LISBON’S NEW MUSEU DE ARTE, ARQUITETURA E TECNOLOGIA OPENS TOMORROW

José da Silva of the Art Newspaper reports that Lisbon’s new Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia opens to the public tomorrow. The museum is located along the Tagus River in two buildings––a remodeled former power station, which used to be the home of the Museum of Electricity, and in a building designed by the British architectural firm ALA—and is under the directorship of Pedro Gadanho, a former curator of contemporary architecture at New York’s MoMA.

The museum will stage exhibitions of international contemporary art, build up its collection of Portuguese art, and commission site-specific installations. The first site-specific work is Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s dystopian Pynchon Park_, 2016, “an enclosure where aliens would be able to observe human behavior in optimal conditions,” according to 303 Gallery, which represents the artist.