Figura Avulsa is pleased to present O Dia Abrasivo (The Abrasive Day) by Bruno Humberto, an exhibition featuring a site-specific performance — opening on Sunday, May 10, at 6 PM.
Humberto installs works produced using sandpaper, to which he adds his own voice and other sculptural elements — all brought into the inner courtyard of Figura Avulsa. In the space, punctuated by its well/cistern, he proposes a composition that explores qualities such as suspension and enclosure.
Bruno Humberto is a transdisciplinary artist, musician, and curator based in Lisbon.
He studied and taught in the Performance Making master's program at Goldsmiths College, London.
His investigation focuses on the liminal zone where the inexhaustible plasticity of representation collides with the limits of matter. By embracing earthbound contingencies, he disrupts fragility with the absurd and turns it into a fearsome measuring tool.
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O Dia Abrasivo (The Abrasive Day) will be on view by appointment for one week until May 17th, 2026.
SOON:
Performance by Bruno Humberto
Sunday May 10, 6PM
UPCOMING
Ani Schulze, Roda Quente
May 24th, 6—8 PM
Figura Avulsa is pleased to announce an upcoming project by Ani Schulze, Roda Quente, to open on Sunday, May 24th, 6–8 PM.
The artist produced new works for the FA space, following her interest in souvenirs, decoration, ornamentation, the slippage of materials and in being „on and off“ the stage. Through building enigmatic and psychedelic sceneries she explores what composes identification and social mobility within late capitalism.
The exhibition will display and relay a selection of new paintings on silk and figurative sculptures — contextually installed.
A screening of her ongoing video series The Convent of Pleasure will be announced shortly.
Her soap opera is inspired by Margaret Cavendish’s 1668 eponymous comedy, in which a group of women decide to form a community without men - the titular convent. Schulze draws on both fictional and real figures, primarily female artists - and develops hybrid characters and surreal narrative fragments.
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Ani Schulze lives and works in Cologne and in Porto.
Recent solo exhibitions include At One Go, Mountains, Berlin (2025); The Convent of Pleasure (Part 1 & 2), Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne (2023/ 24); Snake Charming, Lehmann+ Silva, Porto (2022); Lovers & Hunters, Kunstverein Siegen (2021); Hang in There, Baby, Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto (2021); Flint House Lizard, I: Project Space, Beijing (2029); 7 Follies, Artothek, Cologne (2019); Merchants Freely Enter, Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2017).
She participated amongst others in group exhibitions such as in Eternal Fields, Clages, Cologne (2025); Not dying, Center for Literature, Münster (2025) Nebula, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin (2025); Drifts and Creatures, Galeria Municipal, Porto (2023) FUTURA, Hamburger Kunsthalle (2022); Entretecido I Interlace, Pavilhão Branco, Lissabon (2021).
Ani will have a Solo Exhibition at Groninger Museum in Netherlands and a Duo Show with the Irish artist Isabel Nolan at Kunststation Sankt Peter in Cologne in 2026.
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