Rui Soares Costa

Rui Soares Costa (b. 1981) studied painting at Ar.Co while training and doing research in Social Psychology between Portugal and the USA. Interested in cognitive processes such as people’s memory or the importance of temporal order in the construction of meaning about others, he has been working exclusively as a visual artist since 2013. His practice and research focus on the perception of time through its suspension, distension and compression. He works closely with contemporary music, and his projects are accompanied by original soundtracks. She has developed a particularly close collaboration with musician and multimedia artist André Gonçalves. Since 2016, he has been promoting the Bull’s Eye – Artist in Residence Programme at his studio in Olho de Boi, where more than three dozen artists, mainly international, have participated. His work is represented in private collections in Germany, Spain, Holland, India, Portugal and Switzerland, as well as in the Berado Collection (PT), José Costa Rodrigues Collection (PT) and Art Fairs Collection (ES). He is represented by Galeria das Salgadeiras in Lisbon. He lives and works between Lisbon and Olho de Boi.