‍❑The Palácio das Belas Artes Lisboa (PdBA) is an artistic-curatorial project that, through its online platform, acts as a digital museum.
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Created in 2022 with the curation and management of Lia Carreira, the project aims to become a space for exhibitions, public talks, workshops, and residencies at an international level.

In partnership with the Palais des Beaux Arts Wien (Austria) developed by artist-researcher Bernhard Garnicnig and now run by artist Seth Weiner, the PdBA Lisboa draws from their gesture of mirroring an existing physical building (the Palácio Iglésias) where artists, curators, architects and designers, by not having access to its interior, are invited to reimagine another relationship with space through digital means.
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*Experimental Digital Spaces
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‍The PdBA aims to materialize itself as a digital space that has experimentation at its core and, as such, acts as a space of renegotiation, where the concepts and formats of “museum” can be displaced and opened to new interpretations.
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*Space as Object ◩
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Space is seen as a material and conceptual object of investigation to be (re)appropriated, displaced and digitally recontextualized. It has become imperative that we reimage our relationship with the space-object within our post-pandemic context.

*Spaces of Collective Action
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‍Digital objects should not stand as static markers of time but rather as pieces that feed and set in motion the state of constant renegotiation proposed, transforming the collection into a space of collective actions as they are repositioned by guest artists and curators. 
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