Imagi(ni)ng the Future Shape of Contemporary Art Institutions

This doctoral level Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme is hosted by Universidade Católica Portuguesa is an associated initiative of CAPIm with:

>   Faculty of Human Sciences and School of Arts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa and Porto)
>   Doctoral School of Visual Arts, “George Enescu” National University of the Arts, Iași, Romania
>   Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
>   HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
>   Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

The Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) creates a transnational space in which students, early-stage researchers, future arts leaders, educators, and cultural practitioners can critically engage with issues of organisational practices in the contemporary arts. It offers an experimental environment to explore alternative ways of organising cultural institutions and generating narratives grounded in inclusivity, plurality, and the distributed agency of diverse social actors. By combining online collaboration with an intensive in-person phase (one week in Lisboa and Porto), the BIP is conceived as a practical, co-creative laboratory. Participants work in interdisciplinary groups to exchange situated perspectives, challenge dominant assumptions, and collaboratively design strategies that reimagine institutional practices. In doing so, the programme seeks to contribute to more inclusive cultural futures and to strengthen the role of art institutions as agents of social transformation.

09:30–09:40 – Welcome session (Adriana Martins and Diana Gonçalves)
09:40–10:00 – Practical information and programme presentation
10:00–10:30 – Mick Wilson: L’Internationale
10:30–11:00 – Luísa Santos: Institution(ing)s: From Cracks to Possibilities
11:00–11:30 – Coffee break
11:30–11:50 – Luísa Santos: A brief historical contextualisation of art institutions in Lisboa
12:00–13:00 – Lunch (Business and Economics School canteen, Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Afternoon Visits
14:00–15:00    Kunsthalle Lissabon – meeting with Luís Silva and João Mourão
15:30–16:30    Hangar – meeting with Marcela Canadas
17:00–17:30    Rádio Gallery Antecamara – meeting with Pedro Campos Costa
18:00–20:30    Informal gathering / drinks before dinner at A Mata (Rua Maria Andrade 8A)

10:00–11:00    MAC/CCB
11:15–12:15    Pavilhão Julião Sarmento
12:30–13:45    Lunch (near Museu do Chiado; see suggested list below*)
14:00–15:00    Museu do Chiado – with Filipa Oliveira
16:00–17:00    Culturgest – with Raphael Fonseca

10:00–12:30    Workshop with Kathrin Böhm
Organised in collaboration with HDK-Valand PhD in Artistic Practice
12:30–13:30    Lunch at the Business and Economics School
13:30–17:00    Afternoon with group work.
18:00               In the evening, participants will travel to Porto.

10:00–13:00    Guided tour at Serralves
13:30–14:30    Lunch at the canteen of Porto Campus of Universidade Católica Portuguesa
15:00–16:15    Welcome and guided tour at School of Arts (Pedro Alves)
16:30–17:45    Guided-tour and discussion of the exhibition “Desobedience Archive” (with Daniel Ribas)
18:00–20:00    Round-table “The future of art institutions” (chair: Laura Castro)
Alexandra Balona (Rampa)
António Preto (CCMO / Serralves)
João Laia (Porto Municipal Gallery)
Lídia Queirós (Batalha Film Centre)

20:00-22:00    Buffet dinner at School of Arts

10:00–11:00    Batalha Film Centre
11:30–12:30    Rampa
12:30–15:00    bus/metro to Campo Alegre and lunch
15:00–16:00    Porto Municipal Gallery
16:00–17:30    Art galleries at Miguel Bombarda Street