Atrium

Free Admission

The artist of the moment: the Paleolithic Man

2021-10-03
2021-11-25
Exhibition by Luís Afonso

Luís Afonso's work, in an uncomplicated and fun way, is a stage for the visibility of current issues. Therefore, in this MNAC space, cartoons are exhibited with the good-humored stories of Bartoon and other works related to each other through the "Man of the Paleolithic". "O Homem do Paleolithic" resulted from the careful observation and power of the imagination of cartoonist Luís Afonso on the controversial Côa process, which culminated in the inscription of the engravings on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998, and in the construction of the iconic Côa Museum .



From October 3rd to November 25th 2021 at Sala PeP, at the Atrium of the MNAC, at Rua Serpa Pinto.

Activities

    2021-10-03 16h00
    European Heritage Days. Opening of the exhibition "The artist of the moment: the Paleolithic Man".
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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.
Temporary Exhibition

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.
Temporary Exhibition

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.
Temporary Exhibition

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.
Temporary Exhibition

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.
Temporary Exhibition

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