It had already been announced, but now it’s official: the Estoril Congress Centre is becoming the Estoril Centre for Culture and Congresses (CCCE). The aim is to broaden the venue’s scope, turning it into a space also dedicated to the performing and visual arts – including dance, theatre, music, art and cinema.
This turning point is marked with the opening of an exhibition, Première 30, which runs from July 10th to August 31st with free entry. The show brings together works by 17 emerging artists from Portugal and France, and is part of the Première programme, founded 30 years ago by the Centre d’Art Contemporain - Meymac in France, with the goal of promoting new visual artists on the international stage.
The French art centre invites newly graduated artists from partner schools each year to take part in a group exhibition. For this 30th edition, young Portuguese artists were also invited, specifically from the Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Caldas da Rainha – Polytechnic of Leiria, and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon.
Curated by Caroline Bissière, Jean-Paul Blanchet and Luísa Soares de Oliveira, Première 30 showcases works across a wide range of media – from painting to installation, video to sculpture – highlighting the diversity of expression among these emerging artists.
With this transformation, the new CCCE becomes part of the Vila das Artes project, a cultural and artistic network in Estoril that also includes the Estoril Arts Academy (Cruzeiro Building), the Museum of Portuguese Music – Casa Verdades de Faria, the Mirita Casimiro Theatre and the Senhora da Boa Nova Auditorium.
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