Exhibition views of CORO VERDE at Laboratory of National Museum of the History of Nature and Science, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

 

Schwarm [flock]

 

collective drawing in collaboration with students from Escola Alemã de Lisboa
sheets DIN A4, tape, post-its
297 x 399 cm
2025
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Lisboa, Portugal
National Museum of the History of Nature and Science, Lisbon, Portugal

As part of the group show CORO VERDE with Andrea Paz, Francisco Lourenço, Pablo Quiroga Devia, Tiago Rocha Costa, curated by Sofia Marçal

 

 

“Schwarm [flock] was developed in collaboration with students from the German School of Lisbon (Escola Alemã de Lisboa) and consists of a grid of bureaucratic DIN A4 sheets taped edge-to-edge, where a large flock of green ringnecked parakeets takes flight, those birds that everybody has come across with in Lisbon.

In her day-to-day life, the artist moves between her studio and the art room of the German School, where she teaches part-time. Between these two places, Arroios and Campo Grande, lies one of Lisbon’s major roosting sites for parakeets, near the University of Lisbon. While cycling past, she often heard their screeching, like an acoustic pre-echo of the exhibition Coro Verde, which is taking place now at the laboratory of the museum. As part of her artistic practice, which is often grounded in participation and collaboration, the artist opened this process and invited the young artists she spends half her week with to contribute a drawing for the exhibition and accompany two of her own bird drawings. One thing that becomes visible is the variety, depending on observation, sensitivity to the birds’ visual details and personal engagement on that day; while some let go of the bird at the end of the session, others continued shaping their bird with care and enthusiasm along some days and shared the moment of the opening. However, all of them became part in the flock’s variety as this collective work.”

 

 

Extract of curator’s text

 

 

All gratitude for the generosity and enthusiasm by all young collaborators from German School Lisbon that made this collaboration possible!