HANGAR is an Artistic Research Center located in Lisbon, founded in 2014. HANGAR’s programmes provide spaces where artists, curators and researches from the Global South and Portugal can co-create and build social and creative networks to benefits their communities.

It is an independent space managed by artists and curators, a point of convergence between various areas of contemporary artistic practices, a place for experimentation, research and engagement with art as a tool for social change. HANGAR has become a place of inclusion and resistance on the Portuguese cultural scene and an internationally recognised pillar of support for Black artists in Portugal, in Lusophone Africa and internationally.

Objectives:

•⁠  ⁠Consult and curate the fields of visual, performing, cinema, audio-visual, and multimedia arts (among other intersections of art).

•⁠  ⁠Promote social and ecological action through art, in particular intersections within public spaces.

•⁠  ⁠Produce and disseminate contemporary artistic creation in multidisciplinary perspectives (working with museums, architecture, urban planning, science, literature, etc.).

•⁠  ⁠Conduct seminars, workshops, educational and therapeutic events in the context of formal education.

•⁠  ⁠Offer vocational training.

•⁠  ⁠Create residencies and artistic development of creative networking platforms.

•⁠  ⁠Publish and distribute artworks and printed and digital publications.