Francisco Trêpa (Lisbon,1995) | represented by Galeria Foco Lisbon
Education
Master of Fine Arts (Multimedia Art)
(with the mentorship of Prof. Dr. João Onofre and Prof. Dr. Maria João Gamito)
Lisbon Academy of Fine Arts
2022
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture)
Lisbon academy of Fine Arts
2014-2017
Specialized Ceramics degree (level 4)
Artistic School António Arroio
2010-2013
Solo shows
2025 Baile dos Bugalhos, at the Modern Art Center (CAM) of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
2024 Flor Cadáver curated by Ana Cristina Cachola, Galeria Foco, Lisbon (PT)
2022 Hiperderme curated by Sofia Marçal, National Museum of Science & Natural History, Lisbon (PT)
2022 Chalaza, Cabanamad, Lisbon (PT)
2021 Le Salon des Aubergines, Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2021 The elephante got in the room and never left, Duplex Air, Lisbon (PT)
(selected) Group shows
2026 Chuva de Verão - Obras da Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado, curated by Fernando Jürgens, Centro de Artes de Sines, Sines (PT)
2026 Shapeshifters/Metamorfoses, curated by Katherine Sirois, Galeria do Pavilhão 31 & UCCLA, Lisboa (PT)
2025 Um olhar itenerante, artworks from the PLMJ Foundation collection, BAG Banco das Artes – Galeria Leiria, Leiria (PT)
2025 O que nos sustenta?, Futurama Festival with students from Mário Beirão School, Núcleo Visigótico do Museu Regional de Beja, Beja (PT)
2025 Moringue vazio não carrega só vento, curated by Felipa Almeida, Galeria Plato, Évora (PT)
2025 Poeira Terrível, curated by Victor Gorgulho, Quadra Galeria, São Paulo (BR)
2025 Sex in the Space, curated by Bernardo de Souza, La Isla Flotante, Buenos Aires (AR)
2025 Lúcido Devaneio – Panorama da Arte Contemporânea em Portugal, curated by Raphael Fonseca and Hiuwai Chu, Galerias Municipais do Porto, Porto (PT)
2025 Bienal Da Maia, curated by Manuel Santos Maia, Maia (PT)
2025 Moringue vazio não carrega vento, curated by Felipa Almeida, Galeria Plato, Évora (PT)
2025 Picollo Empório de Mattia “não é gato por lebre”, curated by Giuseppe de Mattia and Mattia Tosti, Feira da Ladra, Lisbon (PT)
2025 EDP Foundation New Artists Award’s exhibtion at MAAT, Lisbon (PT)
2025 Lisboa Não Sejas Francesas (Part1), L’ Atlas, galerie des mondes (Emerige), Paris (FR)
2025 O fio que nos une, artworks from the António Cachola collection, Mace, Elvas (PT)
2025 Homework #3, Madragoa, Lisbon (PT)
2024 The Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize’s exhibition at The National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon (PT)
2024 Singsong, ZDB, Lisbon (PT)
2024 ArtRio, c/ Portas Vilaseca Galeria, Marina da Glória, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
2024 Canção de Setembro, works from the Elvas Museum of Contemporary Art - A António Cachola Collection, Espaço Arte, Campo Maior (PT)
2024 Cacto-Orquídea, curated by Ana Gebler and Pedro Linhares, HUB de Marvila, Lisbon (PT)
2023 Só porque foi, e voou, curated by the students of - Estudos Curatoriais da Universidade de
Coimbra - in partnership with, Fundação Millenium BCP, Umbigo LAB, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanêa, Lisbon (PT)
2023 Caring is Sharing 2.0 curated by Francisco Trêpa, Arbag, Lisbon (PT)
2023 Plants, as far as I knwo, are still bending towards the light, Arco Lisboa opening section with Galeria Foco curated by Chus Martinez and Luiza Teixeira de Freita, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon (PT)
2023 Taking the light out of the prism, curated by Duplex Air, Antigas Oficinas de Fardamento de Exército, Lisbon (PT)
2023 Motobody.zip curated by Eva Slaba, Galeria Foco, Lisbon (PT)
2023 Gémeos Falsos, curated by Diogo Ramalho and Mercedes Vila Barca, Appleton Square, Lisbon (PT)
2023 Inpromptu, Duplex Air, Lisbon (PT)
2023 Radius1, Largo Residências, Lisbon (PT)
2022 Caring is Sharing curated by Francisco Trêpa, Cabanamad, Lisbon, (PT)
2022 Suit Case Studies, SWAB Art Fair with Duplex Air, Barcelona, (ES)
2022 Young Artists Prize CarpeDiem | Millenium BCP Foundation, P31 Lisbon, (PT)
2022 XXII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, (PT)
2021 The Straw tha Broke the Camels Back, SWAB Art Fair with Duplex Air, Barcelona (ES)
2021 Voo Duplo, Galeria Diferença, Lisbon, (PT)
2021 Concreto e Particular curated by Carolina Pelletier Fontes, Casa do Capitão, Lisbon, (PT)
2021 Reflections on space, PART I, Lx Lapa, Lisbon, (PT)
2020 I Will Take the Risk, Azan - Tomaz Hipólito studio, Lisbon, (PT)
2020 Let us Flop, Duplex Air, Lisbon, (PT)
2018 Laboratório , Galeria Municipal de Aljustrel, Aljustrel, (PT)
2017 Escultura Efemera, Galeria Municipal de Proença-a-Nova, Proença-a-Nova, (PT)
2016 XXXIV Fidem Belgium Congress of Art-Medals, Gent, (BE)
2016 Undisclosed Pleasures, Espaço Cultural das Merçes, Lisbon, (PT)
2016 1st Edition of Paula Rego Art Prize, Casa das Histórias, Cascais, (PT)
2016 Janelas como Meio de Significação, Espaço Cultural das Merçes, Lisbon, (PT)
2016 Part I, Biblioteca Camões, Lisbon, (PT)
2015 Perspectivas – Reflectir a Cura da Hepatite C, CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém, Museu do Oriente, Alfandega do Porto, Lisbon - Porto, (PT)
2014 New Ideas in Medallic Sculpture, Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, (USA)
Residencies
2025 Artistic residency at the Futurama Festival with the students of Mário Beirão School, Beja (PT)
2025 Artist residency at Fábrica Viúva Lamego, Sintra (PT)
2023 Cabeço do Pião residency, project Arts for people and Earth with Projecto Pontes, Fundão (PT)
2022 (producer) Pool Residency, Juca Fiis and I’m Project (NY) at Cau Cortém, Cortém (PT)
2021 Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Artistic Residencies, Museu Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Lisbon (PT)
2020 Co-Residency (international remote resindencie program) collaboration with Gabriel Ribeiro
2016 Esculltura Efemera, Proença a Nova, (PT)
Interviews / Publications / Mentions
Jornal Público - Ípsilon, Francisco Trêpa usa a escultura como suporte para a imaginação, by Luísa Soares de Oliveira
https://www.publico.pt/2024/04/30/culturaipsilon/noticia/francisco-trepa-usa-escultura-suporte-imaginacao-2088529
Umbigo magazine, Sobre Flor Cadáver, de Francisco Trêpa by Maria Inês Mendes
https://umbigomagazine.com/pt/blog/2024/05/02/sobre-flor-cadaver-de-francisco-trepa/
Umbigo magazine, Caring is Sharing 2.0 at Arbag by Ian Gavião
https://umbigomagazine.com/en/blog/2023/06/14/caring-is-sharing-2-0-at-arbag/
2023 Folha de São Paulo, https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2023/05/feira-arco-lisboa-tenta-mirar-a-africa-mas-tem-overdose-de-pintura-e-vitrine-brasileira.shtml
2022 Umbigo magazine, “Caring is Sharing na Cabanamad” by Maria Eduarda Wendhausen e Tiago Leonardo
Caring is Sharing na Cabanamad (umbigomagazine.com)
2022 Dose Mag 8 https://dose.pt/
2022 Umbigo magazine “Chalaza: Francisco Trêpa na Cabanamad” by Laurinda Marques
https://umbigomagazine.com/pt/blog/2022/03/08/chalaza-francisco-trepa-na-cabanamad/
2022 Umbigo magazine “ Interview with Francisco Trêpa, author of the cover of the month” by Miguel Pinto
https://umbigomagazine.com/pt/blog/2021/12/27/entrevista-com-francisco-trepa-autor-da-capa-do-mes-da-umbigo/
2021 Duplex AIR Interview cicle. Interview guided by Beatriz Coelho. https://www.duplexair.com/post/entrevista-francisco-tr%C3%AApa-por-beatriz-coelho
Francisco Trêpa (b. 1995) is a Portuguese artist living in Lisbon. He studied ceramics at the António Arroio Artistic School (2013), earned a degree in Sculpture (2017), and completed a Master’s degree in Multimedia Art (2022) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Since 2015, he has exhibited nationally and internationally in various galleries and institutions.
His work is included in the António Cachola Collection (MACE), the PLMJ Foundation Collection, the Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE), and several private collections.
In 2024, he was named a finalist for the EDP Foundation New Artists Award, resulting in the prize exhibition at MAAT in Lisbon. That same year, he won the Grand Prize of the Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize. He recently presented Baile dos Bugalhos (Gall Ball), a solo exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Modern Art Center in Lisbon (CAM).
Francisco Trêpa’s practice investigates symbiotic relationships that sustain ecological, existential, and affective systems, using a variety of materials to create sculptures that explore, and ultimately embody, concepts such as transmutability and hybridism. His most recent body of work creates a meta-universe inspired by the plant world, the ties and crosses between plants and animals, such as pollination, conjuring the complex relationships between non-human animals and the impression of humanity in the Anthropocene.
His sculptures evoke natural phenomena which are provided by the senses, drawing on both aesthetic and poetic dimensions in order to foster involvement, and ultimately, reflection. In this way, his works weave visual narratives that invite both contemplation and questioning, combining symbolism, emotion, form, and critical thought. His work is prolific, using the generative capacity of imagination to create a sense of reproductive abundance, as he unfolds and expands the forms that matter (ceramic, wax, wood) assumes in his practice.