BEYOND BOUNDARIES - A Collective Odyssey: Group Show

"Beyond Boundaries - A Collective Odyssey" asserts itself as a visual meditation on the “interstices” — spaces of overlap, displacement, and encounter between distinct cultural domains. It is within this liminal terrain, between borders, that collective experiences of belonging, identity, and cultural value are continually renegotiated.

Unfolding across two venues — the Museu da Água and the Centro Cultural Cabo Verde — and bringing together 26 artists from multiple African geographies and the diaspora, the exhibition not only celebrates plurality and reinvention, but positions itself as an act of aesthetic insurgency: a gesture of active resistance to inherited borders, dominant narratives, and the fixed categories of art history.

Within this ever-evolving territory, artistic practice emerges as a critical force and as a generative power capable of reconfiguring the sensible horizons of the world.

THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE Gallery - Organizer / Producer 

THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE is an international contemporary art gallery, founded in Luanda in 2016 and based in Lisbon, Portugal. Through the representation and collaboration with both national and international artists, whether established or emerging, the gallery presents a program focused on relevant narratives and debates, associated with the European context and the Global South. With a pioneering spirit of decompartmentalization and inclusion, favoring intercultural dialogues, it is the first African gallery in Portugal to open its collaborative circle to both local artists and artistic productions from the Global South, including Brazil and non-Lusophone African countries. The gallery maintains a regular and significant presence at major international art fairs.

Centro Cultural de Cabo Verde - Organizer / Producer / Host

The Cape Verde Cultural Center in Lisbon is an undeniably important space for the dissemination and promotion of Cape Verdean culture and history in Portugal. Located in the Portuguese capital, it is a multifaceted space, offering a wide range of activities and events aimed at both the Cape Verdean community and the general public, including art exhibitions, concerts, lectures, workshops and other cultural initiatives. Its dynamic cultural program has a significant impact on the preservation of Cape Verdean cultural identity, thus constituting an important means of promoting cultural diversity in the city.

Museu da Água - Organizer / Host

The Water Museum brings together and promotes a group of monuments and buildings built between the 18th and 19th centuries - the Águas Livres Aqueduct and the Loreto Underground Gallery, the Mãe d'Água Reservoir in Amoreiras, the Patriarcal Reservoir and the Barbadinhos Steam Pumping Station. The five museum spaces represent an important chapter in the history of the water supply to the city of Lisbon and are part of the historical, heritage, technological and scientific Water Route. The Water Museum's long-term exhibition, housed in the Barbadinhos Station, provides an interdisciplinary approach to the theme of water that combines history and sustainability and invites visitors to explore content such as the presence of water on planet Earth, the history of the water supply to Lisbon, the hydrological cycle, the urban water cycle, water pollution and the water footprint.