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
Press
Journal des Arts - septembre 2014
Sarmento interpelle les contours du désir
Figaroscope - janvier 2012
Eloge du discours en chair et en os
New York Times - mai 2011
The Taut Dance of Word and Image
News
Julião Sarmento
ARCHITECTURE INTO ART: A DIALOGUE – GROUP SHOW
From October 10, 2020 to March 14, 2021
Fundación Botin, Muelle de Albareda s/n, Jardines de Pereda, 39004 Santander, Spain
This exhibition brings together a selection of works by artists who once directed a Fundación Botín visual arts workshop and exhibited their work in Santander, as well as some by former recipients of the foundation’s visual art grants. It explores the influence of architecture on art, and offers reflections on how architecture also shapes human lives and structures social interaction.
Julião Sarmento
RED LIGHT: SEXUALIDADE E REPRESENTAÇÃO NA COLEÇÃO NORLINDA E JOSÉ LIMA – GROUP SHOW
From September 26, 2020 to March 14 , 2021
Centro de Arte Oliva, Rua da Fundição, 240, 3700-119 S. João da Madeira, Portugal
RED LIGHT presents a selection of works from the Norlinda and José Lima art collection, having in common the approach to sexuality, declined in multiple themes, both presented in a complement of counterpoint and in a discordant confrontation : the representation of the body, male and female nudity, eroticism, fantasy, desire and pain, object and subject, pleasure and domination, places of female representation, male gaze, voyeurism, exhibitionism and self-representation in art.
Julião Sarmento
THE INVISIBLE SHOW – GROUP SHOW
From September 26, 2020 to January 10, 2021
Edifício-sede da, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Rua Arco do Cego, 50 , 1000–300 Lisbon, Portugal
The Invisible Show seeks to map these situations, based on the project with the same title presented by the curator Delfim Sardo in Spain and Israel, in 2007, only now in an enlarged version. Taking us back to modernist artists such as Raoul Hausmann, Luigi Russolo, Marinetti or Kurt Schwitters, the exhibition includes works by António Dias, James Lee Byars, Bruce Nauman, Luisa Cunha, Joan Jonas, Gonçalo Barreiros, Michael Snow, Julião Sarmento, Juan Muñoz and Gavin Bryars, Ricardo Jacinto, among many others.
Julião Sarmento
PROJECTOMAP 2010–2020. MAPA OU EXPOSIÇÃO – GROUP SHOW
From September 24, 2020 to January 10, 2021
Museu Coleção Berardo, Praça do Império, 1449-003 Lisboa, Portugal
Initiated in 2010, ProjectoMAP, “MAP” as an acronym for Map of Artists of Portugal, is a curatorial, research and mapping project for the universe of contemporary art in Portugal. Each artist is invited to suggest two names of central artists in their artistic and / or personal universe, and it is from this direct nomination that the map develops exponentially.
Julião Sarmento
FEAST. FURY. FEMINA – GROUP SHOW
From September 23, 2020 to January 25, 2021
maat — Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Av. Brasília, Belém, 1300-598 Lisboa, Portugal
The exhibition Feast. Fury. Femina – Works from the FLAD Collection marks the Luso-American Development Foundation´s 35th anniversary. It is the largest exhibition ever organized using the Foundation´s collection. It is comprised of 228 pieces by over 60 Portuguese artists, it evokes the performative dimension inherent to contemporary artistic practices and highlights the feminine dimension, demanding a renewed gaze on the History of Art.
Julião Sarmento
THE CLOSING LINE ALSO OPENS – GROUP SHOW
From May 18 to July 26
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Rua das Janelas Verdes 1249-017 Lisboa
In an group exhibition dedicated to Florentine Renaissance drawing and its Iberian extensions, Julião Sarmento’s work will be presented at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (MNAA) in Lisboa.Sarmento’s drawings impact on the balance of temporality, as well as on thematic and stylistic sequences that we might establish between artists belonging to a common cultural background. He has developed a long theory on linear images, as well as on interrupted or suspended actions. Julião Sarmento’s works are not studies, they are finished works. By reversing the Renaissance rules, they present the non finito as finito.
Julião Sarmento
WITHOUT – SOLO SHOW
CENTRO GALEGO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, CORUNA, SPAINFrom 09/11/2018 to 02/02/2019
The work of Julião Sarmento is shaped from the borderline. Many of his works contain images of images which, while inter-related, also function independently, embracing the ambiguity of their meaning. They are microstories that take on the multiple potential of cinema, somewhere between the explicit and secret; between what is personal and what is alien. They also share a kind of suspended duration. Julião Sarmento’s entire body of work projects this cinematographic sensation because when we look at his works we always get the feeling that there is something else there that is absent, something kept offstage. The exhibition at the CGAC is a panoramic view including works that reflect this feeling that cuts across his whole trajectory: cinematographic expression. It is not so much a question of highlighting a literal relationship—which is evident in many cases—but rather we seek to project how Sarmento has always explored this intermediate space between suspension and desire, in an interstitial space where the spectator becomes immersed, treading disturbing terrain like an foreigner, like a spectator. Curators: Santiago Olmo, David Barro
Julião Sarmento
EXPANDED – GROUP SHOW
FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI, VENICE, ITALYFrom 9/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
Julião Sarmento is participating in Expanded, the new exhibition of First Stone, an experimental international research programme that explores the potential of Portuguese Stone. Expanded features original works by Marina Abramović, Carsten Holler et Julião Sarmento. Produced in Portuguese stone, a million-year-old natural resource, they share this unifying element that bestows them with a deep timelessness and resilience, somewhat contradicting the chaos and superficiality of the contemporary world. Placed within the gardens of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, immersed in nature and displayed together, these pieces provide visitors with moments of experimentation and confrontation, underlining the value of art and culture in public spaces.