Terra, Mar e Vinho | Art Exhibition Inauguration | Rita Costa

Opening on 4 July 2026 at Gallery Hostel Porto, Rua Miguel Bombarda 222, this exhibition by Rita Costa brings together the artist’s practice and her long-standing connection to visual communication and painting.

In Terra, Mar e Vinho (Land, Sea and Wine), Rita Costa turns to a visual language deeply rooted in Portuguese collective memory and gives it back to us as something both intimate and shared: the worked land and soil, the lived sea and ocean, and wine as ritual, celebration, and continuity. Her work does not treat Portugal as an illustrative theme, but as an inner presence: a heritage that inhabits our daily lives, runs through our veins, and shapes not only our imagination, but the essence of who we are as people.

This exhibition is a territory of recognition. Between ancestry and belonging, labour and festivity, landscape and memory, the works evoke Portuguese culture as something alive: made of repeated gestures, inherited stories, flavours, smells, and rhythms that endure over time. Here, earth, sea, and wine become metaphors of origin, resistance, and continuity — three forces that sustain both the body and the collective spirit.

At Gallery Hostel Porto, the exhibition unfolds as a conversation between art and place: a space where memory becomes visible, and where tradition is not fixed in the past, but carried forward as a living inheritance.