The Imaginary Collection

Vorschau: geschrieben vor der Eröffnung

Teresa Segurado Pavão works in white clay and in fragments other people hand her: shards of porcelain, bones, buttons, piano keys. Her cabinet 'Archive' (2025-26) packs ceramic, amber, mirror, raffia, silk and gold thread into one piece of furniture. If your avó keeps a tin of odd buttons, this is that tin promoted to the Gulbenkian.

There's no separate gallery. From 21 November her pieces are placed along the museum's usual route, among Calouste Gulbenkian's own objects and out in the two interior gardens. Most are ceramics, some made for this show, with tapestries alongside, because ceramics and textiles are two of the collection's strongest areas. You walk past the founder's porcelain and find her answer to it a few steps on.

The museum describes the work as restrained and plain in form, so it rewards slow looking more than a highlights dash. It's included in the €16 Museum ticket (€18 All Inclusive with the CAM). Closed Tuesdays.