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.