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On Drawing Places
More than fifty artists from the 1950s to today use drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and video to build places between reality and imagination.
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Preview: written before the show opened
The lead image is René Bertholo's Álamo, from 1980: two tiled courtyards stacked one above the other, posts strung with pale ribbon, a green letter A on a pedestal, a bentwood chair holding a hat and a book. A place that only exists on paper, which is this show's subject.
More than fifty artists from the 1950s to now, all from CAM's own collection, fill the Nave and Mezzanine with painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, photography and video, each marking out, building or mapping a place. The names run from Almada Negreiros and Vieira da Silva to Rachel Whiteread. Anyone who has toured a Lisbon flat that looked twice the size on Idealista already knows about places between reality and imagination.
Entry is €6 (€10 with the collection), free on Sundays from 14:00 and for under-18s. CAM is open until 21:00 on Saturdays and closed Tuesdays. You can walk it with the two curators on 6 February 2027 at 16:00, free, with tickets collected on the day.
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More than fifty artists, from the 1950s to today, use drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and video to make places that sit somewhere between the real and the imagined.
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René Bertholo's Álamo (1980)
Look for the show's lead image: two stacked tiled courtyards, posts strung with ribbon, a green letter A on a pedestal and a chair holding a hat and a book.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Evening Visits
With kids
Under-18s get in free. On 5 December 2026 and 20 March 2027, "Places in motion" is a 90-minute family tour for ages 6 to 10 that reads the works through movement and dance, in Portuguese.
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Image credits
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- On Drawing PlacesCourtesy of Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM)
- Amelie von Wulffen: Panic RealismPhoto: Frank Sperling / Culturgest
- Sei Miguel: Original CopyCulturgest
- Arpad Szenes: Collection Highlights (Third Exhibition Cycle 2026)Courtesy of Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva
- Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM)GualdimG / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Founder's Collection)Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- CulturgestGualdimG / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da SilvaJnpoJuwan / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Casa-Museu Medeiros e AlmeidaRedpill 87 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0