Opening of the exhibition: “Disobedience Archive”

On 29 June, Universidade Católica Portuguesa will open the exhibition "Disobedience Archive (The Agitational Billboard)", curated by Marco Scotini with exhibition design by Ângela Ferreira, at the Fundação Amélia de Mello Gallery in Lisbon.

The opening forms part of the programme for the 16th Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture and the Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema, both of which are dedicated to the theme of ‘Disobedience’ in 2026. The programme will begin at 5.30 pm in the Cardeal Medeiros Auditorium with a conversation between the artist Ângela Ferreira and the curator Marco Scotini, followed by the opening of the exhibition at 6.30 pm.

The presentation of the Disobedience Archive at Universidade Católica Portuguesa brings together a selection of eighteen works organised into two thematic strands: ‘Gender Disobedience and Insurgent Communities’ and ‘Colonialism’. Each edition of the archive is developed in dialogue with guest artists, whose practices engage with the project’s ongoing research into resistance, emancipation and social transformation.

For this presentation, the South African artist Ângela Ferreira has been invited; she is recognised for her work exploring the legacies of colonialism, the circulation of political forms, and the relationships between architecture, memory and liberation movements. Her contribution offers an interpretation of the archive through the lens of transnational solidarities and histories of emancipation.

The exhibition will be on display at the Amélia de Mello Foundation Gallery, at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Lisbon.