Leonor Pires

My work explores emotions and atmospheres traversing time and memory and blending with intimate narratives

Between the quasi-figurative and the quasi-

-abstract, between the almost real and the nearly fictional, there is a dialogue among these dimensions and the way they connect to the realm of appearances.

I work slowly. Each moment matters.

I value the distance of the gaze that wanders and settles on details, the accident and the rupture as means to break systematic thinking, to abandon superfluous, and to create space for new ideas and paths.

The studio is my refuge. Wherever I may be, it is always a place of return never of departure.

1990-94 - Painting Course, Experimental Studio, Brussels

1996-98 - Uccle Academy of Arts, Painting Course, studio Mirèze Aerts, Brussels

2002-2003 - Multidisciplinary Art Workshops, Educational Space at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

2006-08 - Sculpture Workshop, Lourenço Bianchetti, Brasília

2011 - Artistic Practice Workshops, Painting around Matisse and Picasso, Educational Space at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

2021-22 - Masterclasses within the MOOC framework, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1991-92-93 - Anderlecht Cultural Center, Brussels

1994 - L’Atelier Art Centre, Uccle - Brussels

1995 - Selection Prix des Arts, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Municipal House, Brussels

1996 - Galerie de la Régence, Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium

1998 - Galerie de la Régence, Braine-L’Alleud, Belgium

2000 - Ler Devagar Gallery, Lisbon

2007 - Renato Russo Cultural Space, Brasília

2009 - Camões Gallery, Portuguese Cultural Centre, Brasília
2011 - Embassy of Portugal to the EU, Brussels

2016 - 2016 Art Gallery, Brussels

2023 - Marie-Ange Boucher Art Gallery, Brussels

2025 - 23a Art gallery, Lisbon, collective of artists

2026 - 23a Art Gallery, Lisbon, individual exhibition