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João Pimenta Gomes – New Age
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João Pimenta Gomes, New Age, 2026. Photo © tspt. Courtesy of the artist.
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João Pimenta Gomes (Lisbon, 1989) moves fluidly between the worlds of music and visual arts. While the visibility of his work as an instrumentalist and producer quickly established him as a recognised presence within the Portuguese music scene, his creative practice draws not only on sound but also on image, drawing and sculpture to conceive synergistic experiences, most of which are performative and durational. Often taking the characteristics of the spaces he occupies as a starting point, his projects tend to generate immersive environments in which interactions among objects, sound, and light are carefully orchestrated to produce continuous, engaging sensory experiences.
New Age is the latest manifestation of this ongoing line of enquiry. Comprising around ten resonant, leaf-like metal objects, the installation was conceived specifically for MAAT's Project Room, responding to the particular qualities of its architectural design.
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João Pimenta Gomes (Lisbon, 1989) is a visual artist and musician living and working in Lisbon. He studied Music Production, Photography, and Drawing, and was a guest lecturer in Sound and Image at the School of Arts, Universidade Católica do Porto.
Selected recent projects, exhibitions, and live performances include: Two Stereos, Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon, 2025; Line Array, Casa da Cerca, Almada, 2025; Last Sounds, Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon, 2024; Love Cry, Central Artística de Bueño (Fundación EDP), Bueño, 2023; Two Virgins, gnration, Braga, 2023; the group exhibition Esfíngico Frontal, Galeria Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, 2023; Poly-Free, MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, 2022; Alto Mar / Metavox, Palácio Nacional de Belém, Lisbon, and Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Aubervilliers, 2022; Doppelgänger III, Sound & Future, Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, 2022; Doppelgänger VII, Lux Frágil, Lisbon, 2022; Clouds, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin, 2021; and, as a member of the group Matéria Simples, A Ilha de Calipso, Appleton Garagem, and Micro Ressonâncias, Appleton Box, both in Lisbon, 2020.