Lisbon Art Weekend with 60 spaces and 95 events in the biggest edition ever

O Lisbon Art Weekend will gather 60 spaces and promote 95 events, between November 5th and 8th, in Lisbon, the largest ever edition of the meeting dedicated to the dissemination of contemporary art, according to the organization.

In this eighth edition, the event maintains free entry into the participating spaces and proposes a program that includes exhibitions, guided tours, conversations with artists, performances, visits to museums, art galleries, private collections, artists' studios, and workshops for children and families.

Created in 2019, Lisbon Art Weekend intends to make known the diversity of contemporary creation in the city and bring the public closer to spaces dedicated to contemporary and other cultural projects, promoting contact with different artistic practices and dialogue between agents of the sector, indicates the information disclosed by the organization.

Among the participating institutions will be the Gulbenkian Modern Art Center (CAM), the Arpad Szenes Foundation – Vieira da Silva, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), the Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Center of the Cultural Center of Belém (MAC/CCB), the Museum of Contemporary Art Armando Martins (MACAM), the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado (MNAC) and the Julião Sarmento Pavilion.

The program includes a performance by Portuguese artist António Poppe at MNAC, which crosses visual arts, poetry and performance, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of his work, which he has presented since 1996.

At MAC/CCB, a guided tour of the exhibition “Here I Stand” reveals the work of Portuguese artist Ângela Ferreira, with a reading of her sculptures and facilities and the relations that establish between architecture, colonial history and political power.

In the Julião Sarmento Pavilion, the conversation “Encounters Between the Artist, the Work and the Public” proposes a meeting with the artist Iris Buchholz Chocolate, born in Germany and linked to Angola since 2003, with a practice that crosses Angolan ancestral and craft traditions with European conceptual approaches, addressing topics such as memory, colonial heritage and identity.

In CAM, there is a guided visit by curators to the exhibition “Places that Draw”, and a workshop for families, while the MAAT proposes, in turn, the workshop “These Works kill me”, addressed to children and adolescents from 8 to 12 years old, which combines movement, drawing and collective creation of narratives from the works.

Among the participating galleries and independent spaces are 3+1 Contemporary Art, Appleton, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Galeria Francisco Fino, Galeria Filomena Soares, Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Pedro Cera, Vera Cortês, Underdogs and Kunsthalle Lissabon, among several other structures distributed across different areas of the city.

This year's edition also maintains free guided tours, and includes interpretation in Sign Language Portuguese in public visits to the Intendente, to facilitate the access of deaf people to the programming.

The program includes exhibitions and meetings with artists such as Gabriel Abrantes, at Galeria Francisco Fino, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, at Consonni Radziszewski, Pantónio, at Underdogs, José Pedro Pedro Croft, at Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Gil Heitor Cortesion, at Pedro Cera, and Juan Araujo, at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, and initiatives are also planned with Vica Pacheco, at Galeria Foco, and Artur Lescher, at Kubikgallery.

Performances are also planned with the aim, according to the organization, of expanding the forms of contact between artists, works and audiences beyond traditional exhibition formats.

Lisbon Art Weekend is a non-profit organization founded by Merve Pakyürek and Marc Kean Paker, who moved to Lisbon a decade ago, and decided to bring together independent spaces and cultural institutions in a free access circuit to strengthen the articulation between the different actors of contemporary art and give visibility to artistic production.