Calouste Gulbenkian’s journey to Jerusalem
Despite his tireless dedication to the business world, Calouste Gulbenkian understood and recognised the value of leisure travel, often opting for trips with a strong artistic and cultural dimension....
View ArticleIn winter, not everything sleeps. Four signs of natural life in the...
If you take a closer look at the Gulbenkian Garden or other green spaces around the country, you’ll find signs that many species of the natural world are still in fully active at this time of year....
View ArticleFernão Cruz: ‘I’m interested in bringing this tragedy to life in a laughable...
Fernão Cruz (1995), the artist who in 2021 presented the solo exhibition ‘Biting the Dust’ at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, tells us from his studio how he went about creating the works on...
View ArticleJerusalem: Faith and Power
According to the Christian faith, Jerusalem was the site of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. For this reason, Emperor Constantine (c. 272–337) ordered the construction of several temples in...
View ArticleGifts from the Kingdom of Portugal
Gifts from the kingdom of Portugal to the Holy Land became more frequent from 1670 onwards. They were, in nature, extremely diverse, ranging from silverware, jewellery, and textiles to olive oil,...
View ArticleFrench 18th-century Silver in the Collection of Calouste Gulbenkian
The research necessary for the preparation of the catalogue of the French silver in the collection of Calouste Gulbenkianhas produced a wealth of information concerning the works, their makers,...
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Preserving a Universal Heritage
The exhibition Treasures from Kings. Masterpieces from the Terra Sancta Museum provided the perfect opportunity to develop a complex conservation and restoration project for a group of works comprising...
View ArticleGifts from the Kingdom of Spain
The works of art gifted by the Spanish monarchs to Jerusalem are among the most noteworthy of the objects on display. This vast group includes a chalice, the oldest known gift to the Holy Land, and a...
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Funding climate storytelling: Behind the scenes of BBC StoryWorks’’What the...
On a hot summer’s day in June 2023, Luísa and Catarina were followed by a film crew from their suburban foster home to a surf therapeutic center on Carcavelos beach near Lisbon, Portugal. Later that...
View Article«Seeing the collection through the gaze of a person who sees things in it...
Entre olhares, Encontros (in)comuns [Exchanged gazes, (un)common places] is a participatory curatorship project launched by CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian for the Alcântara Library and 21...
View ArticleSeven berries and other fruit to look for in Winter
It is at this time of year that fleshy fruit, better known as berries, become more visible. They are available as food for resident and wintering birds, now that the days are getting colder and thus...
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Carla Carrilho: “I envision a country better equipped to treat oncological...
In general terms, what will the OncoInvest project consist of? This is a three-year project, funded by the Camões Institute and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which arises from the experience of...
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The future is blue
When the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Oceano Azul Foundation teamed up to create Blue Bio Value – one of the first international entrepreneurship programmes in blue biotechnology – the...
View ArticleGifts from the Kingdom of Naples
It was thanks to the development of the arts promoted by King Charles of Bourbon that Naples became the center of European enlightenment. The strengthening of its diplomatic relations helped the...
View ArticleFazer Presente
Fazer Presente is an artistic and community project that brings together 40 senior citizens, from rural and geographically dispersed parishes in the municipality of Guimarães, and 70 young (former)...
View ArticleLisbon cinemas
Alvalade cinema The Alvalade cinema was designed in 1945 by architects Filipe Nobre de Figueiredo (1913-1990) and José Lima Franco (1904-1970). Located in the Alvalade neighbourhood, at Avenida de Roma...
View ArticleRaizarte – Uma orquestra, três comunidades
Children between the ages of 9 and 12 from the municipalities of Ribeira Grande, Nordeste and Vila Franca do Campo, on the island of São Miguel, Azores, come together in this orchestral project, which...
View ArticleDevir na Horta da Areia
The Horta da Areia neighbourhood is located in an isolated area of the city of Faro, beyond the train tracks. This physical barrier is one of several others – cultural, socio-economic – that separate...
View ArticleGulbenkian and the elections after the 1974 revolution
The chairman of the Foundation, José Azeredo Perdigão, had received a request from the Minister for the Media, Jorge Correia Jesuíno (days later replaced by Major Vítor Alves), for the Foundation to...
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Participatory art: a “summer love” in bloom
One month, an unknown territory and a blank sheet of paper. This is how most of the projects in the Atos programme began and developed in 2023 in four dozen municipalities across the country. In the...
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