Angolan Gallery This is not a White Cube opens new space in Lisbon
The contemporary art gallery, which represents 25 artists, will inaugurate the new space, in Chiado, with an exhibition of the work of the Santomean artist René Tavares, “In Memory We Trust”, which will also have, in parallel, an exhibition center of works in Luanda.
This new space, in Lisbon, designed from scratch, is also part of a wider movement for the internationalization of artists, because from Europe it is easier to establish contacts with countries such as the United States and Dubai.
In Lisbon, in the new gallery, at Rua da Amendment nº 72, the most recent works by René Tavares, born in 1983, in São Tomé and Príncipe, according to the curator, one of the most relevant artists of his generation, will be presented in the new exhibition. in that country.
At the gallery’s delegation in Luanda, another nucleus of older works, created from 2012, will be on display.
This is not a White Cube opened as a contemporary art gallery in Luanda, in 2016, and started with projects in Portugal in 2019, currently representing a total of 25 artists, mainly Portuguese, Brazilians and Africans.