The architect and designer Pedro Gadanho will be the new director of programming Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Bethlehem due to open in the second half of 2016 revealed this Saturday the Foundation source agency Lusa EDP.
According to the communication office of the foundation, Pedro Gadanho, department of architecture and design curator of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York since January 2012, will assume the new office in Lisbon from 01 October this year.
The Portuguese curator will be responsible for the cultural program of the new museum of the EDP Foundation, which is being finalized. The new museum will feature exhibition halls, educational service, art reserves, auditorium, spaces for artistic residencies and restaurant.
According to a statement from the foundation, sent to the Lusa agency, quoting António Mexia , CEO of EDP:. “The profile and international experience of Peter Gadanho are essential to the ambition that we want to MAAT, making it a remarkable space of contemporary culture in Portugal”
Meanwhile, Pedro Gadanho adds in a statement that the MAAT “will be a new cultural space with the quality level of the great European cities, offering a contemporary and international programming.”
In conjunction with the Tejo Central, the new MAAT building, signed by British architect Amanda Levete, “will offer an extraordinary space for exhibitions, events, educational programs and other activities for a wide audience,” adds Gadanho.
Born in Covilha in 1968 the new MAAT programming director has a degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (Oporto University), Master of Arts and Architecture at Kent Institute of Art and Design in the UK, and a PhD in Architecture and the Mass Media FAUP, where he was also teaching.
It was a visiting professor in several European institutions, including the BIArch- Barcelona Institute of Architecture in the Catalan capital, and the Ecole Spéciale d’Arquitecture (ESA) in Paris.
He was also co-founder and director of the Centre for Contemporary Urban Culture (CUC), and was part of the strategic advice of the British pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2010 and the CAD / Realdania Urban Futures Think Thank in 2011 in Copenhagen .
In Portugal, was curator of the Portuguese representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2004, the National Exhibition of Architecture ‘Habitar Portugal 06-08′, the Order of Architects, the show “100 years of interior “of the Museum of Desin and Fashion (CHANGE) in Lisbon, and an intervention in the public space with architectural performance for Guimarães. – European Capital of Culture 2012
Peter Gadanho was still editor BEYOND magazine, Short Stories on the Contemporary, the ShrapnelContemporary blog, and co-author of two television series on architecture between 2000 and 2003.
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