DAVID MAGALHÃES ALVES


David Magalhães Alves is a Visual artist and musician from Lisbon, Portugal. His works as a violinist and painter have foccused individually and collectively on several ensembles and multidisciplinary projects, featuring in collective exhibitions and live performances at some of the foremost national venues, such as CULTUGEST (Lisbon); GNRATION (Braga); Teatro S. Luíz (Lisboa); Museu Abade Baçal (Bragança); Casa das Artes (Arcos de Valdevez); Sonoscopia (Porto), and many others.

Throughout his career, he collaborated with projects of different media and typology, working with internationally recognized artists such as: Gonçalo M. Tavares; Pedro Carneiro; Vera Mantero; Pedro Calapez; António Jorge Gonçalves; Carlos Zíngaro; Pavel Gomziakov; Natalia Tchitch; Iddo Bar-Shai; Tiago Bettencourt; Carla Caramujo; Daniel Garlitsky; Sofia Neuparth; Phill Niblock; Reinhold Friedl, among many others.

Currently, he maintains activity as an independent multidisciplinary artist, is part of the directing team at the EVERYSIGHT & EVERYSOUND project since 2019; is a founding member of GNU VAI NU multimedia collective; and is a founding member and musician at both of the acclaimed HEDERA 4TET and ZARM Ensemble quartets.


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Excerpt from GNU VAI NU’s “LXTOMAD” Official music video 

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ON DAVID’S VIDEO WORK





[ From short animations, to promos, found footage video collages and experimental video synthesis, most of David’s video work has been centered on a textural, quasi-painting layered aproach, ever encroaching upon an abstract yet comical themes.]





Excerpt from GNU VAI NU’s “LXTOMAD” Official music video 



David’s video work has been enriched by writing, directing and editing the official videos, promos and short animations for music collective GNU VAI NU. 




ABOVE || 2021 Screengrabs  from Experimental Video Collage for GNU VAI NU’s “Basement Tapes”


ABOVE || 2015 “Hidrofilia” - Video instalation

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