Graça Morais: An Anthology
OEIRAS Palácio Anjos – Contemporary Art Center (Algés). From 3/15 to 8/16. Tuesday to Sunday, from 11am to 6pm (last entry at 5:30pm). 2€
From drawing to painting and photography, more than 170 works are brought together in this exhibition that traces the journey of more than five decades by Portuguese painter Graça Morais (b.1948, Freixiel, Vila Flor). An anthology that, according to commissioners António Meireles and Emília Ferreira, focuses on the central themes of the artist’s work: “the relationship with the land and its fruits, women, hunting, the memory of the place as a space of culture and, in recent decades, the attention given to the metamorphoses of the human being, as victim and executioner.”
Father John Misty
PORTO Porto Ageas Coliseum. Day 2/6, at 8:30 pm. M/6. €40 to €45
In July 2025 the Variety described him as “one of the greatest lyricists in contemporary music and one of the most beautiful melodists”. At that time, Joshua Tillman had already released Mahashmashana (2024), the sixth studio album in the CV of the American singer and songwriter who, solo, goes by Father John Misty and who we also know as the former drummer of Fleet Foxes. This is the record that motivates his visit to Portugal, where he begins a European tour. The first part of the concert is performed by J. Mystery, artistic name of Tiago Martins, a musician from Penafiel.
Rundinelle
BRAGANÇA Municipal Theater of Bragança. Day 2/6, at 9pm. M/6. €6
Laetitia Marcangeli and Julie Lobato are vocals, percussion, accordion and lute in the musical project that combines the songs of Trás-os-Montes and the monodies of Corsica. In the lineup made up of “mountain fables, stories of mules and bandits, tender lullabies”, they aim to touch on “ancient ways of life and thought”, paying homage to the popular traditions of these regions.
No Land in Sight
SÃO JOÃO DA MADEIRA Oliva Art Center. From 18/4 to 24/1. Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 12:30pm and from 2pm to 5:30pm. 3€
With 78 contemporary artists represented, including sculpture, installation, photography and conceptual practices, the exhibition brings together 108 works from the Norlinda and José Lima Collection aligned to make this place a space for “meeting and reflection, without avoiding conflict”, words of curator Paula Cabaleiro. Inspired by the writings of Serbian-American poet Charles Simic in No Land in Sight: Poemsassumes “the metaphor of navigation without a horizon as an image of a Humanity confronted with political instability, democratic fragility, climate crisis and structural inequalities”, describes the classroom sheet.
Matmos
LISBON Auditorium of the Rectory of the New University of Lisbon. Day 2/6, at 9:30 pm. €22
The North American project was born in the mid-1990s and was notable not only for adopting electronics as an instrument, but also for taking it to experimental territories in which everything – from the body to the pages of a book, including insects and even surgical interventions – can be seen as a sound source. The art that the duo formed by Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt has for “sampling” and collating sounds from different origins is once again asserting itself on Portuguese stages. This time, it’s Metallic Life Reviewan album released about a year ago and centered on the metallic sounds that have been collected over the years, which sets the tone for the meeting.
Edge
LISBON Culturgest. Days 2/6 and 3/6. Tuesday and Wednesday, at 9pm. M/12. €18
Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues presents Edgehis most recent creation. Inspired by the meanings of the word that serves as its title – which can be used to speak of “border, margin, limit, barrier” as well as “enrich, decorate, improve” derived from the verb embroider or, in a figurative sense, to “imagine, fantasize” –, it proposes a reflection on concepts of belonging, exclusion, freedom, otherness and domination.
