Casa São Roque Centro de Arte

Name

Casa São Roque Centro de Arte

Legal name

Vivercidade – Associação Para Promoção da Arte

Website

https://casasroque.art

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Contemporary Art Center

NAICS

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (7121), Museums (712110), Historical Sites (71212)

akta.pro primary industry

Art Museums (THAJADAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Art Galleries & Exhibition Spaces (Commercial & Nonprofit) (THAJADAH), Specialty Museums (e.g., Maritime, Aviation, Sports, Music, Film) (THAJADAF), Performing Arts & Cultural Event Venues (Theaters, Museums) (THAHAAAG)

Keywords

• Contemporary art exhibitions
• Cultural center operations
• Guided museum tours
• Art education programs
• Heritage site hospitality

Headquarters

HQ city

Porto

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Ticket Sales: Admission fees for exhibitions, concerts, and special events sold through Ticket Tailor online platform and on-site.
2. Wine and Art Books Shop: Retail sales of wines (Port wine, whites, reds) and art books in the former kitchen of the Palacete Ramos Pinto. Offers wine tastings with food pairing.
3. Published Books: Sale of art books published by Casa São Roque, including exhibition catalogs and scholarly works. Books include 'Casa São Roque', 'Footnote 14: Angel of History', and 'Inventória' priced at €25 each.
4. Guided Tours: Paid guided tours of the house, exhibitions, garden, and centenary camellias for groups.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Casa São Roque Centro de Arte is a contemporary art center that hosts rotating exhibitions by national and international artists inside a restored 18th-century bourgeois mansion with Art Nouveau interiors and surrounding centenary camellia gardens in Porto, Portugal. It sells admission tickets, guided tours of the house and gardens, an on-site wine and art books shop with tastings, educational programs for schools, cultural events including concerts and wine tastings, curating classes for students, and published exhibition catalogs.

Product overview

Casa São Roque Centro de Arte is a cultural center dedicated to contemporary art operating from a restored 18th-century bourgeois mansion (formerly Casa Ramos Pinto) in Porto. The center offers a unified portfolio combining rotating contemporary art exhibitions, guided tours of the house and garden, an educational service with programs for schools, a wine and art books shop, and special events including concerts and port wine tastings. The space also publishes exhibition catalogs and books, runs a volunteer program, and offers CSR Curating Classes for students. Core offering centers on exhibition space featuring national and international contemporary artists, supplemented by educational activities, retail services, and cultural events.

Differentiator

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Products and services

• Exhibition Space Contemporary art exhibitions featuring national and international artists in a restored 18th-century bourgeois mansion with architectural and decorative arts features, available to art enthusiasts and general visitors.
• Guided Tours Thematic guided tours including 'House and Exhibition' covering Ramos Pinto family history and architectural details, and 'Garden and Centennial Camellias' covering the centenary camellias, maze, and São Roque Park. Available in Portuguese, English, and Spanish for groups and individuals.
• Educational Service - Descobrir com a Arte e Natureza Educational program promoting artistic culture among young people and senior citizens through activities linking art and nature, creative workshops, and school partnerships. Targeted at school groups, primary schools, and seniors.
• Wine and Art Books Shop On-site retail space in the former kitchen of Palacete Ramos Pinto selling wines (Port wine, whites, reds), wine tastings with food pairing, and art books by artists exhibited at Casa São Roque, plus art history books and classics of Portuguese literature and architecture.
• Events Program Cultural and sensorial events including Port Wine Tastings with Douro flavors and food pairing, guided tours, concerts (such as Concerto de Reis with Cupertinos), and special experiences like 'Wine in the Park'.
• CSR Curating Classes Educational initiative for Master's, Postgraduate or PhD students from Porto institutions (FBAUP, FLUP, ESAP, ESAD, ESEPP) interested in curating. Two-afternoon program with Daniel Baumann and Anthony Huberman, offered free of charge.
• Casa São Roque Publications Published books including 'Casa São Roque' (history and photography), 'Footnote 14: Angel of History' (Walter Benjamin reflection), and 'Inventória' (Ana Jotta exhibition companion), each priced at €25.
• Ticketing Platform Online ticket sales platform for visiting Casa São Roque exhibitions, with standard adult admission at €10, reduced rates for students, seniors, and BPI clients (€7-€9), and free admission on first Monday of each month.
• Volunteer Program Program inviting individuals to participate in cultural events and integrate an active creative community at Casa São Roque.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 400 students from Porto primary schools participated in the 'Descobrir com a Arte e Natureza' educational program
• +1 more outcomes

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Mishkin Gallery / Baruch College, CUNYcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Collaboration between Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College (City University of New York) and Casa São Roque for the 'Warhol, People and Things' exhibition (May 2022 - January 2023). The exhibition featured 38 colorful Polaroids and 40 black and white gelatine silver prints by Andy Warhol from the Mishkin Gallery collection, making their first presentation in Portugal and first time traveling to Europe.
• Fundação "la Caixa"coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022La Caixa Foundation provided support for the production of 'Sleep Patterns and Musical Chairs' by Emily Wardill, a new commission exhibited at Casa São Roque in 2023.
• Câmara Municipal do PortocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019The municipality of Porto partnered with Casa São Roque for the educational program 'Descobrir com a Arte e Natureza' (Discovering with Art and Nature), which involved approximately 400 students from Porto's primary schools.
• Escola Superior de Educação (ESE)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019ESE (Polytechnic Institute of Porto) collaborated with Casa São Roque's educational program, providing academic expertise for the 'Descobrir com a Arte e Natureza' initiative.
• Câmara Municipal do PortocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPorto City Council is a partner of Casa São Roque and acquired the property in 1979 from the last owner. The city government has supported the transformation of the building into an art center.
• Walter Benjamin Archiv, BerlinminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration for the 'Footnote 14: Angel of History' exhibition focusing on Walter Benjamin, providing archival materials and scholarly support.
• Fundação Marques da SilvaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortuguese foundation collaborating on exhibitions related to architect José Marques da Silva, who designed the remodeling of Casa São Roque.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts: San Francisco contemporary art curatorial institute. Comparable as a small, curatorially-led contemporary art venue; Anthony Huberman was its director from 2013-2023 and is now visiting curator at Casa São Roque.
• Whitechapel Gallery: London contemporary art gallery with a heritage building and educational programs. Comparable operating model featuring international contemporary artists, educational programming for schools, and a curated multi-vertical offering including a bookshop and publishing.
• Fundação de Serralves: Porto's leading contemporary art museum and cultural foundation. Directly comparable as another contemporary art venue in Porto targeting similar audiences, though larger in scale, endowment, and operating capacity.
• WIELS Contemporary Art Centre: Brussels contemporary art center housed in a converted industrial building. Comparable as a Kunsthalle-style venue in a mid-sized European city with international exhibition programming, educational programs, and a multi-vertical revenue model.
• Kunsthalle Zürich: Swiss contemporary art exhibition hall. Highly comparable operating model—Kunsthalle-style temporary exhibitions of international contemporary artists without a permanent collection—matching Casa São Roque's Kunsthalle-style programming approach under former director Daniel Baumann.

Broad incumbents

• Palais de Tokyo: Paris's largest contemporary art center. Comparable as a contemporary art venue combining exhibitions, performance, and cultural events, though operating at substantially larger scale and with national government backing.
• Fondazione Prada: Milan contemporary art institution combining exhibitions, cinema, and cultural programming in a heritage-industrial complex. Comparable in its integration of architecture, contemporary art, and multi-vertical cultural programming, though with much larger corporate backing.
• Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA): Chicago contemporary art museum. Comparable as a mid-sized contemporary art museum with international exhibition programming and educational programming, though at substantially larger scale.

Regional players

• MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology): Lisbon-based contemporary art and architecture museum. Comparable as a Portuguese contemporary art institution with international exhibition programming, though operating in a different city and with substantially larger scale and visitor numbers.
• Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM) - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian: Portugal's foremost modern and contemporary art museum in Lisbon. Comparable as a national contemporary art institution with significant corporate patronage and a permanent collection, though at much larger institutional scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/Casa-S%C3%A3o-Roque-114838956580536
• Instagraminstagram.com/casa.sao.roque
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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/casas%C3%A3oroque-centrodearte

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