Program

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Mily Possoz. A poetics of space

2025-10-01
2026-02-01
Curatorship: Emília Ferreira
The exhibition “Mily Possoz. A Poetics of Space” continues the research into the lesser-studied Portuguese modernists artists present in the collections of the MNAC and Millennium bcp.
Solo show

LISBOA DÜSSELDORF FACES

2025-07-12
2025-10-05
In black and white, and through the symbolic power of portraiture, two photographers from different backgrounds have aesthetically and freely captured the substance of their own cities, Düsseldorf and Lisbon.
Temporary Exhibition

Noé Sendas. On Thin Ice

curated by João Silvério

2025-07-10
2025-09-25
Curatorship: João Silvério
Solo show by Noe Sendas
Temporary Exhibition

Loops.Expanded 2024-2025

Portugal Edition

2025-07-10
2025-09-07
Loops.Expanded returns to MNAC
Temporary Exhibition

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Curatorship: Susana Lourenço Marques e Emília Tavares
They provide an insight into the romantic-inspired photographic aesthetic of the late 19th century and the transition to a pictorialist approach in the early 20th century.
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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

International Museum Day

Agenda

2025-05-17
2025-05-18
The European Night of Museums and International Museum Day will be celebrated on May 17 and 18.
Event

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

16 April

Discover the program of activities for the closing of the exhibition MEANWHILE
Event

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

Rangefinder

INTERSECTED IMAGES

2025-03-06
2025-04-03
Curatorship: Lúcia Saldanha
José Quaresma and Tiago Batista interconnect their languages and plastic domains using two intersecting image production mechanisms: Carlos Relvas' Stereoscope and the Rangefinder.
Temporary Exhibition

Art arrived in Colombo

In the Age of Artificial Intelligence

2025-02-22
2025-03-30
From painting to sculpture, through photography to digital art, there are 10 selected projects that show Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, through different perspectives
Colective Exhibition

Talk with researchers

Talk with researchers
Event

Visit to a work from MNAC's collection

15 minutes with a work from MNAC's collection
Guided Tours

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

Partnership

2024-12-12
2025-04-20
Curatorship: Ana Rito
MEANWHILE
Temporary Exhibition

TRANSGRESSIONS

2024-11-22
2025-02-23
Curatorship: Rui Afonso Santos
Eight printed panels show the manipulated image of some artworks from the sculpture’s collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, founded early in 1911, within the renovating political framework of the young Portuguese First Rep
Solo show

Drawing in MNAC's collection - 1836-2024

2024-10-25
2025-01-26
Curatorship: Maria de Aires Silveira
Drawing – the discipline closest to the idea – is a central pedagogical axis for training the hand and vision.
Temporary Exhibition

IMAGO 2024

Cuspindo a Barlovento

2024-09-26
2025-01-05
The 6th edition of Imago Lisboa proposes as its central theme Action for a Green Future, calling for different artistic narratives around global warming.
Temporary Exhibition
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