{"id":27188,"date":"2025-03-04T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=27188"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:16:50","slug":"ilidio-candja-candja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/ilidio-candja-candja\/","title":{"rendered":"Il\u00eddio Candja Candja"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Il\u00eddio Candja Candja (Maputo, 1976) is a Mozambican artist who lives and works in Portugal, specifically in the city of Porto. He attended the Escola de Artes Visuais de Maputo between 1997 and 1999. He began his artistic career in 2002, presenting solo exhibitions, including: Resonance of Form: A Tribute to Sarah Baartman, This Is Not a White Cube Gallery, Lisbon, PT (2024); Black Silence in the Form of Chocolate, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, USA (2023); Octopus e Miopia, Galeria Quadrum (Galerias Municipais de Lisboa), curated by Rafael Mouzinho, Lisbon, PT (2021); Nothing Is Lost, Everything Becomes\u2026 Cosmos Part #2, Galerie Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Storme, Lille, FR (2018); Freedom, OOA Gallery, Barcelona, ES (2018); Mozambique: The Dialogue Continues, GAFRA \u2013 Gallery of African Art, UK (2015); Archive, Galerie Lumi\u00e8res d\u2019Afrique, Brussels, BE (2014); The Game Is to Survive, Galerie Gree-t-room, Hamburg, DE (catalogue) (2012); Ya, Sense of Life, Galerie Rammlmair, Hanover, DE (2012); Vertical Thinking, Cam\u00f5es Institute, Maputo, MZ (2005).<\/p>\n<p>He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including L\u00facido Devaneio, curated by Hiuwai Chiu and Raphael Fonseca, Galeria Municipal do Porto (2025); Problem of Primitivism from Portugal, curated by Marta Mestre and Mariana Pinto dos Santos, CIAJG, Guimar\u00e3es (2024); and Anozero\u201924 \u2013 Coimbra Biennial, curated by Marta Mestre and \u00c1ngel Calvo Ulloa (2024).<\/p>\n<p>His works are included in the following collections: Marshall &amp; Stephanie Abes Collection, Atlanta, USA; The Spier Art Collection, Cape Town, South Africa; Atlantic Private Bank, Lisbon, PT; Cam\u00f5es Institute, Maputo, MZ; Art Collection of Eduardo Mondlane University, MZ; Art Collection of the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Center, Maputo, MZ; Bank of Mozambique, Maputo, MZ.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column icons_position=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_masonry_media_grid css=&#8221;&#8221; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1769775358248-afcdddcf-2e78-7&#8243; include=&#8221;27189,27191,27193,27195,27197,27199&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":28358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[275,217,197],"class_list":["post-27188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolios","tag-2026-en","tag-a-decorrer","tag-anterior"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HANGAR - Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica - Il\u00eddio Candja Candja<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es, Workshops, Ateliers. 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