As part of the 100th anniversary of the first generation of paintings exhibited at A Brasileira do Chiado, in Lisbon, the café launched a painting prize in 2024 aimed at promoting new values ​​in visual arts, challenging national artists. The ten winning paintings were placed in A Brasileira and the authors of the other works were invited to exhibit their paintings at the Bread Museum, in Seia, Serra da Estrela. The Bread Museum has a close bond with A Brasileira due to the values ​​of art and culture they both share and which had a happy beginning when, in 2021, the Bread Museum acquired at auction two personal objects of the Portuguese major poet Fernando Pessoa: his desk, which is on display at the Bread Museum, and his glasses, displayed at A Brasileira so that they can be admired and dreamed.

The richness of this collective exhibition, which brings together 27 paintings, lies precisely in the multiplicity of approaches taken by its authors. Many brought to the canvas features of their chosen artists, others left a strong connection between Fernando Pessoa and the café he used to go, and still others freely followed their inspiration with spontaneous brushstrokes and different narratives.

27 artists, all Portuguese, perpetuate the relationship between the arts and the community in this exhibition. Open until September 28, the Bread Museum continues its mission of decentralizing access to culture by taking it to the interior of the country, giving a stage to new national artists.

Take the opportunity to also visit the renovated Bread History Room, which goes back 12,000 years in time, when Man began to be sedentary and practice agriculture, going through political and social periods such as the Discoveries, the Estado Novo (the New State) in Portugal or the War in Ukraine, which portray the impact these events had on the most universal of foods in the history of Humanity: Bread.