On October 16, 2025, the date on which World Bread and Food Day is celebrated, the Bread Museum will inaugurate its first international exhibition of drawing and painting dedicated to bread, bringing together artists from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Poland. Entitled “Bread as Drawing”, this exhibition marks a new chapter in the life of the museum, placing bread not only as memory or heritage, but as a living source of artistic inspiration, open to intercultural dialogue.

Since its opening in 2002, in the heart of Serra da Estrela, the Bread Museum has become an essential reference in Portuguese museology and the largest museum in the world dedicated to the theme. More than a museum to visit, it is a place to feel — where collective memory is reborn around the universal act of making bread, which spans twelve thousand years of human history.

This international exhibition continues that mission. By transforming bread into a matter of artistic creation, the invited artists explore its symbolism, its everyday presence and its evocative power. The result is a plural body of works that both revisit the roots and project new perspectives, reaffirming the universality of a food that speaks every language.

The exhibition is curated by José Quaresma, Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, who is also one of the participating artists. It brings together 22 works by João Sobreira, Lima Carvalho, Agim Sako, Alice Bomberini, António Quadros, Juan Carlos Ramos and Tomasz Matczak, among others. The critical perspective on bread, combined with artistic sensitivity, gives the exhibition a unity that connects the rigour of research with the freedom of creation.

More than an artistic event, this exhibition embodies the very identity of the Bread Museum: a place of encounter, preservation and transformation. A space where history opens to the world and bread – the food of humanity – becomes art, memory and future. Open to visitors from Wednesday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Bread Museum in Seia.

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