From 1968 to 1972, the SOQUIL visual arts awards were issued by AICA by a regular jury made up of José Augusto França, Rui Mário Gonçalves and Fernando Pernes, who awarded the best exhibitions hosted in Lisbon only.

Having had a hiatus of eight years, the award was resumed in 1981 by the then called Visual Arts Division of the Directorate for Cultural Action / SEC (Department for Culture), and it then started considering the entire country. Since then, AICA’s Portuguese Section annually chooses a visual artist and an architect who it deems worthy of a national award, which is funded by the Ministry of Culture.

The AICA/MC (Ministry of Culture) Awards for Visual Arts and Architecture are issued to two people in those respective areas whose career trajectory is considered relevant by the critics, and whose work was particularly in focus on the year the award is being issued.

AICA / MC / Millennium bcp

AICA / Ministry of Culture Awards

A Associação Internacional de Críticos de Arte/Secção Portuguesa (AICA/SP) e a fundação carmona e costa promovem um prémio de crítica de arte e arquitetura, no valor de 10.000,00, que tem lugar de dois em dois anos, reportando-se à produção publicada no biénio anterior de obras inéditas escritas em língua portuguesa e publicadas originalmente em Portugal.

Prémio de Crítica e Ensaística de Arte e Arquitetura

Prize of Art Critic

Thirty Years AICA/MC Awards: History

Other publications

Thirty Years AICA/MC Awards: Architecture

Critic