Joana Duarte
Portugal, 1999. Between the Netherlands and Portugal.
I grew up inside a curated family archive where photographs were coherent but lived experience was not. At a certain point, I was told my memories were unreliable. That fracture revealed how easily images replace experience, and how authority decides what becomes believable.
My practice begins from this instability. Through transfer, chemical intervention, fragmentation, and participation, images are allowed to fail and to change through contact.
Family albums do not preserve truth. They produce it.
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Currently a Master’s Student in Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. Has a BA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and two postgraduate degrees in Art Curatorship and Museology from NOVA University of Lisbon.
Selected Exhibitions
2026
– “Capsules”, Luxembourg Art Week, LU
– “Miroir Miroir”, La Biennale de l’Image Possible/BIP, Liège, BE
– “ONGEKEND Young Masters @ Auction“, Adams Amsterdam Auctions, KERSGALLERY, Amsterdam, NL
– “To be Frank”, Kel-30, Biotoop, Haren, NL
– “Red: Pain as a Condition”, Period Gallery, Sydney, AU
– Arco Lisboa Art Fair, with Carpe Diem and Millennium bcp Foundation, PT
– “Run, Pony, Run”, The Old waiting Room, NoisyroomProjects, London, UK
– “Framed”, Ongering Kunsthandel, Groningen, NL
– “To Bergen, With Love”, Gallery Taxi, Bergen, NO
– “Strategy of Gestures”, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, FI
– “Receipts of Becoming”, online, Molly and Friends Gallery, New York, US
– Eurosonic Noorderslag Festival, Groningen, NL
2025
– “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Lies”, Raamgalerie De Prachtvink, Groningen, NL
– “Laboratório de Coisas Inúteis II”, Alhandra, PT
– “What is the first image you remember?”, Zero Art Space, Tokyo, JP
– “Retrospectiva”, Centro Cultural do Morgado, PT
– “Corrente de Ar”, Lisboa, PT
2024
– “MNJC – National Young Creators”, Lamas Museum, PT
– FARRA — “A Raia”, organized by MACE museum, Elvas, PT
– “Um Múltiplo é um múltiplo é um múltiplo”, Stollen books, Lisboa, PT
– “Novas Imagens do Passado”, (duo show) Gallery of the Piedade Palace, Vila Franca de Xira, PT
2023
– “Corrente de Ar”, Lisboa, PT
– “Young Art Prize 2023”, Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, PT
2022
– Photography Biennale, Vila Franca de Xira, PT
– “Reserva para o Futuro”, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisboa, PT
2020
– “Pedro Sousa Art Prize”, Drawing Biennale of Almada, PT
2018
– Paula Rego Prize Exhibition, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, PT
She won the Millennium BCP Young Art Prize 2023; In 2024, she took part in an artistic residency as part of the ‘A Raia’ project, at the Cortéx Frontal association (Arraiolos, Portugal). In 2025, she was selected for the “Laboratório de Coisas Inúteis” Artistic Creation Grant from Inestética Association (Portugal).
She’s represented in the following collections: Múltiplos – Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa; Córtex Frontal Collection; Joaquim Ferro Collection and other private collections.
Publications:
Visual Essay in Wrong-Wrong Magazine
Exhibition photos
“Capsules”, Luxembourg Art Week, Art Walk 2026 © Patty Neu
“Strategy of Gestures”, 2026. Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Exhibition view. © Milla Talassalo
FARRA, 2024. Exhibition view.
“What is The First Image you Remember?”, 2025. Tokyo. Exhibition view.
“Laboratório de Coisas Inúteis II”, 2025. Alhandra. Exhibition View.
“Laboratório de Coisas Inúteis II”, 2025. Alhandra. Exhibition View.
