Diogo Bento (b. 1984) lives and works between Lisbon, Portugal, and São Vicente, Cabo Verde.
His artistic practice is informed by an understanding of the landscape as performative spaces of cultural embodiment, places where natural, social, and symbolic dimensions interact and collide. He is drawn to contested spaces that emerge from historical and contemporary processes of appropriation, domestication, and transformation of the landscape. By engaging with post-colonial landscapes and through themes such as ecology, architecture and science, his work engages with questions of photography, (de)coloniality, social justice, and ecological emergency.
In his projects, some of which are collaborations, he explores the visual and narrative possibilities of photography and installation.
Since 2011, he has been active in artistic and educational projects as a photographer, educator, curator, and founding member of AOJE, an organization dedicated to photography. He is a guest lecturer at Lusófona University in Lisbon.
For commissions and prints:
diogo.bento@gmail.com
+351 937 321 152
His artistic practice is informed by an understanding of the landscape as performative spaces of cultural embodiment, places where natural, social, and symbolic dimensions interact and collide. He is drawn to contested spaces that emerge from historical and contemporary processes of appropriation, domestication, and transformation of the landscape. By engaging with post-colonial landscapes and through themes such as ecology, architecture and science, his work engages with questions of photography, (de)coloniality, social justice, and ecological emergency.
In his projects, some of which are collaborations, he explores the visual and narrative possibilities of photography and installation.
Since 2011, he has been active in artistic and educational projects as a photographer, educator, curator, and founding member of AOJE, an organization dedicated to photography. He is a guest lecturer at Lusófona University in Lisbon.
For commissions and prints:
diogo.bento@gmail.com
+351 937 321 152
2011
2008
2005
Education
Photography and Contemporary Art – IPA/Atelier de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Landscape Architecture – ISA/UTL, Lisbon, Portugal
Photography – Ar.Co, Lisbon, Portugal
Photography and Contemporary Art – IPA/Atelier de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Landscape Architecture – ISA/UTL, Lisbon, Portugal
Photography – Ar.Co, Lisbon, Portugal
2022
2022
2019
2019
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2013
2013
2012
2011
2010
Selected Exhibitions
Foundation and Emergence – Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Spectrum – Avenida da Índia gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Zeitgeist – Parallel Platform, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary
Currents Shift – Parallel Platform, Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Adaptation and Transition – Ci.CLO Porto Photography Biennial, Porto, Portugal
Parallel Showcase – Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
16° 51’ 49 N 24° 52’ 02 W – Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
BF16 – Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial Award, Portugal
On Landscape #2 – On Landscape Project, Matèria Gallery, Rome, Italy
Ocupações Temporárias, Documentos – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Ocupações Temporárias – São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Cabral ka Mori – EP 1874 gallery, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Quinze Ensaios – Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, Portugal
Na superfície – Espaço Campanhã & Tabacaria, Porto, Portugal
Foundation and Emergence – Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Spectrum – Avenida da Índia gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Zeitgeist – Parallel Platform, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary
Currents Shift – Parallel Platform, Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Adaptation and Transition – Ci.CLO Porto Photography Biennial, Porto, Portugal
Parallel Showcase – Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
16° 51’ 49 N 24° 52’ 02 W – Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
BF16 – Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial Award, Portugal
On Landscape #2 – On Landscape Project, Matèria Gallery, Rome, Italy
Ocupações Temporárias, Documentos – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Ocupações Temporárias – São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Cabral ka Mori – EP 1874 gallery, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Quinze Ensaios – Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, Portugal
Na superfície – Espaço Campanhã & Tabacaria, Porto, Portugal
2022
2016 – 2022
2020
2019
2016
2016
2014
2013 – 2014
2012
Curatorial / Artistic Direction
(Im)Materiality – This Is Not A White Cube, Palais Castilho, Lisbon and Centro de Artes de Águeda, Águeda, Portugal
Catchupa Factory – New Photographers Artist Residency, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Dissident Planets – AOJE / Catchupa Factory, online
Sixth Nature – Ci.CLO Photography Biennial, CPF, Porto, Portugal
Dog World – Ponta d’Praia gallery, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
The Other Side of the Moon – Centro Cultural do Mindelo, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Stage 50 – Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde International Photography Festival
Silver Mirror – Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
(Im)Materiality – This Is Not A White Cube, Palais Castilho, Lisbon and Centro de Artes de Águeda, Águeda, Portugal
Catchupa Factory – New Photographers Artist Residency, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Dissident Planets – AOJE / Catchupa Factory, online
Sixth Nature – Ci.CLO Photography Biennial, CPF, Porto, Portugal
Dog World – Ponta d’Praia gallery, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
The Other Side of the Moon – Centro Cultural do Mindelo, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Stage 50 – Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde International Photography Festival
Silver Mirror – Centro Nacional de Artesanato e Design, São Vicente, Cabo Verde
2021
2019
2018
2017
2005
Artist Residencies
UpCyles – Associação dos Amigos do Museu do Cinema, Maputo, Mozambique
Luuanda – Colectivo Pés Descalços, Luanda, Angola
Adaptation and Transition – Ci.CLO Photography Biennial, Parque de Noudar, Portugal
Walkscapes, Residency in Transit – Hangar, Ethiopia
New Ways of Approaching Landscape – artLAB*projectos, Penafiel, Portugal
UpCyles – Associação dos Amigos do Museu do Cinema, Maputo, Mozambique
Luuanda – Colectivo Pés Descalços, Luanda, Angola
Adaptation and Transition – Ci.CLO Photography Biennial, Parque de Noudar, Portugal
Walkscapes, Residency in Transit – Hangar, Ethiopia
New Ways of Approaching Landscape – artLAB*projectos, Penafiel, Portugal
2020
2018 – 2019
2018 – 2019
2017
2016
2015
2014
Grants / Awards
MACAAL Bootcamp – selected curator
Parallel Platform 2nd Cycle – selected artist
Ci.CLO Porto Photography Biennial – invited artist and curator
Mack First Book Award – nominated
BF16, Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial Award – finalist
Dummy Award Kassel – finalist
Unseen Dummy Award – finalist
MACAAL Bootcamp – selected curator
Parallel Platform 2nd Cycle – selected artist
Ci.CLO Porto Photography Biennial – invited artist and curator
Mack First Book Award – nominated
BF16, Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial Award – finalist
Dummy Award Kassel – finalist
Unseen Dummy Award – finalist
2023
2020
2019
2019
2016
2015
2013
2013
2010
Publications
Propeller #4 Spectrum – Hélice Press / Galerias Municipais/EGEAC
Fisheye Photo Review 2020.21 – Fisheye Magazine
Atlas – Parallel Platform
Currents Shift exhibition catalogue – Parallel Platform
Multiple Gazes of a Country’s Photographed Past – African Photography Initiatives
Next Future journal #18 – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Next Future journal #12 – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Revista 2 – Público
Scopio Magazine #1 – Cityscópio
Propeller #4 Spectrum – Hélice Press / Galerias Municipais/EGEAC
Fisheye Photo Review 2020.21 – Fisheye Magazine
Atlas – Parallel Platform
Currents Shift exhibition catalogue – Parallel Platform
Multiple Gazes of a Country’s Photographed Past – African Photography Initiatives
Next Future journal #18 – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Next Future journal #12 – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Revista 2 – Público
Scopio Magazine #1 – Cityscópio