Past exhibition at Lumiar Cité:
Caspar Hall
phoenix dactylifera
30.11.2011 - 08.01.2012
At the end of the summer of 2011, Caspar Hall (Shrewsbury, United Kingdom, 1967) completed a one-month artistic residency in Alta de Lisboa, under the Maumaus International Residency Programme. During that period, the artist investigated the specific urban circumstances surrounding the Lumiar Cité exhibition space and the types of relationship that artistic projects presented there have been able to establish – or not – with the community living in its vicinity.
In the installation that Caspar Hall has developed, the central piece is a sculpture of a palm tree that dominates both the ground and upper floors of the gallery. It appears to visitors as a connection related both to the space and to the time of the year in which the exhibition takes place. The sculpture recalls the Christian image of the nativity scene and, in addition, the palm tree that, according to the Qur'an, sheltered and fed the Virgin Mary when Jesus was born. The exhibition also presents a selection of photographs and other documentary materials that contextualize the installation.
Caspar Hall does not attempt to relate to any particular theological ideas or religious identities, but he is interested in questioning how certain universal stories are imagined and reinterpreted locally. Subtly, the artist also seeks to draw attention to affinities between Christianity and Islamism and to the many meanings that archetypes can adopt.
Project financed with the support of the European Commission.
Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 10h00 to 13h00,
14h30 to 19h00
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Current:
Upcoming:
Talk:
Dimitris Athiridis and Adam Szymczyk, moderated by Luísa Santos
CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Estúdio, 23.10.2024 | 19h00
Film:
exergue – on documenta 14 (2024) by Dimitris Athiridis
Culturgest, Auditório Emílio Rui Vilar
21.10. | 14h15 - 18h45 | Chapters 1 - 4
22.10. | 14h00 - 20h00 | Chapters 5 - 10
23.10. | 10h30 - 15h30 | Chapters 11 - 14
Current:
Problematising Reality
Programme 6
Beyond the White Screen
Film:
Les mains libres (1964) by Ennio Lorenzini
Discussion:
Émilie Goudal, Zineb Sedira
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Auditório 3, 31.10.2024 | 18h30
Current:
Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021
24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth
Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock
Current:
Luisa Cunha
ODD
28.09. – 22.12.2024
20.01 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition
16.03 | 17h00 Talk between Dozie Kanu
and Simon Thompson
Current:
ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS
Sid Iandovka & Anya Tsyrlina with Leslie Thornton & Thomas Zummer
A combined exhibition between
Lumiar Cité and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg.
Lumiar Cité
27.04. – 28.07.2024
Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
18.05. – 28.07.2024
27.04. – 28.07.2024 | Lumiar Cité
18.05. – 28.07.2024 | Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
A co-production by Lumiar Cité
and Artium Museum
14.10 | 17h00 Book launch with talk between
Alejandro Cesarco and
Miguel Wandschneider
| 18h00 Opening of the exhibition
Current:
Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz
24.03. – 24.09.2023
Upcoming:
Lumiar Cité
14.10.2023 – 14.01.2024
Collaboration:
The Educational Web
Kunstverein in Hamburg
01.04. – 06.08.2023
Closed 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January
Arne Kaiser and Jürgen Bock
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
In co-production with Lumiar Cité:
Alejandro Cesarco
Other Recent Examples
24.03. - 24.09.2023
Artium Museum
The Educational Web
31.03. - 06.08.2023
Kunstverein in Hamburg
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar.