New acquisitions in the CAM Collection
Four new artists and 62 works are part of the CAM Collection.
One of the priorities of CAM’s Acquisitions Policy is the incorporation of works by artists related to the artistic programme, supporting the production of new pieces and their subsequent acquisition. This was the case with Gabriel Abrantes’ video installation ‘Bardo Loops’, or the sculpture stemming from the performance ‘Sempre viva, cobra de água’ [Always alive, water snake], by Jota Mombaça, which took place during CAM’s opening.
Leonor Antunes’s inaugural exhibition also led to the purchase of the suspended installation ‘Ana #1’ and ‘Ana #2′, based on drawings by Ana Hatherly. Rui Chafes’s sculpture,’ Tu nem sequer me vês’ [You don’t even see me], was incorporated following the exhibition ‘Rui Chafes and Alberto Giacometti. Gris, Vide, Cris’.
The Acquisitions Committee composed by Afonso Dias Ramos, Filipa Oliveira, João Sousa Cardoso, Marta Mestre and Paula Nascimento also approved the purchase of two works by Cecília Costa, three drawings by José de Almada Negreiros, and the donation of two paintings by Fernando Lemos.
Several of the new acquisitions are currently presented at CAM, such as Manuel Botelho’s series of photographs in the exhibition ‘Tide Line. CAM Collection’, or the textile piece by Isabel Carvalho selected by Leonor Antunes for the exhibition ‘the constant inequality of leonor’s days*’.
Another priority is the acquisition of works by Portuguese artists, artists living in Portugal or in Portuguese-speaking countries. In this sense, five works by the artist Angolan Yonamine have been acquired and one installation by the Brazilian Irene Buarque.
The Acquisitions Policy also highlights the importance of following the career of younger artist. This is the case of Diogo Nogueira, who joined the Collection with the large-scale painting ‘Brincar com canoas e afogar cães’ [Play with canoes and drown dogs].
In 2024, the Collection received works by Sobral Centeno, Moita Macedo, Alexandre Estrela and José Pedro Croft, Teresa Magalhães, Ilda David and Graça Morais. Júlio Pomar’s neorealist ‘Varina comendo melancia’ [Varina eating watermelon], from 1949, is now represented in the Collection.
The CAM Collection currently has almost 12,000 works by more than 1,300 artists.
