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Ars Mater

Associated Authors:

|   Aldo Alcota   |  |   Bertina Lopes  |  |   Bogdan Gulyay  |  |   Carlos Zingaro  |  |   Claude Yersin  |  |   Dear Anushka  |  |   Ivan Villalobos  |  |   Javier Félix  |  |   Inácio Matsinhe  |  |   João Ribeiro   |  |   José Chambel  |  |   Liudvika Koort  |  |   Malangatana Ngwenya  |  |   Marya Al Qassimi  |  |   Reneé Gagnon  |  |   Sónia Aniceto  |  |   Tor Seidel  |  |   Valter Hugo Mãe  |  |   Ángel Mateos  |  |   Alberto Chissano  |  |   Ivan da Silva-Bruhns  |  |   Miguel Ángel Huerta  |  |   Regina Frank  |  |   Sarbari Roy Chowdhury  |  |   Beezy Bailey  |  |   António Paulo Tomaz  |  |   Gabriel Garcia  |  |   Henrique Risques Pereira  |  |   Manuela Jardim  |  |   Mário Henrique Leiria  |  |   Dalila D'Alte  |  |   Mário Botas  |  |   João Donato  |  |   Hellal Zoubir  |  |   Manuel Viola  |  |   Mário Macilau  |  |   António Palolo  |  |   Alberto Pimenta  |  |   João Ayres  |  |   Agostinho Santos  |  |   Manuel João Vieira  |  |   Lizette Chirrime  |  |   Vanessa Paz  |  |   Pancho Guedes  |  |   Fernando José Francisco  |  |   Manuel Figueira  |  |   Alfredo Luz | Mário Botas  |  |   Artur Bual  |  |   Cruzeiro Seixas  |  |   Eurico Gonçalves  |  |   Fernando Lemos  |  |   Figueiredo Sobral  |  |   Gracinda de Sousa  |  |   Hein Semke  |  |   João Artur da Silva  |  |   Mário Cesariny  |  |   Reinata Sadimba  |  |   Teresa Balté  |  |   Teresa Roza d'Oliveira  |  |   Vitor Pi  |  |   Time for the Oniric  |  |   Pancho Guedes (joias artísticas)  |  

Ars Mater

Ars Matercelebrates26 years of activity of the Perve Multimedia Collective in AlfamaThis exhibition marks more than two and a half decades of a unique cultural project in the Portuguese and international context. The group exhibition brings together key works from the Perve Gallery collections, reflecting a continuous journey dedicated to building an artistic program committed to the recovery, study, and international projection of practices and narratives frequently marginalized by dominant canons, with a special focus on Portuguese-speaking countries and the Global South.

Starting from the idea of "art as matrix," as origin, territory of memory, transmission, and transformation,Ars MaterThis exhibition proposes a retrospective and simultaneously prospective look at Perve's role as an active platform in the construction of alternative artistic narratives, bringing together artists who have marked and continue to mark the curatorial identity of Perve Galeria. The show highlights the gallery's commitment to practices that cross modernity and contemporaneity, tradition and experimentation, affirming art as a structuring force in the rewriting of art histories from decentralized and transnational perspectives.

On display will be works by Artur Bual, Cruzeiro Seixas, Malangatana, Manuel Figueira, Mário Cesariny, João Artur da Silva, Teresa Balté, Teresa Roza d'Oliveira, Figueiredo Sobral, Pancho Guedes, among others.

More than a celebration,Ars MaterThis affirms the continuity of a project that, since Alfama, has consistently contributed to the international recognition of artists and to the creation of a cultural ecosystem based on research, memory, and the critical transformation of historical legacies, projecting itself as an active space for the production of new imaginaries and possible futures.

Works available in the Collection

Ars Mater

From March 17th to April 25th, 2026

Tuesday to Saturday from 2 PM to 8 PM

Perve Gallery

Rua das Escolas Gerais, n.º 17, 19, Lisbon

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Perve is a cultural structure dedicated to the promotion, research, and dissemination of modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on historical, social, and political contexts. It develops exhibition, editorial, and research projects, articulating different institutions and cultural initiatives.

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Rua das Escolas Gerais no. 13, 17 and 19 – next to the Church of St. Stephen
1100-218 Lisbon | Portugal

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Sunday: Closed
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