About

Martim Brion (Lisbon, 1986) – CV

is a Portuguese contemporary visual artist and curator whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, sculpture, and drawing. His distinct conceptual and minimalist style focuses on rigorously filtering external complexities into visual expressions of thought, forcing his pieces into a state of “in-betweenness” where disciplines overlap. His work frequently investigates the representation of light, colour and precise spatial structures. An academic background in International Relations and Political Science preceded his formal art training at institutions like the Royal College of Art, fuelling the intellectual weight of his practice. In recent years, Brion has expanded into curating institutional exhibitions to foster broader critical and contextual dialogue within contemporary creative production.

Institutional Collections (selection):

Fundação Millennium BCP
Museum für Konkrete Kunst
Museu da Guarda
Biblioteca Nacional Portuguesa
Centro Cultural Raiano
MUDAS. Contemporary Art Museum of Madeira
Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection
Centro de Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor
Leiria Municipal Collection
Carlos Reis Museum
Lagos Cultural Centre Collection
Fundação Dom Luís I

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CV

Education
2017 Royal College of Arts, UK – Semester Course
2011 Sotheby’s Institute of Art, UK – Art and Business Course
2010 IE Business School, Spain – Master’s in International Management
2008 De Montfort University, UK – International Relations and Politics

Solo Exhibitions

2025
A Fuga do Tempo, Aveiro University, curated by Alexandre Baptista, Aveiro, Portugal.
Visual Manouvers, Dom Concept Space, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Constructing the Visible – Martim Brion and Günther Förg, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany.

2024
Reflexivity, Guarda Museum, Guarda, Portugal.

2023
Regulative Idea, Portuguese Cultural Centre, Luxembourg.
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. Contemporary Art Museum of Madeira, 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, Natural History and Science Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.

2016
Objecto Mar, Clube Naval do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

2015
Object Opinion, L’H Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.

2014
A Precise Sense of Form, Artistas Unidos, Teatro da Politécnica, Lisbon, Portugal.

Group Exhibitions

2025
Strom Zähler 12, Mermaid’s Waschsalon, curated by Sebastian Lechner, Munich, Germany.
…and going on – the drj 100th, dr. Julius art projects, Berlin, Germany.
Cycles of Reality, Kunstquartier Bethanien, curated by Martim Brion, Berlin, Germany
Areal3 – Nothing with without purpose, Cascais Cultural Centre, curated by Martim Brion, Cascais, Portugal
Mausgrau, Lycra Raum, curated by Daniel Hörner, Hamburg, Germany.
Charity exhibition and auction, Quinta Essência, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (SNBA), Lisbon, Portugal

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 Künst and Museum Kulturspeicher Würzburg, curated by Mathias Listl, Ingolstadt and Würzburg, Germany.
Areal3 – Três gerações de cor, Centro Cultural de Lagos, curated by Martim Brion, Lagos, Portugal.
Gridlines, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, curated by Martim Brion, Berlin, Germany.

2023
Relax, Galerie der Künstler, BKK, Munique, Alemanha.
Capiti Art Mind 7th Edition, benefit exhibition, Electricity Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.
Über Das Was Es Ist, Raum Für Gäste, Aachen, Germany.
Wanderlust, Artes – Mota Galiza, Porto, Portugal.
Colecções Partilhadas, MUDAS Museum, Madeira, Portugal.

2022
24 Multiples 24 Artists, Raum Für Gäste, Aachen, Germany.
0/1 O Zero e o Um, MUHNAC Museum, curated by Sofia Marçal, Lisbon, Portugal.
Form Sache, with Thorben Eggers, Lycra Raum, Hamburg, Germany.
Linie Fläche Raum, Alten Gefängnis Freising, Freising, Germany.
Nachtsicht, Schafhof Municipal Gallery, curated by Eike Berg, Freising, Germany.
Form Constriction, Oqbo, curated by Martim Brion, Berlin, Germany.

2020
Uncertain Matter, Lagos Cultural Centre, Lagos, Portugal.
Incremental Abstractions, Kunstverein Tiergarten, curated by Martim Brion Berlin, Germany.

2019
Área de Diálogo, Municipal Gallery Banco de Portugal, curated by Martim Brion, Leiria, Portugal.
Areal3 – Uma exposição de António, Sofia e Martim Areal, Carlos Reis Museum – Praça do Peixe, curated by Martim Brion, Torres Novas, Portugal.

2018
Boese, Brion e Tecedeiro, Ponte de Sor Cultural Centre, Ponte de Sor, Portugal.
Apropriação, Memória e Desejo, Leiria Cultural Centre, Leiria, Portugal.

2017
Apropriação, Memória e Desejo, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal.
Fine Art Residency finalists show, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom.
XIX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal.

2016
Aqui, with Ado & Comenius, curated by Andreas Blättler, Rua Madalena Project, Lisbon, Portugal.
Colectiva, Pedro Calapez, Sofia Areal, José de Guimarães, among others, Galeria Vera Cruz, Aveiro, Portugal.
Arte de Bolso, Galeria Sete, Coimbra, Portugal.
Arte Hoje Premiados, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal

2015 
Colectiva, Pedro Calapez, Sofia Areal, José de Guimarães, Pedro Proença, among others, Galeria Vera Cruz, Aveiro, Portugal.
Visual Arts Award, Gallery 32, with Brazilian Embassy and Itaú Bank, London, UK.
A Mostra, Patricia Pires de Lima Projetos, Lisbon, Portugal.

2014 
Salão de Inverno, A Pequena Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal.
Arte de Bolso, Galeria Sete, Coimbra, Portugal.
21 Artistas Plásticos no Teatro da Politécnica, Alberto Carneiro, António Sena, Jorge Pinheiro, Jorge Martins, Nikias Skapinakis, Pedro Chorão, Pedro Proença, Sofia Areal, among others, United Artists Exhibition Space, Lisbon, Portugal.
Pixels of Identities, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice, Italy.
Arte Hoje, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal.

Bibliography

  • RE-VISION, exh. Cat., Kunstverein Tiergarten, 2024.
  • Reflexivity, exh. Cat. Museu da Guarda, 2024. Texts by Richard Wentworth, Thierry Santos and Martim Brion.
  • Areal3 – Três Gerações de Cor, exh. Cat. Centro Cultural de Lagos, 2024. Texts by Martim Brion.
  • Blickfeld – The inevitability of the self, exh. Cat. Galerie Etage, Museum Reinickendorf, 2024. Texts by Sabine Ziegenrücker and Artists.
  • 24! Fragen an die Konkrete Gegenwart, Museum Für Konkrete Künst and Museum Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2024. Texts by Mathias Listl, Henrike Holsing, Theres Rohde.
  • Areal3 – Três gerações de cor, Centro Cultural de Lagos, 2024. Text by Martim Brion.
  • O que Fazer, exh. cat., Museu Ibérico de Arqueologia e Arte de Abrantes (MIAA), 2023. Texts by João Silvério and Martim Brion.
  • 24 Künstler – 24 Multiples, exh. cat., Raum für Gäste, 2022. Texts by Vera Hilger and Michael Krupp.
  • (0/1) O zero e o um, exh. cat., MUHNAC and Galeria Nave, 2022. Texts by Sofia Marçal and Mercedes Ceron.
  • What is to be done?, exh. cat. Município de Abrantes, MIAA, 2022, texts by João Silvério, Fernando Figueiredo Ribeiro and Martim Brion.
  • Ponto Contraponto, exh. cat., Município de Vila Nova da Barquinha, Galeria do Parque, 2022. Texts by João Pinharanda and Martim Brion.
  • Between past and future, exhibitions 2014 – 2021, Prodicus Publishing, 2022. Texts by João Pinharanda, José Sousa Machado, Tom Saunders and Martim Brion.
  • Selected Works 2014-2021 Martim Brion, Prodicus Publishing, Berlin, 2021.
  • Repetições, exh. Cat., MUDAS Contemporary Art Museum, 2020. Texts by Miguel von Haffe Peréz and Martim Brion.
  • Área de Diálogo, exh. cat., Leiria Municipal Council and Banco de Portugal Municipal Gallery, 2019. Text by Tom Saunders.
  • Areal3 – Uma exposição de António, Sofia e Martim Areal, exh. cat., Neupergama Gallery and Torres Novas Municipality, 2019. Texts by Fernando Rosa Dias, Emília Ferreira, Tom Saunders and Martim Brion.
  • Boese, Brion e Tecedeiro, exh. cat., Ponte de Sor Cultural Centre, 2018. Texts by Martim Brion and Laura Falé.
  • Martim Brion, Prodicus Publishing, 2018.

Grants and Prizes

2025 – Grant for internationalisation – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal.
2025 – Mobility Grant Instituto Camões Bulgária
2023/24 – Grant for internationalisation – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal.
2023 – Culture Moves Europe – European Union and Goethe Institute
2022 –Stiftung Kunstfonds for artistic production, Germany.
2021 –DGArtes grant for artistic production, Portugal.
2015 – 3rd place in the visual arts prize of the Brazilian Embassy and Itaú Bank. UK.