João Penalva

Galeria Francisco Fino presents João Penalva's first solo exhibition at the gallery, opening on September 25 at 10 p.m. On view until November 8, 2025. 

On the upcoming exhibition, João Penalva says: “I would like to call this first exhibition with Galeria Francisco Fino a retrospective exhibition. Retrospective in the sense that some works, although recent, refer to previous works or even incorporate them, some are older works presented for the first time in Portugal, and some were shown in Portugal so long ago that no one remembers seeing them.”

In this show, recent works such as Reclining Nude (Abstracto) (2025) or Philharmonie (2025) coexist with works such as Seven Views of Spaces Between Five Chairs (2007–2015) and W (1994), drawing a heterogeneous landscape that highlights the breadth of references, narrative complexity, and formal diversity that characterize João Penalva's practice.