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HElena Valsecchi

HElena Valsecchi

Exhibitions

11 Apr - 20 Jun 2026

Porto

HElena Valsecchi

HElena Valsecchi

VAMPATA

Pedro Oliveira Gallery - Porto

Tue-Sat 15:00-19:30

Exhibitions

11 Apr - 20 Jun 2026

Porto

HElena Valsecchi

Helena Valsecchi's work revolves around an idea of interpenetration between bodies, experiences of places, and mineral, mythical, temporal, and historical stratifications. Through a multidisciplinary practice, the artist investigates the thresholds between culturally defined categories, questioning them. Her processes are born from practices of listening and proximity: walks, collection of materials, and observation of territories, which integrate and inform the artistic process. Matter (fire, glass, pigments, or mineral and vegetable elements) is never neutral, but acts as a co-author, bearer of memory, symbol, and tension.

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Helena Valsecchi (Novara, Italy, 1976). Italian-Portuguese artist, lives and works between Lisbon and Peniche. Master in Fine Arts, Esad.CR (2025). Her work was part of the book Portuguese Emerging Art (2023) and was selected for the Millennium BCP Young Art Prize (2024). Research residency on the relationship between the female body and Mount Etna, within the framework of the European program Culture Moves Europe (2025). Participated in exhibitions such as “The Spectator’s Place” (CAPC, 2023) and “331 Mulberry Trees in Metamorphosis” (Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva Museum, 2024-2025), and presented solo exhibitions such as “L’Invisibile” (MUHNAC). Currently developing an artistic residency in the Bussaco Forest with the Aderno Association.

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Caption: HElena Valsecchi, Vampata

Credits: HElena Valsecchi, 2025

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