Julião Sarmento
The artist
Julião Sarmento was born in 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in 2021. The artist explored the terrain of desire and representation in an approach combining painting, video and sound and visual installations. He exploited a huge variety of combinations to create a series of works with recurring motifs: an archetypal woman, modernist architectural images, plant-like lines, references to literature and the cinema. A large part of his work addressed issues of fragmentation, the gap between real and fictional, and latent eroticism.
Exhibitions
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Easy Pairings Fractals Stars
February 26 - April 18, 2015
Brussels -
Quelques jeux interdits
January 7 > February 18, 2012
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1948.
Died in 2021, in Estoril, Portugal
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2022
Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volàtil, curated by Catherine David, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2021
Arena, Pilar Corrias, London, United-Kingdom
Julião Sarmento: (Un)disclosed, curated by Benjamin Weil, Casa das Mudas Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira, Calheta, Madeira Island, Portugal
2020
Fragmentos da Viagem na obra de Julião Sarmento A Viagem, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento No brilho da pele, Museu de Aveiro / Santa Joana, Aveiro, Portugal
Sarmento A linha que fecha também abre, MNAA Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal
2019
Julião Sarmento. Undisclosed, Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2018
Leopard in a cage, Centro International das Artes Jose de Guimares, Portugal
2016
As Good as it Gets, Museum of Fine Arts / Kula Gallery / Hazu, Split, Croatia
La chose, même – The real thing, Fondation Gulbenkian, Paris, France
2014
MAMAC Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
DAD, Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain
GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
Terra Incognita, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Julião Sarmento – Sem Título, 1980-2013, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal
Parousia, Cooperativa ÁRVORE, Porto, Portugal
Index, MACE Museu de Arte Contemporânes, Elvas, Portugal
Fado (com Carminho), The Ermida Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Portugal
Julião Sarmento: Una forma extrema de privacidad, MACG, Museo de Arte Carrilo Gil, Mexico, Mexique
Julião Sarmento, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento: 75 photographs, 35 women, 42 years, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, Royaume Uni
Ermida Na Sra da Conceição, Lisbon, Portugal
Galeria Fonseca Macedo, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal
Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
2012
Julião Sarmento: Artists and Writers / House and Home (Part2), commissariat de Raphaela Platow, CAC Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
Julião Sarmento, Lire ses années 70, Galerie de France, Paris, France
Quelques jeux interdits, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Julião Sarmento, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
Julião Sarmento, 6ª Bienal Internacional de Gravura do Douro, Commissaire : Bruno Marchand, Museu do Coa, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Commissaire : João Fernandes, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Women, Houses, Plants, João Esteves de Oliveira Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2011
Remarks on Colour, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
Julião Sarmento: Remarks on Colour.2, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Julião Sarmento: Remarks on Colour.3, Galeria Forste Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Julião Sarmento: Close Distance / Distancias Cortas, Curated by Adrian Searle, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Julião Sarmento, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
Julião Sarmento, Commissaire : Raphaela Platow, CAC, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
Julião Sarmento What Makes a Writer Great, Curated by João Pinharanda, Cinzeiro 8, Fundação EDP – Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
Julião Sarmento : 75 Fotografias, 35 Mulheres, 42 Anos, Curated by Sérgio Mah, Centro de Arte Contemporãnea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal
Julião Sarmento 2000 – 2010, Es Baluard d’Art Modern I Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Julião Sarmento Artists and Writers / House and Home, Curated by Terrie Sultan Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
Julião Sarmento Papel, Ivorypress Art + Books Space II, Madrid, Spain
2010
The Real Thing, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Monograph Room – Solo Display of Works in the Tate Modern Collection, Tate Modern, London, Royaume Uni
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, Royaume Uni
2009
Works on paper: Women and Houses and Plants… , Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
“Lacan’s Assumption” e “Toile”, Espaço BES Arte & Finança, Lisbon, Portugal
New Silhouettes Noires 2002-2003, Galerie de France, Paris, France
House of Games, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Grace Under Pressure, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil
2008
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2007
Julião Sarmento one-man show, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Picture Show, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2006
WITHHOLDING Works 1994 – 2006, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
Film Noir, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, ETATS-UNIS ; Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Ediciones numeradas 1972/2006, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
The Players, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2005
Some Limits of Reason, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
2004
Echo, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2003
Parasite, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Galerie Jirí Svestka, Prague, République Tchèque
Julião Sarmento, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2002
Works from the ’70s, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Domestic Isolation, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
2001
Obra Recent, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California, USA
Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Fortaleza de S. Tiago, Funchal, Madère, Portugal
What Makes A Writer Great, Porta 33, Funchal, Madère, Portugal
2000
Colecção Berardo 1917 – 1999, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Lisson Gallery at Covent Garden, Millenium Lofts, London, UK
On Language, Sean Kelly Gallery New York City, USA
Um Oceano Inteiro para Nadar/ Spanning An Entire Ocean, Lisbon, Portugal
Uma galeria é uma galeria é uma galeria, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Helena Almeida, Georg Baselitz, Francesco Clemente, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Long, Gerhard Richter, Julião Sarmento, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Rachel Whiteread, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
00 Drawings 2000, Brabara Gladstone Gallery, New York City, USA
Arte Portuguesa Contemporânea – Colecção MEIAC, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal
Die Intelligenz der Hand Europäische Zeichnungen von Picasso bis Beuys, Salzburg, Austria, Rupertinum
Snapshot An Exhibition of 1,000 Artists, Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, Maryland
The Mnemosyne Project Encontros de Fotografia de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Colecção Banco Privado para Serralves, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“anos 60, 70, 80” Pintura Portuguesa, Antiks Design, Lisbon, Portugal
Het oorkussen van de Melancholie, The pilow of the Melancholy, Museum voor Schone Kunste, Gand, Belgium
1999
A Film Installation, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Julião Sarmento, Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles, Belgium
Directions –Julião Sarmento – Fundamental Accuracy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
1998
Veneno, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Julião Sarmento, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Suffering, Despair and Ascent, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
1997
Julião Sarmento – Pintura e Desenho, Galeria J.M. Gomes Alves, Guimarães, Portugal
XLVII Biennale di Venezia, Portuguese Pavillion, Palazzo Vendramini ai Carmini, Venice, Italy
Kitakyushu – Project Gallery, Urban Corpo, Kitakyushu, Japan
Werke 1981 – 1996, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
Suffering, Despair and Ascent, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
1996
Desenhos – Ilustrations for “Justine et Juliette” du Marquis de Sade, Lisbon, Portugal
Selfish, Proud, Cunning and Regardless of Others, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Two Rooms, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
The House with the Upstairs in it, London Projects, London, UK
Galeria da Universidade do Minho, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal
1995
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Laura and Alice, Galerie Béla Jarzik, Köln, Germany
Quatre Mouvements de la Peur, Edifício das Caldeiras, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal
Only a moment or two of brutal madness, Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles, Belgium
1994
The White Paintings, Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montréal, Québec, Canada
IVAM, Centre del Carme, Valence, Spain
Laura and Alice, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Münich, Germany
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
Pintura e Desenho, Galeria J. M. Gomes Alves, Guimarães, Portugal
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2022
Histórias de uma Coleção: Arte Moderna e Contemporânea da Fundação Gulbenkian, curated by Patrícia Rosas, Rita Fabiana, Leonor Nazaré and Ana Vasconcelos, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Belonging, The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
2021
Matéria Luminal, curated by Sérgio Mah, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
O Pequeno Mundo, A partir da coleção da CGD, curated by Sérgio Mah, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Modus Operandi, Obras da Coleção de Serralves, curated by Philippe Vergne, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Afinidades Eletivas, Palácio de São Bento, curated by Delfim Sardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Entre as Palavras e os Silêncios, Obras de Coleção Norlinda e José Lima, curated by Luísa Soares de Oliveira and Andreia Guimarães, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal
A Collection without Boundaries – International Art since 1990, Galleria Civica d’Arte Morderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Sobressalto, Coleçao Norlinda e José Lima, Centro Artes Agueda, Agueda, Portugal
2020
Estudos de Luz Indícios, Reflexos e Sombras na Coleção de Serralves, Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Pulse, Carpintaria (Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Exposição Invisível, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Spectrum Colecção Centro de Artes Visuais / Encontros de Fotografia, CAV Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
2019
Julião Sarmento / Luís Paulo Costa, Museu José Malhoa,Caldas da Raínha, Portugal
Expanded First Stone, Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy
Constellations une chorégraphie de gestes minimaux, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Hommage aux estampes de la vallée du fleuve Côa, Musée Côa, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal
2018
Arte Portuguesa. Razões e Emoções, MNAC Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2016
Dépense, Lab-Labanque Béthune, Béthune, France
2013
M&EX PLICIT, commissaire Luc Derycke, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Gand, Belgium
Planos de Expansão, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
VI Biennale de Jafre, Jafre, Spain
Fuso 2013 – Anual de Vídeo Arte Internacional de Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Capitale(s), Galerie Gourvennec Ogor, Marseille, France
2012
Galicia, Mon Amour. Folly, Fantasy and Phantasm, Commissaire : Danna Heller, BWA SOKOL Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nowy Sacz, Poland
Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
1960-2010 Arte Portuguesa no Seculo XX, Commissaire : Maria Emilia Tavares, MNAC Museo do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Juegos de Lenguage, Commissaire : Jose Jimenez, Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain
Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, Etats-Unis ; Museum de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Remote Viewing, Commissaire : Paul Young and Estelle af Malmborg,Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
O Castelo em 3 Actos : Assalto, Destruição e Reconstrução, Commissaire :Paulo Cunha e Silva, Paço dos Duques, Guimarães, Portugal
Supertemporal. A Selection of videos from LOOP/Screen from Barcelon, Commissaire : Paul Young and Estelle af Malmborg, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
6th Bienal Internacional de Gravura de Douro, Museu do Côa, Portugal
2010
Filmes e Vídeos da colecção do CAM, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Linguagem e Experiência. Obras da Colecção da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Centro Cultural Palácio do Egipto, Oeiras, Portugal
Exposição Colectiva de Pintura, Cordeiros Galeria, Porto, Portugal
La pieza que falta, Factoría Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Sous la Dictée de l’Image, Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon, Portugal
2007
Iniciativa X 07, AC – Arte Contempo, Lisbon, Portugal
Antena 3 – Deificar o homem, Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, Barbican, London, UK
Existencias, MEtats-Unisc – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Art Protects, Yvon Lambert – Paris, France
Le cinque anime della scultura, Cesac – Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy
On Memory, Johan Deumens, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Secuencias – 1976-2006. Arte contemporáneo en las colecciones públicas de Extremadura, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
O debuxo por diante, CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, Spain
2006
VAC, IVAM – Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
THE 1980s – A TOPOLOGY, Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
CABINET D’AMATEUR II, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal
The invisible Show, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo di Fassa, Italy
Vigo Group Show, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
Contemporary Portugal, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lituania
Entre la palabra y la imagen, Fundación Luis Seoane, Coruna, Spain
Sin limites. Fotografias de la coleccion fundacao Serralves, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Kunst und Photographie, Photographie und Kunst, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Group Show, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israël
XX-Visões no Feminino, CAV – centro de artes visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
Territorio Oeste, MACUF Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa, Corogne, Spain
Anagramme, MAC’s Grand Hornu – Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium
Hollywood Boulevard, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Selected Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2005
INICIATIVA X – 05, AC – Arte Contempo, Lisbon, Portugal
Group Exhibition, Galeria Antonio Henriques, Viseu, Portugal
Selected Drawings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
O contrato social, Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, Lisbon, Portugal
Romance, recommended institution Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Major Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Feminae, Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Obras entorno a la ciudad, CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2004
L’escalade du désir, Galerie Friedrich, Basel, Suisse
Sonderaktion Graphiken und Bücher, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Half a century of Portuguese Art 1944 – 2004, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Bloomsday 16. Juni 1904 – 16. Juni 2004, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
2003
Colecção de arte contemporãnea da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
Group Show, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Graphische Suiten der Edition Bernd Klüser, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Long Term Loan Isabel Vaz Lopes, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
upon reflection…., Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Desire, Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna – GAM, Bologna, Italy
Nonlinear Editing, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
Learning From Africa, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Atom Egoyan / Julião Sarmento – Something is missing, Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Rotativa – Fase 2, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2001
Group Exhibition, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Domestic Acts, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Desire, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Re-Location – on moving, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
2000
On Language, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
1999
Tage der Dunkelheit und des Lichts – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Portugal, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Linhas de Sombra, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão , Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
1998
Corpus Virtu, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany
Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon, Portugal
Casa do Infante, Câmara Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
CCA Kytakyushu, Kytakyushu, Japan
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal
Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Lisbonne, Portugal
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
Coleção BESarte, Lisbonne, Portugal
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
Ellipse Foundation, Lisbonne, Portugal
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Fondazione Amelio, Naples, Italy
Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Turin, Italy
Fondo Artistico dello Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee della Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação das Descobertas, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporãnea, Porto, Portugal
Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação Luso-Americana Para o Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundación “La Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
Galerija Grada, Zagreb, Croatia, Croatia
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Leichtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
MAC’s Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium
Madeira Corporate Services Collection (CMCS), Funchal, Portugal
Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ministerio das Financas, Lisbon, Portugal
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Uttica, New York, USA
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Musée national d’Art moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Anvers, Belgium
Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Novagalicia Banco, A Coruña, Spain
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA
Regia di Caserta (Terrae Motus), Caserta, Italy
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, Lisbon, Portugal
SMAK, Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Stadt Museet, Lund, Sweden
Städtische Galerie, Erlangen, Germany
Städtische Galerie, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Städtische Galerie, Markt, Schwabisch Hall, Germany
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Israel Phoenix Assurance Co. Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York City, USA
The Saison Foundation, Takanawa, Japan
The Tate Collection, London, United Kingdom
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Washington State University Collection, Pullman, Washington, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
2018
Julião Sarmento: Reel Time, Katy Noble, Cristina Guerra Contempoary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Timeline: Julião Sarmento, Delfim Sardo, Documenta / Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2017
VOID * Julião Sarmento, Pedro Faro, Alexandre Melo and Sara Antónia Matos, Atelier Júlio Pomar Museum / Documenta, Lisbon, Portugal
2016
Julião Sarmento – The artist as he is, conversations with Sara Antónia Matos and Pedro Faro, Documenta – Cadernos do Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento: As Good As It Gets, João Silvério, Martina Munivara, and Branko Franceschi, Ustanova za kulturu, Galerija Kula, Split, Croatia
At the Edge of Breathing, Miguel von Hafe Pérez, Fernando Rocha, and Guilherme Pinto, Blue Book / Matosinhos City Hall, Matosinhos, Portugal
Julião Sarmento: la chose, même – the real thing, Ami Barak, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France Two Twins. Matosinhos, Miguel von Hafe Pérez, Fernando Rocha, and Guilherme Pinto, Blue Book /Matosinhos City Hall, Portugal
Un Peso de Un Gesto: Colecciones “la Caixa”, MACBA y Gulbenkian, “la Caixa” Foundation, Barcelona
[V] or Simone de Beauvoir. Marguerite Duras., the artist, Estoril, Portugal
2015
Afinidades Electivas | Julião Sarmento Coleccionador, Fundacão EDP, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento shadow pieces on Body frames, João Silvério, Circulo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
2014
Julião Sarmento, Jacinto Lageira, MAMAC Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Julião Sarmento : Guest or Host?, David Barro, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
Show Time : The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, Jens Hoffman, DAP, New York, Etats-Unis
Julião Sarmento, The Selective Glance, Sergio Mah, Riccardo Passoni and Sanilo Eccher, Silvana Editorale, Milan, Italy
2013
JULIÃO SARMENTO : UNA FORMA EXTREMA DE PRIVACIDAD, Chrissie Iles, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexique
Julião Sarmento : Fado (Com Carminho), Projecto Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Cooperativa Arvore, Casino da Povoa, Parousia, Portugal
Regard Oblique, Essais sur la perception: La Lettre vole, Jacinto Lageria
Julião Sarmento, Prémio de Artes Casino Da Póvoa 2013, Olhar Animal, Portugal
One Hundred and Seventy One Entertainment Celebrities, MER Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent, Belgium
Julião Sarmento : Fado (Com Carminho), Projecto Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon, Portugal
Sarmento, Julião. One Hundred Seventy One Entertainment Celebrities, MER Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent, Belgium
2012
Julião Sarmento: White Nights, Hatje Cantz, Germany
Julião Sarmento: Women, Houses, Plants (2008-2011), Edicoes Almedina, S.A., Portugal
Julião Sarmento : White Nights, Hatje Cantz, Germany
2011
Julião Sarmento 2000 – 2010, Cac Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Julião Sarmento : Artists and Writers / House and Home, Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, New York, USA
75 fotografias, 35 mulheres, 42 anos / Juliao Sarmento, Sergio Mah, Athena, Lisbon, Portugal
75 fotografias, 35 mulheres, 42 anos: Juliao Sarmento, Lisbon, Portugal
2010
Julião Sarmento – The Laura and Alice Series 1994/1997, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain
Julião Sarmento: Grace Under Pressure, Delfin Sardo, Estacao Pinoteca
The Real Thing Juliao Sarmento, Athena, Lisbon, Portugal
2009
Julião Sarmento 1992-1994, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Literal: Juliao Sarmento, Centro Jose Guerrero, Grenada, Spain
2007
Julião Sarmento, Série “Silhuetas Negras” / The “Black Silhouette” Series, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento : Catalogue Raisonné, Galeria Arte Modern E Contemporanea, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
The Players – Julião Sarmento, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal
VAC: coleccion Valencia arte contemporaneo, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
2004
Juliao Sarmento, Paulo Herkenhoff, Eve Meyer-Hermann and Antonio Damaso, Echo, Spain
2003
Drift: A Work by John Baldessari, Juliao Sarmento, Lawrence Weiner, Grafica Maiadouro, Portugal
O Sonho de um Curioso, Anabela Mota Ribeiro, Dom Quixote, Lisbon, Portugal
2002
As imagens e as coisas, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Campo das Letras, Porto, Portugal
2001
Julião Sarmento Obra Recent, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Catálogo de la Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación “la Caixa,” Barcelona, Spain
2000
Julião Sarmento, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Julião Sarmento Slow Motion, ESTGAD, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
L’intelligenza della mano: da Picasso a Beuys, publié par Regione Autonoma Friuili–Venezia Giulia et Comune di Gorizia – Assessorato alla Cultura, Gorizia, Italy
Portugal Contemporâneo, João Pinharanda and António Costa Pinto, Madrid, Spain
Duplo constrangimento, Almeida Sequitur, Pinto de Bernardo, Porto, Portugal
1999
Julião Sarmento: Flashback, Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Julião Sarmento, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Panorama Arte Portuguesa no Século XX, Pernando Pernes and Alexandre Melo, BPI/ Fundacao Serralves/ Campo das Letras, Porto, Portugal
Matérias sensíveis, Maria Filomena Molder, Relógio d’Agua, Lisbon, Portugal
2000 Anos de Arte em Portugal, Paulo Pereira, Temas e Debates, Lisbon, Portugal
1998
Julião Sarmento, Galerie d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
John Murphy – Julião Sarmento: A Conversation Piece, publié par the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
Cinemacchine del desiderio, Teresa Macrì, Genova-Milano, Italy
Artes plásticas em Portugal dos anos 70 aos nossos dias, Alexandre Melo, Lisbon, Portugal
Alguns corpos: imagens da arte portuguesa entre 1960 e 1990, João Lima Pinharanda, Lisbon, Portugual
1997
Julião Sarmento: Casanova, Biennale de Venice (Pavillon Portugais), Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis
Suffering, Despair and Ascent, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis
1996
Le Petit dictionnaire des artistes contemporains, Pascale Thorel-Daviot, Paris, France
The 20th Century Art Book, London, UK
1995
Extremo Occidente, Arte portugués contemporáneo en la Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Rekalde, Bilbao, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Electa, Italy
Julião Sarmento: Werke 1981–1996, Haus der Kunst Munchen, Munich, Germany
Abstract and tartarugas, João Miguel Fernandes Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
História da arte portuguesa, Paulo Pereira, Lisbon, Portugal
1991
Depois de Amanha, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
Sarmento, IVAM, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain
Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Julião Sarmento – “The White Paintings.” Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Canada
Contemporary Art From Portugal: Western Lines, Hara Museum ARAC, Shinagawa, Japan
Julião Sarmento, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1990
10 Contemporaneos, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Der Gefrorene Leopard/The Frozen Leopard, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Julião Sarmento, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Julião Sarmento, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Terrae Motus alla Reggia Di Caserta, Electa Napoli & Guida Editori, Caserta, Italy
Tripitico, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Pintura Portuguesa No seculo XX, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Porto, Portugal
1988
De Verzameling 11, Bert De Beul, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium
“Dias De Escuro E De Luz,” Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Julião Sarmento – Gemalde und Arbeiten auf Papier, Stadtische Galerie am Markt, Schwabisch Hall, Germany
Ultima Frontier – 7 Artistes Portuguesos, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Vom Haben Und Vom Wollen, Perspektiven Fur Eine Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Eine Ausstellung, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Haus der Kuns, Munich, Germany
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Atlantica, Porto, Portugal
Farbe Bekennen – Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Basler Privatbesitz, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel and Wiese Verlag AG, Basel, Suisse
Julião Sarmento-Obras Sobre Papel, 1981-86, publié par la Fundacion Luis Cernuda, Sevilla, Spain
1985
Julião Sarmento, Museo de Bellas artes de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Lusitanies – aspect de l’art Contemporain Portugais, Centre Culturel de l’Albigeois, Albi, France
Prospect 86, Franfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort, Germany
Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Julião Sarmento-As Velocidades Da Pele, Galeria Comicos Editores, Lisbon, Portugal
Julião Sarmento-Bilder Und Zeichnungen 1986-1988, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Dicionario De Pintores E Escultores Portugueses, Fernando de Pamplona, Porto, Portugal
Historia da Arte Em Portugal, (Volume 13 – “De 1945 a actualidade”), Rui Mario Goncalves, Publicaoes Alfa, Lisbon, Portugal
1983
Julião Sarmento, Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Terrae Motus 1, Villa Campoliento, Ercolano, Italy
La Imagen Del Animal – Arte Prehistorico Arte Contemporaneo, Casa del Monte, Madrid, Spain
Kunst Mit Photographie, Frolich & Kaufman, Berlin, Germany
Depois Do Modernismo, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal
Arte Contemporanea Portuguesa/Portuguese Contemporary Art, Alexandre Melo et Joao Pinharanda, Lisbon, Portugal
Breve Introducao A Historia Da Pintura Portuguesa No Seculo XX, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Porto, Portugal
1982
Pinturas 1981/82, Casa de Bocage, Setubal, Portugal
1981
Erotik in Der Kinst Heute, JWOW Basto, Cerveira Pinto, Julião Sarmento, Leonel Moura, Cooperativa
Arvore, Porto, Portugal
1980
11eBiennale de Paris, Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Quelques cineastes venus des autres arts, Ana Hatherly, in CinémAction, Paris, France
1979
Foto–Geschichten, Kunstforum International, Berlin, Germany
Julião Sarmento, Representation a la Biennale de Paris 1980, Secretaria de Estado da Cultura and Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Fotografie Als Kunst, Kunst Als Fotografie, Floris M. Neususs, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, Germany
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Julião Sarmento
SOLO SHOW – ABSTRACTO, BRANCO, TóXICO E VOLáTIL
Julião Sarmento - Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil
Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
From May 12, 2022 to January 1st, 2023
Bringing together a significant set of works that marked his career, th selection presented here is the fruit of a close collaboration between the late artist and the curator Catherine David. A title of one of his 1997 works, “Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil” is the first major exhibition of Julião Sarmento since his passing.
Julião Sarmento
JULIAO SARMENTO (1948 – 2021)
Photo: pf.Elle.J
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Juliao Sarmento, yesterday May 4, in Lisbon.
Born in 1948, Juliao Sarmento was a major figure of Portuguese art from the 1970s onwards. He was among the first of his generation to achieve wide international recognition, exhibiting in numerous prestigious museums (including the Tate Modern in London, the Centro Contemporáneo de Malaga in Spain, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the Fundaçao Serralves in Porto). Throughout his life, he carved a place for himself among the great thinkers and artists of contemporary art. His work explored the terrain of desire and representation in an approach combining painting, video, sound and visual installations. Exploiting a huge variety of combinations, Sarmento created an oeuvre with recurring motifs: the archetypal woman, modernist architectural images, plant-like lines, references to literature and the cinema. A large part of his work addresses issues of fragmentation, the gap between the real and fictional.
Fluent in French and a lover of French culture and cinema, Juliao Sarmento was widely admired in our country, where his work was the subject of many museum exhibitions, including Pompidou, MAMAC in Nice or most recently the Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris.
A passionate artist, Juliao Sarmento radiated with relentless curiosity and fierce energy. Profoundly humane and generous, he we will greatly missed.
Our thoughts are with his family.
Julião Sarmento
STRIP CLUB – SOLO SHOW
From February 26 to May 31, 2021
Janela “Taffimai”, Calçada Castelo Picao, 32, Lisboa
For the new Janela edition, “Taffimai” invited artist Julião Sarmento to intervene with the neon installation Strip Club, which occupies most of the Janela’s area. Strip Club ironically promises to transform the plant store Limbo Shop into a striptease club, inviting whoever passes by the Janela to come inside. As the store is closed by law, the artist’s invitation reveals itself as a provocation, the ultimate game of seduction. This edition of Janela is not just one more game we came to get used to in Julião Sarmento’s work, but it is mostly a reminder that we, in fact cannot come in, cannot enjoy, cannot participate in all of what Lisbon’s streets have to offer.
Julião Sarmento
JAPANESE TRAFFIC YELLOW TIDE – SOLO EXHIBITION
From February 15 to April 23, 2021
CCA Gallery, 2-5 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan
Julião Sarmento presents his solo exhibition “Japanese Traffic Yellow Tide” at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan : “Standing alone in the exact center of the room, the one defined by the crossing of both diagonals on the floor, I imagine a colour. Not just any colour but one which can transport me to unknown pleasures and places of delight. A colour connected to freedom and self-improvement. A colour I particularly fancy and often use in my work. A colour that sets my good mood in. A colour like the colour of New York City cabs. Traffic Yellow. RAL 1023. I then imagine how many gallons of paint would it be necessary to fill up the room I’m standing in, up to the tip of my head, shy only of my scalp, with me inside, in the center, completely still. To fill up the room with paint up to 186 cm which is my height, shy only of the hairs on top of my head. Like an immense yellow tide. I imagine a room as a sink, with a hole in the bottom through which the paint disappears once the room is filled the way I imagined. And then the result. A yellow room completely covered in yellow paint up to a quota of 186 cm. A simple equation. A simpler gesture ? ”- Julião Sarmento
Julião Sarmento
ESTUDOS DE LUZ – INDÍCIOS, REFLEXOS E SOMBRAS NA COLEÇÃO DE SERRALVES – GROUP SHOW
From November 19, 2020 to January 17, 2021
Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes, Vila Nova de Gaia, Rua D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto Portugal
The exhibition presents the work of several artists taking part of the Coleção de Serralves which explores the different potentialities of light. The artists represented in “Estudos de Luz” manage, whatever the variety of means, materials and processes, to put their research at the service of the visual representation of light.
Julião Sarmento
MAIS NADA SE MOVE EN CIMA DO PAPEL – GROUP SHOW
From November 14, 2020 to April 21, 2021
CAA Centro de Artes de Águeda, Rua Joaquim Valente Almeida, nº 30, 3750-154 Águeda, Portugal
Framed in the cycle O Desenho como Pensamento do CAA – Centro de Artes de Águeda, the exhibition takes up the first line of a poem by Al Berto for its title and brings together works by artists who over the years have worked on drawing as an undisciplined register, sometimes transversal to their practices.The works on display show that the drawing is not very tangible, comparable to a thought, gaining body and acquiring sculptural, sound, atmospheric and spatial formulations.
Julião Sarmento
O PEQUENO MUNDO – GROUP SHOW
From November 1st, 2020 to February 21, 2021
Museum of Contemporary Art Nadir Afonso, Av. 5 de Outubro, 105400-017 Chaves, Portugal
O pequeno mundo is a group exhibition that brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and photographs by 24 Portuguese artists, including many of the major figures from the Portuguese art scene. This exhibition evokes one of the most distinctive features of artistic practice: the possibility or vocation, to create peculiar, in-between or parallel worlds, that question the realities in which we live.
Julião Sarmento
EM PERSPETIVA – COLEÇÃO PORTUGUESA DO MEIAC – GROUP SHOW
From October 31, 2020 to March 31, 2021Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Calle Museo, s/n, 06003 Badajoz, Spain
The collection of the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), includes works by the most emblematic artists of Portuguese contemporary art. Since its inauguration in 1995, it has continued to enrich itself by incorporating new references, giving way to new means of artistic expression such as digital art.