Project Linkki
1st Edition FI PT

April - December 2025
June - July 2024
Estação Viva Gallery, Portugal
Myymälä2 Gallery, Finland

Linkki Website

Support:
Taike — Arts Promotion Centre Finland

Linkki, founded and curated by Márcia Correia in 2023, is dedicated to building sustainable, long-term collaborations with international partners. Its mission is to support Finland-based artists and curators in developing exhibitions, art projects, and residencies abroad while facilitating the exchange of ideas and practices through visits by international artists and curators to Finland.

Contributors:
From Finland: Ilkka Iijalainen, Leroy Purnama, Matti Tanskanen, Valentina Bravo, Vinski Valos
From Portugal: Ana Sousa Santos, Carlos Fonseca, Frederico Maia, Isabel Simões Pinto, Mário Afonso

Project

Art Alive Festival 2024

April 2024
Estação Viva Gallery, Portugal

Art Alive Festival Website
S+T+ARTS Agenda 24
Support:
Frame Contemporary Art Finland

This year’s edition of the Art Alive Festival featured a special program curated by Márcia Correia, bringing together a group of Finnish artists whose works explored the intersections of art, society, technology, and nature. Organized by Estação Viva Gallery, the festival took place in April in Aveiro, Portugal, as part of the S+T+Arts Regional Center project GRIN. This initiative aims to foster art-driven innovation, promoting digital and green transitions across European regions.

Invited Artists:
Antti Laitinen, Spartak Khachanov, Suva, Eero Savela, Matti Tanskanen, and Mateo Rendón

Curatorial Work

The Impact of AI on Creativity

April 2024
Art Alive Festival 2024
Estação Viva Gallery, Portugal

Panel discussion moderated by Luis Miguel Girao at Art Alive Festival 2024 about he impact of AI on creativity.

Speakers:

-André Pinto - Head Designer and Head of the Technical Department at Adico
-Luís Teixeira - Researcher at Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes; Professor at Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
-Márcia Correia - Artist and Curator
-Matti Tanskanen - Photographer and Artist

Public Discussion

Zero Line by Maryna Semenkova

October 2023
Quantum Critic 23, Myymälä2 Pop-Up Gallery, Finland

Text about Maryna Semenkova's 'Zero Line' project exhbited at Quantum Critic 23, Myymälä2 Pop-Up Gallery in Helsinki, Finland.

Text

Empty

2022
oMuseu, Porto

Empty was featured in the exhibition Tocar, Suspender, Cingir e Pender… at oMuseu in Porto in 2022. The project investigated the fragmentation of physical reality, pushing it to the boundaries of immateriality. It presented a radical interrogation of the physicality inherent in the presentation of artworks and the objects that support such displays, critically addressing their implications for sustainability.

Deliberately ephemeral, the project left no visual documentation. Experiencing the work was possible only by visiting the exhibition space.

Art Work

Conceptual Installation

You’re Not Enough

2020-2021
Casa da Cultura de Estarreja

You’re Not Enough is a video work that examines the ambivalent emotions surrounding the pursuit of a greener future and the environmental costs it entails. The project focuses on the transformation of the Serra da Freita landscapes, shaped by the construction of wind turbines for green energy production.

Through a series of contemplative fragments, the video juxtaposes the natural beauty of these landscapes with the industrial presence of the so-called "wind turbine parks." This contrast invites viewers to reflect on the complexities of progress, questioning the balance between ecological preservation and the sacrifices demanded by sustainable energy solutions.

Art Work

Video; loop; monitor; 16:9; sound; 7’38’’

Red Velvet

2020
Serra da Freita, Aveiro, Portugal

Red Velvet emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when Serra da Freita’s remote mountains became my escape from the confinement of the city. In that solitude, the landscape offered more than refuge—it became a site to imagine a world where reality and fiction merge.

Through this series, I sought to reimagine the familiar by amplifying its visual language. The hyper-saturated colors create an artificial and almost hostile environment, a deliberate choice to provoke discomfort and unease. These exaggerated tones reflect my response to the tension between the natural world and human intrusion—what happens when we extract, exploit, and commodify nature.

Red Velvet is not just a reflection of place but an exploration of how we shape and distort it through our perspectives and actions. It’s a visual fiction rooted in the real, inviting the viewer to confront the consequences of our estrangement from the environments we claim to inhabit.

Art Work

Digital Photography

Save as...

November 2020 - January 2021
Casa da Cultura de Estarreja, Portugal

Save As... was an exhibition that explored the nature of time—its passage, its traces, and its enduring impact on memory and identity. The exhibition brought together works that reflected the diverse perspectives and contextual narratives of the invited artists.

Featuring artists from Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Greece, Pakistan, and Brazil, Save As... was presented across two venues: Casa da Cultura de Estarreja and Estação Canelas Gallery between 2020 and 2021.

Curatorial Work

Volta às Origens by Roberto Otero Gomez

February - April 2020
Estação Viva Gallery, Portugal

Roberto Otero Gomez is a Spanish artist whose work delves into the concept of collective memory, exploring political and social issues rooted in his personal past and present experiences.

In Volta às Origens, Otero Gomez examines the far-reaching consequences of prolonged involvement in repressive regimes, shedding light on how these enduring oppressive ideals continue to shape contemporary cultural identities. Through this work, he invites viewers to confront the lingering shadows of history and reflect on their impact on our shared narratives.

Curatorial Work/Text

EPHEMERA [Uma certeza inefável] by Ludmila Queirós

December 2019 - January 2020
Estação Viva Gallery, Portugal

Ludmila Queirós is a Portuguese mixed-media artist and researcher based in Coimbra, Portugal. Her work invites us into immersive worlds where the rhythms of human experience shift and transform unpredictably. Deeply influenced by literature and nature, Queirós weaves poetic reflections on profound philosophical questions into her practice.

In EPHEMERA, she explores the fleeting beauty of a mayfly’s life cycle, drawing poignant parallels to the transient and delicate nature of human existence. Through this work, Queirós invites us to contemplate the impermanence that defines life and the quiet beauty that arises within it.