🎬 OPEN CALL FUSO 2025

The Open Call competition is one of the main pillars of FUSO, in its mission to promote new national artistic creation and to showcase, recognize, and support emerging artists.

This year’s edition received 208 applications from artists who live and work in Portugal and/or are Portuguese nationals. Jean-François Chougnet – the artistic director of FUSO – selected 13 works that offer the public a view of the world with sensitivity, intelligence and a sense of humor.

Selected artists and works

Alexandre Lyra Leite
Vozes e Ar Pesado, 2025

Carla Cruz 
Fins, 2024

Eva Pelúcia
Morte de Vénus, 2024

Inês Carneiro e Sara Neves (Coletivo Nicho)
Gesto, 2023

Inês Ventura
a Menina do Mar, 2025

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha e Vera Mantero
The Breaking Point, 2023

Laís Andrade
My Ray of Sunshine, 2024

LealVeileby (António Leal e Jesper Veileby)
N, 2025

Nuno Veiga
I am a word and also its echo, 2024

Sama (Eduardo Felipe Dutra)
Elon, 2024

Sara Massa 
Reviralha, 2025

Stephanie Monica         
eColonialism, 2024

Welket Bungué
O Colon, 2023

These videos will be presented on August 27 at MAAT-Central’s Pátio do Carvão, and will compete for the EDP/MAAT Foundation Acquisition prize (MAAT’s choice) and the Duplacena Incentive prize (public’s choice).

Congratulations to those selected and our sincere thanks to everyone who sent us their works for the competition!

FUSO 2025 takes place from August 26 to August 31 and the entrance is free.