Martim Brion

Martim Brion was born in 1986 in Lisbon, Portugal.
He lives and works in Munich, Germany.

Martim Brion’s artworks reveal a keen interest in architecture, clarity and geometric, clean forms. Brion’s work is also a combination of different, converging interests, from the use of literary references to the search for a sophisticated, balanced form in his sculptural work, passing by his visual diary, which he reveals in his photography, or the focus on digitally created works.

EDUCATION

2017 

Royal College of Arts, summer course, London, UK

2011

Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Art and Economy, London, UK

2010

IE Business School, Master in Internationalem Management, Madrid, Spain

2008 

De Montfort University, International Relations and Politics, Leicester, UK


SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2025

Constructing the visible – Martim Brion / Günther Förg, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

2024 

Reflexivity, Museu da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal

2023 

Regulative Idea, Portuguese Culture Center, Luxemburg, Luxemburg

Production (re) Production, Galeria Nave, Lisbon, Portugal

2022 

What is to be done?, Museu de Arqueologia e Arte de Abrantes, curated by João Silvério, Abrantes, Portugal

Matter informs Form, Language informs thought, Galeria Nave, Lisbon, Portugal

Point Counter Point, Galeria do Parque, curated by João Pinharanda, Vila-Nova-da-Barquinha, Portugal

2021 

Res Extensa, Centro Cultural Raiano, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal

2020 

Intersection Points, Galeria Sá da Costa, Lisbon, Portugal

Repetitions – Incremental Changes, MUDAS, Museum of Contemporary Art Madeira, Portugal

2019 

Chapel– Altar – Window – a landscape with the colours of the sea, Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon, Portugal

2018 

Kontrapunkt, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin, Germany

2017

Vanishing Points, Museum für Naturgeschichte und Wissenschaft, Lisbon, Portugal

2016 

Objekt Meer, Clube Naval do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

2015 

Object Opinion, Galerie L’H, Lisbon, Portugal

2014 

A Precise Sense of Form, Artistas Unidos, Teatro da Politécnica, Lisbon, Portugal


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024 

Re-Vision, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany

Blickfeld – The inevitability of the self, Galerie Etage, Museum Reinickendorf, curated by Dr. Ziegenrücker, Berlin, Germany

24! Fragen an die Konkrete Gegenwart, Museum Für Konkrete Kunst (Museum for Concrete Art), curated by Mathias Listl, Ingolstadt, Germany

Areal3 – Três gerações de cor, Centro Cultural de Lagos, kuratiert von Martim Brion, Lagos, Portugal

Gridlines, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, curated by Martim Brion, Berlin, Germany

2023 

Relax – bbk-mitglieder stellen, Galerie der Künstler*innen, München, Germany

Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Wanderlust, Artes Motta Galiza, Porto, Portugal

Über das was es ist, Raum für Gäste, Aachen, Germany 

2022 

24 Künstler – 24 Multiples, Raum für Gäste, Aachen, Germany

(0/1) O zero e o um, MUHNAC Museum, curated by Sofia Marçal, Lisbon, Portugal

Linie Fläche Raum, Altes Gefängnis Freising, Freising, Germany

Nachtsicht, Schafhof Municipal Gallery, curated by Eike Berg, Freising, Germany

Form Constriction, Oqbo Galerie, curated by Martim Brion, Berlin, Germany

2020 

Uncertain Matter, Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos, Portugal

Incremental Abstractions, Kunstverein Tiergarten, curated by Martim Brion, Berlin, Germany

2019 

Área de Diálogo, Galeria Municipal Banco das Artes, curated by Martim Brion, Leiria, Portugal

Areal3 – Uma exposição de António, Sofia e Martim Areal, Museu Carlos Reis – Praça do Peixe, curated by Martim Brion, Torres Novas, Portugal

2018 

Boese, Brion e Tecedeiro, Centro Cultural de Ponte de Sor, Portugal

Apropriação, Memória e Desejo, Galeria Municipal Banco das Artes, Leiria, Portugal

2017 

Apropriação, Memória e Desejo, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

Finalist’s Exhibition at the Fine Art Residency, Royal College of Art, London, UK

XIX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal

2016 

Aqui, curated by Andreas Blättler, Rua Madalena Project, Lisbon, Portugal

Colectiva, Galeria Vera Cruz, Aveiro, Portugal

Arte de Bolso, Galeria Sete, Coimbra, Portugal

Arte Hoje Premiados, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

2015 

Colectiva, Galeria Vera Cruz, Aveiro, Portugal

Preis für visuelle Künste, Gallery 32, with the Brazilian Embassy and Itaú Bank, London, UK

A Mostra, Patricia Pires de Lima Projects, Lisbon, Portugal

2014 

Salão de Inverno, A Pequena Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal

Arte de Bolso, Galeria Sete, Coimbra, Portugal

21 Plastic Artists at Teatro da Politécnica, United Artists Exhibition Space, Lisbon, Portugal

Pixels of Identities, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice, Italy

Arte Hoje, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal


COLLECTIONS

Museum Für Konkrete Kunst (Museum for Concrete Art), Ingolstadt, Germany

Museu da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal 

Portuguese National Library, Portugal

MUDAS. Museum for Contemporary Art Madeira, Calheta, Portugal

Collection Figueiredo Ribeiro, Abrantes, Portugal

Collection L. Ferreira, Lisbon, Portugal

Centro das Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor, Ponte de Sor, Portugal

Carlos Reis Museum, Torres Novas, Portugal

Municipal Administration Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos, Portugal

Centro Cultural Raiano, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal


PRIZES AND GRANTS

2023/24

Scholarship for internationalization, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal

2023

Culture Moves Europe – European Union and Goethe Institute

2022

Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany

2021

DGArtes for artistic production, Portugal

2015

Prize (third place) for visual arts from the Brazilian Embassy and Itaú Bank

2025

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