This exhibition-intervention was conceived specifically for the context of Arraiolos, engaging local communities, evoking ancestral knowledge, and re-signifying cultural heritage through artistic practice.

The expression “Casa de Partida” suggests not only a beginning, but also the necessity of continuous, cyclical movement, to which one often returns - whether to conclude something or to embark on a new path. Yet, more than a simple circular motion, it is a hermeneutic back-and-forth, inspired by Gadamer’s concept of play, in which meaning is not fixed but emerges in the movement between what we know and what we are willing to discover.

For ARCO Lisboa 2025, THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE presents "Out of Bounds" a curatorial project that embodies the gallery's mission to promote transcultural dialogues and dissolve artistic and geographic boundaries. Centered on the art of the Global South, Lusophone Africa, and Portugal, it underscores shared histories and contemporary connections while challenging the compartmentalization often imposed on African and African-diasporic art.

The project features Portuguese female artists Ana Malta, Susana Cereja, and Manuela Pimentel, alongside René Tavares and Cássio Markowski, from African and Afro-Brazilian diasporas. Together, they engage with themes of memory, identity, and tradition, crafting dialogues that bridge the personal and universal while resisting rigid geographic or heritage-based definitions.

This Is Not A White Cube art gallery presents the solo exhibition Matriz, showcasing 17 mostly unpublished works, including the monumental and iconic pieces "Matriz", "Boadicea", "Hide & Seek" and "Helia" created by the artist over the past three years.

Etymologically, the term Matriz, which titles the exhibition, finds roots in the Latin word "matrix", meaning womb or origin, and the Greek word "meter", meaning mother. This etymological root serve as starting point for the ecumenical understanding of artist work.

"Ainda, um elefante na sala" is a widely recognized expression, used metaphorically to denote realities or dilemmas so obvious that they cannot be simply ignored. This exhibition, with a critical and poetic approach, brings together a collection of works and artists that clearly point out or bring to light some of the current issues surrounding democratic values, with the distinctive feature that all the pieces incorporate textiles.

The Peninsulares project's main goal is to promote contemporary Portuguese and Spanish textile art. The promoters are the cultural entities Ideias Emergentes / Bienal Contextile from the Portuguese side and Indigo Proyectos along with various regional and national associations from the Spanish side.

​The Artemis is a very important piece because it comes from community work, with the participation of 17 people, in Torrão Village, in Alentejo, using the outline stitch that dates back to the first Arraiolos stitch tapestries of the 16th century.

​The Icarus exhibition is a celebration of the search for freedom, dream, and adventure, not only through the artistic medium I use, tapestry, but also through the adventure of reaching Kranj, passing through many cities and accompanied by the sun.

In this exhibition, you will find tapestries that were created for you to feel the joy and challenge of flying. Each one carefully selected to depict the journey of man in search of the sun, its achievements and challenges.

​"On International Women's Day, Montepio Associação Mutualista is inaugurating the exhibition "ART IN THE FEMALE", an initiative that brings together works by 35 artists, produced since 1955."

​"(IM)MATERIALITY" is curated by Graça Rodrigues, Sónia Ribeiro, Katherine Sirois, Lourenço Egreja, and Diogo Bento, and exhibits, through three distinct nuclei, a significant combination of media, ranging from painting to drawing, to sculpture, photography and installation.

The exhibition promotes a reflection on the concepts of materiality and immateriality, highlighting around 90 works by 48 artists from a wide variety of cultural and geographical origins - including Portugal.

"​Thinking about the theme of the new annual exhibition of the Estonian Textile Artists Association, we focused on what is essential in life. What is important is essential or vital."

"This exhibition shows the multidisciplinary nature of a work where research, diversity and versatility of media have a predominant character.

“Unfolding” is a testament to the heterogeneous creative process, which Susana Cereja developed between 2017 and 2020."

(Cláudia Magalhães e Graça Rodrigues, 27.10.2020)

"This exhibition shows the multidisciplinary nature of a work where research, diversity and versatility of media have a predominant character.

Through this, Susana Cereja presents us with a renewed view at the recovery and development of ancestral methods of artistic production."

(Cláudia Magalhães e Graça Rodrigues, 27.10.2020)

These are the pieces that the artist believes convey better what goes inside her, her soul, her feelings, and her knowledge. In these works she combines her passions and she works the immediacy and spontaneity that defines her so much.

You may feel the intensity and beauty of the simplest stroke of graphite or in the strong colour surfaces, or you may be moved by one of her first engravings, perhaps more dramatic, but with unique sparks of colour!

More than colourful, Susana Cereja’s work is cherriful!

"Our inaugural open call competition attracted an incredible response. We received 8000 submissions from all over the world and the standard of the work was unbelievably high. With the help of our panel of judges, we choose our favourite 40 artists who made it into the exhibition. Congratulations to all the winners." Delphian Gallery