About 5ª ao Sul Gallery
Welcome to 5ª (Quinta) ao Sul — an international, online and borderless contemporary art gallery. This is a space where creation emerges from visual culture, post‑digital aesthetics and transmedia narratives that shape the artistic sensibility of our time.As we prepare our first exhibition, we open this site as a living threshold: a place for artists and audiences who explore hybrid languages, critical practices and new forms of digital presence. Here, image, sound, code, performance and text intersect to expand what we understand as contemporary artistic experience.The gallery is taking shape — and the light has already begun.
The Self as Interface
Galeria 5ª ao Sul launches its exhibition program as an international, online, and borderless contemporary art gallery. Founded on the principle that artistic creation today arises from the intersection of visual culture, post-digital aesthetics, and transmedia narratives, the gallery opens this platform as a living threshold: a space dedicated to hybrid languages, critical inquiry, and emerging forms of digital presence. Here, tactile matter, acoustic frequencies, three-dimensional sculpture, algorithmic code, literature, and the moving image converge to question and expand the contemporary artistic experience.
In this inaugural exhibition, "The Self as Interface", the screen ceases to function merely as a passive window of observation or a neutral vehicle for reproduction. Instead, it operates as an active, permeable membrane. The human subject itself becomes the interface through which the world is perceived, encoded, surveilled, and reimagined. Bringing together 13 international artists whose practices bridge translational neuroscience, architectural composition, electroacoustic sound, visual activism, philosophy, and generative AI, the exhibition unfolds across three distinct conceptual axes Read More
Selected Artists: Brad Rumbl | Claudia Ungersbäck | Herbert Neuwirth / NEUART | HeresAndHolti | Huang Jianming | João Pedro Oliveira | Laura Bernardeschi Nelson | Ling - Yiling Cao | Raymond Ssekajigo | Ryo Kajitani | Sergiu Ardelean | Victoria Ogunleye | Yagmur Karaman