(Beja, Portugal, 1972)
In his work, photographer and video artist Nuno Cera addresses spatial conditions, architecture and urban areas through poetic and documentary techniques. His work has been published, commissioned and exhibited internationally by cultural institutions, curators and exhibition platforms. He is represented in several public and private collections.
Cera has been an artist in residence in Berlin (Künstlerhaus Bethanien), New York (ISCP International Studios and Curatorial Program), Paris (Recollet) and Macau (Fundação Oriente). For her artistic research on 9 Futureland megacities (2008 – 2010), exhibited internationally and published to date, she received grants from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and the EDP Foundation. Her multi-year video and publication project The Symphony of the Unknown (2012 – ongoing) is supported by the Botín Foundation and the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.
His solo exhibitions include The Blur City (2019, Fundação Oriente, Macau), Hora Certa (2019, Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon), Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (2016, Grand Palais, Paris), Symphony of the Unknown (2016, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin), Alpha Béton (2015, CAPC, Coimbra), FANTASMAS (2006, CCB, Lisbon), The Prora Complex and other works (2005, Play Gallery, Berlin), Berlin – a super-8 movie (2003, I-20 Gallery, NYC). Group exhibitions include Álvaro Siza – IN/DISCIPLINA (2019, Museu de Serralves, Porto), Haus Wittegenstein (2018, MAAT, Lisbon), Demo:Polis (2016, Akademie der Künste, Berlin), ZOOM! (2015, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich). Cera was the guest artist of the Portuguese representation at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Public without rhetoric.
He participated in MediaLab Madrid through "Moments of contemporary Portuguese video art (PHotoEspaña06)", which brought together works in this discipline by some of the most innovative young artists on the Portuguese scene. For this exhibition, which was part of the 2006 Portuguese Festival, each author was asked to develop a monologue with deeply personal roots that alluded directly or indirectly to contemporary reflections and representations that have nature as their subject.
