Marco Godinho's approach leads him, with a certain economy of means, to use various media as active environments, installations, performative gestures, videos, sound pieces, drawings, sculptures, photographs as well as his writings, collaborative works, typographic compositions, artist books and scenography. Influenced by literature, poetry, philosophy, and nourished by a life punctuated by continuous displacements marked by diversity—whether social or cultural—Marco Godinho’s work offers a reflection on questions of exile, hospitality, geography, immigration, and is often the result of encounters with the living, between everyday objects and language elements. As he likes to define himself, a «nomadic traveler», he outlines the contours of a map of a world shaped by personal, biographical, and multicultural trajectories, intended to question us about our perception of the space and time in which we live.
His work has recently been presented in solo exhibitions including Les Tanneries, Amilly (2023-2024); Le Parvis, Tarbes (2019); Fonderie Darling, Montreal (2018); MAMAC, Nice (2016); MNAC, Lisbon (2015); Centre d’art Nei Liicht, Dudelange (2015); Museo Universitario Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin (2013); Faux Mouvement, Metz (2013); Casino Luxembourg (2016, 2013); Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg (2012); Galerie Hervé Bize, Nancy, France (2016, 2012, 2009, 2007) and group exhibitions at Louvre–Lens (2024); Biennale de Melle (2024, 2022) Museo Fortuny, Venice (2023-2024); Fondation CAB, Brussels (2023); Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso (2022); Galerie des grands bains douches, Marseille (2022); Mudam, Luxembourg (2022-2021, 2019, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2007); Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille (2021); Grimmuseum, Berlin (2021); Fondation Boghossian, Brussels (2020); Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (2019); TheCube & VT Artsalon, Taipei (2018); Magasin des Horizons, Grenoble (2018); CCK – Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (2018); Société, Brussels (2018); Institut Français de Saint-Louis – Biennale de Dakar, Senegal (2018); Galleria Alberta Pane, Venice (2017); MAC Val, Vitry-sur-Seine (2017); ARGOS, Brussels (2017); Quartier Général, La Chaux-de-Fonds (2017); Grey Noise Gallery, Dubai (2016); CAC, Malaga (2016); Wyspa, Gdansk (2014); Bienal Video y artes mediales, Santiago du Chile (2013); Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York (2013); Centre Pompidou & Frac Lorraine, Metz (2013); Fondation Berardo, Lisbon (2011); Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo (2011); Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (2011); Rencontres d’Arles (2010); Domaine Pommery, Reims (2008) among other venues.
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