Latest news and stories about exhibition in Portugal for expats and residents.
The multidisciplinary artist's career is being honoured this Sunday with a programme at the Villa Portela Arts Centre, which includes music, poetry, an exhibition, among other initiatives.
The University of Porto opens the exhibition “Maravilhário – Donations to the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto” this Wednesday, June 17, celebrating approximately 200,000 donations received by the institution over three centuries. Running until September 20 at the museum's Central Pole in the Rectory building, the exhibition highlights the vital role of donations in preserving the university's scientific, cultural, and natural heritage. The collection includes over 200,000 items, ranging from insects and molluscs to fossils, archaeological artefacts, and a juvenile blue whale skeleton that washed ashore in Matosinhos in 1937.
The Serralves Museum is hosting an exhibition celebrating the life and work of Frank Gehry, the architect recognised as one of the great masters of contemporary architecture.
Starting June 17, the Colombo Shopping Centre remembers the star with photos, dresses, and even kitchen utensils. To Observador, collector Ted Stampfer recalls her avant-garde feminism.
The Miguel Torga House-Museum opens a new exhibition focused on the author's literary work titled 'Portugal'.
With a career that began in the 80s, Manuel João Vieira, an artist of many lives, now has his first solo exhibition in a museum.
In dark times, the work of the Chilean artist living in Lisbon reminds us of the need to look critically at what challenges us. In the capital, he speaks to us about Trump, Rwanda, Pinochet, and AI, with the exhibition 'One Million Points of Light' at the Francisco Fino Gallery in Lisbon as the central theme.
The exhibition 'Sticker: Iconography of Freedom' is at Mude – Museum of Design to showcase these symbols of belonging stuck to the body, whose popularity exploded with the 25th of April revolution.
Every time the world closes in and becomes a dark place, these spaces of freedom will prove essential. Opinion by Pedro Adão e Silva
She presents O Fundo do Mundo at the Albuquerque Foundation, in Sintra, her largest solo exhibition in Portugal to date. Returning to the country, she wants to “open paths” for other creators.
The Sintra Town Hall is hosting an exhibition featuring models of Portugal built with LEGO bricks.
The exhibition showcasing the history of Portuguese tiles has been extended by an additional week in Tavira.
An exhibition by a Brazilian photographer in Portugal explores street basketball as a form of visual protest and cultural expression.
The exhibition Antropo(cénico) — In the time of humans, on display at the National Museum of Natural History and Science starting this week, explores questions about the impact of humans on Earth.
On display at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa until 30 August, the exhibition about D. Amélia of Orléans and Braganza now features the mourning garment of her mother-in-law, D. Maria Pia of Savoy.
The museum is offering guided tours in English for the exhibition dedicated to the history of Portuguese tiles.
The exhibition 'Toda a Vida' (All of Life), by Bárbara Assis Pacheco, daughter of journalist and writer Fernando Assis Pacheco, is a tribute to her father, who passed away in 1995 at the door of the Buchholz bookstore in Lisbon, the same place where life, death, family, journalism, literature, and memory now engage in dialogue.
The Lisbon museum brings together works by Carlos Noronha Feio, João Paulo Feliciano, Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela, Sara & André, and Lourdes Castro alongside the universe of the Szenes-Vieira da Silva couple.
'The time before the end of time' is an exhibition focused on the contrasts and extremisms of global society. The work, which will be inaugurated in Aveiro, includes 23 images captured by 20 photographers.
The 'Sotaque' exhibition, focusing on countries within the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, opens next Monday (17th) in Lisbon as part of Lisbon Design Week 2026. The project features ten designers based in Portugal with roots in Lusophone nations, exploring themes of identity, memory, and migration through design. Curated by Brazilian architect Guto Requena, the exhibition runs at Moldo Studios until 7 June and includes public talks and cultural events at Clube B.Leza.
Without any scholarly pretensions, this exhibition is not a place of surprises, but rather of confirmations for those who know the painting of Júlio Pomar
“Ver e Ler Paulo de Cantos” (See and Read Paulo de Cantos) is the new exhibition showcasing the work of this outsider in design historiography. The author was known for his transgression and satirical style during the Estado Novo regime.
Almost 40 years ago, a couple from East Germany photographed the city of Lisbon. The photographs had been forgotten for the last few decades. They are now on display at Praça dos Restauradores.
As part of the centenary of Gérard Castello-Lopes' birth, the photographer's youngest son offers a fresh look at his father's work. He selected 37 images and wrote about them. Here is a sample.
In this interview, artist José Pedro Croft discusses his latest exhibition, 'Reflexos, Enclaves, Desvios' (Reflections, Enclaves, Deviations), at the Centro Cultural de Belém. He explores his creative process, his transition from traditional materials like marble to industrial ones like iron and glass, and his reliance on the 'Artworks' factory for large-scale production. Croft reflects on the role of art in a technocratic world, the importance of slowing down, and his belief that art should remain free from the constraints of market-driven agendas and political messaging.
An interview with an artist who illustrated a poem by Antero de Quental, exploring the intersection of literature, childhood, and visual arts through an exhibition at the National Cultural Centre.
Between 1961 and 1974, 47 paratrooper nurses were trained in Portugal to serve in the Portuguese Air Force's Paratrooper Hunter Battalion. They were the first women to enter the Armed Forces, a domain previously exclusive to men. Their primary mission was to evacuate wounded soldiers from the Colonial War. In the exhibition 'Mais Alto' at the MAAT Central in Lisbon, artist Margarida Correia presents photographs of these women, now octogenarians, alongside their personal belongings and archival photos, highlighting their role and the social stigma they faced during and after the conflict.
