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Museum closes to the public

The new MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology Museum) building will be temporarily closed and will reopen on 27 March.

"FORM AND LIGHT" EXHIBITION AT HOUSE OF ARCHITECTURE

This exhibition stems from a partnership between EDP Foundation and the Embassy of Israel in Portugal on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus school, and was first shown at MAAT – Central Tejo between 12 July and 2 September 2019.

Melancolia Programada by Gabriel Abrantes

Abrantes’ new paintings are populated by enigmatic and ambiguous characters, both cute and grotesque, hovering on a blue background resembling a deserted and gloomy landscape, evocative of a metaphysical space-time that transcends the physical materiality of the canvas.

Von Calhau! Nailed Rathorics

Unharias Ratóricas [Nailed Rathorics] is a Von Calhau! exhibition. Unharias is a valise-word that unites Unhas [nails in Portuguese] and Ninharias [knick-knacks]. Unhas [nails] are structures composed by keratin, that can be found on the fingertips of some animals. Ninharias [knick-knacks] are small or insignificant things. Rhatorics is the plural of Rhatoric. Rhatoric is a possible ersatz [substitute] for rhetoric, in which the E of Elusion is replaced by the A of Allusion. Alludes to the image of an animal that also has nails: the Rat.

PRIVATE TOUR: THE WORKSPACES USED BY 14 VISUAL ARTISTS

Private Tour: studios and artists is a project created by Dalila Pinto de Almeida (text) and Manuel Falcão (photography).

Playmode

The exhibition Playmode offers a reflection on these aspects and on the era of ludification that contemporary societies are now experiencing,

ELECTRA 7: ANIMALS, NOTRE-DAME, HISHAM MAYET, THE MARQUISE LUISA CASATI AND MAGALI REUS

What is the meaning of the emergence of animal protection, and even their liberation, as one of the great causes of these first decades of the 21st century?