March 4, 2017 – EDP Foundation – Utopia/Dystopia / Hctor Zamora: Order and Progress – E-Flux

Utopia/Dystopia A Paradigm Shift March 22August 21, 2017

Hctor Zamora Order and Progress March 22April 24, 2017

MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology Lisbon Portugal

http://www.maat.pt

Following its official opening on October 5, 2016, the new MAAT kunsthalle reopens to the public on March 22, 2017, with two major exhibitions that take up the whole building: Utopia/DystopiaA Paradigm Shift, curated by Pedro Gadanho, Joo Laia and Susana Venturaand Order and Progress by Mexican artist Hctor Zamora, curated by Ins Grosso.

Utopia/DystopiaA Paradigm Shift is the first manifesto exhibition to be held in the kunsthalle designed by Amanda Levete (AL_A). Installed in three of MAATs galleries, this key-inaugural project will be a large group show featuring more than 60 works by a range of international artists and architects, some appearing for the first time in Portugal. The show will reveal how the two fields have represented ideas of utopia, or anticipated emerging notions of dystopia, since the early 1970s, with a strong focus on work produced over the last five years. Participants include architects such as Archigram, Archizoom, yr, Didier Faustino, Yona Friedman, Aldo Rossi, Superstudio, and artists such as Kader Attia, Jordi Colomer, Tacita Dean, DIS Collective, Cao Fei, ngela Ferreira, Cyprien Gailard, Jonas Staal, Ryan Trecartin, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

The preview opening will be held on March 21 with special performances by Michelangelo Pistolleto and Allard van Hoorn which will take place outside the new building.

Hctor Zamora presents a new version of the performance/installation Order and Progress, in which the remains of traditional Portuguese fishing boats from different coastal regions temporarily occupy MAATs Oval Gallery. The performance, previously presented at the Palais de Tokyo in 2016, will take place in the Oval Gallery on March 22, at 6pm, coinciding with the museums opening to the public.

The opening programme continues in the galleries at the Central Power Station with a new exhibition from the EDP Foundation Art Collection. What I Am is the thirdin a series of thematic surveys from this collection of Portuguese Contemporary Art. Curated by Ins Grosso and Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, the show examines the autobiographical and self-referential dimension of artistic creation. With Helena Almeida, Jos Barrios, Sara Bicho, Mauro Cerqueira, Miguel Faro, Jorge Molder, Julio Sarmento, Antnio Sena, Joo Queiroz and Joo Pedro Vale, amongst others.

Other exhibitions on view at MAAT include Liquid Skin, by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Joaquim Sapinho, curated by Alexandre Melo (Boiler Hall), the group showVariable Dimensions - Artists and Architecture, curated by Gregory Lang and Ins Grosso(Central 1), and Archive and Democracy by Portuguese artist Jos Mas de Carvalho, curated by Ana Rito (Ashpit 8).

Exhibitions opening in May with ARCOLisboa 2017 Coinciding with the second edition of ARCOLisboa, on May 17 the museum will open three new exhibitions: a large-scale project by Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa, which will occupy nearly 1000 sq. m of the kunsthalles Oval Gallery; and two exhibitions in the galleries of Central Power Station, both by Portuguese artists: a site-specific work by Joo Onofre at the monumental Boiler Hall, and APQHome, an art installation by Ana Prez-Quiroga.

ARCOLisboa takes place between May 18 and 21 at Cordoaria Nacional, just a few meters from MAATs new building.

Open call:APQ HomeAna Prez Quiroga We are looking for:Artists, curators, critics, art historians, architects, filmmakers, performers, theater practitioners, choreographers, writers, musicians, textile designers, food artists, interdisciplinary collectives, & other related areas.

APQHome is a project consisting in a domestic spacea house and its objectsand a garden, inside the MAAT exhibition space. It is a total work of art that requires the participants intervention in an immersion that, in a 48-hour period, aim to perform the everyday life, in a total art/life fusion experience.The participants will have the opportunity to spend two nights at the museum, occupying this domestic space in a program taking place between May 16and July 30, 2017.

Open call: Starting on March 8, registration forAPQHomeis open until June 8, 2017.

More info here.

The kunsthalle AL_As kunsthalle, which contains four distinct gallery spaces, captures the essence of the exceptional 38,000 m2 riverside site and its extraordinary light. Blending structure into landscape, and conceived to create significant new public spaces, it is designed to allow visitors to walk over and under, as well as through the building, while the undulating roof offers panoramic views towards the river and across Belm. The building creates a constantly changing place filled with aquatic reflections that interplay with the overhanging faade covered in 15,000 three-dimensional tiles, a reference to Portugals rich tradition of ceramics.

The completion of the architectural project will also include a park designed by Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture, as well as an elegant pedestrian bridge, also designed by AL_A (both set for May 2017), that will land on the new kunsthalle roof, making the campus and waterfront more accessible to the city.

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