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The 'Jazz em Agosto' programme, which takes place between 31 July and 9 August, includes 14 concerts, which will be divided between the Gulbenkian's Grand Auditorium, Auditorium 2 and the Outdoor Amphitheatre.
An account of the arrest of Calouste Gulbenkian by the Portuguese secret police (PIDE).
The first exhibition in our country dedicated to Todd Webb presents us with a country that is no longer the one seen by the American photographer. At the Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, until July 27.
Por um Mundu Nôbu features Calema, Deslandes, Dino D'Santiago, and the Orquestra Sem Fronteiras to celebrate diversity and break down 'prejudices'. The show has free admission and takes place on April 15th.
Curator Guilherme Blanc will take up the position of deputy director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Culture Programme in October, after leaving his role as artistic director of the Batalha Cinema Centre, he told the Lusa agency today.
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.
Along with Benjamin Weil, director of the Gulbenkian's Modern Art Centre, she was responsible for the museum's reopening in 2024. She is leaving to direct Fica Santander, a new cultural centre in Cantabria.
Pianist Alessio Bax and the Gulbenkian Orchestra performed Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 on March 20th, as well as Felix Mendelssohn's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Hans Werner Henze's 'Symphony No. 8'.
In this episode of “History repeats itself”, Margarida de Magalhães Ramalho and Lourenço Pereira Coutinho invited jurist and university professor Guilherme de Oliveira Martins, administrator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation between 2015 and 2025, to discuss the life, collection, and legacy of Calouste Gulbenkian.
A unique and unrepeatable live music experience in a 165-minute recital last Monday at the Gulbenkian's Grand Auditorium. Every time we listen to the Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov, it is as if he has fallen from the sky.
Combining the three-movement 'Violin Concerto' (1910) by Edward Elgar (1857-1934) with the 'Symphony No. 4' (1885) by Johannes Brahms (1833-97), a work much admired by the former, evokes the memory of both composers. Last Friday at the Gulbenkian, under the direction of Hannu Lintu, the transcendent sound of violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky was revealed.
The event was organised by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
The Portuguese philosopher played an important role in the teaching of philosophy in Portugal and in opening the country to ideas from other geographies. He was born in Mozambique, lived in Paris, and his work will be reissued here. On March 18th and 19th, the Gulbenkian Foundation will host scholars and colleagues from various regions to remember and discuss his work.
This weekend, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation opens its doors once again to six new rising stars. Among them are the Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili and the Portuguese Maat Saxophone Quartet.
The Armenian translation of 'Os Lusíadas' will be presented on Wednesday, the 25th, at 18:30, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. The translator, Lusiné Brutyan, an Armenian living in Portugal, has previously translated Fernando Pessoa's 'A Mensagem'. The initiative to translate these Portuguese literary classics into Armenian was led by the Portugal-Armenia Friendship Association. The translation of Camões' major work was completed in September last year, but this presentation in Lisbon marks the first public event in Portugal. Vahé Mkhitarian, president of the association, highlighted the symbolic significance of the venue, noting its connection to Armenian heritage. The translation project began with the founding of the association in 2016, and Brutyan expressed her deep emotional journey while translating the beloved text. The book, published by Edit Print in Armenia, includes a preface by João Figueiredo, a professor at the University of Lisbon.
Applications for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Support for Artistic Creation programme are open until 6 March and provide awards across multiple artistic disciplines.
More than 450 academics from around the world applied to a new initiative by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: to have time to give free rein to their thinking. In April the ten selected will be announced.
