Filipe Branquinho
Filipe Branquihno grew up during the Mozambique Civil War, surrounded by journalists and artists, his interest in photography was born from contact with the greatest names in Mozambican photography such as Ricardo Rangel, Kok Nam or José Cabral. He studied architecture in Mozambique and continued his studies in Brazil, where he trained in photography and self-taught art.
Through his work, Filipe Branquinho explores the reality of Mozambique, the lifestyles of its inhabitants, its mythology and its urban dynamics. It addresses social issues such as class disparities, culture, politics, collective memory and working conditions. His style blends his view of architecture linked to his training and his familiarity with the "school" of Mozambican photography, merging the genres of photography and landscape. Large-format portraits in which the model poses in the heart of his work environment or in his home are the hallmark of his work. Both a portrait of an individual and an architecture, his photographs seem to document and draw the map of an African world in transformation while refusing to satisfy all expectations of exoticism.
In 2013, with his Showtime series, Filipe Branquihno was a finalist for the BES Photo Award. Then in 2015, with the series Interior Landscapes (2011-2014) he won the Popcap'15 prize - international prize for contemporary African photography.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Botânica, Fernando Leite Couto Foundation, Maputo, Mozambique
2013
Occupations, Fnac ? Montparnasse, Paris, France
2011
Occupations, Temporary occupations 20.11, Maputo, Mozambique
2009/2010
Illustrations by Branquinho, Camões Institute, Maputo, Mozambique
2009
Uno, Maputo, Mozambique Portraits and graphics, The Art street, Maputo, Mozambique
2008
Brasil 2004-2006, Centre culturel franco-mozambicain, Maputo, Mozambique
2007
Um olhar sobre Londrina, MAM/Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
2006
Arte em Movimento 03, Modern Art Museum, Londrina, Brazil Arte em Movimento 02, Modern Art Museum, Londrina, Brazil Arte em Movimento 01, Modern Art Museum, Londrina, Brazil
GROUP SHOWS
2019: The Past, the Present and the In Between, 58° Biennale de Venise, Pavillon du Mozambique
2018
African Passions, Palais Cadaval, Evora, Portugal (curator: André Magnin)
2016
Gurué, Kulungwana Gallery, Maputo, Mozambique
2015
Rencontres de Bamako, the African Biennale of Photography, Telling time exibition, national museum, Bamako, Mali Image Afrique, Basel, Switzerland (Popcap?15)
International Photography Festival, Cap Vert (Popcap?15)
2014
Africa Here / Ici l?Afrique, L?Afrique contemporaine à travers le regard de ses artistes, Château de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland (curator : Adelina von Fürtsenburg)
2013
Regarde Moi - PHOTOQUAI 2013, 4ème biennale des images du monde, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
Present Tense, Photography from Southern Africa, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Next Future Gulbenkian Program, Lisbonne, Portugal
2012 Occupations
Galeria Torreão Cordoaria Nacional, Estação Imagem/Mora Award, Lisbon, Portugal Gulbenkian gardens, Lisbon, Portugal
Portuguese Centre of Photography, Estação Imagem/Mora Award, Porto, Portugal
Mr. Sambo, 5a Bienal de Arte Contemporânea do Muvart, CCB, Maputo, Moçambique
2011
Afro-Portuguese Perspectives, National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
2010
Karl Max 1834, Maputo, Mozambique
Rotura e Desconversão, Bienal MUVART, National Museum of Art, Maputo, Mozambique Mostra de Desenho e Instalação, Camões Institute, Maputo, Mozambique
Água é vida, JA, Mozambican association of photography, Maputo, Mozambique
2009
Memórias, Museum of Modern Art, Londrina, Brazil
2007
XXI Mostra Afro-Brasileira Palmares, Museum of Modern Art, Londrina, Brazil
2006
Photo Festa, Rurbano, Maputo, Mozambique
2005
XX Mostra Afro-Brasileira Palmares, Museum of Modern Art, Londrina, Brazil
2003
Photography workshop, Londrina State University, Brazil
FAIRS
2018
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2017
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2016
Photo Basel, Switzerland
2015
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, England
2013
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
AWARDS
2015
Popcap'15, International Prize for Contemporary African Photography, winner.
2012
Estação Imagem/Mora International Award, 1ère catégorie portrait
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