12:30 ICA REGIÓN DE MURCIA – CENDEAC 

Presents: Magazine Contra-narrativas No. 5. Algorithmic visuals: image politics and data agencies

With: María Luz Ruiz Bañón 

Volume engages with the current debate on AI-mediated visuals and their impact on collective imagination, connecting digital culture, image theory, and contemporary artistic production. It includes texts by authors and artists such as Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Lev Manovich, Trevor Paglen, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Grégory Chatonsky, Yves Citton, Meredith Tromble, and Joanna Zylinska, among others, outlining a critical overview of emerging visualities and their political, aesthetic, and technological implications.

13:30 FONTANAR

Presents: Intangible Matter, Intermittent Traces 

With: Cláudio Magalhães, João Castro Silva and Antonio Sánchez 

Intangible Matter, intermittent traces relates to the impossibility of fully grasping the various objects that surround us, whether in their visible or tactile aspects, or even those we can neither see nor touch. The aesthetic interplay transforms this impossibility into a creative resource, perpetuating in the observer’s mind the ideas arising from this condition.

14:00 FUNDACIÓN RAC

Presents: Restless Beauty. The Rebellion of Contemporary Art

With: Carlos Rosón Gasalla, Agar Ledo Arias, and José Jesus Costa

This book by José Jesus Costa offers a structured journey through contemporary art, presenting its main languages, contexts, and dynamics in an accessible way—from direct experience with artworks to the functioning of the art system. It has been conceived as a starting point that fosters curiosity, understanding, and encourages a personal, free, and informed approach.

14:30 TURNER

Presents: LFA Award 2025

With: Pedro Leão Neto

LFA Award 2025 brings together and expands upon the first edition of the Luis Ferreira Alves International Photography Competition, a biennial international contest focused on architectural photography. Coordinated by Pedro Leão Neto, it gathers the award-winning projects, the finalists, and two special mentions, along with critical texts from the jury. Bilingual in Portuguese and English.

15:00 CASA FALCONIERI

Presents: Five artists’ books dedicated to the Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda
With: Alessandra Angioni, Simone Frau, Luce Carlotta Bonandini, Gabriella Locci and Dario Piludu
On the occasion of the centenary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1926–2026), Casa Falconieri pays tribute to Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926, with an overview of her poems and short stories, which form the publisher’s latest titles.

16:00 IMPRENSA NACIONAL
Presents: Culture and Democracy, from the National Arts Plan Collection
With: Paulo Pires do Vale and Cláudio Garrudo
The texts by Jacques Rancière (b. 1940), “Aesthetic Democracy”; by Chantal Mouffe (b. 1943), “Agonistic Democracy and Cultural Practices”; and by Paulo Pires do Vale (b. 1973), “A Question of Style: Culture and Democracy,” included in this book, as well as the Porto Santo Charter, dating from 2021, and the Youth Addendum to the Porto Santo Charter — Caldas da Rainha/Loulé, dating from 2025 (available online), provide a conceptual and propositional framework to think together, as a community, about the best way to encourage the greatest number of people to participate in a shared culture. They aim to recognize citizens as cultural agents, capable of playing a crucial role in its development.

16:30 CULTURGEST

Presents: João Penalva – Characters and Interpreters
With: João Penalva, Bruno Marchand, Mário Valente and Filipa Valladares

The book Characters and Interpreters is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, held at Culturgest until July 12, bringing together a selection of João Penalva’s most emblematic installations. Designed by Nonverbal Club, the book features previously unpublished texts by Bruno Marchand, curator of the exhibition, and João Fernandes, Director of the Instituto Moreira Salles, as well as an interview with João Penalva conducted by Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation.

In the mid-1990s, João Penalva (Lisbon, 1949) began a body of work that is entirely unique. After years devoted to painting, his pieces started to grow in scale and to incorporate a variety of materials such as photographs, videos, drawings, documents, slides, letters, and all kinds of notes and manuscripts. Although they resembled installations, they were not exactly that; the interaction of these materials did not aim to draw attention to the physical space of the gallery or to the specific experience of occupying it. On the contrary, they created a fictional space in which texts and images contributed to the development of narratives shaped by our curiosity and associative imagination, as if we were inside a cabinet d’amateur or an evidence room from which the inspector has stepped away.

This exhibition, presented at Culturgest, marks thirty years of this particular strand of João Penalva’s work, through the reinstallation of around fifteen of his most emblematic pieces, including—thanks to a collaboration with the Municipal Galleries—the reinstallation of the seminal work A Colecção Ormsson, originally presented by João Penalva at the Pavilhão Branco.

17:30 KINDRED SPIRIT PROJECTS

Presents: the WTF-Curatorial (space as a device) cycle 

With: Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues and João Silvério

A conversation on how the approach to exhibition space can structure and challenge the content of an exhibition. Presentation of several examples and of how this cycle seeks to explore this line of thought, communicating it through various formats (conversations/podcasts, documentary exhibitions for each case study, and a printed publication).

18:00 MARISMA MAGAZINE 

Presents: Marisma Intimate Land No. 1 Andalusia 

With: Ana Fernández 

Marisma is a travel guide in magazine format offering an intimate and personal account of contemporary life and culture in regional contexts. Reading it invites us to imagine a model of travel that connects us with the people, social thought and everyday life of a particular culture, broadening our view of tourism beyond a mere consumerist activity. The project launches in early 2026 with a bilingual Spanish-English issue dedicated to Andalusia.