New exhibitions for 2025

We present CAM’s new season of exhibitions, featuring works by Paula Rego, Adriana Varejão, Carlos Bunga and Zineb Sedira, an exhibition dedicated to British art and exhibitions by Julianknxx, Diana Policarpo, Francisca Rocha Gonçalves and Tristany Mundu.

In February, we present four new projects, all related to territory and history but also questioning humans’ relationship with all non-human life forms.

Diana Policarpo’s multimedia installation ‘Ciguatera’ ponders the origin of a human disease encountered on a remote island, generated by the consumption of fish that, in turn, consumed algae, itself probably contaminated by human activity. Like many artists, Diana Policarpo continues to engage in a creative dialogue with the scientific community.

Also informed by scientific methodology, Francisca Rocha Gonçalves created an installation for the Sound Room, resulting from her research into the impact of human-generated sound pollution on marine life.

Julianknxx travelled to major port cities in Europe to meet African diasporas and reveal common histories informed by uprooting and migration. ‘Chorus in Rememory of Flight’, his multi-channel video installation on display at CAM, is a celebratory testimony of these crossed paths and encounters.

With ‘City around the City’, Tristany Mundu portrays the outskirts of Lisbon, using the Lisbon-Sintra train line as a departure point.

In the Foundation’s main building, don’t miss ‘British Art. Convergences’, a survey of art made in the United Kingdom in the post-WWII years, through the lens of CAM’s extensive Collection of British Art, as well as that of the Coleção Berardo. It questions the notion of national art, and displays work made by numerous artists who elected to take refuge in the UK, enriching the local art scene with new perspectives.

April will see the opening of the exhibition ‘Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão: Between Your Teeth’, bringing together the work of the late Portuguese master and that of a celebrated Brazilian artist. It also reveals the strong affinities between the two artists, who have both explored themes related to the violence inherent to human relationships, especially regarding women in a patriarchal society, and to colonisation.

French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira is coming to CAM in September. In the Project Space, her exhibition ‘Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go’ is based on a reflection on the utopias of the 1960s, placing culture and resistance side by side. The title quotes a song performed by African-American gospel singer Marion Williams at the Pan-African Festival in Algiers in 1969, around which the project is centred.

‘Carlos Bunga. Inhabit the contradiction’ is the last exhibition of 2025. At the end of the year, the artist will occupy the Nave and the Mezzanine, where he will present one of his most complex and personal exhibitions to date, with the starting point being the  drawing, ‘A minha primeira casa era uma mulher’ [My first house was a woman], from 1975, which represents the artist’s mother: a pregnant figure with a house as her head and hands and feet rendered as both human and animal-like.