Inês Coelho da Silva
Born in 1996 in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal | Lives and works between Porto, PT, and Milan, IT.
Artist and Researcher
Tutor at The Gramounce
Member of the Food Art Research Network
Inês Coelho da Silva is a Portuguese artist and researcher. In her work, Inês weaves intersections between ecology, food politics, ethnobotany, craft, witchcraft, and informal knowledge-sharing. It materialises as an ecology of relationships through process-based sculptural tools, edible installations, collaborative harvests, community actions, and visual poems. While rooted in everyday forms maintenance, her artistic work opens pathways for gossiping as vital tool for interspecies community building.
CURRENT / UPCOMING
Lidas de Mestras living installation | BOIL Fest and Fundação de Serralves | September 2026 | Porto, PT
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EDUCATION
Alternative Master of Arts in Art and Food | 2024 | The Gramounce | International
Alternative Education course Food Cosmogonies (Foundations and Expeditions) | 2023 | The Gramounce | International
Master or Arts in Sculpture | 2022 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art - Sculpture | 2018 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
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ART RESIDENCIES
Walk&Talk - Bienal de Artes | Open call winner with Gossip and the Commons | 2025 | Açores, PT | Link
Brave New Alps | The Gramounce Food and Art altMA | 2024 | Rovereto, IT
Rural Contemporánea | SEEDS Project | 2024 | Monfero, ES
Chorus | SEEDS Project | 2024 | Elefsina, GR
Oficinas do Convento | SEEDS Project | 2023 | Montemor-o-Novo, PT
Institute for Postnatural Studies | The Gramounce Food and Art altMA | 2023 | Madrid, ES
Quinta das Relvas | SEEDS Project | 2023 | Albergaria-a-velha, PT
Joya AiR: Arte + Ecología | 2023 | Veléz-Blanco, ES | Link
Rua das Gaivotas 6 + Quinta das Relvas | Open Call Jovens Curadorxs | 2023 | Albergaria-a-velha + Lisboa, PT
Nature Design Camp | Bodies of Water | 2023 | UNESCO Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal | Kulturraum Burgruine Blumenegg, AT | Link
Current Corporate and Bortolomiol | Female Land Artist | 2022 | Valdobbiadene, IT
Freud Museum | iobject | 2020 | London, UK
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Ecologia Quotidiana | Solo show | 2026 | Alfaia | Loulé, PT
Walk&Talk - Bienal de Artes | 2025 | São Miguel, Açores, PT | Link
Boca Aberta | 2025 | Observatório Paralaxe | Porto, PT | Link
Towards Urban Self-sufficiency | 2024 | (Gentler) Futures Festival | Lisboa, PT | Link
HYPERTHYME | 2024 | Espacio Gaviota, with The Gramounce | Madrid, ES | Link
SEEDS | 2024 | Galeria da Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa | Lisboa, PT | Link
A Salt Anthology | 2023 | Rua das Gaivotas 6 | Lisboa, PT
PROXY | 2021 | Royal College of Art Satellite Event | Cromwell Place | London, UK
RCA2021 | 2021 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Together it Seams | 2021 | Standpoint Gallery | London, UK | Link
Tropeçar não é cair | 2020 | MUSEU, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra | Coimbra, PT | Link
So Close | 2020 | Side x Side Contemporary | Washington, USA
B#Side Peripheral Memories | 2020 | IoDeposito | Friuli Venezia Giulia, IT
MA and other Postgraduates | 2020 | Atkinson Gallery | Somerset, UK
Work in Progress | 2020 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
The Ego Squared | 2019 | Royal College of Art & Edinburgh College of Art | London and Edinburgh, UK
Below the Washing Line | 2019 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Imodo | 2019 | Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira | Feira, PT
Finding a CLICK in a Haystack | 2019 | Centro Comercial de Cedofeita | Porto, PT
Uma nota para ti próprio | 2018 | Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas, 299 | Porto, PT
Young Urban Performances Festival | 2018 | Kunsthalle Osnabrück | Osnabrück, DE | Link
Projeções 2018 | 2018 | Lugar do Desenho, Fundação Júlio Resende | Gondomar, PT
BASE Lx | 2018 | Forte Santo António da Barra | Cascais, PT
Ainda | 2018 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
HIATO | 2018 | Fórum da Maia | Maia, PT
Guimarães noc noc 2018 | 2018 | Guimarães, PT
Tubo de Ensaios | 2017 | Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Porto, PT
SIM Parte II | 2017 | CACE Cultural | Porto, PT
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TUTORING, COLLABORATING, CURATING
Co-curator | (gentler) Futures Festival | 2026 | Lisbon, PT
Tutor and coordinator | The Gramounce Food and Art altMA residency with Space Transcribers | 2026 | Serra da Estrela, PT
Guest speaker | unCONFERENCE - The Big Green | 2026 | Mar Motto, Faro, PT
Tutor | The Gramounce Food and Art altMA residency | 2025 | Mediamatic | Amsterdam, NL
Co-curator | The Gramounce Food and Art altMA exhibition | 2025 | Gaviotas | Madrid, ES
Tutor | The Gramounce Food and Art altMA residency | 2025 | Basque Culinary Center | San Sebastián, ES
Guest Artist | Phloem | Lumo Company and Imaginarius | 2025 | Santa Maria da Feira, PT
Tutor and In-House Researcher | The Gramounce | 2023 - ongoing | International | Link
Art Residency Co-coordinator | The Gramounce Food and Art altMA | September 2024 | Mediamatic | Amsterdam, NL
Art Residency Co-cordinator | Alchemical Kitchen | 2024 | Terzo Paesaggio | Milan, IT | Link
Eco-festival Co-production | Ponto d’Orvalho | 2024 | Freixo do Meio, Montemor-o-novo, PT | Link
Workshop Tutor | Landscape Cooking | 2024 | Domaine de Boisbuchet | Lessac, FR | Link
Workshop Tutor | Edible Landscape | 2024 | Green Streets of Europe + Centro de Criação Imaginarius | Santa Maria da Feira, PT
Kitchen Assistant | Radikal Hospitality event: Il Giardino delle Erbacce | 2024 | Il Circolino del Pane (Panificio Davide Longoni), supported by Terzo Paesaggio, Milan, IT
Guest Lecturer | Care Society - Across RCA | 2024 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Society Co-founder | the Fragile Matters Society | 2020 - 2021 | Royal College of Art | London, UK
Workshop Tutor | The house, the home, the prison, the catharsis: Sculpture exploration with objects of the domestic sphere | 2019 | Museu Municipal de Espinho (FACE) | Espinho, PT
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PUBLICATIONS
Gossip and the Commons, visual article by Inês Coelho da Silva and Kita Rancaño Ward| Issue 130 | Tubelight Magazine, NL | Link
U+ZINE 4, Food | 2021 | Plurality University Network, FR | Link
Portuguese Emerging Art 2020 Green Edition | 2020 | Emerge AC, PT
Issue 1 - The Studio | May 2020 | Haus_a_rest, UK
Magazine Archive | 2020 | Leap, PT Link
IMODO” três artistas feirenses da década de 90 partilham a terra natal e a paixão pela arte | 2019 | Diário da Feira, PT
Universo da Escultura: Inês Coelho da Silva |March 2019 | Andromeda, PT | Link
ALT CULTURAL - Portugal Emerging & Independent Arts | January 2019 | L8NDSCAPES, FR | Link
S/CISMO, 70th anniversary of TUP | December 2018 | Teatro Universitário do Porto, PT | Link
Issue 6 - Interior | October 2018 | L8NDSCAPES, FR | Link
Issue 2 - CACE SIM FAZEM, CACE SIM MARÇO | March 2017 | Independent art magazine SIM, PT
Issue 1 - A revista não é amarela e não tem cor | March 2016 | Independent art magazine NÃO, PT
Issue 1 - Casca | December 2015 | Independent art magazine SIM, PT
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PRESS
Walk&Talk Biennial: Gestures of Abundance, review by Anaïs Castro | 05-11-2025 | Flash Art, IT | Link
Long-running Azores art festival blossoms into a biennial, review by Elena Goukassian | 03-11-2025 | The Art Newspaper, USA | Link
Weaves of Worlds Under Construction – Walk&Talk returns as a Biennial, review by Benedita Salema Roby | 30-10-2025 | Umbigo, PT | Link
Logo Se Vê - Bits, interview with Valentina Jesus on Walk&Talk | 26-09-2025 | Antena 3 | Link
A Salt Anthology, interview with Kevin Bellò by Maria Kruglyak | Ed. 04-05-06 /2023 | Contemporânea, PT | Link