Daniela Morganiça
Daniela Morganiça
A highly artistic black and white image portraying Daniela Morganiça with a solemn expression, gazing slightly upward. Their hands are held together in a gesture reminiscent of prayer or meditation, evoking a sense of spirituality and contemplation. Behind the figure, a luminous circular halo of light dominates the composition, surrounded by scattered white particles that resemble stars or cosmic dust. The stark contrast between the bright halo and the deep black background creates a dramatic, almost celestial atmosphere, giving the portrait a sacred and surreal quality
Daniela Morganiça
© Photo by: Roman Odjinud
A black and white artistic photograph showing the reflection of Daniela Morganiça as if we were watching her through a window. She appears in soft focus, standing indoors while holding an object gently in her hands. Her expression is contemplative and introspective, adding a sense of quiet emotion to the scene. Shadows of plants and blurred shapes frame the composition, creating layers of depth and mystery. The play of light, reflection, and texture gives the image a dreamlike and poetic quality
Daniela Morganiça (Portugal) is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on performing arts and writing. Has a degree in Theater from ESAD.CR (PT), and a master’s degree from the same institution in conjunction with LKA (LT). Works on her own creations since 2005, as well as in co-creations with other Portuguese and International creators.
Short after awarded with the Portuguese Young Creators Award in 2005, a more than a decade hiatus, she returned to the stage in 2022, received a mobility grant for artists from Goethe Institute in 2023. Her most recent works count on participation in SLURPS festival – New Stages for Art Contemporary, in the 25th Edition of the Haihatus Arts Center Summer Exhibition (both FI, 2024) and in the 18th Made in Estonia Marathon (EE, 2025).
Her work plays with notion of Time, in a somewhat DIY approach – art as means of survival. Her stories are products of reflections of circumstances and the impossible dance around them. Fight, limits, flesh from one hand, unrest, chaos, persistence in the other – and, above all, Love as an act of rebellion.
Contact details
Daniela Morganiça
multidisciplinary artist
Artistic Directors
Daniela Morganiça
Online
Email: daniela.morganiça@gmail.com
Website: http://re-cobro.blogspot.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ona_xart/
Tear! (Fear)
Description: A performative solo - work in progress
Extra information: A line, a path, or a memory. What was supposed to be, but wasn't, and ended up being something else. Tear! (Fear) is an almost choreographic piece, a grimace of struggle, mourning —the timeline interrupted by life on hold, and with it, all the turmoil, hope, and fear. About the time that passes, the time that escapes us, and the time that doesn't return. About stopping to breathe after the battle still raging. About the dive into the sea that brought us back. And returning.
Première on the 18th Made in Estonia Marathon 2025
Auguri! (Agouro)
Description: A Kintsugi performance
Extra information: Auguri! (Agouro) [From the Italian – Congratulations, From the Portuguese – Omen] is a ritualistic and cathartic performance open to the spectator. It was designed to celebrate error, failure. Based on the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi (acceptance of imperfection), the performance uses Kintsugi (the Japanese tradition of repairing ceramic pieces with gold) to, with it, celebrate all the differences that unite us.
Première on SLUPRS – New Stages for Contemporary Art festival 2025
Monochomatic View
Description: Visual Arts
Extra information: A series of 11 (and growing) hand-sew portraits. Monochromatic View is a reflection about unity and care in a growing divided world. Memory of community (reason of material and technique chosen), bonding and belonging - a labor of love. This work it's intrinsically linked to accessible art (the cross-stitch portraits make possible to blind and low vision people to understand each piece).
First exhibit on the 25th Jubilee - Haihatus Summer Art Exhibition 2025
Haihatus.fi – Haihatus 25
2025, Mar. 19 – Copper Leg Art Residency – Daniela Morganiça / Copper Leg & Made in Estonia Marathon 2025
2025, Mar. 19 – Copper Leg Art Residency – PPP: Daniela Morganiça / Ari Jaaksi & Ott Kattel
2024, Aug. 12 – Região de Leiria – Daniela dos Reis: Celebração do erro e reflexão em forma de ponto-cruz na Finlândia
2024, Aug. 05 – Gazeta das Caldas – Daniela Reis está a expôr na Finlândia
2024, June 16 – Keskisuomalainen – Taidetta inhimillisyyden puolesta – Joutsan Haihatuksen laajassa juhlanäyttelyssä on jokaiselle jotakin maalauksista meemeihin
Latest Video
Tear! (Fear) presentation
Auguri! (Agouro) - Teaser
Auguri! (Agouro) - Rehasel
Interview - Encontro Temático: Cultura sem Barreiras, Associação Salvador (1.21min)
