Exhibitions

This exhibition offers two different approaches to the cinema of Manoel de Oliveira. An interactive videowall proposes a journey through the director’s oeuvre. Organised using a chronology that itself represents how his oeuvre evolved over more than eight decades, different sets of documentation are presented in relation to each of Oliveira’s films. Film sequences, photographs, texts, scripts, correspondence, preparatory drawings and a wide selection of other documents help us interpret and contextualise some of the key issues, creative processes and thematic and formal options that mark the singularity of his oeuvre.

A second section, consisting of five simultaneous and synchronised projections, explores possibilities of presentation of cinematographic materials in an exhibition context. Spatialisation of the images fosters confrontation between different shots and sequences that, as an exercise of analysis and recomposition, aims to explore approximations and resonances between different moments within the same film, thereby rendering explicit some of the formal peculiarities of Manoel de Oliveira’s oeuvre.

This permanent exhibition also aims to be a dynamic exhibition. In addition to functioning as a repository of the activities developed by the Casa do Cinema in relation to Manoel de Oliveira’s oeuvre, it will be permanently renovated and reconfigured, thereby offering multiple perspectives of the director's cinema.  

The set of works by Paula Rego held in the Serralves Collection, produced between 1975 and 2004, will be the starting point for a monographic exhibition entitled "Paula Rego. The Cry of Imagination.”

This exhibition will bring the artist back to Serralves after the major exhibition organised by the Museum in 2004. The new exhibition will be presented in Serralves Villa and includes representative works from various periods of the artist's oeuvre, that has defined a new paradigm in Portuguese contemporary painting.

"Paula Rego. The Cry of Imagination” also includes two series of prints, "Pendle Witches” (1996) and "Shakespeare's ”(2006) from the Paula Rego House of Stories’ collection, which reinforce the background to this exhibition, which focuses on the ability of art, in particular through its figurative aspect, to reveal universes in which surprise and amazement are anchored in the most basic and fundamental yearnings of contemporary society, are related to the role of women in this context and, finally, explore the ability of art to question day-to-day life.