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Book Launch - Ph.06 Ernesto de Sousa

2021-05-15
To mark its centenary of Ernesto de Sousa, the National Press presents, on May 15 at 3 pm, in the garden of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the new volume of the Ph. Series, dedicated to Ernesto de Sousa, a prolific multidisciplinary artist and avid promoter of synergies between generations of artists from the first and second half of the twentieth century.

At the table will be present Emília Tavares, author of the unpublished essay that accompanies the book “Zoom to the grain, to the scale, to the zero point”; Cláudio Garrudo, coordinator of the Ph Series; Duarte Azinheira, editorial and culture director of Imprensa Nacional and Isabel Alves, widow of Ernesto Sousa.

After Jorge Molder, Paulo Nozolino (both already in the second edition), Helena Almeida (out of print), Fernando Lemos and José M. Rodrigues, the National Press presents the new volume with the work of Ernesto de Sousa. The Ph. Series, directed by Cláudio Garrudo, is a collection of monographs dedicated to contemporary, bilingual, affordable Portuguese photography, which aims to make the authors' work known, with expert texts and presenting the expanded and multiple territories of Photography .

Activities

    2021-05-15 15h00
    Book Launch - Ph.06 Ernesto de Sousa
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On Exhibition

Loops.Expanded 2026

2026-07-14
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.
Temporary Exhibition

On Gestures and Forms

A dialogue between collections

2026-06-18
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.
Temporary Exhibition

Alice Geirinhas

Sycorax

2026-05-29
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.
Temporary Exhibition

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.
Temporary Exhibition

Maria José Oliveira

I who once was I

2026-05-15
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.
Temporary Exhibition

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.
Permanent Exhibition