Bruno Cidra

1982, lives and works at Lisboa

The work of BRUNO CIDRA (Lisbon, 1982) stems from the synthesis between Sculpture and Drawing. His sculptures in metal (iron, bronze, and others) and paper explore the tension and dialogue of opposing materialities and the values inherent to each discipline, such as resistance and fragility, weight and lightness, permanence and ephemerality. Using the exhibition space as a site of composition, Bruno Cidra’s sculptures create new paths, rhythms, and frameworks, defining axes and visual references, regions of concentration or dispersion, and inviting the viewer to continually readjust their relationship with the space.

Graduated in Fine Arts – Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, he has exhibited regularly since 2006. Notable exhibitions include: Almoço na Barriga do Cavalo (Galeria Bruno Múrias, Lisbon, 2023), Arrancar pela Raíz (Casa da Cerca, Almada, 2022), Tutorar (Estufa Fria de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2021), Passar pelas mãos (Galeria Bruno Múrias, Lisbon, 2019), O cinzeiro e outros objetos brancos (O Armário, Lisbon, 2018), Zinabre Azebre Azinhavre (Uma certa falta de coerência, Porto, 2016), Mexicano (Galeria Baginski, Lisbon, 2016), Cortina (Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon, 2015), Conversas: Arte Portuguesa Recente na Coleção de Serralves (Museu de Serralves, Porto, 2016), Sala dos Gessos (Fundação EDP/MAAT, Lisbon, 2016), Canal Caveira (Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, 2015-16), Drawing the World (Est Art Fair Estoril, 2014), Crystal Frontier (enBlanco Projektraum, Berlin, 2012), Como proteger-se do tigre (XVI Bienal de Cerveira, Kunsthalle Lissabon, 2011), Prémio EDP Novos Artistas (Museu da Eletricidade, Lisbon, 2009), and Afterthought (Irmaveplab, Reims, France, 2008).

In 2017, he participated in the artistic residency program Pivô – Pesquisa in São Paulo, Brazil, and in 2013, he was awarded a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant for an artistic residency at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), São Paulo. In 2009, he was a finalist for the EDP New Artists Award at the Museu da Eletricidade, Lisbon, and in 2005, he won the D. Fernando II Sculpture Awardin Sintra.

His work is part of several public and private collections, including:

CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection,
Serralves Collection,
Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection – CACE,
FAAP Collection,
Calouste Gulbenkian Modern Collection,
Carmona e Costa Foundation Collection,
António Cachola Collection – MACE,
EDP Foundation/MAAT Collection,
Teixeira de Freitas Collection,
Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection – Quartel da Arte Contemporânea de Abrantes,
Ar.Co Contemporary Art Collection,
Lisbon City Hall/EGEAC Collection, among others.