Luís Alegre

Luis Alegre was born in 1969, in Anadia, Portugal. He graduated in Painting from the Artistic School of Porto in 1989 and took the PhD and Masters Degree in Design at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He currently lives and works in Lisbon, conciliating a career in arts with the activity as a designer. As from the second half of the 90´s he has developed projects that overlap multiple disciplines, connecting design, video and installations. He is a teacher of the Masters Degree in Technological Arts and in the degrees of Film and Communication Sciences at Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa, as well as a creative designer of Ideias com Peso, a communication studio, since 1995.

Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

ESAP - Escola Superior Artística do Porto

He began exhibiting solo in 1995 and taking part in group exhibitions in 2004.
His main solo exhibitions were: Rude, Galeria Diferença, Lisbon (1995); Keep Dancing, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (2001); Empty Hard Work, Sala do Veado, Museu de História Natural, Lisbon (2002); FeelingEU, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon (2006); Total Equilibrium, Galeria VPFCream Arte, Lisbon (2007); Play Them, Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon (2010); Play Them #02, CITEMOR – 33º Festival de Montemor-o-velho, (2011); Play Them #02 [Pradillo], Teatro Pradillo - Investigación y Creación, Madrid, (2012).
[NO AUDIO], Galeria VPFCream Arte, Lisbon, (2013).

From his group exhibitions:
Unfold, Acção ‘Luzes, Câmara… Martini’, Luzboa – Bienal Internacional da Luz ‘04, Lisbon (2004); Em Fractura – Colisão de Territórios, Projecto Terminal, Fundição de Oeiras (2005); Toxic, o Discurso do Excesso, Projecto Terminal, Fundição de Oeiras (2005); Projecto Toilette (with Miguel Palma), Lisbon’s International Art Fair, FIL (2005); VPFCream Arte Gallery, Lisbon’s International Art Fair, FIL (2006); 25 Frames por Segundo, Vídeos da Colecção da Fundação PLMJ, Cinema São Jorge, Lisbon (2007); Lisboa, Luanda, Maputo, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon (2007); Remote Cont...