All I Want: By artist

A new exhibition that celebrates Portuguese women artists from 1900 to 2020

Online Exhibit

Meet 7 Influential Portuguese Women

Meet some of the many women who have shaped, and continue to shape, Portugal's artistic heritage

A master of self-portraits

An artist who painted her first self portrait at 16

Aurélia de Sousa: Expressive Naturalism

The experience of being a woman at the turn of the 20th century are key to understanding her work

Her Most Famous Artwork

Get a closer look at de Sousa's intense gaze

4 artists you should know

Portuguese art from across the generations

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva's Unceasing Dialogue with Portugal

A prominent figure within the School of Paris

The Surrealist Sculptures of Susanne Themlitz

Combining mediums to create a personal microcosm

Rosa Ramalho's Playful Pottery

The most renowned creator of Figurado de Barcelos

Breaking Down Boundaries with Luisa Cunha

Explore her attentiveness to what is around us

One topic, different perspectives

The subject of asbence examined by artists a century apart

Rosa Carvalho on Representation

The artist on how women and the female body have been represented in art history

Armanda Duarte's Spatial Poetics

Observation and analysis of space to search for the essence

An obsessive collector

Explore the work of this celebrated collage artist

Ana Vidigal: Lost and Found

Objects with a history the artist knows, but never reveals

Artists on femininity

Mily Possoz's Strong Sensual Colors

A prolific painter and renowned engraver

Maria Antónia Siza: Unknown for Half a Century

The tragical brief life of Siza was marked by beauty, humor, depression, and anguish

Ofélia Marques and the Portuguese Modernist Movement

A self-taught visual artist born in the early 20th century

Patrícia Garrido's Voluptuous Models

An artist with a discreet presence in the national art scene

Maria José Aguiar in Contemporary Portuguese Production

Experimentalism, freedom and irreverence

Wearing the canvas

Helena Almeida: Deconstructing the Two-Dimensional

A discussion about the body in the space

The daily routine

How does daily life impact women?

The Opposites of Joana Vasconcelos

Her work plays with stereotypes and clichés

Sónia Almeida Examines Painting as Language

Intense, vibrant colours, applied in saturated smears and layers

Patrícia Almeida: Contemporary Reality

Her photography emerged from her interest in romantic literature, pop-rock music and urban counter-cultures

The theater of the body

The female body and how women contradict the male domination of it

The Self-Taught Artistry of Menez

One of the most cited artists in visual arts and literature

Paula Rego's Portrayals of Classic Literature

The artist is both character and narrator of the stories behind her paintings

The gaze and the mirror

Artists who recognise and invent themselves in the act of looking

Sarah Afonso's Intimate Portraits

Sarah is considered a "new case" of modernist painting by some art critics

Maria José Oliveira and Dual Concern

Her work is sustained by the double attention to the body and nature

An artist in cultural exile

The abstract artist from Madeira

Lourdes Castro's Penchant for Letters

Meet one of the founders of the magazine KWY

The word

These artists create visual dimensions with letters and words

Salette Tavares: Spanning Genres

Playful and poetic visuals that defy and subvert the rules of language

Ana Hatherly: A Painter Who Drifts Towards Literature

Tapping into puns, repetition, codes, mazes and copy

Inês Botelho: Eminently Sculptural

Results that are as precise as they are impossible

The writing space

Deep dive into the literary production of great Portuguese artists

Isabel Carvalho Explores Language As a Cultural Construction

Breaking down boundaries between high and popular culture

Joana Rosa: Form Over Content

She bases her work on doodles or scribbles

Construction

The politics and social aspect of design and architecture in Portuguese artists

Fernanda Fragateiro: Works That Spark Performative Action

Crossing sculpture, installation and architecture

Ângela Ferreira's Sculptural Revisiting of the Recent Past

The artist's own life story is woven into her work

Le vivant

Summoning living elements to the interior of the room

Gabriela Albergaria's Cosmovision

Pushing back against the finiteness of natural resources

Maria Capelo: Rekindling, Not Reproducing

Depicting landscapes in an ancient and universal tradition

The house

A place to hide our ghosts and weave complex relationships

Ana Vieira's Scenography

Works where the public find themselves expecting a scene that never happens

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The political

Voices rise up in unison

Carla Filipe Examines Cross-Cutting Issues

Her work draws upon the vital energy of the streets

Graça Morais: Steeped in the Rural Mythology of Trás-os-Montes

Her bucolic childhood fuelled a rich world of images

Collective memories

What is the woman's perspective?

Grada Kilomba on Telling Stories

Kilomba draws upon her roots in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe

Maria Lamas Portrays the Living Conditions of Working Portuguese Women

Her book can be considered one most important documents about the women in the country