Serralves Foundation
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| Established | 6 June 1999 |
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| Location | Porto, Portugal |
| Coordinates | 41°09′31″N 8°39′28″W / 41.1585°N 8.6577°WCoordinates: 41°09′31″N 8°39′28″W / 41.1585°N 8.6577°W |
| Visitors | 1,340,670 (2010-2012) |
| Director | Suzanne Cotter |
| Owner | Serralves Foundation |
| Public transit access | See below |
| Website | serralves |
Serralves is a cultural institution located in Porto, Portugal, and one of the most important of all the country. It includes a Contemporary Art Museum, a Park and a Villa, each one an example of contemporary architecture, Modernism, and Art Deco architecture. The Museum, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, is now the most visited museum in Portugal (more than 300,000 visitors per year) and one of the most relevant in the contemporary art circuit in Europe.
Serralves Foundation (Fundação Serralves) is an art foundation whose “mission is to raise the general public's awareness concerning contemporary art and the environment, via the Museum of Contemporary Art, Park and Auditorium”.
Serralves Foundation has extremely valuable heritage assets, constituted by the Museum, designed by the architect,Álvaro Siza Vieira, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1992, the Villa (Casa de Serralves), a unique example of Art Deco architecture, and the Park which won the “Henry Ford Prize for the Preservation of the Environment” in 1997.
The buildings of Serralves - Casa de Serralves, Park, Museum of Contemporary Art, Auditorium and Library - were jointly classified by the Portuguese State as a "Building of Public Interest" in 1999 and as a "National Monument" in 2012.
Serralves develops its activities around 5 strategic axes: Artistic Creation, Audience Formation and Awareness-Raising, The Environment, Critical Reflection on Contemporary Society and The Creative Industries.
The Foundation management model conciliates partnerships with Founders and cooperation with the State. There are currently 181 founders, including companies, private individuals and other institutions. Special Patron Status is reserved to Founders who stand out because of their ongoing commitment to Serralves, embodied through their contribution to the Annual Fund.
The actual President of the Foundation is Luís Braga da Cruz, former Portuguese Finance Minister.
During the immediate period after the 1974 revolution, the city of Oporto hosted several social movements that demanded the creation of an exhibition space in the city, in order to exhibit art produced at that time. The importance of several initiatives - in particular the Centre of Contemporary Art, that was managed from the outset by Fernando Pernes and which remained in operation until 1980 - played a key role in consolidating the artistic universe in Oporto. These achievements were recognized by the Secretary of State for Culture, Teresa Patrício Gouveia, when she chose the city as the location for the future National Museum of Modern Art.
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