Catarina Câmara developed an artistic process in which movement becomes both a form of expression and a way of self-recognition. Dancing allows participants to explore emotions, build trust and challenge bodily patterns shaped by incarceration – a space where the body is, by definition, constrained.

Combining texts, reflections and an extensive collection of photographs by several photographers who followed the project, the book examines prison as a social microcosm, where care, humour and vulnerability emerge in unexpected ways.

corpoemcadeia is ultimately an essay on art as transformation, on the limits and potential of the body, and on how movement can open small cracks of freedom even within the most restrictive contexts.

With direct, uncompromising language, she rejects normative ideals of femininity and exposes the mechanisms that regulate women’s bodies in contemporary society. “I write from the land of the ugly, for the ugly,” she declares at the opening of the book, positioning herself firmly against dominant narratives of respectability and conformity.

Part essay, part autobiography, King Kong Theory remains a provocative reflection on the tensions between intimacy, politics and representation, and continues to spark debate nearly two decades after its publication.

Critical of what he saw as the excessive speed and abstraction of the French Revolution, Burke warns of the dangers of reshaping political order without regard for historical experience and the complexity of social bonds. For him, innovation is not synonymous with reform.

Recently reissued in the Gulbenkian Classics collection, this text remains a powerful reflection on tradition, progress and political responsibility.

Drawing on notes, fragments, early photographs and references gathered by Patrícia, Guéniot constructs a visual essay that begins with a haunting question: which photograph should be chosen for a funeral? From this impossible task – condensing a life into a single image – the book reflects on how photographs shape identity, preserve absence and summon memories that outlive their makers.

The book brings together unpublished essays, an introduction by curator Rui Mateus Amaral, and an extensive visual section documenting installations, performances and assembly processes produced between 2019 and 2025. It also includes DNA 2015–25, a set of keywords defined by the artist, which serve as entry points into the poetics of his work.

More than a portrait of nightlife, the book proposes a new vocabulary for thinking about the body, gender, desire and intimacy. For Wark, raving is a collective practice that makes life more bearable, if only temporarily, through shared immersion in sound, movement and a fleeting sense of “us”.

Recently presented in Portugal, this book is an intense read about what it means to dance – and exist – among the ruins.

In this book, Kuma returns to Tokyo to reflect, through 25 short texts, on his influences, Japanese culture and the ideas that shape his work in one of the world’s largest cities.

“When I design a building, in any city,” he writes, “I believe the world is a collection of villages rather than a group of nations.”

Educated in Lisbon and London, she belonged to the first generation of Portuguese designers with formal academic training, and was instrumental in the earliest design exhibitions in Portugal during the 1970s.

This book revisits more than five decades of her work, revealing a practice that moved between constructivism and postmodernism. It forms part of the Coleção D, published by Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, dedicated to Portuguese designers across disciplines and generations.

Based on decades of observation and documentation, the book presents each species throughout its annual cycle, with detailed descriptions and photographs that support identification and ecological understanding.

Part of the Gulbenkian Garden guide series, this publication invites readers to see the Garden as a living microcosm, a place of refuge for birds, insects and other species, and a space where visitors can encounter biodiversity at their own pace.

Researcher and writer Susana Neves takes twelve pieces from the Museum – from different periods, geographies and types – as a starting point for a journey across art, science and history. These readings are complemented by essays from curators and guest contributors, expanding the dialogue between the artworks and the natural world.

Natura Mirabilis combines photographs from the collection with landscapes, evoking the unique relationship between the Museum and the Gulbenkian Garden, and paying tribute to the Collector's ideals. The book invites us to reflect on how nature inspires artistic creation and how art, in turn, transforms our perception and relationship with our surroundings.

With sharp humour and a critical eye on media and social platforms, Lijtmaer analyses recent cases to reveal how appeals to freedom of expression can serve dominant interests rather than protect minority voices.

Brief but incisive, this essay maps the discursive traps of the present and challenges readers to recognise who truly threatens democratic debate.

The biannual magazine includes essays covering literature, cinema, architecture, theatre and contemporary culture; a section of unpublished works; literary criticism; and a series of photographs by Claudia Andujar, which explore the city and the Amazon rainforest, revealing a unique vision of the relationships between natural, urban and human landscapes.

Across its fifty-five poems, the book confronts fear, violence and uncertainty, while still searching for signs of endurance and hope. A landmark of Brazilian modernism, The People’s Rose remains strikingly relevant, a portrait of dark times and of what continues to resist them, despite everything.

One of the several works by Brazilian authors featuring on our shop for to the exhibition “Complexo Brasil.”

Bringing together some of his most significant essays, Wisnik revisits figures such as Villa-Lobos, Mário de Andrade, Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Chico Buarque, showing how sound becomes a way of thinking about the country.

Viagem do Recado is a sensitive and insightful map of the forces that have shaped Brazilian music, and of how it continues to imagine Brazil today.