ZDB

Mission

Created in 1994 as a nonprofit organization by a civic initiative, Galeria Zé dos Bois (ZDB) is an art center based in a 2.500m² palace in the heart of Bairro Alto, Lisbon. A creation, production and promotion structure for contemporary art, ZDB instigates the research and investigation of artists involved with visual and performing arts, as well as film and music. The center produces and presents exhibitions, and hosts more than 150 arts events per year, including residencies, educational programs, theater, dance performances, lectures, and music concerts. Driven by the desire to intensify and exchange knowledge with artists through creative practices, ZDB promotes international and local residencies and establishes long-term relationships with artists, aiming to produce unique projects.

Activities

Visual Arts
ZDB stimulates the artistic research and creation by providing means of production and visibility to national and international artists. All ZDB’s exhibitions are accompanied by actions of the Educational Department such as cinema cycles, debates, guided tours and workshops.

Negócio – Performative Arts
ZDB develops and hosts more than 30 artistic residencies and/or plays per year. Focusing on co-productions and on-site creation, our team assists all the creation process, supporting design, production, communication, presentation and promoting its circulation. In addition to supporting independent creators, ZDB has been welcoming and developing synergies with a significant number of associated structures.

ZDBmüzique – Music
ZDBmüzique seeks to give space to creative manifestations in music and it aims to promote transgressive and exploratory music acts, with different techniques and languages: improvised music, electroacoustic, jazz, modern pop, rock and noise. ZDBmüzique also promotes the creation (with artistic residencies) and circulation of music through partnerships with other institutions such as: Casa da Música, Serralves, Teatro Maria Matos, Teatro Aveirense, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Gnration, Teatro Municipal da Guarda amongst others.

Department of Education
ZDB’s department of education was born in 2005. It aims to stimulate the reflection on the field of artistic production in a constructive and participative way. The department of education conducts regular guided tours to exhibitions, settled by appointment; it also carries out programs in the scope of public education and provides access to a specific program of performing arts.

History

ZDB started in 1994 as a non-profit association. Its purpose, was to “promote exhibitions, installations, video shows, performances, musical performances and other activities” in the artistic field. The primordial aim of ZDB’s fifteen founders was to create an alternative structure to the institutional and commercial panorama that they faced in the beginning of the decade of 1990. At present, ZDB still retains the identity that made its history, a transversal idea of public service who values the spirit of collaboration and empathy, constantly searching for new audiences, but always maintaining a strong relationship with the surrounding community, while stimulating debate and participation.

Team

Art Curation and Visual Arts Management
Natxo Checa

Programming and Performative Arts Management
Marta Furtado

Programming and Music Production
Marcos Silva

Communication
Catarina Rebelo

Production
Caetana Meneses

Programming Segundas na z
Laura Gama Martins

Curator (ZDB Bookstore exhibitions)
Joana Leão

Educational Programme
Cristiana Freitas

Accounting
Contatraduz

Graphic Design
Sílvia Prudêncio

Graphic Design (segundas na z and ZDB Bookstore exhibitions)
Maria Clara Lima

Archive Management
Inês Henriques

Technical Manager
Olga Matviychuk

Bookstore
Alexandre Rendeiro

Electrical Technician
Ricardo Ferreira

Maintenance
Cesário Dias
Ivete Gomes

Installation and Building Maintenance
Vitalyi Tkachuk (Volunteer)

Bar Manager
Rui Barbosa

Front of house and bar
Bernardo Pereira, Delano Queiroz, Carlos Gaspar, Francisca Sarmento, Francisco Correia, Ícaro Lira, Mariana do Carmo, Mafalda Riobom, Margarida Magalhães, Mauro Soares, Rita Peças

Text Editing
Alexandre Ribeiro, André Santos, Bruno Silva, Nuno Afonso

Sócios

To enjoy ZDB’s membership status and have the membership card we propose an annual fee of 30€. The ZDB Membership Card offers:

⟡ Free entrance to all exhibitions

⟡ Free entrance for 1 concert per month to be designated by ZDB *

⟡ Free entrance for 3 concerts at ZDB at the members’ choice *

⟡ Free entrance to 2 performing arts sessions at members’ choice *

⟡ Free access to ZDB Terrace and 49 Bar

To be a ZDB Member or renew your annual membership simply fill out this membership form. Payment can be made at the entrance of ZDB on working days or by transfer via mail: reservas@zedosbois.org

* upon reservation with 48h in advance

Performing Arts

Theater

A Casa da Praia (replacement)

— na ZDB 8 Marvila

Fri13.09.2407:00PM

Sat14.09.2407:00PM

Wed18.09.2407:00PM

Thu19.09.2407:00PM

Fri20.09.2407:00PM

Sat21.09.2407:00PM

ZDB 8 Marvila — Praça David Leandro da Silva 2, 1950-131 Lisboa

11th to 21st September 2024
Wednesday to Saturday at 7pm

In 2019, TMV premiered A CASA DA PRAIA, an autobiographical monologue in which the story of a family is told in the first person, recounting the lives of three generations: a grandfather, a son and a granddaughter, and which follows the history of the country: the departure for the former colonies (Mozambique), 25 April and the return movement.

‘A Casa da Praia’ is Anabela Almeida’s grandparents’ house in Mozambique. That’s where, in the early 1970s, the family spent their weekends, 200 kilometres from Nampula, on Chocas beach. In 2019, the family returned to Nampula and to Chocas beach. How has the passage of time altered the family’s memories, feelings and vision of the events of that time? The show recovers this personal experience in parallel with the history of a people undergoing profound change. It grasps memory – a unique memory, in the first person, or in many first persons. Stories of personal, intimate upheavals, crossed with the collective memory of a group, which later becomes the official history of a people.

Fri13.09.2407:00PM

Sat14.09.2407:00PM

Wed18.09.2407:00PM

Thu19.09.2407:00PM

Fri20.09.2407:00PM

Sat21.09.2407:00PM

ZDB 8 Marvila — Praça David Leandro da Silva 2, 1950-131 Lisboa

11th to 21st September 2024
Wednesday to Saturday at 7pm

Entrance

10€
15€ general pass ("A Casa da Praia" + 'A Outra Casa da Praia")

Age Rating

M/12

ARTISTIC DIRECTION AND INTERPRETATION

Anabela Almeida

CO-CREATION AND DRAMATURGY

Alfredo Martins

IMAGE

Catarina Braga

VIDEO EDITING

Jorge Jácome

CONSULTANCY AND RESEARCH

João Pedro George

RESEARCH SUPPORT

Ana Maria Simões, Sara Duarte

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION

Manuel Poças

COPRODUCTION

teatro meia volta e depois à esquerda quando eu disser, Galeria Zé dos Bois

SUPPORT

Governo de Portugal – Ministério da Cultura/Direcção-Geral das Artes

CREATIVE RESIDENCY

Maputo, Nampula and Praia das Chocas

PREVIEW

November 2019, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisboa

Related Programme

Performing Arts

A Outra Casa da Praia (estreia)

— at ZDB 8 Marvila

Fri13.09.2409:30PM

Sat14.09.2409:30PM

Wed18.09.2409:30PM

Thu19.09.2409:30PM

Fri20.09.2409:30PM

Sat21.09.2409:30PM

ZDB 8 Marvila — Praça David Leandro da Silva 2, 1950-131 Lisboa

Next Events

William Basinski

— ZDB at the Rectory of NOVA Lisbon

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Mon19.05.2509:00PM

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— ZDB at Capitólio

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— ZDB at Igreja St. George

Fri21.02.2510:00PM

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Galeria Zé dos Bois

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Galeria Zé dos Bois

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Galeria Zé dos Bois

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Galeria Zé dos Bois

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Galeria Zé dos Bois

Julián Mayorga ⟡ Fofis

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Galeria Zé dos Bois

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Sat25.01.2510:00PM

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— collective exhibition

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my vent is making a weird sound is this normal?

— exhibition by Inês Mendes Leal

15.11 — 01.02.25

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