Artists

Group exhibition

Press release

Established in 2000, the EDP Foundation Collection is now one of the most extensive and diverse institutional collections of contemporary art in Portugal. Recognised as an important repository for understanding the artistic trends and transformations that have marked the last few decades in the country, the collection comprises around 2,500 works by more than 340 artists, including figures who stood out in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as more recent generations, particularly artists born after the 1974 Revolution. The collection highlights the diversity of languages, conceptual stances, and aesthetic orientations that characterise the contemporary landscape of artistic practices in Portugal. The exhibition at MAAT Central will take place in two stages. The first will open to the public on 11 February; the second will open on 29 April. Together, they constitute one of the most extensive public presentations – around 100 works – of the EDP Foundation Art Collection to date. Conceived as a single exhibition, which will remain open until early 2027, the show is not organised according to thematic or chronological criteria, nor by artist groups; rather the selection and assembly of the works were conceived in dialogue with the spatial and architectural characteristics of the two galleries, exploring aesthetic and conceptual affinities and tensions between artists of different generations, genres, and artistic disciplines. Part 1: Gabriel Abrantes, Luisa Cunha, Ana Jotta, Joana Vasconcelos, José Pedro Croft, João Pedro Vale + Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, João Paulo Feliciano, among others. Part 2: Jorge Molder, Rui Sanches, Paulo Nozolino, Fernanda Fragateiro, Inês Botelho, Francisco Tropa, Ana Hatherly, Helena Almeida, among others.