The exhibition CHAMA  [FLAME] curated by Sara Antónia Matos, featuring works by Júlio Pomar, Rita Ferreira and Sara Bichão, at the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, continues a programme of exhibitions at the Atelier-Museu that aims to connect Júlio Pomar’s work with the work of other artists and establish new linkages between the painter’s work and contemporaneity..

Again, this exhibition has been conceived from the very beginning...

This booklet was published to accompany the exhibition What is the power of art? May’ 68 – 50 Years On (15/05–29/09/2018), curated by Nuno Crespo and Hugo Dinis, which featured paintings from Júlio Pomar’s series The Beatles (1965), Futebol / Rugby (Football / Rugby) (1967) and Mai 68 (CRS-SS) (1968).

In the course of the research and study carried out by staff at the Atelier-Museu...

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This booklet was published to accompany the exhibition Strange recent days in less than happy times, curated by Hugo Dinis, winner of the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar/EGEAC 2016 Curation Prize, and which included Pomar’s work Almoço do Trolha (The Bricklayer’s Lunch) (1946–50). As part of the research and studies carried out by staff at the Atelier-Museu into the work of Júlio Pomar, revisiting the Second General...

The exhibition Júlio Pomar and Cabrita Reis: Of small things(01/06–08/10/2017) is the third in a series of shows aimed at promoting a productive dialogue between Júlio Pomar (b. 1926) and artists of later generations. In this instance, the artist Cabrita Reis (b. 1956) places his sculptures,...

The exhibition TAWAPAYERA curated by Alexandre Melo, featuring works by Júlio Pomar, Delameida Esilva, Igor Jesus e Tiago Alexandre, part of the Past and Present – Lisbon, Ibero-American Capital of Culture 2017 programme, at the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, continues a programme of exhibitions at the Atelier-Museu that aims to connect Júlio Pomar’s work with the work of other artists and establish new linkages between the...

This exhibition is the second in a series that aims to place Júlio Pomar in dialogue with artists from younger generations. It exhibits works from the Dirt series by Julião Sarmento (b. 1948), dated 2008, and works by Pomar created at different points in his...

October 2015 to February 2016

The partnership established between the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar and Apordoc (Associação pelo Documentário) resulted in a cycle of documentaries about art, which gave rise to a new programme on a larger scale, this time involving the Lisbon Municipal Galleries. This enabled the organisers to hold an art film cycle during the 2015–2016 academic year in the auditorium of...

This exhibition marked the inaugural event of an annual cycle of encounters between Pomar’s work and that of other artists, all held at the Atelier-Museu. For this initial show, the other artist invited was sculptor Rui Chafes (born 1966), whose work essentially consists of iron sculptures. The exhibition takes a...

This exhibition, which was commissioned by art historian Catarina Rosendo, revealed to the public for the first time a highly important set of pieces created by Júlio Pomar in the sphere of ‘decorative arts’, also known as integrated arts. Despite focusing mainly on the 1940s, 50s and 60s, the exhibition also showcases some of the artist’s more recent work in this...

The Education Service at the Atelier-Museu is continuing to put together educational and experimental activities, as well as organising drawing workshops, guided tours and other one-off events for children and adults, this time around the exhibition ‘Skulls, houses, stones and a fig tree’, which grapples with the issue of understanding...

In conjunction with the exhibition Treatise on the Eyes, which ran at the Atelier-Museu between 28 February and 29 September 2014, the Education Service put on a series of activities and workshops for children, young people and adults, with a focus on the written word and its potential links with drawing, plus a theoretical workshop on art criticism.

In order to broaden knowledge and develop...

This exhibition gave rise to a range of workshops, whose descriptions are given below, exploring the various aspects, themes and methodologies in the work of Júlio Pomar.

The horse – drawing workshop Instruction – Berta Ehrich, Glória Oliveira

The work of Júlio Pomar features a number of animals, summoning up narratives and allegories. Among the animals, the horse is particularly prominent, bursting...