b. Santo Antão, Cape Verde
Lives and works in Glasgow
Education
UCL (University College London), London, UK
Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Passargada, Mindelo Maritime Station, Mindelo Cultural Center and The Mindelo Tower (CNAD-National Centre for Arts, Crafts and Design, Mindelo), Mindelo, Cape Verde
2022 Videos and Texts, TOPIC—Espace d'Arte Independant, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 A Batida Que Faz-te Sujo (The Beat That Makes You Dirty), CAPC - Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
2019 Subtitulizar/Subtitling, Project Space, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 Tainted Verbal, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2017 Unturning, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2014 Autoestrangeirismo, Atelier Concorde, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 Thinking According to Rectangular Images, Portuguese Institute - Mindelo, Mindelo, Cape Verde [irdc]
Group Exhibitions
(forthcoming 2024) Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2023 Sol Sal Brilho Brilhas, Espaço Vaga, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal
2021 O Silêncio da Terra, Galeria do Paço, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
2020 History as Fiction, Fiction as History, Hangar Online [Hangar, Lisbon]
2019 Apa Kabar? (What's new?), Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019 South-South: Between Land and Sea Film Programme, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2019 Another Country II, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2018 Another Country, Alice R. Rogers & Target Galleries, St John’s Art Centre, Minnesota, USA
2017 A Glimmer of Freedom (Apexart, New York), Tarrafal Concentration Camp, Santiago, Cape Verde
2016 Being and Becoming: Complexities of the African Identity, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
2015 Ilha de São Jorge, Telling Time Special Exhibition, Rencontres de Bamako Biennale (10th edition), Mémorial Modibo Keïta, Bamako, Mali
2015 Customer Experience, Special Projects, VI Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2015 Sex Macht Gut/ Sex Does Good, Sprechsaal, Berlin, Germany
2014 Ilha de São Jorge, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio Maggiore island, Venice, Italy
2013 Southern Panoramas, Videobrasil 18, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil [irdc]
2013 Escena Caboverdiana, Casa Africa, Las Palmas, Spain [irdc]
2011 Variavel Diferencial, Torre do Mindelo, Mindelo, Cape Verde [irdc]
2010 Processo, Centro Cultural do Mindelo, Mindelo, Cape Verde [irdc]
Group screenings/ Festivals
2023 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, UK
2018 AfroScots: Glasgow School of Art, Scotland; and Edinburgh School of Art, Scotland, UK
2017 Áfricas Utópicas (selected works from the Associação Cultural Videobrasil Collection), Espaço Transversal da ArtRio 2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [irdc]
2017 Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival IV, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, England, UK
2017 AfroScots, Galerie de l'Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
2015 Ilha de Sao Jorge, Artists' Film Club, ICA London, England
2015 Ilha de Sao Jorge, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2015 Capture All, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Residencies
2022 Deveron Projects, Huntly, Scotland, UK
2021 Alkanta Festival, Lisbon Portugal
2015 Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal
Published writing and works
- Irineu Destourelles, Citações do Antigo Presidente do Conselho de Ministros Traduzidas para Um Crioulo Pessoal, in Língua-Lugar: Literatura História Estudos Culturais (N.02, December, 2020) Université de Genève and Universität Zürich
- Irineu Rocha (AKA Irineu Destourelles), Carlos Schofied (1944-2012) Notes from the Year Before Last [Port /Eng] in 'Ilha de Sao Jorge', Beyond Entrophy, London 2014, pp43-54
- Irineu Rocha (AKA Irineu Destourelles ), Perímetro < Diâmetro: Geometrização, Creolização, Corpos, e Aglutinaçoes [Port/ Spa/ Fren] in 'Horizontes Insulares', Gobierno de Canarias, Las Palmas, pp. 200-217
Publications (selected)
- Ana Nolasco, 'Diasporic Bodies: The Video Art of Irineu Destourelles' in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, V. 52 (2023), pp. 84-95.
- Ana Balona de Oliveira, 'Decolonial Imagination and the Unmaking of (Post)Colonial Cities and Tongues: History, Memory, and Futurity in the Work of Angolan, Mozambican, São Tome, Cabo Verdean, and Portuguese Contemporary Artists ' in PLCS, 36-37 (2022) pp. 217-256.
- Alvaro Luis Lima, A House of Fire: the Diaspora of Irineu Destourelles, in Atlantica: Contemporary Art From Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome e Principe and their Diasporas, Hangar Books, Lisboa (2021) pp. 74-86.
- Claudia Sobral, Se o fantasma de João de Sá Panasco Vagueasse por Lisboa, Semanario O Novo, Lisbon (19.11.2021), pp. 60-61.
- Rita Fabiana, I am not here. I am here Notes on an accidental body-place, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2019)
- Neil Cooper, Irineu Destourelles – Unturning, productmagazine.co.uk (2017)
- Ana Nolasco, Entrevista com Irineu Destourelles:Verifebura: Prática Colonial e Consciência Pós-colonial, Buala (2015)
Talks/ Panel Discussions/ Symposiums
2021 artist talk with Sofia L. Borges, TOPIC/PICTO — Espace de Production Artistique, Geneva, Switzerland
2021 artist presentation, The Decolonial Artist (17/05/21), Universidade de Geneva, Geneva
2019 artist talk, Irineu Destourelles and Ângela Ferreira, International Meetings Where I (we) Stand, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 artists presentation and panel discussion, Collective Blackness (artist presentations organised by Black Radical Imagination and LUX Scotland), Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2017 presentation, A Glimmer of Freedom (research seminar) CITCEM - Transdisciplinar Investigation Centre, University of Porto, Portugal
2017 artist talk with Neil Cooper and Holly Knox Yeoman with Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2017 artist talk with with Tiffany Boyle (Mother Tongue), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2015 artist talk with Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
2015 artist presentation and talk with Ana Balona de Oliveira and Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Hangar Artistic Research Center, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 artists talk with Tchale Figueira, Leao Lopes and Orlando Britto Jinorio, Casa Africa, Las Palmas, Spain
2011 panel discussions co-chair with Rita Lobo, Mindelo, Do We Have Culture? Series of Public Meetings, Various Venues across Mindelo, Cape Verde