Curated by Emília Ferreira, on the 6th of June, at 3 pm, at the Museu do Côa, the exhibition “O Desenho, Força que nasce do Silêncio” will open.
This exhibition is part of the project [Portugal among Heritage], promoted by MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art) and of the partnership established with the Museu do Côa, within the scope of [PeP], in its "Approximation to art" axis, which promotes material or digital activities of local or remote accessibility in the national territory.
After the inauguration, which will be attended by the Assistant Secretary of State and for Cultural Heritage, Ângela Ferreira, the President of the Côa Parque Foundation, Bruno Navarro, as well as the MNAC Director, Emília Ferreira, the respective catalog will be made available online, which also documents the setting up of the exhibition and its opening to the public.
About [Portugal among Heritage] - [PEP]
Launched in October 2018, it had full activity in 2019, through Cycles of Conversations, World Cafés, and its first publications (on paper and online).
http://www.portugalentrepatrimonios.gov.pt
This collaborative network, designed and coordinated by MNAC, with a project and coordination by Lúcia Saldanha, involves more than 60 employees throughout the national territory (including islands).
The first publication was that of José Manuel dos Santos' short monograph, “A Atençao”. Published on paper, in collaboration with one of our {PEP] partners, the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, it is also accessible online:
http://www.portugalentrepatrimonios.gov.pt/?p=388
Our first interview with national personalities is also on paper and freely available here:
http://www.portugalentrepatrimonios.gov.pt/livro/
This is an absolutely innovative project of a collaborative network that links MNAC - as an axis - with other museums, universities, cultural and recreational associations, music festivals, heritage networks, tourist partners, etc., in a network that unites the so-called high culture to popular culture, with a pro bono and inclusive character, experiencing culture and heritage as something central and necessary in our lives.
Atrium
entry: General Conditions.
2020-06-06
2020-07-31
On Exhibition
Loops.Expanded 2026
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2026-10-03
Curatorship: Irit Batsry
MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado and DuplaCena present, for the 11th consecutive year, an exhibition dedicated to the loop as a seminal form of the moving image.
On Gestures and Forms
A dialogue between collections
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2026-09-20
Curatorship: MNAA e MNAC
Works from the collections of Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, and Fundação Millennium bcp, engage in a dialogue across different periods, materials, and approaches to artistic creation.
Alice Geirinhas
Sycorax
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2026-09-20
Curatorship: Lúcia Saldanha e Rui Afonso Santos
Sycorax is an installation of drawings that summons the absent and silenced figure of Sycorax, the witch and mother of Caliban, characters from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare.
Ultratremor
Group show
2026-05-29
2026-09-27
Curatorship: Germano Dushá
Between the visible and the invisible, the exhibition brings together artists who explore states of transformation, apparition, and resonance, bringing matter, imagination, and spiritual experience into dialogue.
Maria José Oliveira
I who once was I
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2026-10-04
Curatorship: Paula Parente Pinto
Maria José Oliveira transforms everyday materials and discarded objects into territories of memory, ritual, and metamorphosis, where time itself becomes a living material of artistic creation.
Impressões Digitais. MNAC Collection
2024-12-12
2026-12-30
Curatorship: Ana Guimarães, Emília Ferreira, Maria de Aires Silveira e Tiago Beirão Veiga
Consisting of founding works of contemporary Portuguese art historiography, from 1850 to the present day, the MNAC's collection holds several national treasures.
