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
Alice Vale de Gato

Production
Caetana Meneses

Programming Segundas na z
Laura Gama Martins

Curator (ZDB Bookstore exhibitions)
Joana Leão

Assistance to the Visual Arts
Sofia Medeiros

Educational Programme
Inês Raposo

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)

Front of house and bar
Ana Margarida Magalhães, Aúna Nunes, Bernardo Pereira, Carlos Gaspar, Carlos Eça, Francisco Correia, Inês Correia Mendes, Mariana do Carmo, Matilde Basto, Mauro Soares, Rita Peças, Rodrigo Santos

Text Editing
Alexandre Ribeiro, André Santos, Bruno Silva, Miguel Rocha, 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 10 concert per year 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

Transdisciplinar

segundas na z

MONO NO AWARE ⟡ DJ CANSADA ~ segundas na z

Mon26.01.2610:00PM

Galeria Zé dos Bois

MONO NO AWARE

MONO NO AWARE (2025) is the name of an existential drift in .mp4 format, the result of an MA. More essay than film, it contemplates and reflects on the relationship between time, space, and thought in what constitutes human experience and the search for meaning.

[Direction, Sound, Editing, and Production — CID]

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DJ CANSADA — the beautiful bestie — keeps the night going with her extra spicy musical taste.

CID — aka Héloïse Maréchal

Web developer who, in the spare time, focuses on other more intangible topics such as memory and distance. Prefers not to define fixed boundaries, seeing rigidity as an artifice; finds hybridity more natural.

Dj Cansada

Variety DJ who will be playing 80s and 90s synthpop, Italo, old and new Balearic classics, cheesy new beat, soca, and zouk.

Mon26.01.2610:00PM

Galeria Zé dos Bois

Entrance

Free entrance.

Next Events

Music

Concerts

ZDB presents Lucrecia Dalt ‘A Danger to Ourselves’ @ B.Leza

Mon08.06.2609:30PM

B.Leza — Cais Gás 1, Lisboa

Zé dos Bois

Mission

Activities

History

Team

Sócios

MONO NO AWARE ⟡ DJ CANSADA ~ segundas na z

CID — aka Héloïse Maréchal

Dj Cansada

Entrance

Next Events

ZDB presents Lucrecia Dalt ‘A Danger to Ourselves’ @ B.Leza

Pharmakon ⟡ Ändlös Otukt

Eliana Glass

Waahsabi x ZDB: New Candys Lesma ⟡ Lesma

Bill Orcutt

caroline ⟡ Adriana João

— ZDB at B.Leza

Water Damage ⟡ Força Maior

Abdullah Miniawy Trio

Sir Richard Bishop presents ‘Hillbilly Ragas’ ⟡ Jooklo Duo

Rafael Toral: Guitar Concert

Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie ⟡ Garoa

Rún ⟡ Parque Império

Mihály Víg ⟡ Balaton

— play songs by Balaton, Trabant, and from Béla Tarr's films

Cafetra x ZDB: Éme presents ‘Colegas de Trabalho’

— with Éme & Colegas de Trabalho ⟡ Sallim & Orca ⟡ Felizes para Sempre ⟡ Hipster Pimba ⟡ Fetra DJ set

Richard Youngs ⟡ Âmbar

Colectivo Casa Amarela x ZDB: Jejum #38

— with Bby Eco and Yawning Portal

Elori Saxl & Henry Solomon ⟡ Vicente Mateus

These New Puritans

— ZDB at B.Leza

Nina Garcia ⟡ João Carreiro

Molly Nilsson ⟡ Scott Hardware [Sold Out]

ON: Smile! You’re on camera

— exhibition by Maria Peixoto Martins

Green Milk from the Planet Orange ⟡ Ficus

MONO NO AWARE ⟡ DJ CANSADA ~ segundas na z

The Unnamable

— exhibition by AnaMary Bilbao

Workshop visit to the exhibition ‘Memória Fantasma’ with the Educational Service

Memória Fantasma

— exhibition by Yonamine