In his work, Lisbon based photographer and video artist Nuno Cera addresses spatial conditions, architecture and urban situations through poetic and documentary forms. His work has been internationally published, commissioned and exhibited by cultural institutions and exhibition platforms. It is represented in several public and private collections.
Cera was resident artist in Berlin (Künstlerhaus Bethanien), New York (ISCP-International Studios and Curatorial Program), Paris (Récollets) and Macau (Babel & Fundação Oriente). For his artistic investigation on 9 megacities Futureland (2008 - 2010), taking shape of an exhibition and a publication (Babel, 2010), he received grants from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and the EDP Foundation. His multi-channel video and publication project The Symphony of the Unknown - Part I (2014) was supported by the Fundación Botin and DGArtes / MC (Portuguese Ministry of Culture).
Solo exhibitions include Acid Flamingo (2024, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência MUHNAC / MU Lisbon), Distant Lights / Luzes Distantes (2022-2023, CAS Centro de Artes de Sines + MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon), Symphony of the Unknown II (2021, Escola das Artes, Porto), The Blur City (2019, Fundação Oriente, Macau), Hora Certa (2019, Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon), Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (2016, Grand Palais, Paris), Symphony of the Unknown (2016, Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin), Alpha Béton (2015, CAPC, Coimbra), FANTASMAS (2006, CCB, Lisbon), The Prora Complex and other works (2005, Play Gallery, Berlin), Berlin - a Super-8 Movie (2003, I-20 Gallery, NYC).
Group exhibitions include Histórias de uma Coleção (2023, Centro de Arte Moderna - Gulbenkian, Lisbon), Contravisões (2023, MACE, Elvas), Disquietude. Architecture and Energy in Portugal (2022, Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon), Visionaries (2022, Lisbon Architecture Triennale / Culturgest, Lisbon), Almada: Um território em Seis Ecologias (2020, Museu da Almada), Miradas al Arte (2020, Centro Botín, Santander), Álvaro Siza – IN/DISCIPLINA (2019, Museu de Serralves, Porto), Haus Wittegenstein (2018, MAAT, Lisbon), Demo:Polis (2016, Akademie der Künste, Berlin), ZOOM! (2015, Pinakothek der Moderne, München), Daqui Parece uma Montanha (2014, Fundação Calouse Gulbenkian, Lisbon), 8th International Photo-Triennale (2010, Esslingen), Atopia (2010, CCCB, Barcelona), The Searchers (2006, EFA Gallery, NYC), Talking Cities (2006, Zeche Zollverein, Essen), Outras alternativas (2003, Marco, Vigo).
Cera has been the guest artist of the Portuguese representations at the Venice Architecture Biennial, Public without rhetoric (2018) and Metaflux (2004).
