Choses sans ombre

Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporãnea 

The Serralves Foundation has adopted the mission of promoting  contemporary art and favouring its access to the greatest number of  people. With temporary or itinerary exhibitions, shows and concerts,  readings and projections, this museum has since 1999 presented a large  panorama of contemporary art, from the 1960s up to today’s creations, be  they emergent or confirmed. Apart from its collection, bringing  together over four thousand pieces, and open to all styles or  techniques, it also carries out a vital educational mission (through its  symposiums, publishing projects, etc.) and is actively involved in the  diffusion of contemporary dance, music and performances in its  auditorium and the other spaces in the museum. Set at the heart of the  prestigious Casa de Serralves, it thus stands as a meeting point between  art, architecture and ideas, thanks to a programme which is as  demanding as it is aware of the era’s issues. Its project thus develops a  critical reflection in which art is examined through the prism of  globalisation and postcolonial thought, guaranteeing its solid anchorage  at the heart of modernity. The curator, Cristina Grande, who is in  charge of dance and performance in the museum, has also helped to make  it one of the most active cultural sites on the Portuguese landscape,  when it comes to the contemporary performative arts. With a team of  curators, she has set up the annual programme “The Museum as  Performance” and developed a platform which, since 2015, has been  organising encounters between the visual and live arts.

Source: program of the CND