Berru

2024

Vera Mota

Portugal

fiberglass, iron, metal workshop, resin, laser cut, welding machine, chamfering, grinder

2021

Tyries Holder

England, Jamaica

glass, painting, resin

Home by Ronan Mckenzie

2021

Tomás Abreu

Portugal

iron, wood, electronic material, stone

2019

Tiago Ângelo

Portugal

audiovisual material, iron, laser cut, electronic material, copper, welding machine

Sonoscopia

2018

Tiago Madaleno

Portugal

aluminium, audiovisual material, laser cut

2021

Tiago Lêdo

Portugal

iron, electronic material, painting, audiovisual material

Pedreira

2024

Sofia Mascate

Portugal

glass, acrylic, painting, aluminium, iron

Revista Umbigo, Covipor

2022

Sebastián Baudrand

Chile

fiberglass, iron, glass, audiovisual material

Galeria Lehmann + Silva

2019

Sara Bichão

Portugal

iron, stainless steel, textil, rubber, welding machine, painting, motorization, acrylic

Porto Post Doc

2024

Rudolfo da Silva

Portugal

laser cut, iron, painting, wood, welding machine, acrylic, resin, metal workshop, carpentary, composite workshop

2019

Rita Morais

Portugal

audiovisual material

Porto Post Doc

2018

Rafael Yaluff

Chile

painting, glass, aluminium, plaster, electronic material

2025

Pedro Moreira

Portugal

aluminium, laser cut, grinder, welding machine, metal workshop

Festival Barlos

2019

Marryam Moma

Tanzania, Nigeria, USA

glass, fiberglass, iron, aluminium, drill, chamfering, plasma cutting, painting, grinder, circular saw, handsaw, welding machine, resin, metal workshop, painting booth

Atlanta Beltline

2019

Maria Trabulo

Portugal

plasma cutting, painting, aluminium

Correntes d'escritas

2024

Maria Constanza Ferreira

EUA, Venezuela, Portugal

aluminium, laser cut, audiovisual material, motorization, painting, glass

Covipor

2018

Luísa Jacinto

Portugal

iron, painting, bender

AiR 351

2025

Kyra Nijskens

Netherlands

drill, chamfering, expanded polystyrene, fiberglass, painting, composite workshop, grinder, bender, plastic, welding machine, resin, metal workshop, carpentary

2018

Guilherme Figueiredo

Portugal

chamfering, ceramic, laser cut, iron, wood, audiovisual material, metal workshop, carpentary

2019

Guilherme de Sousa & Pedro Azevedo

Portugal

aluminium, glass

2019

Gil Madeira

Portugal, Switzerland

glass, painting

2023

Frida Baranek

Brasil

steel, stainless steel, brass, iron, cement, rubber, electronic material, bituminous, motorization, stone, welding machine, glass

2018

Francisca Carvalho

Portugal

iron, welding machine, glass

Câmara Municipal Póvoa de Varzim

2025

Filipa Tojal

Portugal

chamfering, aluminium, drill, plasma cutting, iron, stainless steel, audiovisual material, painting, glass, metal workshop

Escola das Artes, Un. Autónoma de Lisboa

2021

Diogo da Cruz

Portugal

plasma cutting, iron, welding machine

Revista Umbigo

2023

Dayana Lucas

Venezuela, Portugal

plasma cutting, laser cut, expanded polystyrene, iron, painting, composite workshop, welding machine, glass

CIAJG

2023

Cristina Mejias

Spain

glass, wood, iron, electronic material, brass, polyurea paint

Matadero Madrid, BF Glass Studio, Eneida Tavares

2025

Christian Lagata

Spain

drill, chamfering, plasma cutting, expanded polystyrene, iron, wood, stainless steel, painting, bender, grinder, circular saw, welding machine, metal workshop

2025

Charity Hamidullah

USA

acrylic, aluminium, drill, chamfering, cardboard, iron, fiberglass, stainless steel, painting, grinder, welding machine, handsaw, resin, metal workshop, painting booth

Atlanta Beltline

2024

Catarina Real

Portugal

steel, aluminium, drill, painting, grinder, metal workshop, 3D print

2019

Carlos Arteiro

Portugal

glass, expanded polystyrene, painting, suction cups

Mala Voadora

2020

Berru

Portugal

iron, electronic material, audiovisual material, welding machine

Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica do Porto

Berru

open call / Of sound as an action on the world

Berru is a collective of artists who have been developing a series of works based not so much on an idea coming from any artistic discipline but more on the idea of exploring very different mechanisms, concepts and materials. They work with moving images, sculpture, sound and new media, without distinction, and there is always a performative and very dynamic element in all the works they produce.

This dynamic element happens either at the moment when the works are conceived or in the experience the audience makes of them. It is not a form of participation or activation of the works but rather the devices created by these artists demand forms of activity, involvement and participation from their audience. The vita contemplativa gives way here to a sort of vita activa in which the public is called upon to accompany the dynamic process behind developing their works. These are not completed immediately but are a process we are all called upon to accompany and, in some way, to finalise.

Besides the dynamis these artists provoke, they tend to make a very particular use of technology. It is not about expressing a fascination with the most contemporary tools for constructing images and objects but about finding other energetic constellations and expanding the space in which artistic gestures can be inscribed. If, like Heidegger, we understand technology as a set of energies and possibilities for action, then these artists propose to explore with their work those other possibilities that are often somewhat distant from current artistic discourses.

But this understanding of the place the technological element may have in the construction of artistic objects is accompanied by a sort of revelation of the way we use things, that is to say, Berru show us modalities of how to use different tools whether they be sound apparatuses (for emitting or recording sound), computers or physical phenomena such as the energy of magnets, among many other possible examples. It is not about developing a metaphysics of technology but about achieving the movement of discovery of the sensitive ingredients inscribed in technological objects and processes.

Full text here, by Nuno Crespo