureate, Brussels (BE)
2017 — Marie-Louise Rousseau Prize, laureate, Brussels (BE)
2015 — Young Talent Prize, laureate, Art On Paper, BOZAR, Brussels (BE)

Publications :
2025 — Recherches 24, catalog published by TAMAT
2024 — Kontakt #84
2023 — SaarArt, Exhibition catalog published by Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz
2021 — Brave New World Order, Exhibition catalog published by Rotondes & Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain
2020 — Young Belgium, Opus I - Ineffable, jeune scène belge contemporaine, Exhibition catalog published by Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach
2019 — João Freitas, Monograph published by LaSpore, with the support of Fonds culturel national Luxembourg & Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles
2018 — Island/ish, Exhibition catalog published by Instituto italiano di cultura Bruxelles
2018 — Prix Médiatine, Exhibition catalog published by Centre Culturel Wolubilis
2016 — Triennale du Prix Coup de Cœur, Exhibition catalog published by Les Amis de La Cambre
2013 — Carte Blanche, 50° Nord, Revue d’art contemporain

Collections :
Haus des Papiers (DE), 2024
Galila Barzilaï-Hollander (BE), 2020
Frédéric de Goldschmidt (BE), 2019
Ministère de la Culture (LU), 2018, 2021, 2024
Ville de Dudelange (LU), 2020
Fondazione Cariverona (IT), 2015
Fondation Carrfour des Arts (BE), 2015

Event & Fair Participation :
2023 — Traces in suspension, curated by Atena Abrahimia for Capsules, Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg (LU)
2025 — Cross Pollination, with Carin Tinney & Franco Pavan, DAS HAUS, Palazzo, Brussels (BE)
2024 — Artissima, Galleria FuoriCampo, Turin (IT)
2024 — BAD+, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Bordeaux (FR)
2024 — Miart, Galleria FuoriCampo, Milan (IT)
2023 — Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach & Reuter Bausch Gallery, Luxembourg (LU)
2022 — Chapter I, curated by Atena Abrahimia & Eva Zmpogko, murmur (online)
2022 — Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Luxembourg (LU)
2022 — Miart, Galleria FuoriCampo, Milan (IT)
2021 — Art on Paper, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Bozar, Brussels (BE)
2021 — Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Luxembourg (LU)
2021 — Limited Edition Art Fair, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (BE)
2020 — Miart, Galleria FuoriCampo, Milan (IT)
2020 — Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach (online)
2018 — Swab, Galleria FuoriCampo, Barcelona (ES)
2018 — Artverona, Galleria FuoriCampo, Verona (IT)
2017 — Garden Party & Auctions, Musée Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
2017 — Artissima, Galleria FuoriCampo, Turin (IT)
2017 — Grand Hotel, curated by Serena Fineschi & Marco Andrea Magni, Surplace, Varese (IT)
2016 — Off course - Young Contemporary Art, Le Dynastie, Brussels (BE)
2016 — Artissima, Galleria FuoriCampo, Turin (IT)
2016 — Grand Hotel, curated by Serena Fineschi & Marco Andrea Magni, Gallery of Art – Temple University, Rome (IT)
2015 — Regarding An Other, curated by Ravian van den Hil, House Crying Yellow Tears, Maastricht/Den Bosch/Amsterdam/Hasselt (NL & BE)
2015 — Firsts, curated by Thomas Whittle, MONOMATIC (online)
2015 — Artverona (RawZone), Galleria FuoriCampo, Verona (IT)
2015 — Grand Hotel, curated by Serena Fineschi & Marco Andrea Magni, Riot Studio, Naples (IT)
2012 — Festival Transnumériques, Maison Pelgrim, Brussels (BE)
2012 — FID, International Drawing Fair, Paris (FR)

Press :
2025 — Capsules | Interview with João Freitas & Elsa Salonen, Livia Klein (LU)
2025 — Quatuor de notre temps en quatre mouvements, Flux News, Michel Voiturier (BE)
2025 — Si on sortait... au TAMAT et à la Maison de la Culture de Tournai, notélé.be (BE)
2024 — Ulìa Art Project: in Puglia i linguaggi contemporanei risignificano il territorio, Insideart (IT)
2023 — Puglia contemporanea: dal Salento alla Valle d’Itria, Flash Art, Giuseppe Amedeo Arnesano (IT)
2023 — Art In The Mediterranean Puglia Hydra And Menorca, Artlyst, Virginie Puertolas-Syn (UK)
2023 — Mostre più belle da vedere il fine settimana di Pasqua (e oltre), ELLE Decor, Silvia Airoldi (IT)
2023 — ‘Twofold’, il tempo secondo Freitas, Giornale La Voce del Campo, Antonella Leoncini (IT)
2022 — La galleria FuoriCampo di Siena cambia sede e punta sulla pittura, Artribune, Marco Arrigoni (IT)
2022 — ‘I Maestri del Colore’ aprono la nuova Galleria FuoriCampo, Giornale La Voce del Campo, Antonella Leoncini (IT)
2022 — Façons de Voir : Dialogues funèbres - Le bois des rêves - Charlotte Perriand , La Première-RTBF, Fabrice Kada (BE)
2022 — Dialogues avec les morts à Laeken, La Libre, Guy Duplat (BE)
2022 — Dialogues Funèbres, art contemporain dans les galeries funéraires du cimetière de Laeken, RTBF, Xavier Ess (BE)
2022 — La mort vous va si bien, Bazar Magazin, Gilles Bechet (BE)
2022 — Meet João Freitas, culture.lu, Atena Abrahimia (LU)
2022 — João Freitas transforme le tetra pak en œuvre d’art, L’Echo, Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj (BE)
2022 — Façons de Voir : Cosmos au CID - João Freitas à la Patinoire Royale - Zinneke avec Ouest Architecture et Rotor, La Première-RTBF, Fabrice Kada (BE)
2022 — Les Fragments de mémoire de João Freitas, Connaissance des Arts, Valérie de Maulmin (FR)
2021 — 6e édition d'Art on Paper à Bozar, L’Echo, Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj (BE)
2021 — Die Kunst der Millennials, Luxemburger Wort , Marc Thill (LU)
2021 — À la Patinoire Royale, six jeunes artistes s’éclatent, La Libre, Roger-Pierre Turine (BE)
2021 — Panser le monde, Flux News, Sandra Caltagirone (BE)
2021 — Young Belgium, six jeunes artistes à La Patinoire Royale, Mu In The City, Manon Paulus (BE)
2021 — La Patinoire Royale soutient six artistes belges sans galerie, L’Echo, Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj (BE)
2020 — «Young Belgium»: six échos du monde, Le Soir, Aliénor Debrocq (BE)
2020 — Nouveaux explorateurs, Focus Vif, Michel Verlinden (BE)
2020 — No ART on AIR, RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg (LU)
2020 — D'Konscht vum João Freitas, Radio 100,7, Kerstin Thalau (LU)
2020 — Magiciens, d’Letzebuerger Land, Marianne Brausch (LU)
2020 — Reiz am Prozess, Luxemburger Wort, Daniel Conrad (LU)
2019 — La médiatine descend à Paris, Point Culture, Pierre Hemptinne (FR)
2019 — Artist João Freitas' sping voices, BRUZZ, Kurt Snoekx (BE)
2018 — Artbox, Mir waren de Kënschtler João Freitas op Bréissel besichen, RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg (LU)
2018 — Movers & shakers, BRUZZ, Kurt Snoekx (BE)
2018 — Le Prix Médiatine 2018, Mu In The City, Muriel de Crayencour (BE)
2015 — Studio visit: João Freitas, BRUZZ, Kurt Snoekx (BE)
2015 — Art on Paper: many-sided, BRUZZ, Estelle Spoto (BE)
2015 — Dessins en solo, L’Echo, Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj (BE)
2015 — Non solo Biennale: 6 mostre da non perdere, collezione da Tiffany, Nicola Maggi (IT)