Cultura@Católica
The Cultura@Católica initiative promotes the integration of art and culture within the academic environment.
The initiative involves the entire university community and also extends to the public spaces of the campuses, strengthening the connection between the university and civil society.
This initiative embraces culture as an essential part of the University’s identity, fostering the link between artistic creation, scientific research, and community engagement.
Through regular programming in exhibition spaces and public areas across its four campuses, Universidade Católica Portuguesa promotes the interconnection between the arts and various scientific fields, offering exhibitions, concerts, installations, artist talks, cinema, theater, artistic residencies, among others, inviting the participation of the entire academic community.
All galleries and exhibition halls of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, located on the campuses of Lisbon, Porto, Viseu, and Braga, provide free access to the public. The cultural program is open to the entire academic community and the general public, promoting free and inclusive access to art and culture.
Galleries and exhibition rooms
Amélia de Mello Foundation Gallery
João Paulo II University Library Building
Palma de Cima
1649-023 Lisbon
Opening hours: working days from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Group visits at other times (5 pax min.)
Contact/booking: cultura.sede@ucp.pt
School of Arts Exhibition Room
Arts Building, Floor 0
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Monsenhor Celso Tavares da Silva Room
D. José Pedro da Silva Library, Floor 1
Estrada da Circunvalação
3504-505, Viseu
Opening Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Contacts: 232 41 95 00 | bjps.viseu@ucp.pt
Alma Mater
Alma Mater is a biannual magazine that "showcases the present and future of Católica", as Paulo Campos Pinto, director of AM, states. The publication gathers articles, stories and interviews with academic community members, such as alumni, faculty, staff, students, researchers and partners.
Works of art at Católica
Art and culture are part of everyday life on campus. Get to know the various public works of art at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa through the Católica Artworks Collection videos. Discover pieces like "Os Livros", two low relief pieces by Emília Nadal, or "Pomba", by Bordalo II, a sculpture that reuses garbage and waste to send a message about the environment.
On-Campus Concerts
Throughout the year, the University organises several musical performances, such as concerts in the garden and Christmas concerts. The whole academic community can participate in these moments, whether watching or performing.
Artistic Residencies
Arts Laboratory - programme of artistic residencies
Presented as a transdisciplinary research platform that annually brings together an artist or cultural agent and researchers from CECC, the Arts Laboratory. Programme of artistic residencies for research is the result of a partnership between CECC, the Lisbon Consortium and Cultura@Católica.
Artistic Residencies at the School of Arts
The Artistic Residencies program at the School of Arts consists in a period of residency at the School for developing research and artistic work in the fields of visual arts, cinema, new media art, and sound. These Residencies are part of the philosophy of the School as an “art center”, in which ongoing activities will foster knowledge and contemporary creation. They also support the different artistic Bachelor, Master and PhD that the School offers, putting the artists in interactions with students in a creative environment of mutual contamination.