Maria Trabulo is a visual artist and researcher from Porto (Portugal), whose artistic practice encompasses visual art, history, science, and technology, using installation as a way to combine sculpting, painting, video, drawing, sound, and photography. Trabulo explores themes such as memory, history, cultural heritage, and politics, particularly how political actions affect preserving or destroying cultural heritage and historical events, as well as the role art and artists play in these dynamics.
Maria Trabulo has a Master’s degree in Arts and Science from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and the Department of Fine Arts of the Iceland University of Arts, and a PhD from the School of Arts – Católica Porto. Trabulo has largely worked on exhibitions and has been a part of international art residencies since 2013. Her works have been featured in publications, seminars, and lectures, and have gained recognition through very important awards and sponsors, such as the Prémio Norberto Fernandes Jovens Artistas 2024, from the Fundação Altice; the Novo Banco Revelação Award 2018 by the Serralves Foundation; and, being a EDP Foundation's New Artists Award 2022 finalist.
Her most acclaimed works include collaborations with institutions such as: the EIB Institute, Luxembourg; the Frieze Londres; the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology; the Galerie nouveaux deuxdeux; the Bode-Museum, Berlin; the Galeria Municipal do Porto; the Kunsthalle Wien; the Künstler*innen Vereinigung Tirol – Neue Galerie, Innsbruck; the Serralves Museum; the Teatro Municipal do Porto; the Towards Gallery, Toronto; the Walk&Talk Festival; the Centro de Artes de Águeda; the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga.
