Curated Thursday by Jule Kurbjeweit
Pedro Cera
Jule is a curator, cultural project manager and writer living in Lisbon. Her work centres on the connection between art and collective care beyond the human, exploring otherness and mutuality in an interplay of poetics and politics.
14.30-15.30 | Balcony Contemporary Art Gallery – Guided Tour
14.30–19.30 | Salgadeiras Arte Contemporânea – Artist Talk, Guided Tour
16.00–17.00 | Appleton – Guided Tour
18.00–20.00 | Pedro Cera – Opening
18.00–21.00 | NO·NO Gallery – Opening
On the first day of the Lisbon Art Weekend, my route focuses on two neighbourhoods that each invite for inspiring art strolls.
We begin in the early afternoon in Alvalade with two adjacent galleries.
Join a guided tour at Balcony Gallery of Nuno Nunes-Ferreira’s prima Ester – an archaeology of memory, where lost trunks from an attic become vessels of recollection and disappearance. Through archival gestures, Ferreira traces personal and colonial histories.
Next door, at Salgadeiras Arte Contemporânea, the exhibition More than Human by Rui Soares Costa, with an original soundtrack by André Gonçalves, proposes the river as a creative collaborator and living archive: sediment and the process of oxidation draw patterns on sheets of steel or paper that were submerged in the current.
If you're an especially motivated art wanderer, I invite you to add one more stop just a short walk away. Otherwise, continue straight to Estrela.
Continue down the street to Appleton. Their white-cube-style Square presents Carla Filipe’s exhibition Não está presente, porque está ausente. Está presente, mesmo ausente (2022–25), revisiting overlooked women in Portugal’s revolutionary history, drawing from archives, posters, and propaganda imagery
In their experimental Box, Maria Appleton’s Formas de Reexistência features an immersive installation of dyed, printed and woven textiles that unfold like translucent architectures and landscapes – a kind of archaeology of the future.
Back en route, cross the city toward Estrela for two exhibition openings.
Pedro Cera presents a solo show by Evian Wenyi Zhang, whose works explore the way we consume images, what attracts our gaze and attention and how visual information is organized.
A few steps away, NO·NO Gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary with a group exhibition revisiting past projects and unshown works by its artists.
Enjoy your stroll through the galleries and let yourself be inspired; there is so much waiting to be discovered.
