Museu Banksy

The Museu Banksy in Lisbon presents an immersive reading of Banksy’s work through more than 100 reproductions, arranged as video installations, graffiti, canvases, projections and murals. It is not a museum authorised by the artist: the exhibition itself states that it was organised without his involvement, a detail consistent with Banksy’s critical relationship with authorship, the market and institutions. The route brings together works associated with different geographies, from the United Kingdom to France, from the United States to Palestine/Israel and Ukraine, creating a kind of visual map of the political and social issues that run through his work. Instead of presenting originals, the space focuses on scale, staging and the contextualisation of the images, bringing the public closer to a language born in the street and marked by satire, denunciation and contrast. In Lisbon, the Museu Banksy acts as an entry point into an artistic universe that is recognisable, provocative and deliberately uncomfortable.