In 2024 Serralves celebrates 35 years of existence and it will be a big, big celebration. This is the most ambitious program ever, designed to fully fulfill Serralves' mission, presenting the most important names in art of our time and appealing to various audiences", said the president of the Board of Directors of the Serralves Foundation, Ana Pinho , at the presentation of the program, in Porto.
The director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Philippe Vergne, for his part, highlighted that Serralves will live a year with an "excellent program under the sign of the Revolution, of how it was inspired by artists and how it had an impact on artists".
On February 23, the first exhibition of the Álvaro Siza Wing opens, under the name "Anagramas Improbáveis", "which promotes relationships and bridges between artists of different origins and generations present in the Serralves Collection" and which will accompany the first major exhibition dedicated to the architect's work, "Arquivo Álvaro Siza", which is structured "around the CASA concept, bringing together several [of his] projects".
The year at the Museum opens in March with an exhibition by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, featuring paintings, sculptures, performances, moving images and large-scale installations.
In April, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April, the exhibition "Pré/pró - Visual declinações do 25 de Abril" will be inaugurated, a project that aims to "investigate the tensions, contradictions and paradoxical movements that marked the periods before and after the Revolution".
Still at the Museum, it will be possible to see the largest individual institutional exhibition of the last 15 years by the multidisciplinary artist of Belgian origin Francis Alÿs, the works of Canadian Stan Douglas and another exhibition dedicated to Mário Soares that promises "a reflection on the relationship between political thinking and action and art and culture".
As for Portuguese artists, the highlight is the biggest exhibition ever of Francisco Tropa, for the duo João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, for young artist Sara Bichão and for the first exhibition of musician Devendra Banhart.
In Performing Arts and Music, the Museum's 10 years as a Performance stand out, the works of João Fiadeiro and Vera Maintaino, Ciclo Teresa Silva, musicians Lorenzo Senni and Peter Broderick, among others, as well as the Festival Dias da Dança and the 34th edition of Jazz no Parque.
In Casa Manoel de Oliveira's programming, emphasis is placed on the second moment of the exhibition cycle "Manoel de Oliveira and Portuguese Cinema", and an exhibition on the 'nouvelle vague' filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.