Part of the exhibition Transe, the largest museum exhibition by artist Rui Moreira presented at MAAT in Lisbon, will be on view at the Graça Morais Contemporary Art Centre in Bragança, from July 5 to December 14, 2025.

Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger is delighted to collaborate with MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology and the Graça Morais Contemporary Art Centre on this exhibition.

The work of Rui Moreira is often based on his travels and sensory explorations of the world, experiencing and conveying, through his creations, the physical and psychological perceptions inherent in places or atmospheres: the sweltering heat of the Moroccan desert, the icy temperatures of the Ganges River’s source in the mountains, the Kathakali dance, the humidity of the Amazon jungle, the rituals of the Caretos de Podence in northern Portugal… These sensations lie at the heart of the very structure of his drawings, executed with meticulousness and extreme patience, akin to a mnemonic exercise based on a ritualistic stroke, repeated tirelessly, with neither chronology nor linear spatiality. The monumentality of the whole is built upon its minute detail and delicacy. Rui Moreira’s works often take the form of geometric abstractions forming a cosmography, or organic landscapes reminiscent of the structures of life, or even deities emerging from mythological landscapes. Like these benevolent deities, Rui Moreira’s drawings are imbued with a new form of life and beauty heralding a certain state of being on Earth.
I was drawing for several hours, when I realized I was standing in millions of years of erosion, of time. It was not only the greatest landscape I’d ever seen, but also the greatest temporal landscape.

Rui Moreira (Porto, 1971) studied at Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2008, the gallery has dedicated several solo exhibitions to him – «Inner Monsoon» in 2010, «La Nuit» in 2014, «The Passengers» in 2022 – and has accompanied many of his exhibitions in international institutions: in 2014, the Mudam Luxembourg devoted a major exhibition to him, in 2015, Rui Moreira’s work entered the Contemporary Art Collection of Société Générale. In 2016, a set of ten works was presented at Pavilhão Branco in Lisbon. Entitled «Os Pirómanos,» this exhibition was then presented at Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães in 2017. In 2018, the international Japanese curator Yuko Hasegawa, director of the Museum of Contemporay Art in Tokyo, presented his works at the exhibition «Saudade Unmemorable Place in Time — China-Portugal» at the Foundation Fosun in Shanghai and then at Museu Coléção Berardo — Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. The artist was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, as part of the exhibition «I II III IV V – five decades of Ar.Co» in 2023.