Mono is happy to invite you to our next exhibition 𝑨 𝑫𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒎 by Alejandra López Martinez @ale_looma and Lola Colmez @innfamouslolita
Opening on Friday 15th of May, 6pm to 10pm
15.05.2026-17.05.2026
Lightness becomes disobedience.
It rebels against normative forms of femininity and the constant demand to void meaning from play. It does so through found fabrics, screenshots, suspended drawings, videos saturated with pink and fragile structures that seem to exist in a tension between play and construction, between childhood and adulthood.
In Colmez and López’s works, marginal materials and seemingly light-hearted acts become tools of protest: more unstable, affective, subversive. Sillyness, dreams, curiosity and a certain childlike aesthetic do not request justification, but function as strategies to evade the logics of control, maturity and performance that have historically defined female subjectivity. The French and Spanish artists developed this collaboration through a residency at Mono, where their divergent backgrounds merged into a shared creative process based on experimentation rather than fixed practices.
A Double Bloom thus constructs a space in which fragility and frivolity cease to be passive categories, transforming instead into forms of resistance and freedom. What emerges is not innocence, but a form of rejection: a new way of inhabiting softness, excess and play without apology.
Text by Chiara Bello @chiarabelllo
In the context of the exhibition A Deriva Metabólica, by Tomás Abreu, we present a listening session by Inês Mendes Leal, a reading by Duda Affonso, and a sound performance by Mariana Pinho.
“(…) like someone holding water in the palms of their hands.”
Friday, 08/05/26
19-22h
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 @maud.tephany & @rodolpherenou at @monolisboa
Founded in 2019, Mono is a multidisciplinary artist-run hub bridging the Lisbon neighborhoods of Graça and Penha de França. Mono’s main mission is to promote collective work between artists and other cultural actors, promote national and international exchanges and to enrich the development of critical thinking.
𝗔𝘁 𝗟𝗗𝗪‘𝟮𝟲
Mono presents "A Contemplation of Form", a creative dialogue between ceramist Maud Téphany and woodworker Rodolphe Renou, where clay meets wood and functional objects become something more: archetypes, structures, quiet encounters between two makers and their materials.
☉𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮: Art Gallery
☉𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱: Anjos / Arroios
☉𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: “A Contemplation of Form” by @maud.tephany & @rodolpherenou
____
Images Courtesy of @maud.tephany
#LDW26 #LisbonDesignWeek #PortugalDesign #PortugueseDesign #Lisbon #Lisboa#Architecture #Interior #InteriorDesign#Product #ProductDesign #Furniture#FurnitureDesign #Textile #TextileDesign#HighCrafts #Handcrafts #Craftmanship#Ceramic #CeramicArt #ProductDaily#DailyProduct #CreativityMatters#WorldOfDesign #Anjos #Arroios
Mono is pleased to present A Deriva Metabólica, a solo exhibition by Tomás Abreu @ttomasabreu
opening on Thursday 30th of April, 6pm-10pm
Mostly in the fields of painting, works capture air, water, light, and sand in a state of constant change. Drift, reflection, dispersion, surface tension. Synthesizing a physical encounter with the act of sight, the works show memories that either never truly existed or exist forever, a flux of energy, embodied and etched like a memory.
Tomás Abreu (Lisbon, 1990) is a multidisciplinary artist working across installation, sculpture, painting, photography, and film. The practice is guided by a philosophical approach, engaging optical and sensory displacements to question perception beyond the human viewpoint. This research navigates between themes of memory, entropy, spirituality, and metaphysics.
OPEN CALL - Artist Residency in Lisbon
we’re happy to announce a special open call for an artist residency that will take place from the 25th of May 24 to the 20th July 2026.
for more info and to apply, click the link in the bio !
Open Call — Pata na Poça
Pata na Poça é a primeira edição de um ciclo de exposições organizado pela Mono, que procura criar um espaço de visibilidade para artistas emergentes em Portugal.
Esta open call destina-se a artistas até aos 35 anos, residentes em Portugal e sem representação por galerias.
📅 Prazo de candidatura: 24 de maio de 2026
📍 Local: Mono, Lisboa
🗓️ Inauguração: setembro de 2026
Candidatura
Os artistas interessados deverão submeter:
– Até duas obras já produzidas
– Um breve texto sobre a sua prática artística
– Notas sobre as obras apresentadas
A submissão deverá ser feita através do formulário indicado. O link está na bio.
Condições
A Mono será responsável pela curadoria, comunicação e montagem da exposição.
O transporte das obras ficará a cargo dos artistas.
we’re happy to welcome our new residents Lola and Alejandra at mono for the next two months !
Lola Colmez @innfamouslolita is a Franco-Kenyan visual artist whose work explores Black female spectatorship, Afrofuturism and childhood as a gateway to imagination and memory.
She works across video, installation and hybrid format.
Her experimentation-driven and movie overconsumption practice intertwines critical theory, humor, pop culture and archival exploration.
Alejandra López @ale_looma is a visual artist from Elche, Spain, currently based in The Hague. Her practice is rooted in drawing and process-based installation, exploring how meaning is shaped through everyday experience and our entanglements with both human and non-human agents. She works individually and collaboratively, as part of two collectives: Nice Flaps, focused on experimental drawing, and Fabas, a food-based initiative exploring cooking as a communal, healing practice.
mono is happy to invite you to 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨, an exhibition by Mariana Malheiro, Vera Matias and Beatriz Manteigas. Curated by Eglé Ambrasaité.
𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, 𝟲:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟬:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺
schedule: 27.03.2026 - 11.04.2026 3pm to 7am
free entry
The group exhibition “PASSENGERS” gathers three emerging Portuguese artists: Mariana Malheiro, Vera Matias, and Beatriz Manteigas. Together, they explore the notion of ‘passage’ by tucking the human figure into a state of dormancy, displaced beyond the frames of their canvases. Guided by feminist new materialism and eco-critical thought, the artists unsettle human-centered perspectives and situate the viewer within the more-than-human realm - one composed of non-human and inanimate. Passages function here as ‘events’ - in the sense proposed by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy - experiences that resist closure and foster new political ecologies.
The figure of the passenger is often assumed to be that of the passive observer, as a witness who does not intervene. In “PASSENGERS”, however, passage and passenger are inseparable. Passage unfolds not as a linear trajectory from origin to destination, but as a state of continuous becoming - spatial, temporal, affective. The passenger does not stand outside this movement as a neutral observer; rather, the passenger is produced through the passage itself. To be a passenger today, amid the darkness of the contemporary socio-political scenery, is to be shaped by forces that exceed individual agency: forced migration, ecological crisis, informational overstimulation, and geopolitical violence. The exhibition, hence, wishes to resist the lure of numbness, holding open a mode of witnessing attuned to transformation - toward dreaming, listening, hoping, and acting.
