WOA - Way Of Arts


WOA – Way Of Arts is a private art museum in Alcabideche, a parish located in the Portuguese municipality of Cascais, near Lisbon. Founded in 2003, WOA – Way Of Arts is dedicated to hosting non-profit cultural events and exhibiting different mediums of contemporary art including; sculpture, painting, photography, video works, dance and musical performances.
The goal, according to project creator Gonçalo Leandro is to energize the arts and encourage visitors to see the world in a new way and gain understanding of the human condition through the eyes of gifted creative minds.
WOA – Way Of Arts has hosted exhibitions or performances by artists/performers such as: Karen Aarre, Zoya Aval, Joana Bastos, Michel Batlle, Maria Coustols, Dé, Maria Virginia Fiorini, Oliver Huntrods, Ithaka, Rox Lawson, Tim Madeira, Paulo Paz, Denis Piel, Pablo Rubio, Filipa Silveira, Luis Varella, Marina Muñoz Viada and Sara Chang Yan.

International events

In 2009, WOA – Way Of Arts along with No Name Group, the pianist Elisha Abashe and Frederic Coustols for a thirty-day collaborative residency in Jiuxian, Beijing, China.

Associated spaces

Belmonte Cultural Club also in the Lisbon area, is an exhibition space and live music venue curated and managed by WOA – Way Of Arts and its staff. It is essentially a satellite location of the WOA – Way Of Arts museum. The space is located within the historical structure Palacio Belmonte, considered one of the oldest palaces in Lisbon. Artists at the Palacio Belmonte location have included; Jaap Borgers, Alexandre Farto, Sebastião Lobo, Daniella Padilla, Alessandro Lupi, Jana Matejkova-Middleton & Rory Middleton and Stefan Kornacki, etc.