The 9th edition of Drawing Room Lisboa, an international contemporary art fair dedicated to drawing, opens today and runs until Sunday at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes (SNBA), in Lisbon, bringing together 23 galleries and over 70 artists.
This year’s edition features 16 Portuguese galleries, six Spanish galleries and one Peruvian gallery, making a total of 23, in an edition that reinforces the international dimension of the fair dedicated exclusively to drawing.
Among the participating Portuguese galleries are Arte Periférica, Balcony – Contemporary Art Gallery, BraçoPerna44, Carlos Carvalho – Arte Contemporânea, Galeria 111, Galeria Belo Galsterer, Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Helena Rodrigues Galeria, Kubik Gallery, Lehmann, Presença, Salgadeiras Arte Contemporânea, This Is Not a White Cube and Trema, from Lisbon and Porto.
International participants include the galleries Caicoya Galería, from Oviedo; Galería Bibli, from Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Galería Silvestre, from Madrid; Siboney, from Santander; Trinta Arte Contemporánea, from Santiago de Compostela; and Víctor Lope, from Barcelona, as well as Marissi Campos Galería, with branches in Lima and Lisbon.
One of the highlights will be the exhibition featuring the five finalists of the Luso-American Foundation for Development (FLAD) Drawing Prize 2026, an initiative by FLAD in partnership with Drawing Room Lisboa.
Catarina Real, Inez Teixeira, Rudi Brito, Eduardo Matos and Tomás Cunha Ferreira were selected from over a hundred applications. Each finalist receives a production grant of €2,000, whilst the winner will receive a prize of €20,000.
Among the Portuguese artists represented in the galleries are Pedro Cabrita Reis, Pedro Calapez, José Pedro Croft, Diogo Pimentão, Manuel Caldeira, Marco Franco, Cristina Lamas, Fátima Frade Reis, Miguel Serra de Almeida, Laura Caetano, Sebastião Casanova, Nadya Ismail and Tatyana Cristina, amongst others.
This year’s edition will feature as its official image the work “Diálogos Mudos” by the Peruvian artist Lennin Vásquez, represented by Marissi Campos Galería, which will present the series of drawings “Habitar el silencio”.
The international line-up includes artists such as Miguel Galano and Irene González from Spain, Gwendolyn van der Velden from the Netherlands, Helena Valsecchi from Italy, Pouran Jinchi from Iran, Pedro Liñares from Brazil, Katarzyna Pacholik from Poland, Nicoleta Sandulescu from Moldova, Ricardo Angélico from Angola, Noé Sendas from Belgium, and Rob Miles from Switzerland.
Source: LUSA