Currently based in New York, composer Andreia Pinto Correia has seen her work performed by prestigious orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In this interview, she talks to us about Deste mund’outro, a commission from the Gulbenkian Foundation.
What can a construction yard in the Iraqi desert, on the banks of the Euphrates, tell us about Calouste Gulbenkian? Rediscovered in the storage rooms of the Gulbenkian Art Library, a photograph album from c. 1933, by an unknown photographer, documents the construction of the Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline. Calouste Gulbenkian held a 5% stake in the company.
How can we use art to explore ways of responding to climate change? At CERCIAV in Aveiro, people with disabilities participate in co-creation processes that bring together food, design, architecture and performance. A project supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative.
For the Amatis Trio, every concert is unique. Lea, Sam and Mengjie believe that music comes most fully alive when there is room for the unexpected: to listen, react and create in the moment. In this interview, they give us a preview of Humanity in War, the project they are about to present at the Grand Auditorium alongside Thomas Quasthoff.
Composer Carlos Caires, whose work encompasses pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestra, often incorporating electronic elements, talks to us about his new work "Celebration", which will have its world premiere in the Grand Auditorium.
It had 404 rooms, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and works by Maria Keil, Fred Kradolfer and Manuel Lapa. Through photographs by Estúdio Horácio Novais and publications from the photographer’s documentary archive, we revisit the Hotel Estoril-Sol, an icon of 1960s Portuguese architecture, from its opening in 1965 to its demolition in 2007.
The Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study has welcomed its first fellows. Throughout the 2026/27 academic year, they —and those who follow— will have just one task: to think and share their ideas.
In this video, the people behind cancer care in Cabo Verde explain how the country learned to diagnose and treat locally.
A regular presence at Jazz em Agosto in recent years, British pianist Pat Thomas returns to the festival this time with a solo piano performance based on his album Hikmah. In this brief interview, he offers a preview of the concert.
Curator Jule Kurbjeweit spoke with author and illustrator Catarina Sobral about 'Heroínas das Artes’ [Heroines of the Arts], a children’s book collection featuring Madalena Perdigão, Ana Hatherly, Paula Rego and Helena Vieira da Silva, and what turns a biography into a story.
Shardik brings to Jazz em Agosto the guitar of Matt Hollenberg, the violin of Sana Nagano, the bass of Nick Jost, and the drums of Danny Sher, presenting a bold and unconventional sonic landscape. In this interview, Matt Hollenberg offers a preview of what the audience can expect.
When we hear the word ecosystem, we often think of remote forests or vast oceans, but ecosystems can also be found in something as simple as an urban garden. Maria Amélia Martins-Loução, President of SPECO (the Portuguese Ecological Society), explains how ecosystems function and how they can self-regulate.
Curator Jamil Parasol Osmar takes us on a journey through this essay, selecting works from the CAM Collection to tell a story. He doesn’t offer easy answers, but he does make us think about how fragile hope can be and how we can find new ways to renew it.
Between Tomar and Santarém, we visited two projects supported by JAM! (Young People + Arts = Change), an Artemrede initiative that equips young people with the tools, confidence and space within their own communities, with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
During the Summer Garden 2026, the seven episodes of “Novas Narrativas de Caça” will be screened at the CAM Studio as part of the Gulbenkian Summer Garden programme. Luís Almeida, the series’ creator and curator of the programme, talks about what it’s all about.
The photographs of Sebastião Salgado, combined with the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos and Philip Glass, have given rise to Amazônia, a production premiering at the Grande Auditório with the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
Now in his fifth consecutive year curating the Gulbenkian Summer Garden’s musical programme, Dino D’Santiago has come to a realisation strengthened with each edition: the real work of art lies not in the lineup or the stage, but in the audience. In this talk, he speaks about what he has learned about “curating encounters,” about the Atlantic crossing that reshaped his life, and about the new album set to arrive at the end of the year.
We revisit the exhibition held alongside the “II Exhibition of Plastic Arts” in 1961, which showed the stage reached in the development of the future Headquarters and Museum of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, then still in the early phases of design.
The project 'The World is Our House' grew out of the exhibition 'Carlos Bunga. Inhabit the Contradiction' and involved young people aged 11 to 20 from the Zambujal neighborhood in Amadora.
Watch the launch event of a new initiative dedicated to research, analysis and strategic thinking on Armenian Diaspora and Armenia.
As part of the “Ideias a Atos” meeting, held last April, we spoke with Narcisa Costa (Gulbenkian Foundation) and Luís Sousa Ferreira (D. Maria II National Theatre), who oversee the ATOS programme, about its development since 2023 and the role of municipalities in fostering cultural practices more deeply rooted in local communities.
In this video, Bruno Zhu invites us to take a look around his home, the exhibition 'Belas Artes', while answering 46 intriguing questions.
Among the thousands of titles in Calouste Gulbenkian’s library is a collection of books and magazines devoted to fashion, which reveal the Collector’s interest in and attention to the trends of his time.
The Gulbenkian Scholar reflects on the impact of social inequality on young people’s futures, highlighting the importance of civic participation and access to education as drivers of social change.