Latest news and stories about exhibitions in Portugal for expats and residents.
Created by Poncili Creación, the performance comes to life through creations by Modatex students, who will embody imaginary beings designed by inmates in anti-colonial dramaturgy workshops.
The Portugal Jewels exhibition will be on display at Lisbon Airport until September 17.
The virtual reality experience “Smithsonian Journey Through the Cosmos”, developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, will open on September 17th in the underground hall of the Terreiro do Paço Metro Station. The experience uses real scientific data from observatories like the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to allow visitors to explore the birth of stars, black holes, and the Milky Way. Interested parties can join the waiting list at smithsonianstarstruck.com/lisboa/.
Catarina Real, Inez Teixeira, Rudi Brito, Eduardo Matos and Tomás Cunha Ferreira are the finalists for the 2026 FLAD Drawing Award, with the winner to be revealed at the fair in October.
The Chinese artist is the guest of the 8th edition of the Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, which opens this Saturday in Guimarães. The organization estimates that it “could attract many visitors”.
September begins with a packed cultural agenda. This weekend, we highlight several activities, including Bárbara Penaforte's exhibition in Lisbon, Brazil Week in Oeiras, Ivete Sangalo's concert in Cascais, the BaileXperience in Alcântara, and Amoy Ribas's upcoming musical tribute to the São Francisco River.
The nearly two hundred unpublished works by Pedro Cabrita Reis, one of the Portuguese artists with the greatest international profile, are part of the celebration of MAAT's 10th anniversary.
An artist living in Macau has arrived in Portugal to showcase their work at the Cerveira Biennial.
After starting in Lisbon in April, the exhibition “A Glimpse of Chinese Culture”, which celebrates three years of editorial collaboration between Diário de Notícias and Macao Daily News, will open on 22 August at 6:00 pm at the São Bento Metro Station in Porto, where it will remain on display until 12 September. Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government and the Macau Sino-Lusophone Friendship and Cultural Exchange Association, the exhibition invites the public to discover traditions, stories, and curiosities of Chinese culture through articles published since September 2023 in the joint weekly column between the two newspapers. Curated by Sara Neves, the exhibition features two original installations combining traditional newspaper printing with fabric, evoking historical ties between China and Portugal. The exhibition aims to bring the Portuguese public closer to lesser-known aspects of Chinese culture, reinforcing the importance of cultural and editorial cooperation.
“We know nothing about the person portrayed, that is part of the mystery of 'lover's eyes',” explains David Skier. “They were created to be anonymous.”
The Dino Parque exhibition is being featured at the Volta a Portugal cycling race and is also being promoted in cinemas.
The autumn season brings artists from different generations and geographies to Lisbon. The exhibition that represented Portugal at the Venice Architecture Biennale is being installed at the Centre for Architecture.
It is also time to celebrate the emigrants, browse through books, see a 'Land Out of Sight' exhibition, and another featuring photographs by Nuno Marcelino.
The 8th edition of Imago Lisboa begins on 24 September. This year's theme addresses photography as more than 'a documentation instrument', linking it to technology and the materialisation of the image.
The two Portuguese artists bring two distinct projects to Venice that articulate with the history of images.
1945-2026. Creator of the plastination technique, which consists of stopping the natural decomposition of human and animal bodies, he caused controversy with his exhibitions.
In Lisbon, Porto, and other cities, a retrospective showcases the work of the Franco-Belgian director across her multiple paths.
The 'Only Dukes and Sad Scenes Come Out' exhibition, the morality of Euripides, naïf painting, and the '9 Degrees West' canvas are also on the agenda.
From 43 applications submitted to the Biennial Photography Prize, seven finalist artists were selected. Sérgio Gomes considered that the projects “are the best that have been seen.”
The collection of the National Museum of Costume, which is currently closed and awaiting renovation, will be exhibited at another location yet to be announced by the public company Museums and Monuments of Portugal.
It has already been at the doors of the MAAT, it was loaned for the opening of a museum in Malta, it was in Rome for an exhibition surrounding Valentino's work, and now it is back in Lisbon and impossible to ignore – from the road, from the 25 de Abril Bridge, or even from an airplane. The ring...
The 24th edition of the biennial was inaugurated this Saturday in the Alto Minho town. Its central theme is the idea of Territories without Borders, and it will run until December 30th.
It is the largest Formula exhibition ever held in Portugal. It is at the Caramulo Museum until October 18th. Cars driven by Schumacher, Senna and Piquet are on display there.
Visitors are invited to touch and explore five costume reproductions, following the evolution of their main characteristics between the late 18th and late 19th centuries. The exhibition is based on a project by Ana Margarida Valente, who is blind and sewed the period pieces herself as part of her PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon.
The Formula 1 cars driven by Ayrton Senna and Nelson Piquet are on display in Portugal for the first time at the Caramulo Museum.
An exhibition featuring 16 Ukrainian photographers related to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine will be on display from Saturday until the end of August at the Caldas da Rainha Cultural and Congress Centre.
Twenty-five years later, the sculptor returns to the MAC/CCB to present sculpture and part of his engraved work.
João Fonte Santa accepted the challenge from José Maçãs de Carvalho and explored a 'saturated' aesthetic inspired by the tapestries of the Museu do Caramulo to conceive original pieces that create a 'parallelism'.
