Museu Coleção Berardo

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Exterior view of the museum

Néctar by Joana Vasconcelos, at the entrance to the museum

The Museu Coleção Berardo is a museum for modern and contemporary art in Lisbon . It opened on June 25, 2007 in the Centro Cultural de Belém and houses the art collection of José Berardo .

description

The museum's program covers important visual arts movements of the 20th and 21st centuries in Europe and America, such as surrealism , pop art , hyperrealism , minimalism and conceptual art . A special focus is the modern and contemporary art of Portugal.

In addition to the permanent exhibition of the Berardo Collection, which comprises around 1,000 works, there are also temporary exhibitions. The founding director was Jean-François Chougnet , and Pedro Lapa has been director of the museum since April 2011 . With more than 2.6 million visitors since 2007, it is one of the 50 most visited museums in the world.

Artist (selection)

Marcel Duchamp René Magritte Joan Miró José de Guimarães Paula Rego Marc Chagall Giorgio Di Chirico Mário Cesariny Emiliano di Cavalcanti Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Josef Albers

Pedro Cabrita rice Jean Dubuffet Man Ray Andy Warhol Salvador Dalí Jorge Molder Rui Chafes Pablo Picasso Francis Bacon Helena Almeida Joana Vasconcelos

Jorge Martins Max Bill Jean Arp Yves Klein Jackson Pollock Jeff Koons Willem de Kooning Eduardo Nery Max Ernst Júlio Pomar Lucio Fontana

Diego Rivera Francis Picabia Yves Tanguy Frank Stella Julião Sarmento Günther Uecker Fernanda Fragateiro Piet Mondrian Henry Moore Zoran Naskovski

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2008: Le Corbusier retrospective (80,000 visitors).
• 2009: De Miró a Warhol (251,000 visitors)
• 2012: Hélio Oiticica - museu é o mundo

See also

• List of museums in Lisbon

Web links

Commons : Museu Coleção Berardo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official websites
• http://www.berardocollection.com/
• Google Art Project

Coordinates: 38 ° 41 ′ 43.9 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 30.2"  W.