Hangar Centro De Investigação Artística

HANGAR is an Artistic Research Center located in Graça, Lisbon. HANGAR includes a center of exhibitions, artistic residencies, and artistic studies. It is also a center of education, talks, and conversations that unify geographic locations, cultures and identities and stimulate the development of artistic and theoretical practices. HANGAR also seeks to organize and produce the development of artistic inter-disciplinary projects and visual arts projects that focus on Lisbon as a central backdrop for contemporary culture. HANGAR is an independent space managed by artists and curators. It is a place for experimentation, research, and reflection artistic practices. This space is a point of convergence of various areas of contemporary artistic processes. - Here are the specific lines of action of HANGAR: - Encourage artistic interaction and exploration of the urban environment especially in the contexts of memory, space and people. - Interact with the public urban spaces. - Create a space of research and arts, collective consciousness, and local history. - Interact with the figures of the local community (residents and merchants) as well as comprehensive artistic context (galleries and foundations). - Develop exhibitions, seminars, workshops. - Develop workshops, courses and projects in art and education. - Develop international artistic residencies, network exchanges of artists, and other cultural actors.