Most museums in Lisbon re-opened April 5, and theaters, cinemas, and live music venues on April 19. Read more here. NOTE: Hours are changing constantly and shows still get cancelled, so please check with the organizers.
"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought." Dante Alighieri. Well, it's been 700 years, and the present world is still going astray, but, nevertheless, still going. For example, for the rest of 2021, in theory, National Coach Museum in Belém is celebrating 700 years […]
The Calouste Gulbenkian describes Morder o Pó ("Biting Dust") — the new solo exhibit by 26-year-old Lisbon-born Fernão Cruz — as "new paintings and new sculptures in a project conceived from scratch for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation." They add: "Since its creation, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has supported the work of young and emerging artists […]
Here's what the organizers of José Vieira Mendes' new solo show say: "The exhibition Aqui Lisboa: anos 80s reveals images of Lisbon, focusing on people, their actions, and gestures. The author, expressing "always in love with Lisbon", selected these images from a vast set made between 1982/83 captured by his first 35 mm reflex photographic […]
A Arte de Nos Virmos (roughly "The Art of Coming" or "The Art of Let's Come"), curated by Maria Vilalobos, is described by organizers Com Calma as follows: "An exhibition that invites twenty artists to delve into the female orgasm... to examine the female orgasm as a dystopian symbol of liberation from oppression in a […]
Here's what Finnish fine artist, photographer, and multimedia artist with a background in biology Maija Annikki Savolainen says about her latest solo show: "Paperworks is an ongoing investigation on light. It started with a folded A4 sheet and the series Sea/See. Rough photography, the fold on paper becomes a horizon line of an unidentified seascape […]
Luís Afonso is, among other things, a 66-year-old Portuguese cartoonist with a degree in geography and a bookshop in Serpa. Here's what organizers MNAC add: "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 […]
Patricio Bicho was born in Valparaíso, Chile, in 1990. Today he lives and studies geography in Lisbon. He is also self-taught in drawing and painting. Here's what the organizers of his new solo show say: "Everyday passersby are unknown faces that travel along paths in a region of the world that dances on the seas […]
Here's what photographer Henrique Godoy says about the group photography exhibit 'The City Without People is Not a City,' of which he is a part, up at Curious Monkey now: "We understand the city as a place of encountering and exchange. Time and work are exchanged for space in the city; the market sets the […]
The organizers of this one don't like to mince words, which, in turn, makes our job a lot easier, and for which we thank them. And now, without further ado, we give them the floor: "Night Stories Market is the new night market at Doca da Marinha, in Lisbon, that brings together street food, independent […]
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