Benjamin Weil and Kengo Kuma
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Engawa Gulbenkian GardenIn English, with simultaneous translation to Portuguese and Portuguese Sign Language interpretation.
Pricing
- Free entry
It has become increasingly common for new museums to be designed by internationally acclaimed architects. Kengo Kuma, who won the international competition to redesign CAM, has authored a number of museums including the Nezu Museum (Tokyo), the Victoria & Albert Museum (Dundee), the Albert Kahn Museum (Paris) and the Odunpazarı Modern Museum (Eskisehir, Turkey) among others. This conversation will focus on the specific challenges of designing a venue for the production and display of contemporary art.
Biographies
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Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma was born in 1954 and set up Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990 (KKAA). Kengo Kuma’s architecture opens up new relationships between nature, technology and the human being. Projects realised by KKAA can be found in more than 30 countries around the world. After years of teaching at Keio University and in Tokyo, Kuma is a university professor and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Kengo Kuma has published several books, including ‘Zen Shigoto (Kengo Kuma – the complete works, Daiwa Shobo)’, ‘Ten Sen Men (‘point, line, plane’, Iwanami Shoten)’, ‘Makeru Kenchiku (Architecture of Defeat, Iwanami Shoten)’, ‘Shizen na Kenchiku (Natural Architecture, Iwanami Shinsho)’, ‘Chii-sana Kenchiku (Small Architecture, Iwanami Shinsho)’, along with many others.
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Benjamin Weil
Benjamin Weil was born in Paris, where he completed his studies in Art History. He took part in the Curatorial Training Programme at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (1987) and was a student at the Whitney Independent Study Programme (graduating in 1989). Since then, he has worked as an independent curator and art critic. He was Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and, in 2006, was Executive Director of Artists Space. In 2009 he was appointed Artistic Director of Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain. In 2014, he became Artistic Director of the Botín Centre, Santander (2014-2020), where he curated numerous monographic exhibitions and thematic group shows. Benjamin Weil conceived and directed H BOX, a curatorial programme of travelling video art exhibitions for the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès (2005-2011). He has been Director of CAM since 2021.
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Bárbara Reis
A jornalist at Público newspaper since 1989, Bárbara Reis has been correspondent in New York (1995-2000), editor of Culture (2002-2007), editor of the P2 section (2007-08), executive director (2008-09) and director (2009-16). Today she is editor-in-chief and writes two weekly columns, ‘Livre de Estilo,’ about journalism, and ‘Coffee break,’ about anything and everything. She has a degree in Communication Sciences from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and was spokesperson for the UN peacekeeping mission in East Timor between 2000 and 2002. She teaches Opinion Writing at IPPS-ISCTE-UL and is the author of two books: ‘O Negociador – Revelações Diplomáticas sobre Timor-Leste’, 1997-1999 (Dom Quixote, 2019) and ‘Um Dia Normal na Era Digital — Ética, Valores e Política’ (Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2020).
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