Dates / Schedules
October 17th 2024 to April 20th 2025 10:00am to 6:30pm
Opening: October 16th, 7pm Free admission
Talk in preview of the exhibition: October 16th, 5:30pm Museum auditorium. Free admission
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Through close observation of how people inhabit, adapt, appropriate, or endure the spaces that frame their lives, artists and filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine cast light on the way people and places influence each other to unveil how the built environment affects our physical, psychological, and emotional state.
In parallel to a body of films that have sought to humanise the way architecture is perceived and represented, since 2017 Bêka & Lemoine have been travelling the world to explore the idea of the city as an ecosystem, observing the peculiarities of the species they name Homo Urbanus in the international habitat it continues to construct—and be constructed by.
At MAC/CCB, the largest presentation of this extensive ongoing project to date exhibits over 13 hours of films from 13 very different cities—from Rabat to Venice, Tokyo to Mumbai. With endless curiosity and unusual proximity, Bêka & Lemoine gather evidence from local laboratories of the great global experiment in how to live together. Framing the street as a grand stage where the actions of daily life are performed, this epic video installation of pure cinematic observation invites the visitor on a journey through global urban space. Organised in three zones of different editorial and experiential logics, the exhibition also proposes a reflection about how the way we look can be an act of editing itself.
In a mirror of the spontaneous encounters that guided their making, at the centre of this exhibition screens an ever-changing composition of four films drawn from the 13 impressions of individual cities of the current corpus of Homo Urbanus. Choreographically juxtaposed in a game of chance, this conversation between the sounds and images of different cities simultaneously invites viewers to closely inspect specific urban situations, and to perform comparisons between them.
Through this vast, vibrant fresco of contemporary living conditions, the universal and the specific, the common and the strange, and the collective and the individual are placed in dialogue to foreground the relationships—both to space and to each other—that cities direct and reflect. Through their embodied camera, Bêka & Lemoine’s cinema of gestures proposes an “inversion in the way we imagine the city: from life to buildings—and not the other way around.”
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16 October, from 5:30 pm, MAC/CCB Auditorium
Talk in preview of the exhibition Homo Urbanus. A Citymatographic Odyssey by Bêka & Lemoine
With Justin Jaeckle, Ila Bêka, and Louise Lemoine, moderated by Mariana Pestana
In English
Free entry, subject to availability
Public Programme
Talk in preview of the exhibition
16 October, 5:30 pm
MAC/CCB Auditorium
Spoken Journal of Criticism
17 October, 5:00 pm
Conversation between Bêka & Lemoine and Pedro Baía (architect, editor, professor, and researcher)
Organised by MAC/CCB in partnership with the International Association of Art Critics — AICA Portugal
Bêka & Lemoine Film Series
3 December; 7 January & 13 February, 7:00 pm
Centro Cultural de Belém, Small Auditorium
3 december 2024 – Koolhaas Houselife (2008, 58’) + Butohouse (2019, 33’)
7 january 2025 – Selling Dreams (2016, 25’) + Moriyama San (2017, 63’)
13 february 2025 – Rehab from Rehab (2023, 86’)
Launch of Bêka & Lemoine’s film about Lisbon
5 March, 7:00 pm
Centro Cultural de Belém, Small Auditorium
Partner: RTP
Bêka & Lemoine Film Series
11, 12 & 14 March, 7:00 pm
Cinemateca Portuguesa – M. Félix Ribeiro Theatre
11 march 2025 – Tokyo Ride (2020, 90’)
12 march 2025 – Big Ears Listen with Feet (2022, 93’)
14 march 2025 – The Sense of Tuning (2023, 96’)
In partnership with Cinemateca Portuguesa
Opening hours
From Tuesday to Sunday | 10:00 am to 6:30 pm (last entry at 6:00 pm)
Closed on Monday
Free admission every Sunday until 2:00 pm for residents in Portugal*
Data sheet
Photo (c) Neapolitanus Beka Lemoine
Prices and Discounts
Discounts
Discount 50%
- Visitors from 7 to 18 years old
- Students
- Visitors over 65 years old
- Visitors with reduced mobility
Other dicounts
20% — Lisboa Card
Free admission
- Children up to 6 years old
- Every Sunday until 2 p.m. for residents in Portugal*
- CCB Card
- Unemployed
- ICOM Members
- Former combatant
- Widow or widower of former combatant
* Residents in Portugal
Upon presentation of a Citizen Card of the Portuguese Republic.
If you do not have a Citizen Card of the Portuguese Republic, you must present an identification document and one of the following residence certificates:
- registration certificate for EU/EEA/Swiss citizen
- certificate of permanent residence for EU/EEA/Swiss citizens
- the residence permit for citizens of third countries
Partners
MAC/CCB Patron
Architecture Centre/Garagem Sul Patron
MaisFRANÇA is the program for French contemporary creation in Portugal. It is supported by the Institut Français Paris and the following patrons: Claude & Sofia Marion Foundation, BNP Paribas, JC Decaux and Mexto.