Opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art MAC/CCB

9:30 pm   Doors opening with free visit.

9:30 pm   Opening of the exhibition Or the continuous drawing. Teixeira de Freitas Collection.

9:30 pm   Opening of the exhibition Crossing a bridge on fire by Berlinde De Bruyckere.

The exhibition includes a nucleus at the National Museum of Ancient Art, where the work Liggende — Arcangelo I, 2023, is installed, presented in the room dedicated to the Spanish baroque painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) – opened on October 28^th, at 6:00 pm, at the National Museum of Ancient Art.

          Other exhibitions to visit at MAC/CCB:

Living in Lisbon
Berardo Collection from the First Modernism to the New Avant-gardes of the 20th Century 
Object, Body and Space. The revision of artistic genres from the 1960s onwards

10:30 pm Project “Canções”, by Carminho and João Pimenta Gomes, with poems by Ana Hatherly.

(Voice + Modular Synthesizer)
Together for the first time in a unique moment, united by the universe of songs and live performance, the two artists bring their own universes to the same scene, exploring the sung word and phonetics as a matrix of new sounds.

11:00 pm Performance by DJ Jonathan Uliel Saldanha.

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha works the intersection of sound and visual arts, acting as a composer and director. He was an associate artist at Teatro Municipal do Porto in 2020/22 and has presented his works in venues such as CCB, Palais de Tokyo and Culturgest. Solo or in ensemble he has played at festivals such as Unsound, CTM, Le Guess Who? and Primavera Sound. In this Set, Saldanha presented a musical selection that crosses his areas of interest, rhythms full of substance and sub-bass pressure.

02:00 am Museum closure.

Brief guided tours about an artist (15 min.)
Exhibition Object, Body and Space (Floor -1)

12:15 pm – Pistoletto

2:45 pm – Frank Stella

3:15 pm – Ellsworth Kelly

3:30 pm – Guided tour in English to the exhibition Crossing a bridge on fire, by the artist Berlinde De Bruyckere – REGISTRATIONS CLOSED

3:30 pm – Joseph Kosuth

3:45 pm – Ana Mendieta

4:00 pm – Jimmie Durham

4:15 pm – Adriana Varejão

4:30 pm – Robert Gober

4:45 pm – Richard Serra

5:15 pm – Fernando Calhau

Brief guided tours about an artist (15 min.)
Exhibition Object, Body and Space (Floor -1)

12:15 pm– On Kawara

2:45 pm – Carl Andre

3:15 pm – Donald Judd

3:30 pm – Vito Acconci

3:45 pm – Helena Almeida

4:00 pm – Jimmie Durham

4:15 pm – Adriana Varejão

4:30 pm – Tony Cragg

4:45 pm – Pedro Cabrita Reis

The “Minimalism” is associated with the artistic movement that emerged in New York at the end of the 1950s, which focused on using a minimum of resources. This cycle of small presentations aimed to establish a connection between music and other arts in the new Museum of Contemporary Art. It was a unique opportunity to watch performances by Portuguese solo musicians awarded at the “Young Musicians Award” (in the case of the Percussion Group of the Professional School of Music of Espinho and João Sousa), and at the “Oeiras Piano Competition” (in the case of Máximo Klyetsun). Each concert had an average duration of 12 to 15 minutes and free admission.

October 28th

12:30 pm – Concert (Arte Povera Room, Floor -1)
Percussion Group of the Professional School of Music of Espinho

3:00 pm – Concert (System Painting Room, Floor -1)
Percussion Group of the Professional School of Music of Espinho

Program
Clapping, de Steve Reich
Music for Pieces of Wood, Steve Reich

5:00 pm – Concert (Post-Minimalism Room, Floor -1)
Máximo Klyetsun (piano)

Program
Tre impressioni sulla divina commedia, de Sira Hernández
Inferno: Nel mezzo del cammin
In a Landscape, de John Cage

October 29^th

12:30 pm – Concert (Conceptualisms Room, Floor -1)
João Sousa (clarinet)

3:00 pm – Concert (Minimalism Room, Floor -1)
João Sousa (clarinet)

Program
New York Counterpoint, by Steve Reich

One Hundred Spots | 11:00 am | 2-3 years | Activity in portuguese only

There is a leopard living in the museum. In one big leap he lost all his spots. But there’s no need to worry: we’re in the right place! The works of art are full of colors, textures and shapes! Dots, lines, squares, stars, splashes of paint will be part of a new pattern. In this activity, the youngest visitors discovered modernist works of art and recovered lost paintings.

Design and guidance by Francisca Valador and Inês Machado | Free participation, subject to prior registration | Maximum number: 12 families.

📞 Registration via servico.educativo.museu@ccb.pt or telephone (+351) 213 612 800 (call the national landline).

I got lost. And now? | 3:00 pm | 4-6 years | Activity in portuguese only

Once upon a time there was a shape that got lost around the museum, and it was trying to figure out where it belonged.

It looked in yellow, in blue. But it wasn’t exactly what it was looking for! It passed by surreal creatures and lots of splashes of paint, but it wasn’t that way either. It wanted to find its place between paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures! In this activity, the youngest visitors looked for what each piece of artwork had in common with the others and what can make them unique. Did they find their place?

Design and guidance by Francisca Valador and Inês Machado | Free participation, subject to prior registration | Maximum number: 12 families.

📞 Registration via servico.educativo.museu@ccb.pt or telephone (+351) 213 612 800 (call the national landline).

Continuous Activity

Dada is the soul-of-the-world | 3:00 pm—6:00 pm

The work of art as a manifesto. This is how Dadaist artists surprised: they appropriated words, objects, and shuffled the game pieces to escape what was established — anti-art!

When this vanguard emerged, we were in the First World War. More than a century later, we are again living in troubled times. If we were Dadaists, what would we be interested in contesting now? What if we appropriated the works of the Dadaists, such as Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara or Man Ray, to create a subversion of their meanings? Between collages and superimpositions, we read Hugo Ball’s words in the first Dada manifesto in today’s light:

“How does one achieve eternal bliss? By saying dada. How does one become famous? By saying dada. With a noble gesture and delicate propriety. Till one goes crazy. Till one loses consciousness. How can one get rid of everything that smack of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanized, enervated? By saying dada. Dada is the world soul, dada is the pawnshop. Dada is the world’s best lily-milk soap.”

Concept by Cristina Gameiro | Design of the activity by Fabrícia Valente | No prior registration | Free participation.

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