The Lisbon Consortium

The Lisbon Consortium The Lisbon Consortium is a network hosted by the Faculty of Human Sciences at Universidade Católica

The Lisbon Consortium is a partnership between the Master's and Doctoral Degree Programs in Culture Studies at the Faculty of Human Sciences of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and prestigious cultural institutions in Lisbon:

• Lisbon City Hall
• National Culture Centre
• National Film Museum
• Culturgest
• Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
• National Theater and Dance Museum
• Orient Foundation
• E

DP Foundation
• Lisbon Oceanarium
• Millennium BCP Foundation
• Parks of Sintra
• Amélia de Mello Foundation

The objective is to bring about the professional integration of students through advanced training in the multidisciplinary field of Cultural Studies based upon cooperation in academic reflection, scientific research, programming and cultural
management. The Lisbon Consortium is structured in accordance with four fundamental principles:

• Inter-institutional cooperation,
• excellence in research,
• creativity and cultural entrepreneurship,
• social responsibility in the production of knowledge. The Lisbon Consortium is an innovative cooperation program and unique within the Portuguese panorama with an international focus.

Congratulations, Maria!Maria Otamendi Val successfully defended the MA Internship report "Where Caring is More than Mone...
01/06/2026

Congratulations, Maria!

Maria Otamendi Val successfully defended the MA Internship report "Where Caring is More than Money. Even in the Art World. Galleri Heike Arndt DK: A Case Study on Non-for-profit Art Galleries" on 27 May, 2026.

Congratulations, Matthew!Matthew Mason successfully defended the PhD thesis "Between Situationist Critique and Postmoder...
01/06/2026

Congratulations, Matthew!

Matthew Mason successfully defended the PhD thesis "Between Situationist Critique and Postmodern Play: Contemporary (re)Readings of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Long ‘67’" on 27 May, 2026.

Randi Charno Levine is an American arts advocate, author, and former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal who is widely recognize...
23/05/2026

Randi Charno Levine is an American arts advocate, author, and former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal who is widely recognized for championing cultural diplomacy as a tool for strengthening international relations.

As Ambassador, she led efforts to enhance the diplomatic, commercial, educational, and defense collaborations between Portugal and the United States – yet Ambassador Levine also made the arts a central pillar of her diplomatic work.

Ambassador Levine curated and launched an Arts in Embassies exhibition at Casa Carlucci, uniting 29 American artists and Portuguese counterparts to foster dialogue between the two countries through visual arts and strengthen people-to-people ties. Under her leadership, the Embassy convened cultural programming that brought communities together through shared creativity and conversation, including panel discussions, artist presentations, and public events addressing mutual challenges and aspirations.

Previously, Ambassador Levine served on the boards of major cultural and academic institutions in New York City, including the Roundabout Theatre Company, NYU Langone Health, the High Line, the Anna Wintour Costume Center, the National Portrait Gallery, the New Museum, and the Meridian International Center. Ambassador Levine is a Distinguished Fellow in the Transatlantic Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was named Honorary Professor of Art and Diplomacy at Católica University in Lisbon and a Visiting Fellow at Arizona State University’s Institute of Politics.

Ambassador Levine leads the seminar Art and Diplomacy on 25-26 May at UCP and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The seminar brings together artists, curators and institutional leaders to discuss topics such as institutional decision-making, the role of art museums today, as well as curatorial practices.

The full program of the seminar is available via the link in bio.

Xavier F. Salomon is the Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum since 2026. He has worked at the British Museum and ...
23/05/2026

Xavier F. Salomon is the Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum since 2026.

He has worked at the British Museum and at the National Gallery in London, before joining, in 2006, Dulwich Picture Gallery as the Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator.

In 2011, he joined the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as Curator of Southern Baroque, in charge of Italian paintings from the 17th and 18th century, French 17th-century and Spanish paintings.

In 2014, he curated the monographic exhibition Paolo Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice at the National Gallery in London. Since 2014, he has been Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection in New York where he curated exhibitions on artists such as Guido Cagnacci, Paolo Veronese, Antonio Canova, Giambattista Tiepolo, Luigi Valadier, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione.

He also worked on projects with contemporary artists such as Doron Langberg, Salman Toor, Jenna Gribbon, Nicolas Party, and Flora Yukhnovich.

His main areas of expertise are art and patronage in 17th- and 18th-century Rome and Venice, and the painters Paolo Veronese and Rosalba Carriera.

Xavier F. Salomon will be in conversation with Adam Weinberg, Director Emeritus of Whitney Museum of American Art, and Amb. Randi Charno Levine on 26 May at 10:00 in Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The panel “The Art Museum Today: Collections, Communal Forums and Contested Spaces” explores the contemporary responsibilities of museums and how they might navigate competing expectations while balancing different roles: as sanctuaries for reflection and psychic sustenance, hubs for collective cultural exchange, and platforms for socio-political protest.

Full bio available @ Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The full program of the Art and Diplomacy seminar is available via the link in bio.

Born in Mexico City, Aliza Nisenbaum makes portrait paintings that are manifestations of exchanges with her subjects ove...
22/05/2026

Born in Mexico City, Aliza Nisenbaum makes portrait paintings that are manifestations of exchanges with her subjects over time. Collaborating with communities, she employs the focused attention of observational painting to create the conditions for close-looking. Distinct social groups are foregrounded, including immigrant communities, dancers, members of grassroot organizations, subway, airport, and health workers. Nisenbaum engages with these groups on various levels, sharing resources, skills and ultimately, through the intimacy of portraiture as social representation. Through lengthy engagement with her subjects, the artist gains a deeper understanding of individual and collective histories, and accords a dignity to the exchange– that exceeds the space of portraiture. Often lushly decorated with patterned textiles found in her sitter’s homes and tiles from workplace settings, Nisenbaum makes visible the material conditions, friendships and alliances of particular work and leisure environments.

Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include The Barack Obama Presidential Center (June 2026) Des Moines Art Center (2025–2026); The Metropolitan Opera, New York (2023–2024); Queens Museum, New York (2023); Delta Air Lines x Queens Museum at LaGuardia Airport, New York (2022); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2022); Tate Liverpool (2020); Minneapolis Institute of Art (2017–2018).

Nisenbaum’s work is held in the permanent collections of museums and public institutions worldwide, such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, The Perimeter, Whitney Museum of American Art, and many others.

Aliza Nisenbaum will be in conversation with artist Alfredo Jaar, curator Rujeko Hockley and Amb. Randi Charno Levine on 26 May at 15:30 at UCP (Auditorium 511). The panel “Curatorial Power: Selection, Visibility, and Narrative” examines curatorial decisions by discussing what is collected, exhibited, framed or omitted and how these decisions actively construct cultural meaning and historical narratives.  

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, photographer, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in Lisbon. His work has been shown...
21/05/2026

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, photographer, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in Lisbon. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).

Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005). Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin (2012); Rencontres d’Arles (2013); KIASMA, Helsinki (2014); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017); Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa (2020); SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo (2021), Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (2023), and KINDL, Berlin (2024).

His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOCA and LACMA, Los Angeles; MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo; TATE, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MAXXI and MACRO, Rome; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlaebeck; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan; M+, Hong Kong; and dozens of institutions and private collections worldwide.

Alfredo Jaar will be in conversation with artist Aliza Nisenbaum, curator Rujeko Hockley and Amb. Randi Charno Levine on 26 May at 15:30 at UCP (Auditorium 511). The panel “Curatorial Power: Selection, Visibility, and Narrative” examines curatorial decisions by discussing what is collected, exhibited, framed or omitted and how these decisions actively construct cultural meaning and historical narratives.

The full program of the Art and Diplomacy seminar is available via the link in bio.

Philippe Vergne has been serving as director of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, since April 2019. He was di...
20/05/2026

Philippe Vergne has been serving as director of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, since April 2019.

He was director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) from 2014 to 2018.

Prior to his appointment at MOCA, Vergne served for five years as director of the Dia Art Foundation, New York.

Before his tenure at the Dia Foundation, Vergne was Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

From 1994 to 1997, Vergne was Director of the MAC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille, France.

Philipp Vergne will be in conversation with Adam Weinberg (Director Emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art), artist Hank Willis Thomas and Amb. Randi Charno Levine on 25 May at 18:30 at UCP (Auditorium 511). The panel “Institutional Decision-Making: Ethics, Risk, and Public Impact” focuses on how museums and cultural institutions make high-stakes decisions involving ethics, funding, governance, public trust, and social responsibility.

The full program of the Art and Diplomacy seminar is available via the link in bio.

Hank Willis Thomas (Brooklyn, New York) is a conceptual artist whose work examines themes of identity, perspective, comm...
19/05/2026

Hank Willis Thomas (Brooklyn, New York) is a conceptual artist whose work examines themes of identity, perspective, commodity, media, and popular culture. Thomas’ interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, photography, retroreflectives, quilt-based works, film, and more, often challenging the viewer to critically engage with the complexities of contemporary culture. Thomas has held solo exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, including The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR (2019) Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2020); the Cincinnati Art Museum, OH (2020); the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. (2021); and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2024).

His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., among others.

His collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males; In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth); The Writing on the Wall; The Gun Violence Memorial Project; and For Freedoms, an artist-led organization that models and increases creative civic engagement, discourse & direct action.

Hank Willis Thomas will be in conversation with Adam Weinberg, (Director Emeritus of Whitney Museum of American Art), Philipp Vergne (Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art) and Amb. Randi Charno Levine on 25 May at 18:30 at UCP (Auditorium 511). The panel “Institutional Decision-Making: Ethics, Risk, and Public Impact” focuses on how museums and cultural institutions make high-stakes decisions involving ethics, funding, governance, public trust, and social responsibility.

The full program of the Art and Diplomacy seminar is available via the link in bio.

Adam D. Weinberg is the Director Emeritus and an Honorary Trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art; beginning in 20...
19/05/2026

Adam D. Weinberg is the Director Emeritus and an Honorary Trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art; beginning in 2003, he served for 20 years as the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director. During his tenure, the Museum presented some 300 exhibitions on diverse emerging, mid-career and senior artists—from Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe to Frank Stella and Carmen Herrera to Glenn Ligon and Julie Mehretu—as well as nine editions of the Whitney Biennial. Under his leadership the Whitney created award-winning, educational programs, experienced exponential growth of its permanent collection, dramatically expanded its performance and conservation programs and increased its attendance threefold.

Among the posts Weinberg held before his Whitney directorship were: Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art; Senior Curator and Curator of the Permanent Collection at the Whitney and Director of Education and Assistant Curator at Walker Art Center. Throughout his career he has curated exhibitions on dozens of 20th and 21st-century artists, authored numerous catalogues, lectured internationally, and is recognized for scores of interviews he has conducted with artists.

Adam Weinberg will be in conversation with Philipp Vergne (Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art), artist Hank Willis Thomas and Amb. Randi Charno Levine on 25 May at 18:30 (UCP, Auditorium 511). The panel “Institutional Decision-Making: Ethics, Risk, and Public Impact” focuses on how museums and cultural institutions make high-stakes decisions involving ethics, funding, governance, public trust, and social responsibility.

On May 26 at 10:00, Adam Weinberg joins Xavier Salomon, Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, in conversation about "The Art Museum Today: Collections, Communal Forums and Contested Spaces " at the Gulbenkian Foundation (Room 1).

The full program of the Art and Diplomacy seminar is available via the link in the bio.

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