The 5 finalists of the FLAD Drawing Award 2025 have been chosen. The work of these artists will be exhibited at Drawing Room Lisbon, which takes place between October 23 and 26 at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon. The winner will be known on October 25th.

The 2025 edition of the FLAD Drawing Award will distinguish the best among the almost 200 applications received. This year, for the first time, five finalists were selected instead of ten, who will have the opportunity to exhibit their work at Drawing Room Lisbon, which takes place between October 23rd and 26th, at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon. Another novelty of this year’s edition is that each artist will receive a production grant for the exhibition worth €2,000.

The winner will be announced on October 25, at Drawing Room Lisbon – which is once again a partner of this initiative – and will receive a monetary prize of 20 thousand euros.

This award aims to support the production and artistic innovation in Portugal, to recognize the artistic talent in Portugal and to support the promising artists of our country.

The area of artistic production chosen was the drawing, for its important representation in the Collection of Contemporary Art of FLAD and for constituting an artistic expression of a very intimate relationship with the creator of art. In the last editions of this annual initiative, the artist Pedro Tropa, the artist Maria Capelo, Carla Filipe and Rosa Baptista were awarded.

Meet the five finalists of the 2025 edition:

 

Finalists FLAD Drawing Award 2025

 

Ana Manso (1984). Rooted in a regular practice of painting and drawing, Ana Manso’s visual imagination dissolves between cycles of creation that evoke the mysticism of transformation present in the natural world — in the tides, in the phases of the moon, in the seasons of the year, and in the artist’s own femininity.

Mariana Gomes (Faro, 1983). He lives and works in Lisbon. He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, including Canhota, FCC (2019), and Stop Making Sense!, EDP Foundation (2013). She is represented in national and international collections.

 

 

Luísa Jacinto (1984). He lives and works in Lisbon. Her practice deals with image protocols, narrative fragmentation and simulation, excess of evidence, and obscuration. He works according to procedural logics that are permanent questioning of the limits of painting, drawing, perception.

 

Pedro Vaz (1977). He is a visual artist who explores the relationship between man and nature. He uses drawing, painting, video, and installation to transform the physical experience of remote ecosystems into works that capture lived time, bodily presence, and the sensitive memory of the landscape.

 

 

Tiago Baptista (Leiria, 1986). Through the expanded practice of painting and drawing, his work is concerned with the relationship between the human and nature, unfolding in the investigation of the processes of construction of culture and individual and collective memory.

 

 

The winning artist will be known on October 25, at 6 pm, at Drawing Room Lisbon, which takes place between October 23 and 26, at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon.