Henrique Loja
b. 1992 in Lagos (PT)
Based in Lisbon (PT).
✉︎ henriqueloja@gmail.com
Curatorial: Mala/Supermala
Education
2018-2020 Master in Visual Arts, Work.Master program, HEAD Genève, Geneva, CH
2010-2014 Bachelor in Painting – Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, PT
2013 Erasmus - Intermedia Department, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, HU
Prizes
2021 Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung at Swiss Art Awards (Winner), Basel, CH
2017 NOVO BANCO Revelação, Serralves Museum / Serralves Foundation (Finalist), Porto, PT
2015 Jovens Criadores ‘15, CPAI, Lisbon, PT
Grants
2023 Culture Moves Europe, Mobility Grant
2022 Residency Grant Artistes en Résidence, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
2021 Bourses Déliées du Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain du Canton de Genève, CH
2015 Residency Grant EGEAC/CML, PT/Budapest, HU
Residencies
2023 2-12 program, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2022 100 days residency, Artistes en Résidence, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
2016 CEAC-EDP Foundation, Vila Nova da Barquinha, PT
2015 EGEAC-Budapest Galléria, Budapest, HU
2020 Espace Picto (as Fraich Club), Geneva, HU
Selected exhibitions
2025 Ambar, Galeria Mais Silva, Porto, PT
2023 Open Studios, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2023 Housewarming, Monitor Gallery, Lisbon, PT
2022 NO GLOVO PRO BONO, Spirit Shop, Lisbon, PT
2022 Le protocole,La diode, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
2022 Systema, Marseille, FR
2021 Alternate Take, LiveInYourHead, Geneva, CH
2021 Bourses Déliées 2021, Halle Nord, Geneva, CH
2021 Swiss Art Awards, Messe, Basel, CH
2021 Mar de Cristal, Galerias Municipais invite Supermala, ArcoMadrid, Madrid, ES
2021 N0 3X1T - Chapter 2 & 3 (as Fraich Club), Espace 3353, Geneva, CH
2020 N0 3X1T - Chapter 1 (as Fraich Club), Zabrieskie Point, Geneva CH
2020 Wie zu Hause wo ich nicht bin, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
2019 Fridges are not frigid, Archivio Conz, Berlin, DE
2019 Nanorevolutions, Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, UY
2019 Playground #1, cur. Julie Robiolle, Bois de Freres, Geneva, CH
2017 Calesdoscópio, Maus Hábitos, Porto, PT
2017 I’ve never felt so punk, Rua Rui Barbosa 6, Lisbon, PT
2017 Is a Bone a Stone?, Galeria do Sol, Porto, PT & Museu Geológico, Lisbon, PT
2016 Suspense, Centro de Memória, Vila do Conde, PT
2016 Exercícios de Futurologia, Quadrum, Lisboa (Solo)
2016 Letter Landscape, (w/ Andreia Santana), mala voadora.porto, Porto, PT
2016 #somethingincommon (w/ Sofia Montanha), Carpe Diem - Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon, PT
2016 esquina (w/ Tiago Cruz), Painel, Porto, PT
2016 Cubiculum Mirabilia, Museu Geológico de Lisboa, Lisbon, PT
2015 Complexion I, Laboratório das Artes, Guimarães, PT
2015 Reunião, Palacete Pinto Leite, Porto, PT
2015 Browser, Massolit, Budapest, HU (Solo)
2015 BFA Painting Graduation Show, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, PT
Publications/Texts
2024 Collection Coquillade 2019-2014 (Oliver & Tobias Rihs), ed. Coquillade Provence, FR
2023 Bug/Glitch/Jitter, by Manon Klein, in the context of Cité Internationale des Arts, FR
2020 Final Fantasy, by Roxane Bovet for Bourses Déliées 2021
2020 Sea foam from the future, interview by Sylvain Menetrey at Issue Journal
2020 Pasta Hiro, self-published, Geneva, CH
2017 NOVO BANCO Revelação (Catalogue), ed. Museu Serralves, Porto, PT
2017 Painel, org. Catarina Real, outros, ed. FBA University of Porto, Porto, PT
2016 Henrique Loja – Ciclo Budapeste, ed. EGEAC/CML, Lisbon, PT