Medo não medo

1988/1998, steel and golf balls
Galeria da Restauração, Porto

Thick Layer of Silence (on entering the world)

2000, steel
2 pieces, each: 450x75x75cm
Parque Histórico da Pena, Sintra, Portugal

What shall I do when you are not here?

2004, steel
210x120x524cm
Coll. Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany

Secret sovereignity (until the moment our sweet meeting comes)

2000, steel
714x280x280cm
Coll. Peter Meeker, Porto

Extinguish my eyes

2005, steel
214x130x130cm
Coll. Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark

Sad and vertical Europe

2000, steel
900x56x30cm
(Iglesia de San Mateo, Cáceres)
Coll. Elga de Alvear, Spain

I want everything from you

2006, steel
375x140x140cm
(Mens / Mankind)
St. Peterskirche, Leuven, Belgium

Onde estou?

2007, steel
200x100x2300cm
Fondazione Volume!, Rome, Italy

Unborn

2001, steel
9 pieces, each: 325x65x65x
(Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem)
Private Collection, Holland

Sick Angel

2000, winter tree, steel and aluminium
26 pieces, each: 60x13x13cm
Coll. S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuel Kunst
Gent, Belgium

I am like you

2008, steel
580x220x200cm
Avenida da Liberdade, Lisboa
(Coll. PLMJ)

The world becomes silent

2004, steel
50x1000x1000cm
Jardim da Sereia, Coimbra, Portugal

I am your yesterday (and you are my tomorrow)

2010, steel
420x270x354cm
Hjerting Strandpark, Esbjerg, Denmark (Coll. Lida og Oskar Nielsens Fond)

L'oggi cosi lento e lo ieri cosi breve

2011, steel
2 pieces: 252x80x80cm, 200x70x70cm
Exhibition: "Entrate per la porta stretta", Matera, Italy

What frightens you so much?

2008/2009, steel
440x92x80cm
(Exhibition: "Colossal", curator: Jan Hoet, Osnabrüker Land, Germany, 2009/2011)
Coll Würth, Künzelsau, Germany

The solitude of Giorgio de Chirico

2011, steel
171,5x48x48xcm
Coll. CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Burning in the forbidden sea

2011, steel, light and recorded voice
(Exhibitions: Five Rings, with Orla Barry, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisboa (2011)
“Chegar sem partir / Arriving without leaving”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (2022)
Coll. CAM - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal

Quiet wound of the yes, knife of the no

2013, steel and light
5 pieces, each: 300x27x78cm
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa

Deine Hände / Nachtblume

2013, steel
Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich / Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, Germany

Rumor

2015, steel
2 pieces, each: 480x50x50cm
(Exhibition: Família , with Pedro Costa, Criptopórtico - Museu Nacional Machado de Castro / Anozero Biennial, Coimbra)
Coll. MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Roma

Whisper

2015, steel
180x120x33cm
(Exhibition: Família , with Pedro Costa, Criptopórtico - Museu Nacional Machado de Castro / Anozero Biennial, Coimbra)

Incêndio / Burning

2017
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa

Sheepish moon

2018,steel
277x64x90cm
(Permanent installation after the exhibition "Seelenschatten")
Hain, Bamberg (Germany)

Farewell

2018, steel
650x230x1000cm
(in collaboration with Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura)
Barragem de Foz Tua, Portugal
Coll. EDP

Root

2019, steel
915x43x55cm
Nova SBE, Carcavelos (Portugal)
Donation by Hovione

La nuit

2018, steel and plaster sculpture "Le Nez", by Alberto Giacometti
81x29,5x287cm
(Exhibition: "Rui Chafes et Alberto Giacometti - Gris, Vide, Cris", Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian - Délégation en France (with the collaboration of Fondation Giacometti), Paris.
Curator: Helena de Freitas
Coll. Fondation Giacometti, Paris

Occhi che non dormono / Sleepless eyes

2020, steel
310 x 160 x 860 cm
Permanent installation at the Fondazione Centro Giacometti, Stampa (Switzerland)

Nada existe / Nothing exists

2021
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa

Travessia / Passage

2022, steel and concrete
197 x 86 x 67 cm
Coll. Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto

Unless they love you

1987 / 2022, platex and blue light
(new version of the work presented in 1987 at Galeria Leo, Lisbon)
(Exhibition: “Chegar sem partir / Arriving without leaving”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, 2022)

Rui Chafes e Alberto Giacometti - Gris, Vide, Cris

Centro de Arte Moderna / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa (with the collaboration of Fondation Giacometti)
Curator: Helena de Freitas

Höre die Schatten

2024, steel
194 x 50 x 262 cm
Private Collection, Düsseldorf (Germany)

Sonhando tudo / Dreaming everything

2024, steel
Diameter: 400 cm
Collaboration with Atelier de Arquitectura ARX Portugal
Praça General Humberto Delgado / Canal Central, Aveiro, Portugal