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Loops.Expanded 2024-2025

Portugal Edition

2025-07-10
2025-09-07

https://loops-expanded.com/

The MNAC and DuplaCena are proud to present for the 10th year an exhibition dedicated to the loop as a seminal form of the moving image.

Loops.Expanded is an international curatorial network for research, curatorship and exhibition. Based on experimenting with a decentralized model, it carries out activities through partnerships developed by Duplacena (Lisbon), PROYECTOR (Madrid), OndaVideo (Pisa) and WWVF (Amsterdam).

MNAC
10 JUL –  03 AGO 2025: Rui Soares Costa & André Gonçalves (PT) – Untitled for C, Rising series (2024)
05 – 10 AGO 2025: Miquel García Membrado (ESP) – List of burned books in Germany in 1933 (2018)
12 – 17 AGO 2025: Antonio Arango (MEX) – Ouroboros (2018)
19 – 24 AGO 2025: Natalia Sardi (BRA/BEL) – Scores For Mother & Daughter  (2024)
24 AGO – 07 SEP 2025: Eugenio Ampudia (ESP) – La Verdad Es Una Excusa (2027)

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
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