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2023-03-07

2023-05-28

Ver Galeria 7

I II III IV V - five decades of ar.co - centro de arte e comunicação visual

April 20, at 6 pm - Guided tour of the Exhibition with Manuel Castro Caldas. To participate, register at se@mnac.dgpc.pt

March, 7 at 6.30pm
Opening the celebrations of Ar.Co's 50th anniversary in 2023, MNAC - Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea presents an exhibition that includes around 60 works covering the areas of drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, ceramics, jewellery, graphic arts and video:

- works from Ar.Co's Art Collection selected by invited personalities;

- works by artists invited to create original interventions for the occasion;

- a documentary installation about the 50 years of the school curated by guest artist/curator Diogo Pinto;

- original lettering and text design by guest typographer-designer Jorge dos Reis.

Artists

Alberto Chissano

Ana Hatherly

Ana Jotta

Ana Pérez-Quiroga

Ana Santos

Ana Vieira

Ana Yokochi

António Júlio Duarte

Augusto Alves da Silva

Artur Varela

Bruno Pacheco

Diogo Pinto

Fernando Calhau

Francisca Carvalho

Francisco Tropa

Gaëtan

Gonçalo Pena

Graça Costa Cabral

Gustavo Sumpta

Helena Almeida

João Onofre

João Queiroz

Jorge dos Reis

Jorge Molder

Lourdes Castro

Lúcia Abdenur

Luís Royal

Luísa Correia Pereira

Maria Ana Vasco Costa

Maria Motyleva

Michael Biberstein

Miguel Branco

Mumtazz

Pedro Barateiro

Pedro Sousa Vieira

Pedro Tropa

Pepe Diniz

Robin Fior

Robin Fior e Manuel Costa Cabral

Rui Calçada Bastos

Rui Chafes

Rui Moreira

Ruudt Peters

Sónia Graça

Susanne S. D. Themlitz

Tereza Seabra

Works in Ar.Co's Collection selected by

Ana Jotta

António Júlio Duarte

Bernardo Pinto de Almeida

Bruno Marchand

Cristina Filipe

Dayana Lucas

Filipa Oliveira

Francisca Carvalho

Francisco Tropa

Helena de Freitas

Henrique Pavão

Hugo Dinis

João Pinharanda

João Sarmento sj

Jorge Martins

Jorge Queiroz

Jürgen Bock

Margarida Veiga

Maria Ana Vasco Costa

Maria Antónia Oliveira

Miguel Lobo Antunes

Miguel Wandschneider

Nuno Crespo

Paulo Pires do Vale

Pedro Barateiro

Philip Cabau

Rui Calçada Bastos

Rui Chafes

Sandro Resende

Sara & André

Sara Matos

Sérgio Mah

Susanne S. D. Themlitz

Vera Appleton

Archive curator

Diogo Pinto

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On Exhibition

Loops.Expanded 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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