novobanco Gallery Beatriz Horta Correia
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One of the most important corporate collections of contemporary photography

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27 — 31 May

09:00 — 17:00

Thursday and Friday 09:00 - 19:00

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Praça Marquês de Pombal 3A
Piso -1
1250-161 Lisbon

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LDW Highlights

The novobanco Photography Gallery presents “Terra”, an exhibition in which the terracotta sculptures of Beatriz Horta Correia engage in a thoughtful dialogue with photographs from the novobanco collection, selected by the artist. This encounter unfolds as a layered exploration of material, memory, and landscape. Here, earth is not simply a medium but a generative force, a site where gestures accumulate, histories sediment, and forms emerge. Clay becomes both matter and metaphor: a tactile language through which the artist reflects on ancestral practices, embodied knowledge, and the temporal rhythms that bind humans to their environments. The photographs, in turn, expand this reflection, opening new perspectives on how land is inhabited, marked, and imagined.
The exhibition further extends this conversation through a textile work by Bombony and a video by Miguel Gaspar, each contributing additional sensorial and conceptual dimensions to this shared investigation of territory, materiality, and the traces we leave behind. Curation and Exhibition Design by Katja Helmin

The novobanco Photography Collection (formerly known as BESart Collection) was initiated in 2004 with the acquisition of a light box by Jeff Wall, a self-portrait by Cindy Sherman, a view of Shanghai by Thomas Struth, and an image of a bookcase by Candida Höfer. From here, the Collection expanded quickly within the following 10 years: with these four works considered as a reference framework for the collection of photo-based artworks from living artists of the 21st century, it now contains over 1,000 works from 300 artists of various generations and 38 nationalities.

The highly differentiated Collection was curated from the very beginning by the art advisor Alexandra Fonseca Pinho, who has brought together photographic images offering a first-hand approach to the changes and advances that have taken place in contemporary art in the last twenty years: “To collect is to capture a particular vision of a time, and a Collection must accept that art is the result of a creative, social and historical context,” she says. The Collection springs from the Bank’s “desire to share with a broad cross-section of the public the need to speak of the present and imagine a hypothetical future through artworks, as well as to offer a panorama of the world that only artists can give us.”

The Collection, which was already considered one of the most important of its kind, only became publicly accessible in 2008. Since then, the Contemporary Photography Collection from novobanco has its own exhibition space and storage in the Marquês de Pombal building in Lisbon.