ARTISTS’ FILM INTERNATIONAL 2016

The MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia is the latest institution to join the Artists' Film International, a programme dedicated to exhibiting videos, films and animations produced by artists from around the world. 

Launched in 2008 by the Whitechapel Gallery in London, this programme is now a global partnership involving 16 institutions. Every year, each member chooses a work by a prominent artist from their country, and then shares it with the other partners. 

The combined works are exhibited in all the participating countries, bringing together artists whose practices are deeply rooted in their individual contexts. At a time when the issue of decolonization of art and criticism, in view of the traditional Western Euro-centric perspective, lies at the heart of contemporary debates, Artists' Film International fosters dialogue between cultures and artistic practices, between the centre and the periphery. The programme is designed as a dynamic and transcultural platform, a proposal for dissemination and sharing of contemporary artistic production in the field of moving images.