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Talk - Is the Earth still whole?

2023-09-19
2023-09-19
On the occasion of the exhibition Is the Earth still round?, by Cristina Ataíde, MNAC promotes a conversation where art and science intersect, followed by a guided visit to the exhibition

Expected duration: 1h15m

Calendar:

19 September, 17:00

Theme: Performance and pigment. Approximations between rock art and contemporary art

Conversation with the Artist - Cristina Ataíde, Emília Ferreira - Director of MNAC and Andrea Martins* - 
Researcher and Archaeologist at Uniarq - Archeology Center of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon

* Andrea Martins, archaeologist, born in Lisbon. He completed his PhD in Prehistoric archeology at the University of Algarve, 
and is finishing his post-doctorate at the UNIARQ research center at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. 
His area of ​​specialization is Prehistoric Art, defining the periodization of the artistic cycle of recent Prehistory, 
having studied numerous sites with prehistoric paintings and engravings. 

Research Areas: Prehistoric Archaeology; Rock Art; Neolithic; Chalcolithic; Symbolic
Confirmation of presence via email: geral@mnac.dgpc.pt

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