Latest news and stories about art exhibition in Portugal for expats and residents.
Due to the presence of Israel, Russia, and also the USA, the start of the biennale on May 6th promises to be tense. A strike has been called for the 8th.
The artist Grada Kilomba is back in Portugal to present her latest exhibition, titled “O Fundo do Mundo”.
The global multidisciplinary Portuguese artist Grada Kilomba, with one foot in Lisbon and Berlin, presents the exhibition: “The Bottom of the World”, starting May 30th at the Albuquerque Foundation in Sintra. A collection of works by Kilomba never before shown in Portugal, which address the violence that is perpetuated: from slavery to colonialism, from multiple wars to climate crises, and current tragic genocides, in a dive into the reverse side of human ‘glory’, proposing a reflection through art. Listen to her in this first part of the podcast “The Beauty of Small Things”, by Bernardo Mendonça.
A couple of contemporary creators exhibit at the home of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szenes
An exhibition at the Carmona e Costa Foundation in Lisbon reveals a revealing understanding of the discipline of drawing.
The initiative brings together a collection of works by visual artist Margarida de Araújo.
At the Faro Museum, a 'great little exhibition', a process of revisiting and valuing a historiographical framework that has long been deserved.
In the art of the Italian artist based in Brazil since the 60s, there is an immanent energy that materialises, momentarily, in each work like a photographic snapshot capturing something older and greater. It is a form in flight. “Terra Poética” will be at the MAAT until August 31st.
The exhibition 'Fragile&Solid' at the Camões Institute in Lisbon features a dialogue between the marble sculptures of Portuguese artist Jorge Pé-Curto and the porcelain bowls of Belgian ceramicist Mieke Everaet. Curated by Griet Meert, the show explores the contrast between the solidity of marble and the perceived fragility of porcelain, reflecting on human nature and the environment. The exhibition is open to the public with free admission until April 29.
Culturgest presents a major exhibition of large-scale installations by artist João Penalva, titled 'Personagens e Intérpretes' (Characters and Interpreters). The exhibition, curated by Bruno Marchand, features complex works that blend photography, video, documents, and personal history, encouraging visitors to construct their own narratives. Due to the depth and detail of the pieces, Culturgest is offering visitors the opportunity to return to the exhibition multiple times with a single ticket. The retrospective also extends to the Pavilhão Branco, featuring the work 'A Coleção Ormsson', and includes a film series at the Cinemateca.
At 83 years old, the Italian artist Anna Maria Maiolino presents one of the biggest exhibitions of her career in Lisbon.
The exhibition, scheduled to open on Saturday, April 11, articulates memory, territory, and environmental transformations based on collective listening at Cova do Vapor beach, in the municipality of Almada.
Portuguese artist Diogo Pimentão explores the concepts of fragility, strength, and expanded drawing in his new exhibition, 'Força Transitória das Coisas' (Transitory Force of Things), at the Gulbenkian's Centre of Modern Art. Through a performance piece with French dancer Emmanuel Eggermont and the use of materials like graphite, cement, and paper, Pimentão examines the dichotomy between creation and destruction, using his own body as a tool to manipulate space and form.
We are all tribal, Michael Morris tells us.
An exhibition at MAAT showcases the artist's Poetic Earth. At 84, she explores the relationship between drawing and installation, ideas and manual labour, life and art, time and history.
Algés hosts an extensive anthology by Graça Morais. In addition to paintings, drawings, and photographs from several decades, there is a current tribute to the political prisoners of Caxias.
The exhibition by the Portuguese artist will be on display from April 15 to September 6 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The Foundation highlights affinities with Juan Miró through the “possibilities of craftsmanship.”
The MAAT Gallery presents 'Terra Poética', an exhibition by Anna Maria Maiolino featuring raw clay sculptures created in situ. The works, which explore themes of repetition, materiality, and the precariousness of life, will evolve and eventually return to dust. Curated by João Pinharanda and Sérgio Mah, the exhibition also highlights the artist's feminist perspective and the influence of her personal history on her creative process.
The exhibition 'Terra Poética' will bring together drawings, photographs, sculptures, and installations created by the Italian-Brazilian artist between 1975 and 2025, with the theme of 'rethinking society's relationship with things'.
On display between March 25 and August 31 at MAAT, in Lisbon, the Brazilian artist, awarded a Golden Lion at the 2024 Venice Biennale in recognition of her career, reflects on times of violence.
By mentioning “wall” and “floor” in the exhibition title, we instinctively think of painting and sculpture, but that is not the case with the material diversity and poetic unity of artist Helena Lapas (b. 1940), who has been dedicated to tapestry from a very early age. An exhibition at the Monitor Gallery in Lisbon, running until the 28th.
In the second and final chapter of the sensory biography of Loulé, the city begins to reveal itself through a unique exhibition of socks at a school. A chronicle by João da Silva.
The effects of earthquakes with a magnitude above four on the Richter scale will be reproduced in the RedSkyFalls project, by Alexandre Estrela and curated by Ana Baliza and Ricardo Nicolau.
This is a report to be seen on Outras Histórias, following the Telejornal. Graça Morais will have a tile panel at the Caxias prison.
The exhibition “Night Excavation” by Brazilian multidisciplinary artist Guilhermo Hitos is currently on display at the Áurea Museum in Lisbon. The show features a collection of works exploring the relationship between memory, territory, and identity through a sensory approach that combines various media and materials, running until May 24th. Born in São Paulo in 2001, Hitos developed his artistic career in Lisbon, where he earned a degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Despite being early in his career, the artist has already exhibited at institutions such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) and galleries in Lisbon and Castelo Branco. Some of his works are also part of the private collection of economist and collector Luís Campos e Cunha. Hitos' work is marked by cartographic visual references, used as intimate maps to reflect on the connection between culture and identity. According to the curatorial text by Mariana Lourenço, the exhibition proposes a sensory journey where visitors are invited to explore memories and symbolic fragments, in a process where discovery often emerges from error and stumbling. In “Night Excavation”, the public encounters works that transition between diverse media, from the fragility of paper to the rigidity of iron. The exhibition is part of a cultural initiative by the Eurostars Hotel Company, linked to the Hotusa Group, which has been promoting art projects in its hotels since 2005.
