Creative Macau

Center for Creative Industries

Events

Exhibitions

Sound and Image Challenge Rewind Screening 2010-2017

26th July — 24th August, 2018

The Sound and Image Challenge is going on its 9th year, bringing in short films from all around the world and Macau. In anticipation for this 2018’s International Short Film Festival, Creative Macau would like to showcase the outstanding works from local and foreign talented filmmakers that have competed in previous renditions of the Sound […]

Stillness in Motion

28th June — 21st July, 2018

One of the Taiji (太極) practice contents requires seeking Stillness in Motion (動中求靜). Martial arts are good at motion with extreme power. Taiji (太極) uses stillness to control motion, softness to counteract hardness, co-ordination in all aspects to achieve balance. Capturing motion paths of the dancers through time and space, from a tri-dimensional reality into […]

USJ Architecture Program Exhibition 2018

30th May — 23rd June, 2018

X-STAX is a bamboo installation that forms the centre-piece of an exhibition of the work of the 2018 bamboo pavilion studio by University of Saint Joseph architecture students. Taking a tied and rotating bamboo joint as a starting point in defining the interface of construction, a series of installations express a movement of expansion/contraction from […]

Visual Thinking – photography group exhibition

25th April — 19th May, 2018

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION   “Painting and sculpture come from the inside out; photography comes from outside in.” – Rudolf Arnheim   Some people may believe photography is not as dynamic as painting because photography is environment driven, as it attempts to grasp the essence of a subject or express the personality of a model. Here […]

Punacotheca

22nd March — 17th April, 2018

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Punacotheca Also called paronomasia, the pun is a form of wordplay that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. Recognizing in this process a potential to create ambiguous and bizarre – sometimes ludicrous – images, Rodrigo breaks down the barriers of the […]

SOMEWHERE

8th February — 17th March, 2018

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION In artists’ eyes, things aren’t just what is seen, but what is seen within. “Somewhere” is not about specific places – they may be anywhere. The photo series “Somewhere“ is photographer’s try of capturing the “within silence“ and sublime presence of a number of places. There were about 20 colored photos that […]

A Glance at Iran

11th January — 3rd February, 2018

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION “A glance at Iran” comprises 30 photos by Marina Carvalho. They are records of what she experienced within her 10-day-journey in Iran. Photographs arouse our curiosity, and they can show what are behind the war scene in the Islam nations. Her works are mainly in black and white, showing the cities of […]

“VISIONS” – Drawings & Photomontages

21st November — 2nd December, 2017

An artist essentially has her vision of our surrounding world: not the same as the one we can catch with our eyes. Exhibiting is a good moment to share this particular glance and open for us a “third eye”. Our vision hereafter won’t ever be the same. Armelle is a self-taught artist, and she has […]

“NOW 8” Works by USJ Communication and Media Students

3rd — 18th November, 2017

The Department of Communication and Media under the Faculty of Creative Industries at USJ will present the best artworks, created by BCM students during the last 8 years in 3 different categories: video productions, graphic design and photography, under the guidance of Prof. José Manuel Simões, the coordinator of Communication and Media programme.

Expressionist Drawings of Macau

28th September — 27th October, 2017

ARTIST’S STATEMENT “Macau is currently my city and part of my life. Being an architect makes me see and feel the cities in a unique way and, as an artist painter, express my self and register the urbanity on the paper – the goal is to demonstrate the old and contemporaneous city’s personality in the […]