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Visual Arts Cycle welcomes visual artist Xana
On April 21, 2026, at 3:00 p.m., the Visual Arts Cycle will host Xana, a visual artist and professor in the Visual Arts programme at the University of Algarve. The event will take place in room 2.37 of FCHS, on the Gambelas campus, with free admission.
Xana was born in Lisbon in 1959. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts (1984), the same year he moved to Lagos, in the Algarve. In that city, since 1995, he has developed the project LAC – Laboratório de Artes Criativas together with other artists. He is a co-author (with Isabel Cruz and Mirian Tavares) of the Visual Arts undergraduate programme at the University of Algarve. He was also a co-founder of Associação 289, in Faro, and in 2018 returned to live in Lisbon. He holds a PhD in Communication, Culture and Arts from the University of Algarve, with the project “Love, Freedom and Wisdom” (2019).
Since 1981, he has created numerous exhibitions, scenographies, and artistic interventions. In 2005, Culturgest, in Lisbon, presented an anthological selection of his works entitled “Opaque Art and Other Ghosts,” curated by Alexandre Pomar and Lúcia Marques.
In 2009, he created “Arc de Triomphe,” a sculptural intervention on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona (curated by João Pinharanda).
More recently, notable works include temporary public art installations and exhibitions of drawing, such as “Labirinto X002” at Associação 289, Faro; “LIBER/structures for building,” an installation in the gardens of MAAT, Lisbon (curated by João Pinharanda); “Rua Projetada à Rua do Ouvidor,” an exhibition of painting, drawing, and installation at Casa-Atelier Vieira da Silva / Arpad Szenes Vieira da Silva Museum, Lisbon; and “Drawing, Construction and Vertigo,” an exhibition of drawing and sculpture curated by Mirian Tavares and Pedro Cabral Santo at the Sagres Fortress.
Xana is also represented in several museums and public collections, including the State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE); Serralves Museum, Porto; Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt; MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology; Culturgest, Lisbon; and the Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
More information about the artist is available (here).
This event is supported by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the projects «UID/04019/2025 – CIAC» DOI: 10.54499/UID/04019/2025 and «UID/PRR/04019/2025» DOI: 10.54499/UID/PRR/04019/2025.
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