We curate, we grow, we support artists and creative people — a group built as scaffolding around one practice, structured to protect the liberty to keep making the work.
Key projects, one band
Institutions, brands, festivals and museums — the range of the group in one strip. Drag sideways; click any frame.
Selected commissions
Projects by the collective and its studios — for institutions, brands and cities, on four continents.
Substratum · UNESCO
Paris · 2023 · UNESCO Art CollectionA monumental bas-relief at UNESCO Headquarters, now part of the UNESCO Art Collection. · José Pando Lucas
Commotion · EU Council
Brussels · 2021 · Portuguese PresidencyVhils installation in the atrium of the Council of the European Union for the 2021 Portuguese Presidency — cultural diplomacy at the heart of Europe. · José Pando Lucas
House of Nassr · Al Nassr × CR7
Riyadh · 2025 · Knight of Najd editionsA Cristiano Ronaldo tile-mosaic facade, with the 'Knight of Najd' signed-print and tile-edition drop — 13.1M reach, 18M views.
Hennessy · Making the Invisible Visible
2018 · six cities, four continentsA global campaign delivered as public art — carved portraits of each city's invisible cultural workers across six cities on four continents, plus the V.S Limited Edition carved-label bottle. · Alexander Silva
SL Benfica × adidas · Special Edition by Vhils
Estádio da Luz · 2026The official 25/26 special-edition SL Benfica kit designed by Vhils for adidas, with an eagle-wing serigraphy — launched February 2026 and debuted on-pitch against AVS. · SL Benfica / adidas
Everyday Gods · Super Bock
Leça do Balio · 2019 · Vhils & PichiAvoA ~3,000 m² Vhils & PichiAvo mural across the Super Bock Group warehouse — one chapter of a multi-year Super Bock arts programme, from the Art Park to Maison Super Bock, Paris 2026. · Expanding Roots
Netflix × Vhils
Setúbal · 2025 · NetflixA carved-portrait mural revealed by controlled explosion in a deactivated Setúbal warehouse — the faces of Netflix's January 2025 slate, from The Night Agent to Back in Action. · Expanding Roots
MINI · Urban Canvas
Lisbon · 2022 · multi-year partnershipFrom the Urban Canvas carved mural to artist-painted MINI rooftops — a multi-year partnership spanning Vhils Studio, Underdogs and Iminente.
MEO Kalorama · art programme
Lisbon · 2022The festival's full art programme — AkaCorleone's Temple of Sound main stage, live painting and an on-site Underdogs print gallery. · ShotbyGregz
(No) Borders
Portugal · France · 2022 · with Institut FrançaisA Portugal–France public-art exchange with the Institut Français — four Portuguese and four French artists paired across four sister cities.
Interferences · MAAT
Lisbon · 2022 · co-curated by Alexandre FartoMuseum exhibition on emerging urban cultures at MAAT, co-curated by Alexandre Farto with a full Cultural Affairs public programme.
VIC Art Fences
Lisbon · 2022 · Prata Riverside VillageConstruction hoardings at Prata Riverside Village turned into a riverside gallery run by three artists for VIC Properties. · Ricardo Oliveira Alves
One group, many hands
The projects that crossed more than one company of the group — one conversation, several rooms.
MINI · the ecosystem partnership
Cultural Affairs × Vhils Studio × Underdogs × IminenteA multi-year partnership spanning the whole ecosystem — Vhils Studio, Underdogs and Iminente — from the carved Urban Canvas mural to artist-painted MINI rooftops.
MEO Kalorama · three units, one festival
Cultural Affairs × Underdogs × EternoA recurring collaboration across three units — the group-run art programme, the on-site Underdogs print gallery, and Eterno's digital-art installation at the 2024 and 2025 editions. · ShotbyGregz
Festival Iminente · Monsanto
Festival Iminente × Underdogs · curated by VhilsThe festival conceived by Alexandre Farto (Vhils) as a curated extension of the Underdogs public-art programme, at its artistic high-water mark — 5 stages, 100+ artists from 11 nationalities inside the carved Panorâmico. · Vera Marmelo & NashDoesWork
EDP Art Reef
Vhils Studio × EternoThirteen large-scale carved pieces made from decommissioned coal-plant parts, sunk off Albufeira as a permanent underwater exhibition — created by Vhils, with an Eterno dioramas and VR layer.
Threshold · Vhils opens Eterno
Eterno × Cultural Affairs · Marvila · 2025The gallery's founding act — Vhils opens Eterno's two-floor Marvila space with a new LAYERS chapter: billboard works and generative pieces upstairs, video projections below.
Rasura · Vhils × Clay
Clay × Underdogs · Vhils editionThe founding collaboration of the group's azulejo house — Vhils's carved-tile edition inspired by the Orly 'Strates Urbaines' mural, made by Clay with Underdogs. · José Pando Lucas
The model
Cultural Affairs is not a conventional holding company. It is a collective: five platforms, each running its own programme, over one shared spine of production, curation, legal and logistics — around fifty people, based in Lisbon. Because production, permits and delivery are shared, a commission signed in Paris, Giza or Brussels is carried out by the same team that carved the first Lisbon walls, and one conversation reaches all five platforms.
The core practice — permanent commissions, museum exhibitions, research and editions, from the studio to the world. Carving since 2005.
Gallery, public-art programme and editions house in Marvila — co-founded with curator Pauline Foessel.
The urban-culture festival — one of the few festivals of its scale conceived and curated by a visual artist. Ten years old in September 2026.
The phygital gallery — digital, generative and AI art with physical editions, across two floors in Marvila.
Contemporary azulejo by artists — Patterns, Editions and Masterpieces, handcrafted in Portugal.
One conversation reaches the whole group
A single conversation reaches all five platforms of the collective.
- Museum & institutional commissions public art, exhibitions, loans
- Brand partnerships campaigns, editions, art programmes
- Public-art & city programmes
- Hotels, resorts & developments
- Collector & editions enquiries
- Press & media