Helena Gouveia Monteiro is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker from Portugal, living in Ireland.
Concerned with the history of technical images and influenced by experimental cinema and media archaeology, she creates films, books, and multi-media installations that engage different levels of visual and cultural recognition to question our perception of language and audio-visual experiences, with a particular focus on the materiality and sensory possibilities of film.
Her work has been shown internationally in both gallery and cinema spaces, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Indie Lisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Glasgow Shorts, Public Art Fund/The Filmmakers Coop (US), and Festival Ecrã (Brasil). “Purkyně’s Dusk” (2021) is distributed by Light Cone Paris and “Man of Aral” (2023) was supported by the film project award from the Arts Council of Ireland.
She is the co-founder of Stereo Editions, an independent publishing collective of artists’ editions and a member of L’Abominable/Navire Argo. As a researcher and educator, she has facilitated workshops and curated film programs in Ireland and abroad, for the Hugh Lane Gallery, IMMA, Photo Museum, and Dissolutions Festival.
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NEWS
current/forthcoming
Residency at Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam, supported by Culture Moves Europe, April 2025.
ends meet solo exhibition at Sirius Arts Centre Cobh, March 15th-April 26th 2025 http://www.siriusartscentre.ie/visual-art/helena-gouveia-monteiro-ends-meet
SKINFLICKER screening at Glasgow Short Film Festival Your Body, Dissolving into Me programme curated by Xuanlin Tham, March 20th 2025
ongoing film programming at The Hugh Lane Gallery:
March 1st
Annik Leroy “Tremor-Es ist immer Krieg”
https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-screening-es-ist-mar25/
April 5th
Bo Wang “An Asian Ghost Story”
https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-screening-asian-ghost-apr25/
May 25th
Svetlana Romanova and Chelsea Tuggle “Season of Dying Water”
https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-screening-season-of-dying-water-may-25/
2025
Purkyne’s Dusk screening at MuMa Le Havre, France Le film comme jardin, March 5th 2025
SKINFLICKER screening at The 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
Program 4 “การจ้องมองไปยังการยกระดับจากความเป็นจริงไปสู่จินตนาการ และการกลับคืนสู่สภาพเดิม On gazing at the shift from actuality to imagination, and its reversion curated by Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa and Chayanin Tiangpitayagorn, Thailand, January 2025
Man of Aral screening at Filmoteca de Galiza, A Coruña, Spain, 1st February 2025
2024
Artist represented at the 23rd Bienal Internacional de Artes da Cerveira, Portugal, July-December 2024.
Man of Aral screening at Harkat 16mm Film Festival, «sea foam palace» programme, Mumbai, India, 7th December 2024
Film Programming at The Hugh Lane Gallery:
May 11th https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/damned-if-you-dont/
July 6th https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-screening-shortsjul24/
October 5th https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-screening-ouaga-the-capital-of-cinema/
November 9th https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-screening-off-framenov24/
Man of Aral screening at Granada Film Festival, Spain, October 23rd 2024
Competición Aguaespejo
Man of Aral screening at Hamilton Fish Pool, NYC Lower East Side September 21st and 27th
No Swimsuit Required, Water Works Program by Public Art Fund and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative co-curated by Tom Day and Gabriela López Dena
Man of Aral Screening at Watergate Cinema in Kilkenny September 25th
Out of Focus Program by Juana Robles and Michael Higgins
Out of Focus #3 – Drifting Scapes
Film Programming for DISSOLUTIONS: an experimental film festival with aemi, The Complex, Dublin, September 6th & 7th 2024
Screening of Man of Aral at La Rochelle International Film Festival, Programmed by Association Braquage, France, July 6th 2024
https://festival-larochelle.org/film/man-of-aral/
Screening of Man of Aral at Avanti Navire Argo program at L’Ecran St Denis, France, June 7th
https://lecranstdenis.fr/FR/424
Screening of Man of Aral at Indie Lisboa, National Competition, Portugal, May 29th/31st 2024
https://indielisboa.com/filme/man-of-aral/
Screening of Man of Aral at 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, March 29th, 2024,
Films in Competition 6: 35MM AND 16MM https://www.aafilmfest.org/62-schedule-page
Premiere screening of Man of Aral at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024, Fine Grain Program, January 28, 29, February 1st https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/man-of-aral
2023
Stereo Editions book-launch, presentation, and screening of Sky Hopinka’s The Island Weights at Dublin Art Book Fair and Irish Film Institute.
Screening of Purkyne’s Dusk at Fisura, Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental, Mexico
Residency at Sirius Arts Centre Cobh, September-October 2023
Roundtable on Experimental Film Publication, with Stereo Editions, at s8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña, June 4th 2023 https://s8cinema.com/en/2023/05/11/observatorio-bearing-witness-how-to-publish-books-on-experimental-film-today/
Screening of Purkyne’s Dusk at Museum d’Histoire Naturelle as part of Nature Expanded (programme by Elio Della Noce and Emmanuel Lefrant), Paris, January 2023 https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/film/cycle-nature-elargie-sentir-comme-une-plante
Screening of Segismundo (2015) at Halle Nord Capsule 2.82 (11 November to 3 December) in Geneva https://halle-nord.ch/event/capsule-282
2022
Arts Council of Ireland Film Project Award 2022 for “Man of Aral”
Dear Doc fellow at Doc’s Kingdom 2022 “Gestures and Fragments” in Portugal (fellowship supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation)
Lux Critical Forum Dublin Screening at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, co-curated with Michelle Hall https://imma.ie/whats-on/imma-outdoors-luxcritical-screening/
Screening of Purkyne’s Dusk at Festival Ecrã in Rio de Janeiro
https://www.festivalecra.com.br/6fecrafilmescurta-1/crepusculo_de_purkyne_o
Participant in The Flaherty Seminar 2022 (online)
Lux Critical Forum Dublin Screening at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, co-curated with Michelle Hall https://imma.ie/whats-on/imma-outdoors-luxcritical-screening/
Screening of Purkyne’s Dusk at Festival Ecrã in Rio de Janeiro
https://www.festivalecra.com.br/6fecrafilmescurta-1/crepusculo_de_purkyne_o
Participant in The Flaherty Seminar 2022 (online)
Oberhausen Seminar at the 68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, with the The Flaherty (New York), LUX (London) and Doc’s Kingdom (Lisbon). (supported by Fingal County Council) https://oberhausenseminar2022.weebly.com/participants.html
Purkyne’s Dusk included in the publication Expanded Nature, Light Cone Editions https://lightcone.org/fr/publication-79-expanded-nature
2021
HALFTONE Print Fair 2021 at The Library Project, Photo Ireland, Dublin.
Screening of Purkyně’s Dusk at 22e Rencontres Cinéma et Vidéo à Nice, Regard Indépendant, 27th November 2021.
Residency at L’Abominable Film Lab, Paris, funded by Fingal County Council.
Residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, funded by Arts Council Ireland. https://www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie/whats-on/artist-in-residence/helena-gouveia-monteiro
Screening of Purkyně’s Dusk at Curtas Vila do Conde 29th International Film Festival, Experimental Competition.
Screening of Purkyně’s Dusk at 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, programme curated by Light Cone, May 2021
File Note IV publication by Fire Station Artists’ Studios, article by Julie Morrissy
Shade New Light, video work, online exhibition at Hangar, Centro de Investigação Artística.
Resident at Hangar, Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon
https://hangar.com.pt/helena-gouveia-monteiro/
Portuguese Emerging Artist 2020 collective catalogue
https://www.emerge-ac.pt/portuguese-emerging-art-2020/
2020
Recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award in Film
Article on Forgery, Artists’ Take Over for Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane
Dublin Art Book Fair with Stereo Editions at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.
Atelier 105 Residency at Light Cone Paris
https://lightcone.org/en/news-638-purkyne-s-dusk-de-helena-gouveia-monteiro
Soundtrack for “Canape” collective online edition by Stereo Editions by EST (Juliette Liautaud and Helena Gouveia Monteiro).
Purkyně’s Dusk will be produced with Light Cone Atelier 105 Residency in Paris
https://lightcone.org/en/news-607-laureats-de-la-premiere-session-2020
Digital Media Residency Award 2020 at Fire Station Artists’ Studios Dublin
2019
Halftone Print Fair at The Library Project Dublin.
Editing of Purkyne’s Dusk at Fire Station Artists’ Studios
JOYCESVOICES in in James Joyce Quarterly
Joyce Smithy: A Curated Review of James Joyce in Visual Art, Music, and Performance—Community and Elusive Understandings by Tess Brewer, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Derek Pyle
The project Sweeney will be supported by Fingal County Council through the Artists’ Support Scheme Bursary towards the development of new work 2019.
“Barnacle” Collective Exhibition at 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2018
Stereo Editions Exhibition at Liquidâmbar, Coimbra, Portugal
Professional Development Residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland
Project Bootcamp with LUX at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Digital Film Making Workshop at National Botanic Gardens of Ireland
Hier sollte der Film eigentlich enden is screening at Traverse Vidéo Festival in Toulouse, France
“Barnacle” Collective Exhibition at Burren College of Art Gallery, Clare, Ireland
Launch of The Still
2017
A5 Art Fair at Galway Arts Centre, Ireland
Dublin Art Book Fair at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland with Stereo Editions
Halftone Print Fair, Dublin, Ireland
Emerging Artist Residency Award at at Burren College of Art Gallery, Clare, Ireland
Regarding the Hispanic World collective exhibition at Instituto Cervantes for Photo Ireland Festival, Dublin, Ireland
2016
Multiples salon de la petite édition d’artiste with Stereo Editions, Morlaix, France
Salon des éditions indépendantes de Lausanne with Stereo Editions, Switzerland
EST SET audio-visual performance with Juliette Liautaud at Studio PRÁM in Prague and NePokoj in Usti- nad-Labem, Czech Republic
Stereo Editions exhibition at Studio Prototyp, Prague, Czech Republic
Resident at Studio PRÁM with Juliette Liautaud, Prague, Czech Republic
Screening of Segismundo at Jornadas de Reapropiación, Ultra Cinema, Mexico
Screening of MalVuMalDit at Staunton International Film Festival, U.S.A.
2015
Screening of JOYCESVOICES at Arthur’s, Dublin, Ireland
Hier sollte der Film eigentlich enden is screening at Altered States, Electro Studios, Hastings, U.K.
Poste Ariel programmed by GREV in Souvenirs from Earth cable TV station dedicated to contemporary art
Poste Ariel audio-visual performance with Juliette Liautaud at Villa Arson, Nice, France
Odyssée collective exhibition at Villa Arson and Galerie de la Marine, Nice, France
Masters Degree with honours in Film (DNSEP) from École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nice – Villa Arson, Nice, France
all images and text © Helena Gouveia Monteiro