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Isadora Neves Marques is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. Until 2022 they worked under the name Pedro Neves Marques.
Contacts:
Personal: isadoranevesmarques@gmail.com
Art: info@galleriaumbertodimarino.com
Cinema: dir@portugalfilm.org
ART & CINEMA
They were the Portuguese Official Representation - Portugal Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), with their project Vampires in Space.
They were awarded a Special Prize by the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize in 2021 and the Present Future Generation Art Prize at Artissima in 2018 for their art career.
Their films premiered at Semaine de la Critique - Cannes Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Toronto International Film Festival, and have been screened in more than a 100 film festivals worldwide.
They were awarded the Ammodo Tiger Short Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2022 as well as best short film prize at Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin for their film Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Their film The Bite won best short film awards at Go Short - Nijmegen, Mix Brasil, Sicilia Queer Film Festival, and Short Waves, as well as the Kodak Prize at MIEFF in 2020.
Their films have been screened in numerous art institutions, including:
Art Basel Hong Kong - Film Section Opening Night
Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid)
Tate Modern Film (London)
e-flux Screening Room and Anthology Film Archives (New York)
Batalha Centro de Cinema (Porto)
Leeum Art Museum (Seoul)
MADRE (Naples)
They have had film focuses at, among others:
Film Fest Gent
Winterthur Short Film Festival
HOME (Manchester)
Their artworks have been shown in art institutions globally, including:
Solo shows:
High Line (New York)
e-flux (New York)
Pérez Art Museum of Miami (Miami)
Kyoto City University of the Arts Gallery (Kyoto)
Castello di Rivoli (Turin)
Gasworks (London)
CA2M (Madrid) and CaixaFórum (Barcelona) (with Zahy Tentehar)
Torreão Nascente - Lisbon Municipal Galleries and Berardo Museum Collection (Lisbon).
1646 (The Hague)
Group shows:
Palais de Tokyo, Frac Ile-de-France and Kadist Art Foundation (Paris)
PAV (Turin)
Inside Out Museum (Beijing)
Guandong Times Museum (Guangzhou)
SculptureCenter and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York)
Renaissance Society (Chicago)
Matadero (Madrid)
MADRE (Naples)
MAAT (Lisbon)
Aarhus Kunsthal (Denmark)
Hamburg Kunstverein and Max Ernst Museum (Germany), among others.
Art biennials:
Liverpool Biennial
Gwangju Biennale
Guangzhou Image Triennial
New Museum Triennial
Yinchuan Biennale
Göteborg Biennial, among others.
Their artworks are included in art collections such as:
Castelo di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea (Turin)
Wellcome Collection (London)
Kadist Foundation (Paris)
Portuguese National Collection
and several private collections.
Together with film producer Catarina de Sousa, they founded the cinema production company Foi Bonita a Festa in 2021.
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WRITING
In 2020 they founded the poetry press Pântano Books together with Alice dos Reis, publishing originals and translations by, to date, CAConrad, Odete, Serubiri Moses, and Ellen Lima Wassu.
They have published the poetry collections Biography of a Fiction (After 8 Books, 2026), A Campa de Marx (Não Edições, 2025), and Sex as Care and Other Viral Poems (Pântano Books, 2020).
Their essays focus primarily on the intersections of art and cinema with ecology, gender, technology, and science fiction. They are a regular contributor to e-flux journal and have published in publicagions by MIT Press, Verso, Sternberg Press, Archive Books, among others.
They are the editor of the art and theory anthologies YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds (Sternberg Press, 2022) and The Forest and the School/ Where to Sit at the Dinner Table? (Archive Books, 2015). They were guest-editor for e-flux journal #65, the Supercommunity issue, for the 56th Venice Biennalle in 2015, since available by Verso.
They are also the author of two books of short stories, Morrer na América (Abysmo Editora and Kunsthalle Lissabon, 2017) and The Integration Process/ O Processo de Integração (bilingual; Atlas Projectos, 2012).