Exhibition Readings
"How to (…) things that don’t exist – an exhibition developed out of the 31st São Paulo Biennial" is the pretext for a new edition of Readings in the Museum, an initiative that has been promoting a close relationship b...
Readings at the Museum: "How to (...) things that don't exist"
2015-12-06
In the shade of a baobab tree – a tree of African origin, a central element in the Mujawara work of Árvore-Escola (2014-15), by the Contrafilé Group - Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti - we will read texts by the contemporary Brazilian playwrights, Marcos Barbosa, Cássio Pires, Cláudia Barral, Fábio Torres and Luís Indriunas. To monitor and develop the readings, we have invited Jorge Louraço Figueira to this session - a playwright and theatre critic who has closely followed a new generation of writers emerging on the other side of the Atlantic.
Access: Free of charge. Max. number of participants: subject to the capacity of the space.
- LocationSerralves Museum
- Schedule11h00 - 12h00
- Days2015-12-06
Within the framework of the exhibition "Monika Sosnowska: Architectonisation" there will be another Reading in the Museum, fruit of a partnership initiated in 2014 between the Educational Service of the Serralves Museum of Contemp...
Readings at the Museum: "Error-Free Peremptory Damage" by Sónia Baptista (1973) and "Untitled 1, 2, 3 and 4" by Patrícia Portela (1974)
2015-05-21

Within the framework of the exhibition " Monika Sosnowska: Architectonisation" there will be another Reading in the Museum, fruit of a partnership initiated in 2014 between the Educational Service of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and the Reading in the Monastery series, organized by the São João National Theatre. We will read two texts written by two contemporary Portuguese playwrights, commissioned by the END Festival - Meeting of New Dramaturgies held in Coimbra in March 2015. Error-Free Peremptory Damage, by Sonia Baptista (1973) and Untitled 1, 2, 3 and 4, by Patricia Portela (1974), were written while taking into account the relationship between theatre, contemporary art and architecture. The texts will be read by the public in the exhibition galleries. The author Sónia Baptista will attend this reading session. Due to unforeseen circumstances the author Patrícia Portela will not attend the session.
Max. no. of participants: 60 people Partnership: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and Readings in the Monastery of the TNSJ
Note: On this day the Museum will be open to the public with extended schedule, from 20:00 to 23:00.
Patricia Portela (1974) lives between Portugal and Belgium. She is the author of performances, transdisciplinary installations and literary works, and her works are regularly presented in Europe and worldwide. She studied set design and costume design in Lisbon and Utrecht, cinema in Ebeltoft, Denmark, and Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. Between 1994 and 2002, she worked as a costume and set designer for independent theatre companies and several filmmakers in Portugal, including a collaboration with Miguel Gomes. She was a co-founder of the O Resto group in 1996 and the Prado Cultural Association, in 2003, via which she develops collaborations with national and international artists. Author of "Para Cima e não para Norte” (2008) and "Banquete” (2012, finalist for the APE Novel and Shorty Story Grand Prize), she participated in the 46th International Writers Program in Iowa City in 2013 and was the first Outreach Fellow at the University of Iowa City. She has taught dramaturgy since 2008 in the Fórum Dança and in several cultural institutions and universities. She has received several awards, including the Revelation Prize awarded by the Portuguese Theatre Critics Association (1994), the Theatre in the Decade Prize for the play Wasteband (2003) and the Madalena Azeredo de Perdigão / FCG Prize for Flatland I (2004).
Sónia Baptista (1967) has a degree in Contemporary Dance from the Fórum Dança. She obtained the degree of Master Researcher in Choreography and Performance, with distinction, from the University of Roehampton in London, UK. In her work, that has been presented in several festivals and theatres in Portugal and abroad, she explores and experiments with the languages of Dance, Performance, Music, Literature, Theatre and Video. In addition to her texts and poems published in collective publications, she has published four books, including, "Peaufine” (2011), in an author’s edition, and "Água por todos os lados” (2014), by (não) Edições. In 2015, she published the text of the play "E hoje, é um Esquilo?”, Ed. Douda Correria; and participated in the poetry collection Voo Rasante, Ed. Mariposa Azual, which also published her book Tempus Fugit, written in collaboration with the artist Bárbara Assis Pacheco. She also premiered her new work, "a falha de onde a luz” in the framework of the Festival Cumplicidades in Lisbon. She works with the Portuguese National Ballet (Companhia Nacional de Bailado / CNB) in the PAD – Dance Approach Program. Her work has been supported by the MC-DGArtes, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the National Cultural Centre. In 2001, she was awarded the Ribeiro da Fonte de Revelação Prize in the field of dance by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, for Haikus (her first play). She is an Associate artist of AADK Portugal.
- LocationMuseum Galleries
- Schedule21h00 - 22h30
- Days2015-05-21
Throughout the course of his artistic career, Marwan has woven networks of creative complicity with various poets and playwrights. He believes that poetry and drama have a fascinating potential for political expression which paint...
Meet the exhibtion "Marwan" with "A Aventura da cabeça do escravo Jaber" de Sa’adallah Wannous (1941-1997)
2014-09-25

Throughout the course of his artistic career, Marwan has woven networks of creative complicity with various poets and playwrights. He believes that poetry and drama have a fascinating potential for political expression which painting is unable to rival. Literature is so important to Marwan that if he hadn’t been a painter, he would have chosen literature as his preferred form of expression and creation. In this context, on September 25, in the space of the galleries of the Marwan exhibition and in partnership with the "Readings in the Monastery" programme, of the S. João National Theatre, we invite the general public to take part in the reading of the stage play, "The Adventure of the Slave Jabir’s Head”, by the great Syrian playwright Sa'adallah Wannous (1941-1997). The play is designed to be read outside the theatre auditorium, with audience participation. Foreseeing that the themes of his work would uphold their contemporary relevance, Wannous wrote his play leaving spaces open to the audience, to their epoch and circumstances, thus enabling them to take part in the construction of his text. What will be the impact of the shared reading of this text on the experiencing of Marwan’s paintings?
Sa'adallah Wannous was born in 1941 in Bahr al-Hosain, and died on May 15 in Damascus, Syria. A playwright, producer and critic, he is considered to be one of the greatest playwrights of the Arab world. His plays combine the use of traditional forms of Arabic literature - the short story in particular - with Western dramatic techniques, such as distancing, used by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Wannous graduated in journalism from Cairo University, and then continued his studies in France, where he was influenced by various trends and schools of European theatre, in particular by playwrights such as Jean Anouilh, Brecht, Eugene Ionesco and Erwin Piscator. After his return to Syria, Wannous worked as an editor and critic for the Syrian Ministry of Education. He was the editor of the arts and culture section of the Syrian newspaper Al-Baath and the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir. At the end of the 1970s, he helped set up and taught at the Damascus Theatre Institute. His work as a playwright began in the 1960s, exploring the theme of the relationship between the individual, society and power. He was deeply shaken by the results of the Israeli-Arab wars. In his early stories and one act plays, he examined themes of power and corruption and the need for personal involvement in political life. In 1969, along with other playwrights, Wannous supported and accompanied the emergence of the Arab Theatre Festival, in Damascus, that was followed by playwrights from throughout the Arab world. In this festival, Wannous introduced his "theatre of politicization" to replace the traditional "political theatre" - aiming to foster a more active role for theatre in the process of political and social change. His key early works include Hanthala's Journey from Slumber to Consciousness (1978), A Night Party for June 5 (1968), in which several actors were placed in the audience to provoke the actors on stage and to engage the audience in the dialogue, and Elephant, The King of All Times (1969), a dramatisation of the effects of despotism. Two other works - The King is the King (1977) and The Adventure of the Slave Jabir’s Head (1969), are based on stories adapted from the Thousand and One Nights. Wannous abandoned the Arab Writers Union, in Syria, in support of the writer Adonis (Adunis, the pseudonym of Ahmad Said de Ali), who was expelled from the organization due to his liberal attitudes toward Israel. In 1982, in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Beirut, Wannous stopped writing for a decade. He returned to writing, in the early 1990s, when he wrote The Rape (1990), a play about the Israeli-Arab conflict, Fragments from History (1994), Rituals of Signs and Transformations (1994) and Mirage Epic (1996). In 1996, he was selected by UNESCO and the International Theatre Institute, to present the annual speech of celebration of International Theatre Day (March 27).
- LocationSerralves Museum
- Schedule21h00 - 22h00
- Days2014-09-25
Guided visit to the exhibition "ARTchitecture" by Sónia Oliveira (Head of the Serralves Library)Access: Free entrance....
"ARTchitecture" by Sónia Oliveira
2014-08-20
Guided visit to the exhibition " ARTchitecture" by Sónia Oliveira (Head of the Serralves Library)
Access: Free entrance.
- LocationSerralves Library
- Schedule17h30 - 18h30
- Days2014-08-20
GUIDED TOURS IN SERRALVES
- Schedule15h30 - 16h30
- Days2017-11-25
Guided visit to the exhibition by Rui Torres, investigator."Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” marks the visible and permanent presence of the Serralves Collection in the Serralves Museum as part of a dynamic programme of changing...
GUIDED VISIT TO "SERRALVES COLLECTION: 1960-1980"
2017-11-18

Guided visit to the exhibition by Rui Torres, investigator.
"Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” marks the visible and permanent presence of the Serralves Collection in the Serralves Museum as part of a dynamic programme of changing displays. The inaugural display presents works by Portuguese and international artists. This narrative presentation surveys the art produced in the decades considered foundational to the history and development of contemporary art and the place of Portuguese art in that history. As well as iconic art works made between 1960 and 1980, the new displays also include a selection of more contemporary pieces that highlight the continued relevance of these earlier artistic positions and attitudes. The works on view reflect a diversity of artistic production from the 1960s to the present day, while highlighting the unique characteristics of the Serralves Collection, distinguished for its relation of Portuguese and international art from around the globe. With a visually dynamic and rich presentation of paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, films and videos, the Collection display surveys various themes central to the artistic practice of the post-art period and influential on the artistic practices of the 21st century, including: materials and process, abstraction and figuration, language and concept, and the body and performativity. The decades surveyed in the exhibition are marked by profound social and cultural changes as well as radical developments in art making. The art of this period reflects a redefinition of artistic forms, media and production, influenced by profound transformations in technology.
The Serralves Collection is a collection of reference that offers a uniquely international context in which to understand contemporary art in Portugal. The Serralves Collection is comprised of works acquired by the Serralves Foundation since its creation in 1989, together with long-term deposits from private and public collections. Deposits that have served as points of reference for the development of the collection include the Collection of the Portuguese Secretariat of State for Culture and the Collection of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD). The focus of the Serralves Collection is contemporary art produced from the 1960s to the present day. The inaugural exhibition of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in 1999, ‘Circa 1968’, served to highlight the 1960s and 70s, a historic period of political, social and cultural change that took place around the world, as seminal decades out of which emerged new paradigms in art making and the beginning of the post-modern era. As part of a continued research and development of the Collection in the twenty-first century, the Serralves Collection aspires to further distinguish itself through its focus on contemporary art's relationship to performance, archi¬tecture and contemporaneity in relation to a post-colonial and globalized present. While resonating with the art and ideas of our recent past, the Collection aims to reflect on how the art of today also anti¬cipates its future.
"Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” is organized by Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Suzanne Cotter, Museum Director, with João Ribas, Senior Curator and Deputy Director and Ricardo Nicolau, Deputy to the Director and Curator.
The design of "Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” has been conceived by COR ARQUITECTOS (Roberto Cremascoli and Edison Okumura)
Artists in the exhibition: Grupo Acções Colectivas (Kollektivnye deistviya); Etel Adnan; Helena Almeida; Armando Alves; Manuel Alvess; Richard Artschwager; John Baldessari; Artur Barrio; Eduardo Batarda; Lothar Baumgarten; René Bertholo; Dara Birnbaum; Mel Bochner; Marcel Broodthaers; James Lee Byars; Fernando Calhau; Alberto Carneiro; Zulmiro de Carvalho; Manuel Casimiro; E. M. de Melo e Castro; Lourdes Castro; Guy de Cointet; Merce Cunningham; Marlene Dumas; José Escada; Hans-Peter Feldmann; António Quadros Ferreira; David Goldblatt; Dan Graham; Giorgio Griffa; Richard Hamilton; Ana Hatherly; Sanja Ivekovi?; Joan Jonas; Jannis Kounellis; Fernando Lanhas; Álvaro Lapa; João Machado; Dimitrije Basicevic Mangelos; Marwan Cildo Meireles; Ana Mendieta; Robert Morris; Antoni Muntadas; Bruce Nauman; Eduardo Nery; Silke Otto-Knapp; Nam June Paik; António Palolo; António Costa Pinheiro; Jorge Pinheiro; Vítor Pomar; Charlotte Posenenske; Yvonne Rainer; Paula Rego; Gerhard Richter; Arlindo Rocha, Joaquim Rodrigo; Artur Rosa; Martha Rosler; Dieter Roth; Ed Ruscha; Julião Sarmento; António Sena; Nikias Skapinakis; Robert Smithson; Ângelo de Sousa; Salette Tavares; Ana Vieira; Pires Vieira; Franz Erhard Walther; Hannah Wilke; Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
- LocationSerralves Museum
- Schedule17h00 - 18h00
- Days2017-11-18
- Schedule15h30 - 16h30
- Days2017-10-28
- Schedule12h00 - 13h00
- Days2017-10-22
- Schedule12h00 - 13h00
- Days2017-10-15
Guided visit in Portuguese Sign Language by Laredo, Associação Cultural.Gabriel Abrantes, Jonathas de Andrade, Sonia Andrade, Cecilia Bengolea / Jeremy Deller, Alicia Barney, Lourdes Castro, Öyvind Fahlström, Priscila Fernande...
VISIT IN PORTUGUESE SIGN LANGUAGE TO "LIVE UNCERTAINTY: AN EXHIBITION AFTER THE 32ND BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO"
2017-09-30

Guided visit in Portuguese Sign Language by Laredo, Associação Cultural.
Gabriel Abrantes, Jonathas de Andrade, Sonia Andrade, Cecilia Bengolea / Jeremy Deller, Alicia Barney, Lourdes Castro, Öyvind Fahlström, Priscila Fernandes, Carla Filipe, Leon Hirszman, Grada Kilomba, Lais Myrrha, Vídeo nas Aldeias, Bárbara Wagner / Benjamin de Búrca
‘Live Uncertainty: An Exhibition after the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo is the second time the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto receives the Bienal de São Paulo in Europe. This collaboration between the Serralves Foundation and the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo reflects the commitment of both institutions to contemporary art and its production as part of a culturally engaged and global network of relations of which the Bienal has become one of its principle platforms.
Titled Incerteza viva [Live Uncertainty], the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo reflects on the current conditions of life and the strategies offered by contemporary art to harbor or inhabit uncertainty. The presentation at Serralves extends the engagement with forms of ambient and collective intelligence, as well as systemic and natural ecologies. Resulting from a dialogue between the curator of the 32nd edition of the Bienal de São Paulo, Jochen Volz, and the Deputy Director and Senior Curator of the Museum, João Ribas, the presentation is conceived in relation to the unique architecture and landscape of Serralves.
For the presentation in the park, the Serralves Museum has commissioned five architecture studios from Porto - depA, Diogo Aguiar Studio, Fahr, fala atelier and Ottotto - to design and build temporary structures to host works by Gabriel Abrantes, Jonathas de Andrade, Cecilia Bengolea & Jeremy Deller, Priscila Fernandes and Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca.
Installations, drawings, video and performance-based work by Sonia Andrade, Alicia Barney, Lourdes Castro, Öyvind Fahlström, Carla Filipe, Leon Hirszman, Lais Myrrha, Vídeo nas Aldeias, and Grada Kilomba will be on view throughout the Serralves park and Serralves Museum.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Jochen Volz, Julia Rebouças, and João Ribas.
‘Live Uncertainty: An Exhibition After the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo’ is organized by the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo in collaboration with the Fundação de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal.
Park: 30 Jun – 1 Oct Contemporary Gallery: 30 jun – 1 Oct Museum Hall: 30 Jun – 10 Sep Room 14 (Museum): 30 Jun – 3 Sep
Support: Ministério da Cultura do Brasil
- LocationMuseum and Park
- Schedule15h30 - 16h30
- Days2017-09-30
The title of this visit is also the title of an article, written by Pedro Baía, published in the newspaper "Público" regarding "Live Uncertainty, an exhibition after the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo". The conversation and orientati...
VISIT: A brand new generation of Porto Architects
2017-09-28
The title of this visit is also the title of an article, written by Pedro Baía, published in the newspaper "Público" regarding "Live Uncertainty, an exhibition after the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo". The conversation and orientation of the visit will be done by this architect together with the authors of the five exhibition pavilions built in the Serralves Park.
This initiative is part of a set of circuits through the Architecture of the Northern Region of Portugal, in the context of the project Architecture 3.0 - Promotion of New Internationalization Models.
With: Pedro Baía Registration: Free but Compulsory, until the 27th of September (subject to the limit of vacancies). Capacity: 25 Meeting Point: Museum Hall
- LocationSerralves Park
- Schedule17h00 - 18h00
- Days2017-09-28
- Schedule17h00 - 18h00
- Days2017-09-16
Guided visit in Portuguese Sign Language to the exhibition, by Laredo, Associação Cultural."Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” marks the visible and permanent presence of the Serralves Collection in the Serralves Museum as part ...
GUIDED VISIT IN PORTUGUESE SIGN LANGUAGE TO "SERRALVES COLLECTION: 1960-1980"
2017-09-02

Guided visit in Portuguese Sign Language to the exhibition, by Laredo, Associação Cultural.
"Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” marks the visible and permanent presence of the Serralves Collection in the Serralves Museum as part of a dynamic programme of changing displays. The inaugural display presents works by Portuguese and international artists. This narrative presentation surveys the art produced in the decades considered foundational to the history and development of contemporary art and the place of Portuguese art in that history. As well as iconic art works made between 1960 and 1980, the new displays also include a selection of more contemporary pieces that highlight the continued relevance of these earlier artistic positions and attitudes. The works on view reflect a diversity of artistic production from the 1960s to the present day, while highlighting the unique characteristics of the Serralves Collection, distinguished for its relation of Portuguese and international art from around the globe. With a visually dynamic and rich presentation of paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, films and videos, the Collection display surveys various themes central to the artistic practice of the post-art period and influential on the artistic practices of the 21st century, including: materials and process, abstraction and figuration, language and concept, and the body and performativity. The decades surveyed in the exhibition are marked by profound social and cultural changes as well as radical developments in art making. The art of this period reflects a redefinition of artistic forms, media and production, influenced by profound transformations in technology.
The Serralves Collection is a collection of reference that offers a uniquely international context in which to understand contemporary art in Portugal. The Serralves Collection is comprised of works acquired by the Serralves Foundation since its creation in 1989, together with long-term deposits from private and public collections. Deposits that have served as points of reference for the development of the collection include the Collection of the Portuguese Secretariat of State for Culture and the Collection of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD). The focus of the Serralves Collection is contemporary art produced from the 1960s to the present day. The inaugural exhibition of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in 1999, ‘Circa 1968’, served to highlight the 1960s and 70s, a historic period of political, social and cultural change that took place around the world, as seminal decades out of which emerged new paradigms in art making and the beginning of the post-modern era. As part of a continued research and development of the Collection in the twenty-first century, the Serralves Collection aspires to further distinguish itself through its focus on contemporary art's relationship to performance, archi¬tecture and contemporaneity in relation to a post-colonial and globalized present. While resonating with the art and ideas of our recent past, the Collection aims to reflect on how the art of today also anti¬cipates its future.
"Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” is organized by Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Suzanne Cotter, Museum Director, with João Ribas, Senior Curator and Deputy Director and Ricardo Nicolau, Deputy to the Director and Curator.
The design of "Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” has been conceived by COR ARQUITECTOS (Roberto Cremascoli and Edison Okumura)
Artists in the exhibition: Grupo Acções Colectivas (Kollektivnye deistviya); Etel Adnan; Helena Almeida; Armando Alves; Manuel Alvess; Richard Artschwager; John Baldessari; Artur Barrio; Eduardo Batarda; Lothar Baumgarten; René Bertholo; Dara Birnbaum; Mel Bochner; Marcel Broodthaers; James Lee Byars; Fernando Calhau; Alberto Carneiro; Zulmiro de Carvalho; Manuel Casimiro; E. M. de Melo e Castro; Lourdes Castro; Guy de Cointet; Merce Cunningham; Marlene Dumas; José Escada; Hans-Peter Feldmann; António Quadros Ferreira; David Goldblatt; Dan Graham; Giorgio Griffa; Richard Hamilton; Ana Hatherly; Sanja Ivekovi?; Joan Jonas; Jannis Kounellis; Fernando Lanhas; Álvaro Lapa; João Machado; Dimitrije Basicevic Mangelos; Marwan Cildo Meireles; Ana Mendieta; Robert Morris; Antoni Muntadas; Bruce Nauman; Eduardo Nery; Silke Otto-Knapp; Nam June Paik; António Palolo; António Costa Pinheiro; Jorge Pinheiro; Vítor Pomar; Charlotte Posenenske; Yvonne Rainer; Paula Rego; Gerhard Richter; Arlindo Rocha, Joaquim Rodrigo; Artur Rosa; Martha Rosler; Dieter Roth; Ed Ruscha; Julião Sarmento; António Sena; Nikias Skapinakis; Robert Smithson; Ângelo de Sousa; Salette Tavares; Ana Vieira; Pires Vieira; Franz Erhard Walther; Hannah Wilke; Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
- LocationSerralves Museum
- Schedule15h30 - 16h30
- Days2017-09-02
- Schedule17h00 - 18h00
- Days2017-09-02
Guided visit in Portuguese Sign Language to the exhibition, by Sónia Borges, Educator."Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” marks the visible and permanent presence of the Serralves Collection in the Serralves Museum as part of a d...
GUIDED VISIT TO "SERRALVES COLLECTION: 1960-1980"
2017-08-27

Guided visit in Portuguese Sign Language to the exhibition, by Sónia Borges, Educator.
"Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” marks the visible and permanent presence of the Serralves Collection in the Serralves Museum as part of a dynamic programme of changing displays. The inaugural display presents works by Portuguese and international artists. This narrative presentation surveys the art produced in the decades considered foundational to the history and development of contemporary art and the place of Portuguese art in that history. As well as iconic art works made between 1960 and 1980, the new displays also include a selection of more contemporary pieces that highlight the continued relevance of these earlier artistic positions and attitudes. The works on view reflect a diversity of artistic production from the 1960s to the present day, while highlighting the unique characteristics of the Serralves Collection, distinguished for its relation of Portuguese and international art from around the globe. With a visually dynamic and rich presentation of paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, films and videos, the Collection display surveys various themes central to the artistic practice of the post-art period and influential on the artistic practices of the 21st century, including: materials and process, abstraction and figuration, language and concept, and the body and performativity. The decades surveyed in the exhibition are marked by profound social and cultural changes as well as radical developments in art making. The art of this period reflects a redefinition of artistic forms, media and production, influenced by profound transformations in technology.
The Serralves Collection is a collection of reference that offers a uniquely international context in which to understand contemporary art in Portugal. The Serralves Collection is comprised of works acquired by the Serralves Foundation since its creation in 1989, together with long-term deposits from private and public collections. Deposits that have served as points of reference for the development of the collection include the Collection of the Portuguese Secretariat of State for Culture and the Collection of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD). The focus of the Serralves Collection is contemporary art produced from the 1960s to the present day. The inaugural exhibition of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in 1999, ‘Circa 1968’, served to highlight the 1960s and 70s, a historic period of political, social and cultural change that took place around the world, as seminal decades out of which emerged new paradigms in art making and the beginning of the post-modern era. As part of a continued research and development of the Collection in the twenty-first century, the Serralves Collection aspires to further distinguish itself through its focus on contemporary art's relationship to performance, archi¬tecture and contemporaneity in relation to a post-colonial and globalized present. While resonating with the art and ideas of our recent past, the Collection aims to reflect on how the art of today also anti¬cipates its future.
"Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” is organized by Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Suzanne Cotter, Museum Director, with João Ribas, Senior Curator and Deputy Director and Ricardo Nicolau, Deputy to the Director and Curator.
The design of "Serralves Collection: 1960-1980” has been conceived by COR ARQUITECTOS (Roberto Cremascoli and Edison Okumura)
Artists in the exhibition: Grupo Acções Colectivas (Kollektivnye deistviya); Etel Adnan; Helena Almeida; Armando Alves; Manuel Alvess; Richard Artschwager; John Baldessari; Artur Barrio; Eduardo Batarda; Lothar Baumgarten; René Bertholo; Dara Birnbaum; Mel Bochner; Marcel Broodthaers; James Lee Byars; Fernando Calhau; Alberto Carneiro; Zulmiro de Carvalho; Manuel Casimiro; E. M. de Melo e Castro; Lourdes Castro; Guy de Cointet; Merce Cunningham; Marlene Dumas; José Escada; Hans-Peter Feldmann; António Quadros Ferreira; David Goldblatt; Dan Graham; Giorgio Griffa; Richard Hamilton; Ana Hatherly; Sanja Ivekovi?; Joan Jonas; Jannis Kounellis; Fernando Lanhas; Álvaro Lapa; João Machado; Dimitrije Basicevic Mangelos; Marwan Cildo Meireles; Ana Mendieta; Robert Morris; Antoni Muntadas; Bruce Nauman; Eduardo Nery; Silke Otto-Knapp; Nam June Paik; António Palolo; António Costa Pinheiro; Jorge Pinheiro; Vítor Pomar; Charlotte Posenenske; Yvonne Rainer; Paula Rego; Gerhard Richter; Arlindo Rocha, Joaquim Rodrigo; Artur Rosa; Martha Rosler; Dieter Roth; Ed Ruscha; Julião Sarmento; António Sena; Nikias Skapinakis; Robert Smithson; Ângelo de Sousa; Salette Tavares; Ana Vieira; Pires Vieira; Franz Erhard Walther; Hannah Wilke; Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
- LocationSerralves Museum
- Schedule12h00 - 13h00
- Days2017-08-27
Guided tour (portuguese) to the exhibition "PHOTOSTRUCTURALISM: THE COMPOSITION OF THE PAGE AS A CONCEPT" with Rita Faustino, educator.The exhibition "PHOTOstructuralism" will introduce visitors to a wide range of conceptual appro...
GUIDED TOUR TO THE EXHIBITION: "PHOTOSTRUCTURALISM: THE COMPOSITION OF THE PAGE AS A CONCEPT"
2017-07-30
Guided tour (portuguese) to the exhibition "PHOTOSTRUCTURALISM: THE COMPOSITION OF THE PAGE AS A CONCEPT" with Rita Faustino, educator.
The exhibition "PHOTOstructuralism" will introduce visitors to a wide range of conceptual approaches associated to the use of photographs as formal elements in artists’ publications and books. The exhibition will be grouped around Georg Herold’s work, "Das Tafelwerk" (1992) - an important and impressive edition that is an integral part of Serralves Library’s collection of artists’ publications and books. This key work consists of 597 polaroids, distributed across 28 panels that refer to the banality of day-to-day life and the immaterial meaning of works of art.
The exhibition, organized by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, is curated by Guy Schraenen, consultant to Serralves Library.
- LocationSerralves Library
- Schedule12h00 - 13h00
- Days2017-07-30
- Schedule12h00 - 13h00
- Days2017-07-23
With Pedro Bismarck, architect.Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is one of the most influential artists of the 1970s, whose work has continued to be a noted influence of both architects and visual artists since. SPLITTING, CUTTING, W...
GUIDED VISIT "SPLITTING, CUTTING, WRITING, DRAWING, EATING… GORDON MATTA-CLARK"
2017-06-29

With Pedro Bismarck, architect.
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is one of the most influential artists of the 1970s, whose work has continued to be a noted influence of both architects and visual artists since. SPLITTING, CUTTING, WRITING, DRAWING, EATING…GORDON MATTA-CLARK surveys the constructive and destructive verbs that defined his relation to art and architecture, featuring correspondence, drawings, photographs, notebooks, and films related to the artist's key projects, drawn from the archive of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. Along with his major building cuts from 1973 to 1978, in which laboriously cut holes into floors of abandoned or disused buildings, including A W-Hole House, Conical Intersect, Day’s End, and Splitting (1974), the exhibition also explores his interest in metabolic and cooking processes, including his restaurant Food (1971); his play with language and the syntax of voids, gaps, and abandoned spaces; and the use of drawing as a mode of thinking through space.The exhibition will focus on these social and creative aspects of Matta-Clark´s conception of architecture, or as he put it, "making space without building it,". In addition to archive materials and important works by the artist, the exhibition will also present a selection of works by other artists, including Ed Rusha, Dan Graham, Alvin Baltrop, and Emily Roysdon, that set the context for Matta Clark’s literal and metaphorical gestures, produced in sites of urban reconstruction, abandonment, or renewal, or in economically deprived or marginal contexts.
- LocationSerralves Museum
- Schedule18h30 - 19h30
- Days2017-06-29
- Schedule12h00 - 13h00
- Days2017-06-11
Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators.The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, owned by the ...
GUIDED VISIT "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS”
2017-05-27

Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators.
The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, owned by the Portuguese State. This important exhibition is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, a leading world expert in Miró's work. Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira will be responsible for the exhibition’s architectural design. The exhibition covers a six-decade period in Joan Mirós's career - from 1924 to 1981. It focuses in particular on the transformation of pictorial languages that the Catalan artist first developed in the mid-1920s. The exhibition considers his artistic metamorphoses across the mediums of drawing, painting, collage and work in tapestry. Miró’s visual thinking and the ways in which he negotiates between optical and tactile modes of sensation is examined in detail, as are the artist’s working processes. The exhibition comprises around 80 works by Joan Miró from the collection of 85 works, most of which have never previously been seen by the general public, including six of his paintings on masonite produced in 1936 and six "sobreteixims" (tapestries) of 1973. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with a lead essay by the curator. Suzanne Cotter, Director of Serralves Museum, stated about the exhibition: "We are delighted to be able to contribute to a greater awareness and appreciation of the work of Joan Miró through what will be an authoritative and unique presentation of this singular collection”. The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is organised by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, with architectural design by Álvaro Siza Vieira.
- Schedule16h30 - 17h30
- Days2017-05-27
- Schedule17h00 - 18h00
- Days2017-05-27
Guided visit to the exhibition "Álvaro Siza Vieira: Visions of Alhambra" (portuguese) by António Choupina, exhibition's curated.Álvaro Siza Vieira is perhaps the most poetic and rigorous master of contemporary architecture....
GUIDED-VISIT: "ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA: VISIONS OF ALHAMBRA"
2017-05-25

Guided visit to the exhibition " Álvaro Siza Vieira: Visions of Alhambra" (portuguese) by António Choupina, exhibition's curated.
Álvaro Siza Vieira is perhaps the most poetic and rigorous master of contemporary architecture. His imagination was first captivated by the Alhambra in the 1940s, during family travels, that engendered his seminal introductions to architecture. His visits to Granada later multiplied, and in 1984, when it was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Siza also rose to international recognition and started winning numerous awards. In 2011, Álvaro Siza and Juan Domingo Santos won the "Alhambra Atrium" International Ideas Contest, with their project that proposed a "New Gate" for the 21st century, which symbolises, in continuity, all the entrances to this acropolis, of timeless modernity. Inspired by Siza’s hallmark distillation of memory and topography, the project proposes an embryonic structure that combines nature, and the past and present, offering equal zones of shade, water and vegetation. Merging with the surrounding landscape, the project emphasises, via its public square and panoramic platform, the contemplative aspect of Islamic culture. It can cater to distribution of the Alhambra’s 8,500 visitors per day. The harmonious management of multiple interventions is undoubtedly the most perennial synthesis of the Alhambra complex, a linguistic codex that this exhibition highlights from the viewpoint of the genius of Álvaro Siza - unifying spaces, geometries, cultures and times. Organized by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art , the exhibition "Álvaro Siza Vieira: Visions of the Alhambra" is curated by the architect António Choupina
- LocationSerralves Library
- Schedule18h30 - 19h30
- Days2017-05-25
- Schedule15h00 - 18h30
- Days2017-05-25
Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators, in spanish.The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, o...
GUIDED VISIT "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS”
2017-05-21

Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators, in spanish.
The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, owned by the Portuguese State. This important exhibition is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, a leading world expert in Miró's work. Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira will be responsible for the exhibition’s architectural design. The exhibition covers a six-decade period in Joan Mirós's career - from 1924 to 1981. It focuses in particular on the transformation of pictorial languages that the Catalan artist first developed in the mid-1920s. The exhibition considers his artistic metamorphoses across the mediums of drawing, painting, collage and work in tapestry. Miró’s visual thinking and the ways in which he negotiates between optical and tactile modes of sensation is examined in detail, as are the artist’s working processes. The exhibition comprises around 80 works by Joan Miró from the collection of 85 works, most of which have never previously been seen by the general public, including six of his paintings on masonite produced in 1936 and six "sobreteixims" (tapestries) of 1973. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with a lead essay by the curator. Suzanne Cotter, Director of Serralves Museum, stated about the exhibition: "We are delighted to be able to contribute to a greater awareness and appreciation of the work of Joan Miró through what will be an authoritative and unique presentation of this singular collection”. The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is organised by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, with architectural design by Álvaro Siza Vieira.
- Schedule11h30 - 12h30
- Days2017-05-21
- Schedule12h00 - 13h00
- Days2017-05-21
Guided visit to the exhibition "Álvaro Siza Vieira: Visions of Alhambra" (portuguese) by João Almeida e Silva, educator.Álvaro Siza Vieira is perhaps the most poetic and rigorous master of contemporary architecture. His imagina...
GUIDED-VISIT: "ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA: VISIONS OF ALHAMBRA"
2017-05-14

Guided visit to the exhibition " Álvaro Siza Vieira: Visions of Alhambra" (portuguese) by João Almeida e Silva, educator.
Álvaro Siza Vieira is perhaps the most poetic and rigorous master of contemporary architecture. His imagination was first captivated by the Alhambra in the 1940s, during family travels, that engendered his seminal introductions to architecture. His visits to Granada later multiplied, and in 1984, when it was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Siza also rose to international recognition and started winning numerous awards. In 2011, Álvaro Siza and Juan Domingo Santos won the "Alhambra Atrium" International Ideas Contest, with their project that proposed a "New Gate" for the 21st century, which symbolises, in continuity, all the entrances to this acropolis, of timeless modernity. Inspired by Siza’s hallmark distillation of memory and topography, the project proposes an embryonic structure that combines nature, and the past and present, offering equal zones of shade, water and vegetation. Merging with the surrounding landscape, the project emphasises, via its public square and panoramic platform, the contemplative aspect of Islamic culture. It can cater to distribution of the Alhambra’s 8,500 visitors per day. The harmonious management of multiple interventions is undoubtedly the most perennial synthesis of the Alhambra complex, a linguistic codex that this exhibition highlights from the viewpoint of the genius of Álvaro Siza - unifying spaces, geometries, cultures and times. Organized by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art , the exhibition "Álvaro Siza Vieira: Visions of the Alhambra" is curated by the architect António Choupina
- LocationSerralves Library
- Schedule12h00 - 13h00
- Days2017-05-14
Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators, in english.The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, o...
GUIDED VISIT "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS”
2017-05-14

Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators, in english.
The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, owned by the Portuguese State. This important exhibition is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, a leading world expert in Miró's work. Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira will be responsible for the exhibition’s architectural design. The exhibition covers a six-decade period in Joan Mirós's career - from 1924 to 1981. It focuses in particular on the transformation of pictorial languages that the Catalan artist first developed in the mid-1920s. The exhibition considers his artistic metamorphoses across the mediums of drawing, painting, collage and work in tapestry. Miró’s visual thinking and the ways in which he negotiates between optical and tactile modes of sensation is examined in detail, as are the artist’s working processes. The exhibition comprises around 80 works by Joan Miró from the collection of 85 works, most of which have never previously been seen by the general public, including six of his paintings on masonite produced in 1936 and six "sobreteixims" (tapestries) of 1973. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with a lead essay by the curator. Suzanne Cotter, Director of Serralves Museum, stated about the exhibition: "We are delighted to be able to contribute to a greater awareness and appreciation of the work of Joan Miró through what will be an authoritative and unique presentation of this singular collection”. The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is organised by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, with architectural design by Álvaro Siza Vieira.
- Schedule11h30 - 12h30
- Days2017-05-14
Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators.The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, owned by the ...
GUIDED VISIT "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS”
2017-05-13

Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators.
The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, owned by the Portuguese State. This important exhibition is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, a leading world expert in Miró's work. Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira will be responsible for the exhibition’s architectural design. The exhibition covers a six-decade period in Joan Mirós's career - from 1924 to 1981. It focuses in particular on the transformation of pictorial languages that the Catalan artist first developed in the mid-1920s. The exhibition considers his artistic metamorphoses across the mediums of drawing, painting, collage and work in tapestry. Miró’s visual thinking and the ways in which he negotiates between optical and tactile modes of sensation is examined in detail, as are the artist’s working processes. The exhibition comprises around 80 works by Joan Miró from the collection of 85 works, most of which have never previously been seen by the general public, including six of his paintings on masonite produced in 1936 and six "sobreteixims" (tapestries) of 1973. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with a lead essay by the curator. Suzanne Cotter, Director of Serralves Museum, stated about the exhibition: "We are delighted to be able to contribute to a greater awareness and appreciation of the work of Joan Miró through what will be an authoritative and unique presentation of this singular collection”. The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is organised by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, with architectural design by Álvaro Siza Vieira.
- Schedule16h30 - 17h30
- Days2017-05-13
Encounter MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY ART: FUGUE AND RITORNELLO in the exhibition "PHILIPPE PARRENO: A TIME COLOURED SPACE" with Fernando Miguel Jalôto, harpsichord player and researcher of ancient music.The Serralves Museum of Contem...
MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY ART: "PHILIPPE PARRENO: A TIME COLOURED SPACE"
2017-05-06

Encounter MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY ART: FUGUE AND RITORNELLO in the exhibition "PHILIPPE PARRENO: A TIME COLOURED SPACE" with Fernando Miguel Jalôto, harpsichord player and researcher of ancient music.
The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presents a large-scale exhibition by the French artist, Philippe Parreno (Oran, Algeria, 1964). The first exhibition of the artist’s work in Portugal will occupy the entire Museum and is designed in dialogue with the architecture of Álvaro Siza, in continuation of the exhibition programme featuring works by internationally acclaimed artists that explore the unique context of Serralves. Parreno has enjoyed a special relationship with Porto since he directed his film, "C.H.Z" (Continuously Habitable Zones) in the city, for which he created an extra-terrestrial landscape in the grounds of a private estate near Famalicão, north of Porto.
This large-scale exhibition, which can be seen as a mapping of Parreno's work since the 1990s, is structured around the ideas of series and repetition. Among the works included in the exhibition are installations of his "Speech Bubbles" (1997 to date), helium-filled balloons inspired by Andy Warhol's "Silver Clouds" (1966) in the form of cartoons that float near the ceiling; Fraught Times: For Eleven Months of the Year it´s an Artwork and then December it´s Christmas (2008), a series of 11 sculptures shaped like Christmas trees covered with snow, evoking the work of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca; and more than 180 of Parreno’s extraordinary ink drawings that make up the Fireflies series, created over a 4-year period. The installation, Quasi Objects: Marquee (cluster), which was recently added to the Serralves Collection, in which a piano composition animates a monumental marquee, surrounded by a series of floating fish, serves as the master puppeteer of the exhibition’s three core dimensions: sound, space and time.
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- LocationSerralves Museum
- Schedule17h00 - 18h00
- Days2017-05-06
Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators.The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, owned by the ...
GUIDED VISIT "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS
2017-04-29

Guided visit to the exhibition "JOAN MIRÓ: MATERIALITY AND METAMORPHOSIS” with the Museum Educators.
The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 84 works by Miró, owned by the Portuguese State. This important exhibition is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, a leading world expert in Miró's work. Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira will be responsible for the exhibition’s architectural design. The exhibition covers a six-decade period in Joan Mirós's career - from 1924 to 1981. It focuses in particular on the transformation of pictorial languages that the Catalan artist first developed in the mid-1920s. The exhibition considers his artistic metamorphoses across the mediums of drawing, painting, collage and work in tapestry. Miró’s visual thinking and the ways in which he negotiates between optical and tactile modes of sensation is examined in detail, as are the artist’s working processes. The exhibition comprises around 80 works by Joan Miró from the collection of 85 works, most of which have never previously been seen by the general public, including six of his paintings on masonite produced in 1936 and six "sobreteixims" (tapestries) of 1973. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with a lead essay by the curator. Suzanne Cotter, Director of Serralves Museum, stated about the exhibition: "We are delighted to be able to contribute to a greater awareness and appreciation of the work of Joan Miró through what will be an authoritative and unique presentation of this singular collection”. The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is organised by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, with architectural design by Álvaro Siza Vieira.
- Schedule16h30 - 17h30
- Days2017-04-29
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