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; SymbolicConfirmation of presence via email: geral@mnac.dgpc.pt
Atrium
entry: General ConditionsTalk - Is the Earth still whole?
2023-09-19
2023-09-19
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.
