Tribute to Fernando Lemos - January 30 19h The National Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates on January 30, 2020, a tribute to the artist Fernando Lemos. Jorge Silva Melo's documentary will be screened - Fernando Lemos - How, Not Portrait ?, between 10 am and 6 pm in the Sonae room. At 19h a round table will be held on the artist's multifaceted work with the participation of Pedro Lapa, Filomena Serra, Jorge Silva Melo, Frederico Duarte e Cláudio Garrudo. The Museum will also exhibit a set of photographic works by Fernando Lemos from his collection.
Fernando Lemos (1926-2019) Eu 1949-1952 Prova em gelatina e sais de prata, impressão de 1999 Doação A. T. Kearney, 1999 MNAC-MC, inv. 2407
SONAE Room
Free AdmissionTribute to Fernando Lemos
2020-01-30
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.
