Lisbon’s Modern Art Centre reopens with stunning €58m revamp by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma

Lisbon's Modern Art Centre (CAM) is reopening to the public after a €58 million  overhaul by acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

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00:00So, CAM reopens on the 20th of September.

00:28After having been closed for major redesigning by architect Kengo Kuma, we will have a new

00:35garden that was designed by Vladimir Dvorovic and the whole museum is now really nested

00:42in a whole garden, completely transparent and very much in touch with nature.

00:48The idea being that art and the city and the nature are all sort of interconnected.

00:57We are launching this museum with major exhibitions.

01:00The first one is the one we're in now, which is an exhibition by Leonardo Tunis, a Portuguese

01:05artist based in Berlin, who has done a site-specific composition, sculptural composition, and also

01:12selected works by female artists in the collection.

01:16There will also be an exhibition by Fernando Lemos exploring his specific relationship

01:22with Japanese culture.