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entry: General Conditions

Let's talk about houses

When Art Speaks Architecture:Building, Unbuilding, Inhabit

2010-10-16
2010-11-21
Curatorship: Delfim Sardo

At various times, in a world that has been successively destroyed by global conflicts, art has reflected the need to think about the meaning of dwelling, the affective construction of space, the cocoon, and the minimum conditions required for survival. In many ways, art seems to be speaking of architecture, constructing fields that are almost nameless in the place where sculpture, film, and architecture intersect.

The exhibition aims to present works which are located in this intermediate space, and which stem from the need to work with the deconstruction of space and the appropriation of architectural languages by artists in a way that also tries to find corresponding movements, with a diverse range of origins, in this interface.


Artists:

Ângela Ferreira; Bruce Nauman; Carlos Bunga; Carlos Garaicoa; Carlos Nogueira; Catherine Opie; Cildo Meireles; Damian Ortega; Dan Graham; Ed Ruscha ; Elmgreen & Dragset; Fernando Brito; Fernanda Fragateiro; Gabriel Orozco; Gordon Matta-Clark; Hans Haacke; Jimmie Durham; John Bock; Jonas Dahlberg; Jorge Macchi; José Bechara; José Pedro Croft; Juan Araújo; Julião Sarmento; Julian Rosenfeld; Luísa Lambri; Marcelo Cidade; Marcius Galan; Marepe; Mark Dion; Mateo Lopez; Miguel Ângelo Rocha; Miguel Arruda; Miroslav Balka; Nuno Sousa Vieira; Olafur Eliasson; Rita McBride; Rivane Neuenschwander; Robert Gober; Rodney Graham; Stan Douglas; Thomas Scheibitz; Thomas Schutte; Thomas Struth; Tom Sachs; Vangelis Vlahos; Wallid Raad/Atlas Group.

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