A community is built over time, through listening, exchange, shared memories, and the possibility of doing things together.

Over the past few months, OASis Lisboa has brought together artists, collectives, and people from the local community, especially those over 50, transforming the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon into a space for meeting and creation.

Embroidery, walking, photography, conversation, observation, and reminiscing have become ways of transforming personal experiences into shared material. The works gathered in this exhibition are born from these encounters and stem from different memories and questions to reflect on the relationships we establish with each other and with the places we inhabit. Stories, knowledge, gestures, and traces circulate between generations and cultures, giving shape to what can be built together.

Works by Bandim, Gabriella Kiss, Jaqueline Arashida, Mariana Espadaneira, María Gloria Nieto Montero, Nuno Trigueiros, Sandra Imaz and Tanque.

The exhibition can be visited from October 7th to November 1st, 2026. Admission is free.

An experimental workshop to discover cyanotype, an ancient photographic technique that uses sunlight to create images in a characteristic blue hue. Using plants, neighborhood photographs, and short texts, participants explore how sunlight can transform these fragments into unique images.

This moment is part of the construction of the artwork "Pages of Light," by María Gloria Nieto Montero, a project that will transform the windows of the Goethe-Institut Lisboa café into translucent surfaces, through a collaborative process with the +50 community, combining cyanotype, digital collage, and the collective memory of Campo dos Mártires da Pátria.

Hungarian artist-researcher Gabriella Kiss invites people aged 50 and over to participate in the construction of an affective cartography of the city of Lisbon, based on their memories and personal experiences . Through walks and conversations, participants will identify places, surfaces, and urban elements that have significance in their lives, recording them through audio recordings, 3D scanning, and clay prints.

The collected materials will then be brought together in a sculptural installation at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon , transforming individual memories and urban traces into a shared emotional landscape. This activity is part of the work *Inner Topographies: The Places We Carry* , a project by Gabriella Kiss that combines site-specific installation, participatory public art, and community practices to reflect on collective memory, spatial traces, and local narratives.

The open meetings with the artist will take place on September 15, 16, 17 and 18 at 18:30 pm, at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon.

A participatory art project that intertwines painting, embroidery, and memory. Based on shared stories, gestures, and symbols, the work that the artist will create for OASis Lisboa, "Drawing Symbols of Resistance," celebrates the forms of resistance that inhabit everyday life and transforms personal experiences into a collective creation.

The participatory creative workshops, open to all interested individuals, combine painting, embroidery, and memory, and will take place on July 16, 17, 20, and 27 at 15 pm.

Nuno Trigueiros is a multidisciplinary artist from the Sintra Line, whose practice encompasses painting, collage, photomontage, screen printing, and drawing, bridging urban and visual arts.

In the Goethe-Institut garden, each participant is invited to create a small shadow book. The activity begins with an introduction to fanzines and continues with drawing exercises using one's own shadows and projected shadows, transforming the garden into a place for observation and creation.

Mariana Espadaneira lives and works in Lisbon, combining drawing, painting, installation, ceramics, and writing in an investigation of gesture, repetition, time, body, and nature. She holds a degree in Painting and is pursuing a Master's degree in Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. In the work "Archive Garden," for OASis Lisboa, she will create a set of ceramic sculptures, transforming the garden into a place of contemplation, where shadows, memories, and traces are inscribed in the material.

The Bandim Cooperative will present a collection of textile pieces created from the encounters and stories of women from the Bangladeshi community in Portugal, addressing themes such as belonging, comfort, and cultural identity. At this event, you will be able to share your own stories and contribute to the creation of a collective embroidery piece.

Bandim is a cooperative formed by migrant women of 21 nationalities that promotes inclusion, empowerment, and intercultural dialogue through art and culture. In Stitches of Belonging, it brings together Bangladeshi women, artists, and the local community in a collaborative textile creation.

The Tanque cultural association proposes an open round table discussion based on an intimate and collective question: what does it mean to be a woman? Each participant is invited to share a reflection and transform it into an image or word created on raw fabric.

Tanque, based in Lisbon, is dedicated to community art projects that value places and inhabitants through artistic practice. In the work they are creating for OASis Lisboa, "PANO CRU" (Raw Cloth), they will use roundtables and workshops in visual arts, embroidery, and sewing to shape a collective installation made of painted and embroidered scraps of fabric.

A creative encounter of observation, listening, and sharing about the neighborhood surrounding the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon. Using words, images, sounds, colors, flavors, names, and memories collected as a group, artist Jacqueline Arashida will create a prototype of the "Neighborhood Letters" project with the participants, exploring what we want to care for, preserve, and imagine collectively.

Jaqueline Arashida is a Portuguese-Brazilian visual artist whose practice crosses cultures, memories, and landscapes, exploring muralism, acrylic, linocut, textiles, and poetry. In the work she is creating for OASis Lisboa, "Good Encounters," she proposes a mural inspired by neighborhood life, created from the sound and visual observation of the vicinity. The work seeks to bring people and places closer together, revealing the bonds, gestures, and small presences that build the daily relationship with what inhabits what is close to home.