The new exhibition at the Pavilhão Julião Sarmento brings together more than 30 works from the Julião Sarmento Collection and places Fernando Calhau and Rui Chafes - two of the most represented artists in this collection - in dialogue.
07/03/2026 – 14/06/2026, Gallery 2, Pavilhão Julião Sarmento
Calhau’s trajectory structures the exhibition, tracing the transformation of his language from an early phase shaped by Pop and figurative references to the conceptual and minimalist approaches that consolidated his distinctive artistic voice.
The exhibition title, borrowed from a work by Rui Chafes, introduces a temporal dimension that exceeds chronology and proposes a reunion unfolding both within the exhibition space and in the symbolic realm of memory and permanence.
By bringing Calhau and Chafes together, the exhibition also evokes the figure of Julião Sarmento — artist and collector — whose practice was marked by creative affinities and by a demanding recognition among peers.