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Galeria Vera Cortês

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Galeria Vera Cortês

Lisbon-based contemporary art gallery. More info: www.veracortes.com

Instagram: D. Themlitz

Artists represented by Galeria Vera Cortês:

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils
André Romão
Angela Detanico / Rafael Lain
António Bolota
Armanda Duarte
Carlos Bunga
Céline Condorelli
Charbel-joseph H. Boutros
Daniel Blaufuks
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Gabriela Albergaria
Gonçalo Barreiros
Joana Escoval
João Louro
John Wood and Paul Harrison
José Pedro Croft
Nuno da Luz
Susanne S.

01/09/2026

About the good news…

Curated by Antonia Gaeta (), Ana Vieira’s current exhibition at the gallery has brought renewed attention to the artist’s work, inviting a new encounter with the Portuguese artist’s singular practice.

The exhibition has been featured in recent articles across the Portuguese art press:

Expresso:‘ Ana Vieira na Galeria Vera Cortês, do êxtase à angústia’ by José Luís Porfírio
Público: ‘Ana Vieira, a indomesticada da arte portuguesa’ by João Sousa Cardoso
Umbigo: ‘A obra longínqua: Ana Vieira na Galeria Vera Cortês’ by Tomás Camillis
Contemporânea: ‘Ana Vieira: O Esquema Narrativo’ by Francisca Portugal

We invite you to read the articles through the respective outlets and (re)visit Ana Vieira’s work through the perspective of the exhibition’s curator, Antonia Gaeta. ‘The Narrative Structure’ is on view at the gallery until 19 September, during the regular opening hours.

Join us at Rua João Saraiva 16, 1st to (re)visit Ana Vieira’s work and online through the link in bio.

01/09/2026

Ana Vieira’s exhibition ‘The Narrative Structure’ can be visited at the gallery until Saturday, 19 September.

Curated by Antonia Gaeta (), who has worked on Ana Vieira’s Estate as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Artist’s Estate (alongside Astrid Suzano and Sofia Gomes), the exhibition brings together a selection of emblematic series that the Vera Cortês Art Agency organized with Ana Vieira in 2004.

“In Close Up, the extreme proximity and optical distortion shift the mode through which the image is read. Detail does not deepen recognition; it alters it. Concave and convex mirrors introduce deformation and discontinuity, intensifying the instability of the visible and preventing the fixation of form as a perceptual totality.” - Antonia Gaeta, in the curatorial text.

The Online Viewing Room is available via the link in bio.

On view until 19 September.

28/08/2026

Curated by Antonia Gaeta (), Ana Vieira’s current exhibition at the gallery has brought renewed attention to the artist’s work, inviting a new encounter with the Portuguese artist’s singular practice.

The exhibition has been featured in recent articles across the Portuguese art press:

Expresso:‘ Ana Vieira na Galeria Vera Cortês, do êxtase à angústia’ by José Luís Porfírio
Público: ‘Ana Vieira, a indomesticada da arte portuguesa’ by João Sousa Cardoso
Umbigo: ‘A obra longínqua: Ana Vieira na Galeria Vera Cortês’ by Tomás Camillis

We invite you to read the articles through the respective outlets and (re)visit Ana Vieira’s work through the perspective of the exhibition’s curator, Antonia Gaeta. ‘The Narrative Structure’ is on view at the gallery until 19 September, during the regular opening hours.

Join us at Rua João Saraiva 16, 1st to (re)visit Ana Vieira’s work and online through the link in bio.

21/08/2026

Susanne S. D. Themlitz’s ‘Entre Seres’ (2026) will be shown at MAAT Central on 29 August, 10 PM.

“Human figures with animal heads appear in a hallucinatory manner throughout the Natural History and Science Museum in Lisbon and in different locations of the Botanical Garden. Octopuses intertwine with the aerial roots of giant trees. Between the storage shelves of the mammal collection, a flying turtle hovers in the air, whilst a human kangaroo stands almost motionless, holding an owl. The film, a journey in a state of suspension.”

Curated by Jean-François Chougnet and João Pinharanda, the video screening is part of FUSO - festival internacional de videoarte de Lisboa.

You can see Susanne Themlitz’s work 29 August, 10 PM at MAAT Central, Praça do Carvão

18/08/2026

We’re back!

Following the Summer break, the gallery is now back to the regular schedule:

TUE - FRI from 2 - 7 PM
SAT from 10 AM - 1 PM and from 2 - 7 PM

Curated by Antonia Gaeta, The Narrative Structure brings together two seminal works by Ana Vieira that explore the shifting boundaries between interior and exterior, representation and reality.

Join us!

13/08/2026

Created by layering advertising posters, covering the surface with white paint, and then carving back through the accumulated layers, Alexandre Farto aka Vhils’ Billboard series reveals fragments of urban memory hidden beneath the city’s visual noise.

The resulting compositions bring images, textures, and histories to the surface: a physical reflection of the ever-changing visual identity of contemporary urban life.

The gallery reopens on 18 August, and our showroom will feature a selection of works by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils.

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Images:
Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, ‘Beam Series #17’, 2021. Hand-carved advertising posters. 180 x 123 cm. Unique
Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, ‘Interval Series #08’, 2026. Hand-carved advertising posters. 175 x 122 cm. Unique

12/08/2026

While the gallery is closed for the summer break, you can still see works by our artists on view at the 24th Cerveira International Art Biennial (BIAC) in Vila Nova de Cerveira.

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, Carlos Bunga, and Susanne S. D. Themlitz are participating in De qué casa eres?, a group exhibition bringing together artists from different generations and geographies to reflect on displacement, belonging, and identity as an ever-evolving process.

Presented within the framework of this year's theme, Territories Without Borders, the Biennial explores borders as places of encounter, transformation, and exchange through a programme of exhibitions, performances, conferences, curatorial projects, and film.

If you're travelling through northern Portugal this summer, it's the perfect opportunity to experience the work of these three artists in the context of one of the country's longest-running contemporary art biennials.

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Images: Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira / Luis Lagadouro

11/08/2026

The ’Nomad’ is a series of photogravures by Carlos Bunga that can be seen at the gallery.

Through these works, the artist maps the homes and studios he has inhabited from childhood to 2019, creating a personal cartography that is both biographical and political.

The figure of the nomad, a recurring presence throughout the artist’s practice, emerges as a hybrid being, combining animal limbs, a child’s body, and architectural forms that become its head. This configuration not only unsettles the notion of a fixed identity, but also presents dwelling as a condition of perpetual transition: fragmented, yet profoundly embodied.

The journey begins with ‘A minha mãe. A minha primeira casa foi uma mulher (My Mother. My First Home Was a Woman)’, in which the maternal womb is conceived as the first architecture, the original place of shelter. From there, the prints unfold through a succession of spaces that oscillate between precarity and the making of place: refugee reception centres in Porto and Peniche, the student residence in Caldas da Rainha, and later the various studios and cities where the artist has lived and worked—Amsterdam, Helsinki, Mexico City, New York, Madrid, Carrara, São Paulo, Chicago, Bogotá, Havana, Caldes d’Estrac, and, finally, Mataró.

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Images:
Carlos Bunga, ‘A minha mãe, 1975’. Photogravure. 56 x 37,5 cm
Carlos Bunga, ‘Artista x Artista La Habana, 2016’. Photogravure. 56 x 37,5 cm
Carlos Bunga, ‘Casa n.17 São Bartolomeu dos Galegos, 1983-1995’. Photogravure. 56 x 37,5 cm
Carlos Bunga, ‘Forte de Peniche, Peniche, 1978-1983’. Photogravure. 56 x 37,5 cm
Carlos Bunga, ‘Estúdio Mataró, 2017’. Photogravure. 56 x 37,5 cm

06/08/2026

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils () is part of ‘Alice Neel: Beautifully Imperfect’, a major retrospective dedicated to one of the portraitist of the 20th century, on view at the Serralves Museum, Porto.

The exhibition explores themes of identity, intimacy, and social engagement. Alongside the artist's paintings and archival material, it presents a series of previously unseen letters written by contemporary artists, writers, and musicians in tribute to Neel's enduring legacy. Vhils is among the invited contributors, joining artists including Jordan Casteel, Chantal Joffe, and Celia Paul in this collective homage.

On view until 31 January 2027 at the Serralves Museum, Porto.

04/08/2026

João Louro’s practice examines the ways language, images, and cultural references shape our understanding of the contemporary world. Working across painting, sculpture, photography, and video, he draws on the legacies of Minimalism and Conceptual Art while engaging with literature, philosophy, cinema, and popular culture.

The work featured here reflects Louro’s ongoing interest in the power of words and symbols. By appropriating familiar visual and textual elements, he invites viewers to question meaning, authorship, and the systems through which knowledge and memory are constructed. His works often exist in the space between reading and seeing, where interpretation remains deliberately open.

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Images:
João Louro, ‘’Natureza-Morta #01’, 2022. Acrylic on canvas. 66 x 81,5 x 6,5 cm. Unique
João Louro, ‘’Natureza-Morta #02’, 2022. Acrylic on canvas. 66 x 81,5 x 6,5 cm. Unique

Endereço

Rua João Saraiva 16, 1º
Lisbon
1700-250

Horário de Funcionamento

Terça-feira	14:00 - 19:00
Quarta-feira	14:00 - 19:00
Quinta-feira	14:00 - 19:00
Sexta-feira	14:00 - 19:00
Sábado	10:00 - 13:00
	14:00 - 19:00

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+351213950177

Website

http://www.veracortes.com/

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