MARIA PITA GUERREIRO
PORTUGAL, (1991)
Experimental designer based between Lisbon and Stockholm.
Working at the intersection of design, craft, science, and health.
In parallel to my artistic practice, I work within production/coordination/administration of exhibitions and events.
NOW: UN_MUTE Residency, Värmeverket, Stckhlm, SE
PORTUGAL, (1991)
Experimental designer based between Lisbon and Stockholm.
In parallel to my artistic practice, I work within production/coordination/administration of exhibitions and events.
NOW:
Exhibition TAKE AWAY Gallery Duerr at Affordable Art Fair & Stockholm Craft Week
NEW PUBLICATION: Book “Lusophone World: “The Woman´s voice in Product Design”, desig. Daniel Vieira and Bernardo Providência, pub. IDEGUI - Design Institute Guimarães, PT
Book
“Lusophone World: “The Woman´s voice in Product Design”, desig. Daniel Vieira and Bernardo Providência, pub. IDEGUI - Design Institute Guimarães, PTEDUCATION
2018-20 MA - Design - KONSTFACK University of Arts, Crafts and Design - Stockholm, SE
2010 - 13 BA - Product design - FBAUL Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, PT / Facultad Bellas Artes Complutense Madrid, ES
2009- 10 BA - Painting - FBAUL Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, PT
2010 - 13 BA - Product design - FBAUL Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, PT / Facultad Bellas Artes Complutense Madrid, ES
2009- 10 BA - Painting - FBAUL Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, PT
COMPLEMENTARY COURSES:
- Graphic Design - Lisbon School of Design, Lisbon, PT
- ASH Arts, Science, and Health - Collab. between Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, Faculty of Media and Communications, University Singidunum, and NGO KONTEJNER ǀ bureau of contemporary art praxis - [online]
- Creative Course: product photography, set design, video - MOODELIER [online]
- Painting/Sculpture - National Society of Fine Arts of Lisbon, PT
- Glass blowing and ceramic techniques - Cencal - Marinha Grande / Caldas da Rainha, PT
WORK
- 2021-24 [present] Assistant to Ticket/Volunteer department, Stockholm International Film Festival, SE
- 2024 [present] Cinema Manager and Host, Cinema Skandia - Stockholm International Film Festival, SE
- 2021-24 [present] Exhibition Assistant, KONSTFACK Spring Exhibition, Stockholm, SE
- 2023 Exhibition Assistant "Fresh Brew", Kulturhuset Stadsteatern
, Stockholm, SE
- 2022-23 Planning Manager and host, Social Media Interactive Museum, Stockholm, SE
- 2021-22 Manager Assistant , MISSCHIEFS, Stockholm, SE
- 2021 Production coordinator, MISSCHIEFS Take Over Plattan - Sergels Torg, Stockholm, SE
- 2021 Designer intern - Material research studies, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Stockholm, SE
- 2020 Set Designer and Collaborator, SWOONS, Stockholm, SE
- 2018-21 Graphic designer / Content Creator, Tabacaria Gomes, Caminha, PT
- 2017-21 Graphic designer / Content Creator, Maxliss Profissional, Amsterdam, NL
- 2016-17 Designer, Muxima Bio, Lisbon, PT
- 2016 Ceramist, Studio Astolfi , Lisbon, PT ; Project: Vitrine Hermès Spring 2016
- 2016 Ceramist - OJEAM Studio, Lisbon, PT; Project: “Half for Montana” for Montana Lisboa / Underdogs gallery
- 2016-23 Designer collaborator, VICARA Design Studio, PT
- 2015 Scenography - OJEAM Studio; Project: OJEAM at Ritz Hotel, Lisbon, PT
- ︎2015-18 Assistant producer - Exhibitions/Events - Arquivo 237, Lisbon, PT
- 2015- 23 Co-founder and Designer, OJEAM Studio, Lisbon, PT
- ︎2014 Designer intern, Paratelier Architecture Studio, Lisbon, PT
- 2014 Assistant designer, Studio JAV, Lisbon, PT
- 2011-14 Collaborator and writer, Stand'Art Wall
GRANTS
Work grant; The Swedish Arts Grants Committee Konstnärsnämnden
Graduation Grant Award; Konstfack Stiftelser Nils Johan Sjöstedts Stiftelse
Scholarship Grant Konstfack: Beata Brummers Stiftelse and Ulla Fröberg Cramérs Stiftelse
LECTURES / TALKS
2023 Guest Lecturer - Research seminar UC, Master in Design for sustainability, Faculty of Fine Arts Uni. Lisbon, PT
2021 Guest Lecturer - Elective Course: Material Driven Design, Konstfack University, Stockholm, SE
2020 Guest Lecturer - Research seminar “Awareness”: PG course Information Driven Design, ESAD Uni. Oporto, PT
- 2019 Talk The Destinies of Senses THE WRONG BIENNALE 2019
2017 Talk ´XS Express’, University of Arts and Communication in Aveiro, PT
EXHIBITIONS [SELECTED]
- 2024 Take Away Gallery Duerr, Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm Craft Week, SE
- 2024 Future Materials, Festiwal Przemiany, Warsaw, PL
- 2024 Lusophone World: The woman’s voice in Product Design, IDEGUI - Instituto de Design de Guimarães, PT
- 2024 MOTHER, Värmeverket, Underverket Festival, Stockholm, SE
- 2024 Sympoiesis, Forum Art Braga, PT
- 2024 New Contemporary, Stockholm Creative Edition, Doubble Space, Stockholm, SE
- 2023 The Living Archive x Future Materials Lab Jan van Eyck Academie, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
- 2023 FINE DYING Misschiefs, Paris Design Week, Institute Suédois, Paris, FR
- 2023 Ars Electronica pship. Future Materials Lab Jan van Eyck Academie, Linz, AT
- 2022 Gallery OJO, Lisbon, PT
- 2022 FINE DYING Misschiefs, Milan Design Week, Fabricca Bini, Milan, IT
- 2022 FINE DYING, Stockholm Design Week, Misschiefs Linnégatan, Stockholm, SE
- 2022 10 Years VICARA Studio, Caldas da Rainha, PT
- 2021-23 Take Away, GalleriDuerr pship. SEART - Stockholm Design Week & Gallery Weekend Stockholm, SE
- 2020 Crafted & Curated, Through Objects, [online]
- 2020 The WRONG Degree Show, [online]
- 2020 OFF-SITE graduates show, Lusthuset, Stockholm, SE
- 2019 The Destinies of Senses THE WRONG BIENNALE, [online]
- 2019 Divergente, Museum Contemporary Arts Center, Azores, PT
- 2016-20 Maison & Object PARIS,FR
- 2019 From Portugal, Tokyo Interior Lifestyle, Tokyo, JP
- 2018-19 Changing Matters, 3 Days Of Design, Copenhagen, DK
- 2018 Núcleo Duro, Lisbon Gallery, Experimenta Design, Lisbon, PT
- 2018 Portugal Normal, 3 Days Of Design, Copenhagen, DK
- 2017-18 TALENTS, Ambient Messe Frankfurt, GE
- 2017 Glass Cares OFF PORTUGAL, Ventura Lambrate Design District, Milano, IT
- 2017 Raw, London Design Fair Tent London, UK
- 2017 Showcase Portugal, Lisbon Fashion Week, Paris, FR
- 2016 Inspiring Portugal, London Design Fair Tent London, UK
- 2016 OJEAM, Gallery FOCO , Lisbon, PT
- 2016 Invitation: Year 3, Gallery Scar-ID, Oporto, PT
- 2015 OJEAM, Gallery Verso Branco, Lisbon, PT
- 2015 Manual, Gallery GivLowe, Lisbon, PT
- 2015 POP Portuguese Original Projects, Museum Serralves, Oporto, PT
ART / DESIGN RESIDENCIES
[Selection of solo and group art/design residencies]- 2024 UN_MUTE Residendy, Värmeverket, Stockholm, SE
- 2019 Designers On Holidays DOH, Island Gotland, SE - Project: OUTDOOR GYM STATION
- 2018 VISTA ALEGRE International Design Pool, Aveiro, PT
- 2017 Designers in Residence Designregio, Kortrijk, BE - Project: [THE] LIQUID STATE Installations
- 2016 Résvés comm. Faculty of Fine Arts University of Lisbon, Mértola, PT - Project: 360º UNDER WATER
- 2015 IKEA Bauhaussummer comm. Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, DE - Project: THE MACHINE - Masters House
- 2015 BASALT - Residency, Pico do Refúgio, Archipelago Azores, PT
PUBLICATIONS
[Selection of developed (written or/and designed, issued, or featured work]- 2024 Book: “Lusophone World: The woman’s voice in Product Design” design. Daniel Vieira an Bernardo Providência, pub. IDEGUI - Design Institute Guimarães, PT
- 2023 Book:"Portuguese design through a plurality of objects", design. Daniel Vieira and Bernardo Providência, pub. University of Minho School of Architecture
- 2021 Report ´State of the art, recent advances, and challenges in the field of fungal mycelium materials’, Science Journal Fungal Biology and Biotechnology volume 8, Article number: 12.
- 2021 Sustainability Portfolio, Issue: Design that makes a difference, FORM Nordisk Aktitektur och Design magazine
- 2021, “Ukurant Perspectives”, pub. Ukurant, supp.by Muuto
- 2020 MYCELIUM: Future Materials Bank pship. Jan Van Eyck Academie, NL; Material Futures department at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK
- 2020 Thesis: MYCELIUMMILLENNIUM, DIVA - MA at Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design
- 2018 Book: [THE] LIQUID BOOK, arch. Designers in Residence, pub. Designregio, Biennal Interieur 18, Kortrijk, BE
- 2017 Short Film: Lá vem o dia, dict. by José Castro Caldas, prod. Mercês Tomaz Gomes
- 2016 Book: Junges Design in den Meisterhäusern Dessau, pub. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau edition 17 - IKEA Bauhaus Residency
REPRESENTED DESIGN SHOPS/MUSEUMS/GALLERIES [SELECTED]
Arranging Things, Stockholm, SE
Yard Sale Club, San Fransisco, California, USA
KIOSKEN, Bergen, NO
- THE ODE TO, Stockholm, SE [online]
MISSCHIEFS Pop-Up Shop, Stockholm, SE
- Kintu Studio Shop, Lisbon, PT
Through Objects, [online]
- Take Away - Galleri Duerr, Stockholm, SE
- Vespoe, [online]
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