Bela Silva is born in Lisbon, Portugal, and studied at both the Porto and the Lisbon Fine Arts Schools in Portugal; ArCo, Lisbon; Norwich Fine Arts in the UK; School of The Art Institute of Chicago in the USA. She currently lives between Lisbon and Brussels, Belgium.
Among her shows: Chicago’s Ann Nathan Gallery and Rhona Hoffman Gallery; Lisbon’s Museu do Azulejo (Tile Museum), Museu Anastácio Gonçalves in Lisbon, Palácio da Ajuda, and Fundação Ricardo Espírito Santo; and also shows in China and in Japan. She has participated in group shows of tile art in Brazil, Spain, France; ran ceramics workshops in Japan and Morocco; and been awarded residencies at Kohler, Wisconsin, USA, and at Fabrica Bordalo Pinheiro, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
She has created several public art pieces, namely tile panels for the Alvalade subway station in Lisbon; panels for the Sakai Cultural Center’s gardens in Japan; and panels for the João de Deus School in the Azores Islands.
View here the catalogue of all the pieces selected by Spazio Nobile.
GALERIE COLLECTION SPAZIO NOBILE, Keep your garden alive, at Grand Palais, Paris, France, Booth C5
Group exhibition with Kaspar Hamacher (BE), Laura Laine (FI), Päivi Rintaniemi (FI), Kristina Riska (FI),
ART BRUSSELS, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, 25-28 April 2019
Spazio Nobile exhibits at Art Brussels, 37th edition of the Contemporary Art Fair, booth D36 (Discovery) from 25 until 28 April 2019,
We invite you during Brussels I love You, Contemporary Art Walk for a Sunday Brunch on 17th February 2019 from 12-6 pm, within our Season X – Land/Scapes, Group exhibition with Carine Boxy,
Season X – Land/Scapes
23.11.2018 – 17.03.2019 Group exhibition with Carine Boxy, Kaspar Hamacher, François Moret, Bela Silva and Piet Stockmans Vernissage: 22.11.2018, 6-10 pm Sunday Brunches: 25.11.2018 –
Spazio Nobile invites you to iide with Gert Voorjans and J.Phine from 17 until 25 November
Marcin Rusak’s Flora Table 190 will be exhibited from 17 until 25 November at The International Interior Design Exhibition(IIDE),
Spazio Nobile is exhibiting The Random Collection at Biennale Interieur, Hall 1, L40, as part of the five Landmarks designed by Studio Verter. Scenography by Garnier & Linker
The fair is opened from 18 to 22 October,
Bela Silva’s Book Launch, with an essay by Anne Bony, graphic design by Casier/Fieuws, on Wednesday 3 October at Librairie Candide, place Brugmann 2, Brussels, 7-9 pm.
Download the invitation here
A selection of drawings are available at Librarie Candide and,
Spazio Nobile invites you to the opening of Bela Silva’s exhibition “Passeio de Domingo” on Saturday 31 March from 5-7 pm. This exhibition that runs from 28 March until 21 June at the Cultuurcentrum of Knokke-Heist is curated by Luc Michils as part of “Buiten Beeld”
Spazio Nobile exhibits The Random Collection from 19 until 22 April at Art Brussels Tour & Taxis, booth D 30 (Art Brussels Editions). Preview on Thursday 19 April, 11 am –
At COLLECTIBLE, our sister gallery presents a group show with Kustaa Saksi, Chen & Williams, Bela Silva, Kaspar Hamacher, Alexia de Ville, Frederik Vercruysse, Laetitia Bica and Isaac Monté
Phantasmagoria,
@ Collectible – The New Fair for 21st Century Design
7 – 11.3.2018, at Vanderborght building, Brussels
Group show with Kustaa Saksi, Chen & Williams, Bela Silva,
