April at Galerias Municipais

Factum: Eduardo Gageiro

Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional
Until May 5th, Tuesday to Sunday

Factum features a broad selection of around 170 photographs by Eduardo Gageiro, one of the most renowned Portuguese photographers who has produced a critical testimony of the events, lifestyles, and diverse personalities of our country’s recent history. This exhibition prompted meticulous new digitisations, image processing, enlargements and prints of all the selected photographs from their original negatives. Highlights include some of the most

important images of the events of 25 April 1974, as well as other series of works that show the country in the face of the various political, social, and cultural changes from the 1950s to 2023: factory work, rural labour, civil construction, emigration, the police repression of the Estado Novo regime, popular demonstrations, revolution, religion, behind the scenes in politics, and various well-known figures, among others. The most recent photograph was taken at the demonstration of 25 April 2023 in Lisbon.

Luisa Cunha – a work in six parts

Galerias Municipais de Lisboa and Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar
April 19 to May 5, Tuesday to Sunday

A sound piece created by Luísa Cunha and placed at the entrances to Pavilhão Branco, Galeria Quadrum, Galeria Avenida da Índia, Galeria Boavista, Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional and Atelier-Museum Júlio Pomar. This work, which can only be fully heard and experienced once all the spaces have been visited, encourages us to reflect on current artistic practices, challenging the usual contemporary ways of being and seeing.

A garden of carnations

Quadrum Gallery Garden

Where there was once a vertical garden, the Municipal Galleries are organising the planting of red carnations to bloom on 25 April.