Marta Wengorovius

Marta Wengorovius was born in Lisbon in 1963. She graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon in 1988.
From 1989 to 1992 she received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, and in 1990 a scholarship from the Luso-American Development Foundation to study in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia.
She studied and taught at Ar.Co. and in 1993 was an academic observer at Goldsmith College, London. Together with Rui Sanches, she coordinated the summer academy for visual artists, Estudos Gerais da Arrábida - Conferências do Convento (1994). In 1994 she was awarded the Latin Union Prize for Painting. She holds a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Évora and is studying for a Doctorate in Contemporary Art at the College of Arts, University of Coimbra.
She has been exhibiting since 1989. Her recent exhibitions and performances include O Dois, Galeria Diferença (2020); Levar as cores onde fazem falta, Escola Nómada, Jardim Botânico da Casa da Cerca; Escola Nómada do Um do Dois e dos Muitos, Porta 14 (2019); Preto Veludo, Cooperativa Árvore (2018); Um, dois e Muitos, Museu de História Natural, Lisbon (2018); Escola Nómada, Appleton Square (2018); Extática Esfinge. Drawing and Animism II, José de Guimarães International Arts Centre (2017); One, two and many - An island on display, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores (2016); Transmission, Recréation et Répétition, Palais des Beaux-arts, Paris (2015); Focus - Drawings for use, Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokolovsko, Poland (2013); Cabana de Leitura, Biblioteca do Um, dois e muitos, Trienal de Arquitectura, Lisbon; A Grande Saúde, Fundação EDP, Lisbon (2012); Objectos de Errância, Museu do Chiado (2011); Mise à nu par l'action, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris (2009).