Serralves

The publishing programme of the Serralves Foundation serves to document, disseminate and encourage multiple perspectives on contemporary art and culture. Over the last twenty-five years more than 350 titles have been published under the Foundation's imprint. They include catalogues of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art exhibitions and Collection, monographs on artist represented in the Serralves Collection, symposia and conference papers, publications on the history of the Serralves Villa, Park and Museum, and publications on art education, the environment, ecology and landscape.
 
Porto
 
10 titles
 
Agnès Varda - Light and Shadow / Luz e Sombra
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
currently out of stock
An overview of Agnès Varda's work, from her films to her visual works: collages, video art, installations and photographs (especially those made in Portugal in the 1950s).
Manoel de Oliveira - A Casa / The House
2019
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Taking Manoel de Oliveira's posthumous film A Visita ou Memórias e Confissões as a point of departure, this publication offers a broader questioning of the concept of the house in the filmmaker's oeuvre. Lavishly illustrated with archive material and images of his films, it includes several especially commissioned texts, together with an unpublished conversation between Oliveira and architect Álvaro Siza.
Robert Mapplethorpe - Pictures
2019
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
currently out of stock
This luxurious comprehensive catalogue, lavishly illustrated, brings together works from throughout the artist's career, from early collages and Polaroids, to the images of flowers, nudes, sexuality and portraits that made him one of the most notable photographers of the last century. It includes texts by art historian Jonathan K. Nelson and by Susan Sontag
 KWY Group - A Cosmopolitan Realism / Um realismo cosmopolita - The KWY Group / O grupo KWY
2015
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
This catalogue, based on works and publications in the Serralves Collection, reconstitutes the trajectory of the KWY group and its members—from Lisbon to Paris, to Munich—, their collaborations with other artists and publications and their links to international avant-garde movements.
Monika Sosnowska - Architectonisation
2015
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
A large survey of Monika Sosnowska's sculptural work.
David Douard -
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
sold out
Monograph.
Julie Mehretu - A Universal History of Everything and Nothing
2017
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Portuguese)
sold out
A twenty-year survey of works by Julie Mehretu, considered as one of the foremost painters of her generation.
Manoel de Oliveira - Collection Box (vol. 1, 2, 3)
2015
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
sold out
This box gathers the three volumes of the publication the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art began in 2008, in the framework of the major exhibition dedicated to the director, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
Locus Solus - Impressions de Raymond Roussel
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
sold out
The work of Raymond Roussel as a point of departure for an oblique and transversal reading of 20th century art.
Manoel de Oliveira - Catalogue raisonné
2024
English edition
forthcoming
The a catalogue raisonné dedicated to Oliveira's extensive filmography: the most thorough and comprehensive book published on the filmmaker until now
filters:


 top of page