Through the Eyes of the Makers

Quetzal Art Center is pleased to present its fifth site-specific mural featuring the work of Nora Turato. In her videos, sculptural installations, artist books, murals and spoken word performances ...

Quetzal Art Center proudly presents a solo exhibition by David Maljković titled In the Pictorial Code. At the core of Maljković’s practice is a regimented exploration of formalist concerns. Whilst ...

The group exhibition Echoes of Our Stories brings together the work of Claudia Martínez Garay, Diana Policarpo, Jennifer Tee, Agnes Waruguru and Müge Yilmaz. Five artists who all tell stories in di...

What is a cartoon if not a mirror? The brightly colored animations of our childhood reflect our society – twisted, distorted, simplified, and caricatured. We grew up watching good fighting evil and...

For the exhibition ‘Pitching Itself a tent where all may enter’, Stephen Wilks created a new donkey with traditional fabric manufactured in Portugal by Fabrical in Monsaraz. The donkey made its pre...

Quetzal Art Center proudly presents the group exhibition Pitching itself a tent where all may enter. With works by Hugo Canoilas, Fernanda Fragateiro, Marta Mateus, Rui Moreira, António Poppe, Bert...

Quetzal Art Center is proud to exhibit all flags from the project Four Flags Lisbon. Four Flags Lisbon was a partnership between a Portuguese publisher, Taffimai and independent project space Galer...

A Rooster Alone Does Not Weave The Dawn is part of a long dialogue on ideas of collaboration, exchange, resilience, but most of all – time. There is no escaping to how time has become more than eve...

Quetzal participates in a special exhibition of the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner) presented by Andrea Rosen Gallery and David Zwirner Gallery. In an era of social...

What happens when we read? We dissolve. When the book ‘works’, when the writing demands the reader’s courtesy, when the story is riveting (and most often for selfish reasons), we dissolve into the ...

SINGLE CHANNEL SOUND INSTALLATIONQUINTA DO QUETZAL WINERY  The thought of Sleep Close and Fast, 2019, a single channel sound installation, is born after Susan heard that the barrels of wine at Quet...

Quetzal Art Center proudly presents the group exhibition Cave Myths (Endless Spelunking). Modern consciousness was born in darkness: the darkness of the cave. It was in the subterranean dwellings o...

During the festival Evor’Afrika, in Evora, the Quetzal Art Center exibited ‘Drawing Africa on the Map’; an exhibition that brings together artists from different parts of Africa who all have their ...

ALEXANDRE ESTRELA The exhibition brings two works of Estrela into dialogue. The first one Untitled (2017) is a video installation that portrays the behavioural reaction of an image to a foreign bod...

ORLA BARRY & RUI CHAFES The collaboration between Orla Barry and Rui Chafes goes back to 2002. Especially created for the Quetzal Art Centre, Golden Pocket is the third work produced by the enc...

MUSA PARADISIACA WITH ANTÓNIO POPPE  Musa paradisiaca’s work has always been collaborative. Bringing together persons linked by intellectual affinities, their temporary collaborations undertake ...

This exhibition at Quetzal Art Centre is all about collaboration.On view from the private collection of the family de Bruin-Heijn were very diverse works, but all made by two artists working togeth...

IGOR JESUS & MARIANA SILVA Collaboration in and through artistic creation has a long lineage, one that expresses itself in the most diverse ways in the historiography of art and critical though...

Trisha Baga  Trisha Baga (1985) is a young New York-based artist who is known for her immersive multi-media and 3D video installations. Characterised by the inter-layering of subjects and themes an...

In this exhibition at Quetzal Art Centre we focus on O’Neill’s films and foreground the beautiful, surrealistic and humorous qualities of his work. We show eight of his early experimental works, pr...

Robert Heinecken (1931-2006) was Pat O’Neill’s teacher in graphic design at UCLA in 1961 and a potent influence on his student. O’Neill explains: ‘He undertook the radical project of liberating pho...

Through the Eyes of the Makers is a collaboration born out of friendship, a conversation between the art installer and the artists. The exhibition is assembled by Pedro Canoilas in dialogue with A...