Engawa Space

The Engawa Space is transformed into a true laboratory, a space for experimentation where artistic production and creative processes are openly shared with the public.

We encourage you to wander freely and engage with initiatives that, in museums, usually take place behind closed doors: the reading room, artist residencies, work-in-progress displays, workshops, and many other events. We programme this space collaboratively across all areas of activity at CAM, representing a cross-section of the institution encompassing research, production, learning and participation.

The Engawa Space is host to the ‘Institution(ing)s’ programme, a European cooperation project, coordinated by Universidade Católica Portuguesa and headquartered at CAM, that joins European art organizations to co-create and test innovative institutional methodologies for a healthier, more transparent, and fairer artistic ecosystem. A collaborative experiment, the ‘Institution(ing)s’ aims to cut across disciplinary areas to support research, practices, and knowledge production as shared resources for the future.

The resulting programme unfolds as an invitation to all to participate in the process of shaping our cultural institutions. ‘Institution(ing)s’ is funded by the European Commission through its Creative Europe strand.

This space has been designed and built by students from the Architecture Department of the Autonomous University of Lisbon as a flexible and modular system composed entirely of recycled materials from previous exhibitions and industry waste.