iMuseu Calouste Gulbenkian (Founder's Collection)Avenidas Novas
The Imaginary Collection
Ceramics and textiles by Teresa Segurado Pavão placed among the Gulbenkian Collection and in the Museum's two interior gardens, pairing her work with the founder's objects.
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Preview: written before the show opened
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.
Editor's pick
Teresa Segurado Pavão's Archive is a cabinet of ceramic, metal and textile fragments. Her ceramics and textiles sit among Calouste Gulbenkian's own objects and in the museum's two interior gardens, a living maker answering a collector's choices.
Look for
'Archive'
Look for the cabinet of drawers and shelves holding ceramic, amber, bronze, mirror and threads of silk, linen and gold, made over 2025-26.
'Famille rose'
Named after a Chinese porcelain style, it pairs white clay with stone and iron, worked on in 2020, 2023 and 2026.
'Jades'
White glazed clay set with real jade and silver, from 2021.
'Ink bottle'
A small white clay bottle from 2000, finished with iron and gold.
Good for
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
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Image credits
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- The Imaginary CollectionTeresa Segurado Pavão (1957–), ‘Archive’ (detail), 2025-26. © Artist’s collection.
- Sara Sadik. KhtobtogoneCourtesy of Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM)
- Rosana Antolí. An Aria for the MallardCourtesy of Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM)
- Inês Zenha. Murky WatersCourtesy of Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM)
- Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Founder's Collection)Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM)GualdimG / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- CulturgestGualdimG / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da SilvaJnpoJuwan / Wikimedia Commons, CC0