Plug-in, at the Museum of Art Architecture and Technology - MAAT - in Lisbon, Joana Vasconcelos' solo exhibition. It brings together recent works, some of the artist's most iconic pieces since 2000, as well as works from the EDP Foundation Art Collection, establishing a dialogue between the heritage of electricity, technology and the visual arts. The exhibition attracted over 300,000 visitors from 29 September to 1 April 2024. Un-plug, the finissage on 1 April was the Sunday with the highest attendance in MAAT's history.

Plug-in took place in both museum buildings, now known as MAAT Central and MAAT Gallery. In the former, the artist presents Árvore da Vida [Tree of Life] (2023), now adapted to the Tejo Power Station Generators Room. At MAAT Gallery, a total of seven works were presented: Drag Race (2023), which establishes a dialogue with War Games (2011). Two pieces that were featured at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will be presented for the first time in Lisbon: the mirror mask popularised with the title I’ll Be Your Mirror (2019) and the gigantic Solitaire ring (2018), which was installed outside the museum. From Asia comes the tentacular textile sculpture Valkyrie Octopus created in 2015 for MGM MACAU; for the first time in Europe, was hung in the Oval Gallery. Strangers in the Night (2000) was exhibited in the same location as Medley, Joana Vasconcelos' first retrospective, which was made possible by the first edition of the EDP Foundation New Artists Award in 2000. 23 years later – and after having established her name on the world contemporary art scene – the Portuguese artist returned to the Lisbon waterfront for an ambitious exhibition. Using the heritage of electricity, which is at the root of the EDP Foundation's work, and the dialogue between technology and the visual arts, present in many of her creations, she re-establishes a connection with the public in her city.