Now showing through 14 April
A room
made of light
and salt.
Six contemporary artists working at the edge of the Atlantic — between Iberian craft, Mediterranean silence, and the slow weather of the southern coast. Curated in collaboration with the Lagos studio collective.
What the ocean
remembers of us.
A four-room survey tracing the coastline as a material, a witness, and a working surface — from hand-built ceramic vessels found in the kilns of Silves to large-format canvases painted with Atlantic rain.
The weight of an empty room — Mariana Brás & Inês Álvares
We were not trying to depict the sea. We were trying to leave a place open for it, the way a fisherman leaves a chair turned toward the door.
Twelve hands,
one coastline.
A rotating roster of painters, ceramicists, photographers, and sound artists working between Lagos, Faro, Loulé, and the villages upstream. All born, raised, or long-resident in the Algarve.
Mariana Brás
Inês Álvares
Rui Cabrita
Anaïs Marçal
Henrique Doce
The full artist index — 47 names, organised by medium and decade.
Browse the indexA quiet corner
of the old city.
Tucked behind the cathedral in a former 18th-century merchant's house, the gallery is a five-minute walk from the marina and a fifteen-minute walk from the train station. Bring comfortable shoes — the cobbles are honest.
8000-432 Faro, Portugal
11:00 — 19:00 Closed Mondays and public holidays
Twelve letters
every year.
A monthly letter from the gallery — one exhibition opening, one studio visit, one quiet object we can't stop thinking about. No promotions, no shop links, no noise.
Algarve
Galeria de Arte
A contemporary art gallery in the old city of Faro, dedicated to the artists, makers, and quiet weather of Portugal's southern coast.