MAAT - 2024 programme
MAAT - 2024 programme
© William Klein
The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology's programme for 2024 includes 14 exhibitions featuring important figures of the international contemporary visual arts scene, in addition to artists, periods and dynamics that have played a role in the history of art in Portugal.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s 25th April revolution, MAAT will showcase the Hoje soube-me a pouco exhibition, a group show that focusses on Portuguese artists and pieces that were key to the post-revolution period. Alongside this, visitors can also see the Spirit of Gondwana exhibition, which concentrates on issues of racial and historical justice, featuring artists from Africa and/or the African diaspora.
Luísa Jacinto, Daniel Blaufuks and Catarina Dias, Ernesto Neto, Nicolas Floc'h, Vivian Suter, William Klein, Anthony McCall, Ana Jotta, Julião Sarmento, Luísa Correia Pereira, Inês Botelho, Susanne Themlitz, Ana Vieira, Rosa Carvalho, Álvaro Lapa, António Sena, Ângelo de Sousa, Helena Almeida, Armanda Duarte, Maria José Oliveira, Cabrita and Maria Beatriz are just some of the names that appear in MAAT's 2024 programme.
In addition to highlighting emerging and established figures on the domestic art scene, the programme will present "artists, periods and dynamics relevant to the history of art in Portugal in recent decades". These various initiatives include the collaborative project Três Moscas (Three Flies) by André Maranha, Francisco Tropa, Jorge Queiroz and Pedro Morais.
In September 2024, MAAT will also present the first major European exhibition of the American photographer William Klein, who died in 2022. During the same month, Spirit of Gondwana – a provisional title for the exhibition curated by João Pinharanda and Camila Maissune - will showcase artists from Africa or the African diaspora who address racial and historical justice using different forms of artistic expression.
In October, artist Antony McCall presents his Solid Light Works installations, while Swiss-Argentine painter Vivian Suter exhibits her abstract work, which is the product of daily connection and observation of materials and natural contingencies from her residence in Guatemala. Both exhibitions are curated by Sérgio Mah.
