Summer Nights is a program by Filho Único co-produced between Filho Único, EGEAC, Lisbon Municipal Galleries, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Palácio Pimenta - Museum of Lisbon, the Goethe Institut , and supported by the Directorate-General for the Arts and EEA Grants.Garden of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) 19:30, free entry August 5th - Mario Rui Silva August 12 - Serpent August 19 - Maria da Rocha August 26 - Amosphère
Sculptures Garden
Free AdmissionMusic in MNAC's Garden
2022-08-05
2022-08-26
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
