The Leal Rios Collection, built by brothers Manuel and Miguel Leal Rios since 2003, was partially deposited at Serralves in 2021. This set of works is very significant for several reasons: because it represents a true thought process (a very particular perspective on the art of the last two decades), and can therefore be identified as a collection (which is very different from a mere gathering of works); because it brings to Serralves a set of works by artists who were already part of the Collection (resulting from acquisitions or previous deposits), adding aspects that allow for a better understanding of their respective trajectories and thus helping the Foundation to achieve one of the great objectives of its collecting work, which is to have significant nuclei of works by certain artists; because it adds to the Serralves Collection artists and works that allow for the broadening and enrichment of perspectives on the artistic production of periods in which it may be less fertile, namely the 2010s; because it far surpasses the domestic scale that is inevitably associated with Portuguese private collections — which is partly explained by the establishment of a Foundation that operated alongside the collection and which, since 2011, has had a physical space in Lisbon where the works could be exhibited, stored and preserved (which does not prevent a significant portion of the works presented in Auto dos Anfitriões, whose installation requires true museum conditions — assembly teams and exhibition areas — from being shown — to the public, but also to the buyers themselves — for the first time since they were acquired).