EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Graduation in Visual Arts/ Sculpture @ Superior school of Art and Design - Caldas da Rainha/Portugal
FURTHER EDUCATION / WORKSHOPS
.Philippe Quesne - Master Class / Teatro Nacional D. Maria II 2019
.MATMOS - Master Class @ Maria Matos - Lisbon 2015
.And Lab by João Fiadeiro 2013
.Sonoscultura- Techniques for sound capture for Film, Theater and Video- by Vasco Pimentel, Oficinas do Convento 2009 - Montemor-o-Novo/Portugal
.Techniques of production and realization of Documentary Films, by Frederico Lobo and Tiago Afonso in the scope of “First Documental Exhibition”
Oficinas do Convento - Montemor-o-Novo, 6 to 12 July 2009 (Realization and production of the film BAUBAU)
.Digital Photography Workshop by José M. Rodrigues
Photoshop cs3/Light Room for digital photography, Oficinas do Convento Novembre 2008
.Theremin Workshop with Pamelia Kurstin. CENTA-Center of Studies and New Artistic Trends Vila Velha de Ródão, August 08
.Sound Techniques for Theater and Performance with Francisco Leal - Teatro das Beiras - Covilhã-Portugal. October 2006
.Cinema Workshop – Direct and develop a film in 16mm “Rua das Sete Passadas” ,
Association “Cinema Pobre” Porto 2006
.Masterclass of improvised music with the musician Greeg Moore in Covilhã, 1997
.Theater Workshop with the actor Jorge Alonsso, Caldas da Rainha 1998
.Contemporary dance workshop with the first dancer of Ballet Gulbenkien-Luis Damas, Caldas da Rainha 1999
SOUND CREATION – DANCE, THEATRE, PERFORMANCE
.Sound Design and Original Music for C.C. (Crematistics and Counterforce) Vera Mantero & Guests, 2025 - premier Teatro Rivoli - Oporto
.Music and Sound Design for Empregos Modernos (Modern Jobs) by Teatro meia volta e depois à esquerda quando eu disser 2025
.Sound Design and Live operacion for Undoing Listening by Sara Viera Marques - Uruguay 2025
.Sound Design and Original Music for Outro Lado by Yael Karavan - 2025
.Co-creation, performance, sound Design and original Music for___groundsky| by Vera Mantero, Henrique Furtado Vieira and João Bento 2024
.Live Music for Here, Now, In this Right Moment improvisation group, CCB 2024
.Live Music for Here, Now, In this Right Moment improvisation group, Serralves Museum 2023
.Sound creation, sound design and field recordings for “Por motivo de Força Maior” by Teresa Silva, premier TBA Lisbon 2023
.Original Music and sound design for “The Waves” by Teatro meia volta e depois à esquerda quando eu disser 2022
.Sound Design, original Music and Performance for “ O Susto é um Mundo” by Vera mantero 2021
. Live Music for “Fátuo” by Carlos Manuel Oliveira 2021.Sound Design and Music for “Estação de Outono” by Paula Diogo, Cláudia Gaiolas, Chris Thorpe and Alexander Kelly 2021
.Sound Design for “ Diálogos” by Henrique Furtado Vieira 2021
.Sound Design and original Music for Terra Nullius by Paula Diogo 2020
.Soiund Design and Vídeo planification for “Paisagem” by Paula Diogo, Tonan Quito , Foguetes Maravilha 2020
.Sound Design for “Partilhas / Exhanges” by Filipa Francisco 2020
.Sound Design for Rui Horta “Scratch” / Duets - with Gauthier Dance Company Stuttgart 2019
.Sound Design for “The Voice of Nature - The Trial” by Maria Lucia Cruz Correia 2019
.Sound Design and Original Music for "Anarquismos (Pelo meio do quarto corre um rio mais claro) " by Pablo Fidalgo 2018
.Sound Design and Sound Objects for "The Propitiatory Practices of Future Events" by Vera Mantero, 2018
.Sound and Music for durational practice (12h on-going perfromance) with André Soares / Stockholm Doch University February 2018
.Sound Composition for "Artigo 19" by Urândia Aragão / premier June 2017 @ Maria Matos Theatre
.Sound Design for "Mute" by Marta Cerqueira / premier May 2017 @ Oporto DDD Festival
.Sound Design for Cocoon" by Mathieu Ehrlacher / premier 29 of April 2017 @ Teatro Taborda Lisbon
.Sound Composition for "A Caçada" by Filipe Caldeira / Circular Festival 2016 Vila do Conde
.Sound Composition/ Live Music for The Clean and the Dirty by Vera Mantero, premier April 2016 / Maria Matos Theatre
.Sound Design for PIGSTY by John Romão 2014-2015
Culturgest (Lisbon, PT): 15, 16, 17 January 2015 premier /TAGV (Coimbra, PT): 22 January 2015
Teatro Virgínia (Torres Novas, PT): 21 February 2015/Teatro Viriato (Viseu, PT): 27 June 2015
Nacional Theatre São João (Oporto, PT): 2 – 14 July 2015
.Voice Over recording for ESTE CORPO QUE ME OCUPA by João Fiadeiro
27, 28 e 29 de November 2014, REAL Lisbon.
.Sound design and live operation for I AM SITTING IN A ROOM DIFERENT FROM THE ONE YOU ARE IN NOW by João Fiadeiro , October 2014 Atelier Real Lisbon.
.Sound Composition and performance Don´t ask Don´t Tell, Ben J. Riepe Company.
Pune, Bangalore. India, February 2014. Dhaka. Bangladesh, February 2014.Cologne, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf. Germany ,April 2013. New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai. India, October, November 2013.
.Sound Composition and live Operation for Hale, by Filipe Pereira, Helena Martos, Inês Campos, Mathew Ehrlacher. Black Box Espaço do Tempo Montemor o Novo, January 2014, 13 March in Rossio Train Station and 15 May 2015 in Maria Matos Theatre.
.Sound composition and Live operation for Tsunamism by Elizabete Francisca. Culturgest, Lisbon, premier November 2013 , 8 May Faro Modul Dance, 25 and 26 August in Internacional Festival des Brigittines-La Chapelle Brussels. .
.Sound Creation for Knee by Elena Castilla, Festival Vila Real en Dansa, Spain, September 2013, Demimond Boavista Gallery .
.Co-creation for the piece In Here with Tiago Gandra. Black Box Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo, March 2013.
.Sound Design for Secalharidade, by João Fiadeiro and Fernanda Eugénio. Culturgest. Alkantara Festival Lisbon. June 2012.
.Sound Composition and performance in Untitled Natura, Ben J. Riepe Company. Germany .Frankfurt and Dusseldorf
.Sound Researche for As if by Thiago Granato. Pact Zollverein, Essen. Germany. August and September 2011.
.Sound Scape for Future Perfect, by Kerem Gelebek. Nottdance Festival, Nottingham. UK February 2011.
LIVE ACTS / PERFORMANCE
. João Bento live act and dj set - Cidade PreOcupada Festival - Montemor-o-Novo 2025.solo show - “DeGELO Matéria Viva” Performance by João Bento @ LARGO Residências - organized by SONORA 3 December 2022- Lisbon.Live Act @ swimming pool - 8 Lines /Entroncamento - Portugal - Caminhos Médio Tejo
.Live act/ Dj set @ Opening Cumplicidades Dance Festival / Lisboa - 10 March 2018
.João Bento live @ MUSA - Lisboa 14 Jan 2018/curated by Lavoisier
.Wozen Gallery Lisbon- Solo Theremin concert / 15 November 2017 - open Studio Francisco Vidal
.A Tribute to William Blake - Solo Concert Live @ Smup Pared / December 2016
.Passage, live act with Vera Mantero. Fundão.
.Phonambient, coordination and live act , Casa da Música/ Porto – Casino do Fundão
.Co-criation CineZoo, with Vladimir Rakic. Festival Cidade PreOcupada. Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, 2011. Die Spukomune Berlin Germany, Alt Finanzamt Berlim Germany.
.Co-criation Canal Zero, with Rodolfo Pimenta, João Cabaço and David Leitão /Culturgest Lisbon; Cidade Preocupada; PT Plataform for Portuguese Performing Arts; Teatro Municipal da Guarda; Centa (Centro de Estudos de Novas Tendências Artísticas), Tojeira Vila Velha de Rodão; Imago Festival Fundão; Cines Casablanca, Barcelona; Sttutgard Film Winter, Stuttgart; Studio Bomba Suicida, Lisbon; Cinema Passos Manuel, Porto; Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon; First Festival, Caldas da Rainha; Super Stereo Demonstration, Linhares da Beira; Cine- Teatro Curvo Semedo, Montemor-o-Novo; Serralves Museum, Porto; Blak Box Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo; Festival Planshister, Moagem – Cidade do Engenho e das Artes, Fundão.
Exhibitions and Publications
.PASSAGE artist book 2015
.Prenúncio / Sound Instalation @ S. Bento Train Station /collective exhibition premier 21 March 2015 Oporto -Locomotiva
.Passage “Uma RetroExpectativa”. Individual Exhibition@ Moagem Cidade do Engenho e das Artes. Fundão, 2014.
.366 Sound Daily project. Cidade PreOcupada Galeria Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo, June to July 2014
.366 Sound Daily project. Atelier Real, Lisboa. December 2013 and January 2014.
.366 Sound Daily project. Collective Exhibition “Everything Thing we Hear and Many Things we Don´t” Adamastor Estúdios – Faca /Antropology and Art 6 to 9 de Marçh 2014- Lisbon
.366 Sound Daily project. installation for Lisbon Architecture Triennale in the frame of ECHOES#2 interventions on the relationship between Listening and Place.
.366 Sound Daily project. Atelier Concorde, Open Studios Lisbon. October 2013.
.Individual exhibition Materiais de Memórias. Galeria Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo. 2010.
EXHIBITIONS
.”Dance a body of Sounds” solo exhibition @ Convento São Francisco - Coimbra - April to June 2024
.“DeGELO Diamante Bruto”Appleton Square Galeria - Lisboa _Temps d´Image Festival 5 >12.05.2022
João Bento _Solo exhibition Appleton Square Gallery Lisbon 5 to 12 May 2022 _ Lisbon
.DeGELO – DIAMANTE BRUTO - Castelo Novo Instalação sonora/ escultura de João Bento + Deambulações coreográficas - Elena Castilla
Programação “A Fonte de Gardunha” - Ciclo 12 em Rede Bosque da Quinta do Alardo - Apresentado a 19 de Junho de 2021
.“DeGelo – Diamante Bruto" | João Bento - Instalação Sonora - Dar a Ouvir. Paisagens Sonoras da Cidade- Convento São Francisco -Coimbra
| Sábado 11 JULHO, até | Domingo 6 SETEMBRO, 2020
.DAR A OUVIR - PAISAGENS SONORAS DA CIDADE - A FALA DO MUNDO | Coimbra -MARGENS - Sound Walk | João Bento
.“That Old Quetion About Sound and Image”, presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) - (received the Loops Lisboa Award - 2018)
.Sound Walk "Correspondence" (18) Caminhos Médio Tejo/ Caminhos da Água.
.Sound and visual installation "8 Lines" (18) Caminhos Médio Tejo/ Caminhos do Ferro.
.CACTUS Sound Installation @ Garden of TAPADA DAS NECESSIDADES – Lisbon 1 – 4 September 2016– Lisboa Soa Festival
.PASSAGE artist book 2015
.Prenúncio / Sound Instalation @ S. Bento Train Station /collective exhibition premier 21 March 2015 Oporto -Locomotiva
.Passage “Uma RetroExpectativa”. Individual Exhibition@ Moagem Cidade do Engenho e das Artes. Fundão, 2014.
.366 Sound Daily project. Cidade PreOcupada Galeria Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo, June to July 2014
.366 Sound Daily project. Atelier Real, Lisboa. December 2013 and January 2014.
.366 Sound Daily project. Collective Exhibition “Everything Thing we Hear and Many Things we Don´t” Adamastor Estúdios – Faca /Antropology and Art 6 to 9 de Marçh 2014- Lisbon
.366 Sound Daily project. installation for Lisbon Architecture Triennale in the frame of ECHOES#2 interventions on the relationship between Listening and Place.
.366 Sound Daily project. Atelier Concorde, Open Studios Lisbon. October 2013.
.Individual exhibition Materiais de Memórias. Galeria Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo. 2010.
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
.Residency C.C. (Crematistics and Counterforce) Vera Mantero & Guests - O Espaço do Tempo - Montemor 2025
.Residency C.C. (Crematistics and Counterforce) Vera Mantero & Guests - O Rumo do Fumo - Lisboa 2025
.Residency__groundsky| by Vera Mantero, Henrique Furtado Vieira and João Bento - O Rumo do Fumo Lisboa 2024
.Residency__groundsky| by Vera Mantero, Henrique Furtado Vieira and João Bento - La Caldera - Barcelona 2024
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Teatro de La Rendija, Mérida MX - Chuburná, 2024
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Teatro-Cine Torres Vedras, Torres Vedras PT, May 2024
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Sala Verdi, Montevideo UY, November 2023
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Cielos del Infinito, Punta Arenas e Puerto Natales CL, November 2023
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Kondenz – Feminist Futures, Belgrado RS, October 2023
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Tanzfabrik – Feminist Futures weekend, Berlim DE, September 2023
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Festival Circular, Vila do Conde PT, September 2022
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Festival Almost Summer, Kortrijk BE, Jun 2022
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Feminist Futures Festival, Lisbon PT, January 2022
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Festival Amiens Europe, Amiens FR, January 2022
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : Festival de Teatro y Música San Ignacio, Medellín CO, September 2021
.Residency for Terra Nullius with Paula Diogo : FIT Festival Internacional de Teatro, Manizales CO, Octuber 2021
.Residency Vooruit - Gent with “The Voice of Nature” by Maria Lucia Cruz Correia 2019
.Residency Espaço do Tempo with Rui Horta and Gauthier Company Stuttgart 2019
.Residency Brigittines - Brussels with “The Voice of Nature” by Maria Lucia Cruz Correia 2018
.Residency - O Rumo do Fumo with Pablo Fidalgo for "Anarquismos" - September 2018
.Residency + talking - Stockholm Doch University with André Soares - February 2018
.Research Residency Ilhavo with Vera Mantero- November 2017
.Sound Residency @ Espaço do Tempo July 2017
."Artigo 19" by Urândia Aragão / CCCA - O Rumo do Fumo - Alkantara
."Cocoon" by Mathieu Ehrlacher / Olga Roriz Studios - O Rumo do Fumo - Eira
.The Clean and the Dirty by Vera Mantero. O Rumo do Fumo November to March 2015 - 1016
.Pigsty by John Romão @ Culturgest, December to January 2014
.Canções I Comentários by Rui Catalão @ Teatro Maria Matos , July 2014
.Radiografia- Exploration for the construction of a sound and visual portrait of Fundão City// July-August 2014
.Ben J Ripe Kompanie Bangalore, Índia and Bangladesh, February 2014
.Hale – Transdisciplinary center for Arts - Espaço do Tempo Montemor-o-Novo 2014
.Tsunamismo Culturgest – November 2013 -Lisbon
.Ben J. Riepe Kompany – Dusseldorf – Germany / Himalaya and Dehli -India 2012
.Ben J. Riepe Kompany – Monsonturm -Frankfurt 2011
.Radiografia- Exploração para a Construção de um Retrato Sonoro e Visual da Cidade de
Guimarães// Fábrica Asa – Guimarães European Capital for Culture 2011
.Canal Zero – O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo 2010-2011-2012
.San Luis Potosi – México 2010 – Centro de artes e Novas Tecnologias and Centro Cultural del Bosco with collective Interferencias – a group of artists that came out of the Internacional Encounter in Mexico about performance practices
.“Mapaprovisório” Centa, Centro de Estudos de Novas Tendências Artísticas, Vila Velha de Ródão
FILM and DOCUMENTARY
.Sound Design and audio post prodution for SOA Documentary and séries by Raquel Castro 2020 / RTP
.Director and Sound Designer -Documentary "Histórias em Viagem". premier 25 February 2018
.Sound design for “NTIMBE Caetano” by Catrina Simão.
The Fevered Specters of Art exhibition -11.11.16 – 15.01.17
Oldenburg Germany
.Preliminary Examination
Sound Design for Documentary about censorship times in Portugal.
Premier on Portuguese TV – SIC Notícias 2016
.Bau Bau 2009- directed with Ana Trincão
Documentary Film Festival- Montemor-o-Novo
CURATORSHIP
.Curatorship, Creation and organisation of the cycle PASSAGE .The city of Fundão dedicates a year to the artist (April 2014- April 2015) with the project “Passage #1”,which includes the presentation of several exhibitions, performances, live-acts, radio transmissions and the publication of a book.
.Curatorship of several performances, production and organisation of Cidade Preocupada Festival 2009 and 2010. Ass. Oficinas do Convento. Montemor o Novo.
.Coordenação e Publicação Editorial Online do ciclo de conferências e exposição Do peso da leveza.Ass. Oficinas do Convento. Montemor o Novo. 2010
.Curatorship and organisation of MontemorDoc-Oficinas do Convento. Cine Teatro Curvo-Semedo Montemor o Novo. 2009
EXPERIENCE as TEACHER
.Sound Workshop @ Lusófona University- The Political Sound - May 2025
.Sound Workshop "Atlas I" with Comédias do Minho
9-14 July 2018 - Melgaço-Portugal
.Master Class with Grupo 23 Silêncio - Teatro da Voz / Lisbon 2018
.Odisseia 2017 January to June Workshops in Oeiras, Barreiro, Santarém, Moita, Sesimbra and Almada.
Artemrede - Fundação Gulbenkian
.CCB - Fábrica das Artes 2016
.Culturgest. 2013, 2014.
.Center for Arts Manuel de Brito. January- June 2012.
.Centa – Centro de Estudos de Novas Tendências Artísticas 2009
.Moagem – Cidade do Engenho e das Artes 2008
LINK
www.joao-bento.com
www.aquidentro.com
practicingbeings.cargo.site