The Drawing Room Lisboa art fair is back in the capital from Thursday to Sunday, featuring 23 galleries and over 65 Portuguese and international artists exhibiting at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes (SNBA).
In its 8th edition, the fair will award a range of prizes, including the highest-value FLAD Drawing Room Lisboa Prize, worth €20,000, as announced by the organizing team led by Mónica Alvarez-Careaga.
From Lisbon, participating galleries include 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Arte Periférica, Balcony — Contemporary Art Gallery, Braçoperna44, Carlos Carvalho — Arte Contemporânea, Dialogue, Galeria 111, Galeria Belo Galsterer, Galeria Filomena Soares, Galeria Miguel Nabinho, No.No Gallery, Salgadeiras Arte Contemporânea, and This is Not a White Cube.
From Porto, galleries such as Galeria Nuno Centeno, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Kubikgallery, Lehmann, and Presença will join, while the Azores contribute Fonseca Macedo — Arte Contemporânea, a regular at this event dedicated to the vitality of drawing.
International galleries adding to the mix are Galería Silvestre (Madrid), Siboney (Santander), and Trinta Arte Contemporánea (Santiago de Compostela).
Newcomers to the fair include Lisbon galleries This is Not a White Cube, Dialogue, and BraçoPerna 44, as well as Galería Bibli from Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Artists represented span the contemporary scene, with Portuguese names like Pedro Cabrita Reis, Pedro Calapez, José Pedro Croft, António Olaio, Manuel Caeiro, Ana Manso, Mariana Gomes, and Pedro Vaz, alongside international talents such as Eric Fok (China), Pilar Mackenna (Chile), Vicente Blanco (Spain), Klaas Vanhee (Belgium), and Cássio Markowski (Brazil).
At SNBA, works by the finalists for the FLAD Drawing Room Lisboa Prize will be on display: Ana Manso, Mariana Gomes, Luísa Jacinto, Pedro Vaz, and Tiago Baptista.
This year, each artist receives a €2,000 production grant to create new pieces, which will be exhibited in the Galeria Fernando Pintor Azevedo during the fair.
The winner, to be announced during the event, will join past recipients like Pedro Tropa, Maria Capelo, Carla Filipe, and Rosa Baptista.
Other awards include the VII Millennium bcp Foundation Acquisition Prize — Emerging Talent (€3,500), with the winning work joining the foundation's collection, and the VI Outstanding Artistic Project Prize (€4,500), based on artistic relevance and dedication.
The VI Curatorial Project Gallery Prize (€2,000) rewards creative and risky exhibition designs by participating galleries.
Additionally, the New Drawing Talent Prize — Drawing Room Lisboa & Viarco offers an emerging artist a residency at the Portuguese Pencil Factory, with accommodation at Oliva Creative Factory.
The third National Press-Mint Art Prize (INCM) awards up to €10,000 to Portuguese artists, and a new Editorial Prize will select a Portuguese artist from the fair to create a monograph for the Arte e Artistas collection, to be presented at the next edition.
This year's official fair image, titled "Reconstruccoón" (2025), was created by Chilean artist María Ossandón, featuring drawings inspired by miniature landscape fragments from broken porcelain.
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