maismenos

Miguel Januário was born in Porto in 1981. He attended Communication Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 1999 and, from that year on, began to develop graffiti interventions in urban space. He established himself as a freelancer at the cultural space ‘Maus Hábitos’, in Porto, where he created his first studio. In 2005, in the academic field, he created the intervention project ‘± MAISMENOS ±’, which became a reference in the national and international panorama of urban art. The project is also the focus of doctoral research, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Under the banner ‘±MaisMenos ±’, he produced several creative works, in a variety of media, from video to installation, painting to performance. In addition to numerous illegal public art interventions in several countries, the project was also exhibited in individual and group exhibitions in various institutional contexts, among which the Galeria Vera Cortês (Lisbon, 2010), MACE-Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas stand out. (Elvas, 2011, 2014), Underdogs Gallery (Lisbon, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021), Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília, 2014), Graça Morais Contemporary Art Center (Bragança, 2015), MUDE -Museum of Design and Fashion (Lisbon, 2016), MACRO-Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Rome, 2016), Wunderkammern Gallery (Rome, 2017), Celaya Brothers Gallery (Mexico City, 2018), Arco Lisboa (Lisbon , 2018), WTF Gallery (Bangkok, 2018), MAAT (Lisbon, 2022), and art festivals and events such as Walk&Talk (São Miguel, Azores, 2011), Guimarães European Capital of Culture (Guimarães, 2012), La Tour Paris 13 (Paris, 2013), Wool Festival (Covilhã, 2014), Sporo (Proença-a-Nova, 2022), Nuart Festival (Stavanger, 2014, 2017), TrashPlant Festival (Tenerife, 2018), Roskilde Festival (Roskilde, 2018), among others.