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2023-03-07
2023-05-28
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 

On Exhibition

The c(AI)rcles’s Pentagon

By Gencork | Sofalca

2025-05-28
2025-06-26
Curatorship: Portugal Faz Bem
The design/art installation - The c(AI)rcle´s pentagon, which explores the connection between artificial intelligence, (re)generativedesign, art, and sustainability
Solo show

Caminhos

Millennium bcp Collection

2025-05-16
2025-08-24
Curatorship: Emília Ferreira, Regina Branco e Joana d’Oliva Monteiro
he vital need for contact with nature, also advocating movement as the essence of life, inspired by the thought of the writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau
Temporary Exhibition

THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

João Fonte Santa

2025-04-10
2025-07-03
Curatorship: Lúcia Saldanha e Rui Afonso Santos
With an extremely relevant body of work in painting, drawing and illustration, João Fonte Santa analyses and dissects the heavy legacy of European colonialism, particularly in the case of Portugal.
Solo show

ALDEBARAN FALLEN TO THE GROUND

2025-03-13
2025-06-22
Aldebaran Fallen to the Ground is a series of shaped paintings, with irregular, organic contours. The intensity and incidence of light intrude on the viewing of those (most of them) faces, painted in oil pastels.
Solo show

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

Since 1911

2022-05-26
2026-05-26
An intervention that celebrates 110 years of the MNAC.
114 years