BEHIND THE SCENES
22.11.2025 - 05.12.2025
Arto Vanhasselt, Débora Delmar, Diogo Gama, Morag Keil, Renato Chorão and Sara Graça
COSMOS.CAC — Rua Marques de Fronteira 163
Curated by Supermala, Behind the Scenes is an exhibition organized at the invitation of Sara Graça, expanding on her solo show Boa Good Sorte Luck, which opened the night before at Culturgest in Lisbon.
Much like the concert night programmed by Sara Graça, this exhibition brings together artists through diverse thematic and affective connections. Each work functions as a point within a constellation of friendships, coincidences, and ongoing exchanges.
Arto Vanhasselt presents his 2025 ink drawings Rabbit Mouth in the Grass with a Spider and a Fly, Two Ladybug Rabbits by Two Hutches, and Two Rabbit Plushies Exchanging Through the Ears. The rabbits are far from mere motifs—they act as “bait,” activating relationships of desire and movement within the exhibition.
Débora Delmar’s works are part of Supermala’s behind-the-scenes archive. At the beginning of our project, we organized portable exhibitions inside handbags. In 2020, we presented Finest in Geneva, which included Delmar’s works, produced following the artist’s instructions, in which we vacuum-packed various Swiss souvenirs.
Diogo Gama explores camp aesthetics through the manipulation of found objects, words, and images, using them as a form of resistance to violence. In this exhibition he presents his 2025 sculptures Début, Purple Evening, and Blue Twisting, created from dissected high-heeled shoes.
On the monitors, two videos by Morag Keil are shown. Alice in the Kitchen (2017) captures a moment of rebellion, where the pursuit of agency confronts domestic codes and structures that constrain. Performance Preparation (2006) loops a brief sequence in which the body struggles with its own belongings within a corporate and technological environment.
Renato Chorão, whose artistic practice is grounded in photography, has also worked on campaigns connected to music and pop culture. The portraits in this exhibition are previously unseen images produced for the latest album of rising Portuguese pop singer Índia Malhoa.
Sara Graça’s contribution is a scale model of the Culturgest galleries, part of her preparatory process for Boa Good Sorte Luck. This model became a starting point for Behind the Scenes, revealing the thinking and decisions that shaped the exhibition before it opened.
Arto Vanhasselt (1997, Brussels) lives and works between Amsterdam and London, where he received an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2025), after completing a BA at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2021). He has exhibited at venues such as Diez Gallery (NL), Ada Ventura (FR), Gnossienne (UK), Le Houloc (FR), Hasch (FR), Best Wishes (UK), Boo 2, and P/////AKT (NL). Arto works with monsters. Through paranoia and play as methods, his practice uses tinkering—a tactile and playful scrutiny of materials that embraces intuition and contingency. Recurring whimsical figures transform across drawings and paintings, iterating into video, sculpture, and object making. This multimedia approach evolves as a system where forms generate one another and alter their significance as they recur in shifting constellations. Recent works deal with ideas of energy, drive, exhaustion, and the anticipation of a threat.
Débora Delmar (1986, Mexico City) lives and works between London, UK and Mexico City, MX. Her work utilizes a range of media, focusing on installation. Within her practice she explores the societal impacts of capitalism, examining the systems of circulation of goods and people within globalization. Her installations reference the homogenizing minimalist aesthetics used in “non-spaces” such as banks and airports. Stemming from her interest in the contractual agreements inherent to the production of exhibitions, Delmar creates detailed briefs that serve simultaneously as descriptive documents and instructions for her works. These range from architectural interventions to manufacturing artworks using local production methods, as well as purchasing, renting, exchanging, collecting, and loaning objects. Recent exhibitions include Liquidity (with Perce Jerrom), Piloto Pardo, London (2025); BOUGAINVILLEAS, Koraï, Nicosia (CY); TRUST, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2025); LIBERTY & SECURITY, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2024); and CASTLES, Llano (MX), 2023. Delmar’s work has also been included in the XVI FEMSA Biennial, curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Michoacán (2020–21); the Biennial of the Americas, Denver (2016); and the 9th Berlin Biennial, curated by DIS, Berlin (2015).
Diogo Gama (Almada, Portugal) is an artist exploring self-fictitious narratives touching upon authorship, sexuality, and domesticity. Part of his ongoing practice of alternative references, aesthetics, and viewpoints is the dualist visual poetic—where self-reference dialogues with the imaginary, quotations, and sociopolitical dynamics—acting as an introspective narrative axis connecting impulses, emotions, and the inexpressible. In 2022 he completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is currently based. Selected exhibitions include Teleny (solo), General Assembly, London (2023); Klar zur Wende, Ree (group), Arnis Residency, Germany (2023); Kenophobic Pantomimes (group), Below Grand Gallery, New York (2023); Half Empty (duo), Buraco, Lisbon (2024); Epílogo (group), Galeria Plato, Évora; The Curious Case of Mary Toft (duo), Wild Trumpets, London (2025); Forgive Me for What I Do Not Regret (solo), Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon (2025); and Exquisite, Imaginary Cure (group), Annexe Gallery, Glasgow (2025).
Morag Keil lives and works in London, UK. Solo exhibitions include Artificial Intelligence, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2024); Needs & Wants, Jennys, New York (2023); A Life Less Ordinary (Shllw Grv*)*, Ivory Tars, Glasgow (2021); L.I.B.E.R.T.Y, Project Native Informant, London (2014); Would You Eat Your Friends?, Real Fine Arts, New York (2014); and Potpourri, Cubitt, London (2013). Group exhibitions include Art and Alienation, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg (2025), and Lifes, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022). Keil works primarily with installations combining video, painting, and sculpture, often with a sense of urgency. These hybrid forms evoke the bleak efficiency of contemporary life shaped by digital platforms. Her practice examines themes of stuckness, repetition, and fractured agency, reflecting on the conditions that construct subjectivity within a brand-driven culture. Meaning remains deliberately unstable, leaning into cliché while resisting clear interpretation.
Renato Chorão (2000, Moita, Portugal) holds a degree in Photography from the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar. He presented his first solo exhibition, We’re Not in Hell, but Very Far from Heaven (2022), at the Encontros da Imagem Festival in Braga. He was selected for the Breaking the Patterns (2024) artistic residency at NowHere Lisbon and Project Rooms (2025) at the Bienal de Fotografia do Porto. Chorão has collaborated with institutions such as FLAD and Teatro do Bairro Alto, and with artists including Diana Policarpo, Índia Malhoa, Odete, Wasted Rita, Uriel Orlow, and Xexa.
Sara Graça (b.1993, Lisbon) is a multidisciplinary artist interested in matters of authenticity, poetics, improvisation and emotion in material culture. She likes comparing her process in art making to the one of making songs. At the moment, Sara lives in London, where she just graduated from an MFA Fine Art in Goldsmiths University. Selected solo and group exhibitions took place in such spaces as Culturgest, Mirror Gallery, Pedro Cera, Francisco Fino, Ampersand, A Certain Lack of Coherence, MALA, Spirit Shop, Sismógrafo, Galeria Quadrum, Casa de São Roque, Galeria Solar, Culturgest, among others. Sara can be seen collaborating regularly with members of Lisbon’s DIY music scene.
22.11.2025 - 05.12.2025
Arto Vanhasselt, Débora Delmar, Diogo Gama, Morag Keil, Renato Chorão and Sara Graça
COSMOS.CAC — Rua Marques de Fronteira 163
Curated by Supermala, Behind the Scenes is an exhibition organized at the invitation of Sara Graça, expanding on her solo show Boa Good Sorte Luck, which opened the night before at Culturgest in Lisbon.
Much like the concert night programmed by Sara Graça, this exhibition brings together artists through diverse thematic and affective connections. Each work functions as a point within a constellation of friendships, coincidences, and ongoing exchanges.
Arto Vanhasselt presents his 2025 ink drawings Rabbit Mouth in the Grass with a Spider and a Fly, Two Ladybug Rabbits by Two Hutches, and Two Rabbit Plushies Exchanging Through the Ears. The rabbits are far from mere motifs—they act as “bait,” activating relationships of desire and movement within the exhibition.
Débora Delmar’s works are part of Supermala’s behind-the-scenes archive. At the beginning of our project, we organized portable exhibitions inside handbags. In 2020, we presented Finest in Geneva, which included Delmar’s works, produced following the artist’s instructions, in which we vacuum-packed various Swiss souvenirs.
Diogo Gama explores camp aesthetics through the manipulation of found objects, words, and images, using them as a form of resistance to violence. In this exhibition he presents his 2025 sculptures Début, Purple Evening, and Blue Twisting, created from dissected high-heeled shoes.
On the monitors, two videos by Morag Keil are shown. Alice in the Kitchen (2017) captures a moment of rebellion, where the pursuit of agency confronts domestic codes and structures that constrain. Performance Preparation (2006) loops a brief sequence in which the body struggles with its own belongings within a corporate and technological environment.
Renato Chorão, whose artistic practice is grounded in photography, has also worked on campaigns connected to music and pop culture. The portraits in this exhibition are previously unseen images produced for the latest album of rising Portuguese pop singer Índia Malhoa.
Sara Graça’s contribution is a scale model of the Culturgest galleries, part of her preparatory process for Boa Good Sorte Luck. This model became a starting point for Behind the Scenes, revealing the thinking and decisions that shaped the exhibition before it opened.
Arto Vanhasselt (1997, Brussels) lives and works between Amsterdam and London, where he received an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2025), after completing a BA at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2021). He has exhibited at venues such as Diez Gallery (NL), Ada Ventura (FR), Gnossienne (UK), Le Houloc (FR), Hasch (FR), Best Wishes (UK), Boo 2, and P/////AKT (NL). Arto works with monsters. Through paranoia and play as methods, his practice uses tinkering—a tactile and playful scrutiny of materials that embraces intuition and contingency. Recurring whimsical figures transform across drawings and paintings, iterating into video, sculpture, and object making. This multimedia approach evolves as a system where forms generate one another and alter their significance as they recur in shifting constellations. Recent works deal with ideas of energy, drive, exhaustion, and the anticipation of a threat.
Débora Delmar (1986, Mexico City) lives and works between London, UK and Mexico City, MX. Her work utilizes a range of media, focusing on installation. Within her practice she explores the societal impacts of capitalism, examining the systems of circulation of goods and people within globalization. Her installations reference the homogenizing minimalist aesthetics used in “non-spaces” such as banks and airports. Stemming from her interest in the contractual agreements inherent to the production of exhibitions, Delmar creates detailed briefs that serve simultaneously as descriptive documents and instructions for her works. These range from architectural interventions to manufacturing artworks using local production methods, as well as purchasing, renting, exchanging, collecting, and loaning objects. Recent exhibitions include Liquidity (with Perce Jerrom), Piloto Pardo, London (2025); BOUGAINVILLEAS, Koraï, Nicosia (CY); TRUST, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2025); LIBERTY & SECURITY, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2024); and CASTLES, Llano (MX), 2023. Delmar’s work has also been included in the XVI FEMSA Biennial, curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Michoacán (2020–21); the Biennial of the Americas, Denver (2016); and the 9th Berlin Biennial, curated by DIS, Berlin (2015).
Diogo Gama (Almada, Portugal) is an artist exploring self-fictitious narratives touching upon authorship, sexuality, and domesticity. Part of his ongoing practice of alternative references, aesthetics, and viewpoints is the dualist visual poetic—where self-reference dialogues with the imaginary, quotations, and sociopolitical dynamics—acting as an introspective narrative axis connecting impulses, emotions, and the inexpressible. In 2022 he completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is currently based. Selected exhibitions include Teleny (solo), General Assembly, London (2023); Klar zur Wende, Ree (group), Arnis Residency, Germany (2023); Kenophobic Pantomimes (group), Below Grand Gallery, New York (2023); Half Empty (duo), Buraco, Lisbon (2024); Epílogo (group), Galeria Plato, Évora; The Curious Case of Mary Toft (duo), Wild Trumpets, London (2025); Forgive Me for What I Do Not Regret (solo), Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon (2025); and Exquisite, Imaginary Cure (group), Annexe Gallery, Glasgow (2025).
Morag Keil lives and works in London, UK. Solo exhibitions include Artificial Intelligence, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2024); Needs & Wants, Jennys, New York (2023); A Life Less Ordinary (Shllw Grv*)*, Ivory Tars, Glasgow (2021); L.I.B.E.R.T.Y, Project Native Informant, London (2014); Would You Eat Your Friends?, Real Fine Arts, New York (2014); and Potpourri, Cubitt, London (2013). Group exhibitions include Art and Alienation, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg (2025), and Lifes, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022). Keil works primarily with installations combining video, painting, and sculpture, often with a sense of urgency. These hybrid forms evoke the bleak efficiency of contemporary life shaped by digital platforms. Her practice examines themes of stuckness, repetition, and fractured agency, reflecting on the conditions that construct subjectivity within a brand-driven culture. Meaning remains deliberately unstable, leaning into cliché while resisting clear interpretation.
Renato Chorão (2000, Moita, Portugal) holds a degree in Photography from the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar. He presented his first solo exhibition, We’re Not in Hell, but Very Far from Heaven (2022), at the Encontros da Imagem Festival in Braga. He was selected for the Breaking the Patterns (2024) artistic residency at NowHere Lisbon and Project Rooms (2025) at the Bienal de Fotografia do Porto. Chorão has collaborated with institutions such as FLAD and Teatro do Bairro Alto, and with artists including Diana Policarpo, Índia Malhoa, Odete, Wasted Rita, Uriel Orlow, and Xexa.
Sara Graça (b.1993, Lisbon) is a multidisciplinary artist interested in matters of authenticity, poetics, improvisation and emotion in material culture. She likes comparing her process in art making to the one of making songs. At the moment, Sara lives in London, where she just graduated from an MFA Fine Art in Goldsmiths University. Selected solo and group exhibitions took place in such spaces as Culturgest, Mirror Gallery, Pedro Cera, Francisco Fino, Ampersand, A Certain Lack of Coherence, MALA, Spirit Shop, Sismógrafo, Galeria Quadrum, Casa de São Roque, Galeria Solar, Culturgest, among others. Sara can be seen collaborating regularly with members of Lisbon’s DIY music scene.
Photo: Elisa Azevedo, Courtesy of Mala and the artists.