LISBON.- A unique exhibition bringing together Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão and a site-specific installation by Carlos Bunga—who will also select works from the CAM Collection—are the two highlights of CAM’s 2025 programme.
An important selection of British Art drawn from the CAM and Berardo collections will also be featured at CAM next year.
In addition, CAM will present projects by Julianknxx, Zineb Sedira, Diana Policarpo, Mikhail Karikis, Tristany Mundu and Francisca Rocha Gonçalves throughout the year.
Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão: Between Your Teeth
April 11–September 15, 2025
Curators: Adriana Varejão, Helena de Freitas and Victor Gorgulho
This exhibition brings together Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935–London, 2020) and Adriana Varejão (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1964), two remarkable artists in an unprecedented dialogue, revisiting their work, interweaving their themes and presenting fresh readings.
With almost one hundred works, the exhibition aims to highlight the common lines between the two artists’ work, where violence is present in both the political and private spheres.
The starting point is Paula Rego’s painting A Primeira Missa no Brasil [The First Mass in Brazil], a rarely exhibited work produced in 1993 and belonging to a private British collection.
This exhibition reinterprets the power dynamics between two generations, with particular focus on the history of women in different geographies.
Carlos Bunga: Inhabit the contradiction
October 31, 2025–March 30, 2026
Curator: Rui Mateus Amaral
Carlos Bunga presents one of his most complex and personal exhibitions to date, and one of his largest cardboard site-specific installations, which will incorporate works from the CAM Collection.
The exhibition’s starting point is the drawing My first house was a woman, from 1975, which represents the artist’s mother.
The work of Carlos Bunga (b. Porto, 1976) questions the fragility of human and material existence, using ephemeral materials that evoke resilience.
Artworks from the CAM Collection will be shown alongside archival materials, artist books, and performances.
British Art—Convergences
March 14, 2025–July 21, 2025
Curators: Ana Vasconcelos (CAM) and Rita Lougares (Berardo Collection)
Scientific Coordination: Sarah MacDougall, Ben Uri Foundation, London
This exhibition shows the impact of artists from different geographies on the configuration of art in the United Kingdom in the 20th century, bringing together works from the CAM Collection and the Berardo Collection.
British Art—Convergences presents over 100 works by 74 artists, including Bridget Riley, David Hockney, Anthony Gormley, Francis Bacon, Rachel Whiteread, Frank Auerbach and David Bomberg.
The exhibition includes Portuguese artists who sought training and, in some cases, took up residence in London, including Paula Rego, Menez, Eduardo Batarda, Fernando Calhau and Rui Sanches.
Other exhibitions
In February, CAM will present four new projects, all related to territory, history and humans’ relationship with all non-human life forms.
Portuguese artist Diana Policarpo’s multimedia installation Ciguatera ponders the origin of a human disease encountered on a remote island and continues her creative dialogue with the scientific community.
Also informed by scientific methodology, Interferences in the Tagus is artist and researcher Francisca Rocha Gonçalves’ installation resulting from her research into the impact of human-generated sound pollution on marine life.
Julianknxx travelled to major port cities in Europe to meet African diasporas and reveal common histories informed by uprooting and migration. Chorus in Rememory of Flight, his multi-channel video installation is a celebratory testimony of these encounters.
With City around the City, Portuguese musician of Angolan descent Tristany Mundu portrays the outskirts of Lisbon, using the Lisbon-Sintra train line as a departure point.
In May, Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis presents an audiovisual installation which reflects the participatory project Sounds of a Revolution, a collaboration with students from Artallis—Conservatório d’Artes de Loures.
In September, CAM welcomes French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira. Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go is an exhibition based on the utopias of the 1960s, placing culture and resistance side by side.
