MAAT Lisbon Summer Exhibitions: Luisa Cunha Retrospective and More

The MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) in Lisbon, designed by Amanda Jane Levete's firm AL_A and inaugurated in 2016, presents a summer program featuring multiple exhibitions. Until August 28, the museum hosts "Hello! Are You There?", the first major retrospective of Portuguese artist Luisa Cunha (b. 1949), curated by Isabel Carlos, former director of CAM Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian. The exhibition surveys Cunha's work from 1992 to 2022 across sound, photography, video, drawing, and sculpture. Cunha, winner of the 2021 Grande Prémio EDP Arte, is noted for conceptual art influenced by Duchamp and Bruce Nauman, exploring perception and communication through minimal interventions and sound pieces. Until September, solo shows by Sandra Rocha and Ana Cardoso, curated by director Joao Pinharanda, and "Archipelago," focusing on the obsessive collection of the Musée International des Arts Modestes de Sète by Hervé di Rosa (curated by Noëlig Le Roux), are on view. The museum, a private initiative funded by the EDP Foundation (20 million euros), occupies a former 1908 power station and a new building by Levete, with interiors redesigned in 2020 by SO-IL and landscaping by Vladimir Djurovic.