Public Programme

Exhibition Paradise, Today

Wednesday,  November 4 at the Architecture Centre

7:00pm – Opening
8:00pm – Vinyl Launch + Performance by Jorge Queijo
During the opening, Jorge Queijo, creator of the soundscape for Paradise, Today., presents a performance inspired by the atmospheres and transforming territories that emerge throughout the installation.

◾ Talk
Saturday, november 7 at 4:00pm at Architecture Centre

◾ Memories, Silences, And Disputes In The Public Space Of Two Iberian Cities
Bringing together specialists from Portugal and Spain, this conversation explores monumentalised public space in Lisbon and Barcelona, and the disputes between past and present that unfold within it. Particular attention will be paid to the urban setting surrounding MAC/CCB, namely the Praça do Império complex, which has been the subject of studies, debates, and contestation over the years, and to the monument to Antonio López y López in Plaça d’Idrissa Diallo (Ciutat Vella), Barcelona.

• November 21 at 3:30pm
Roundtable discussion with: Victor Barros, Elsa Peralta,Ricardo Agarez,Miguel Anxo Rodriguez,Camila Opazo Sepúlveda

Moderated by Mariana Pinto dos Santos
Art historian and professor (IHA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST)

Free admission with invitation. Subject to available seating.
MAC/CCB auditorium

The roundtable will be held in Portuguese, with no translation.

• November 22 at 10:30am
(registration required)

A guided tour to the urban and monumental setting of Praça do Império with anthropologist Elsa Peralta, historian Pedro Cardim, and Portuguese-Angolan artist Márcio Carvalho, creator of Memórias para 14 Bustos (2026). The work proposes the creation of an alternative site of memory in the Belém Tropical Botanical Garden—one that can recall, reinterpret, and recontextualise past events such as the human zoo established for the Portuguese World Exhibition (1940), while challenging Belém’s imperial urban context. (Memórias para 14 Bustos was included in the exhibition Olhares Críticos no Arquivo Colonial – Sombras e Memórias, at MUHNAC, April–August 2026, curated by Márcio Carvalho, Nuno Silas, and Sophie Kotanyi.)

We would like to thank MUHNAC and the Tropical Botanical Garden for authorising this tour. The tour will be conducted in English, with no translation.

Limited to 25 participants.
Free admission, subject to prior registration by completing the form available here by 17 November 2026.

Exhibition Frida Orupabo

Reading and Listening Room
cadavre exquis / cadáver esquisito / exquisite corpse
June 3 to November 1 2026

Located at the end of the exhibition, this room hosts regular activations and offers visitors access to bibliographic material and editorial projects related to Frida Orupabo’s referential universe.
Conceived and facilitated by colectivoFACA (Andreia Coutinho and Maribel Mendes Sobreira) and Ícaro Lira 

Exhibition An Atlantic Drift. The Arts of the 20th Century Based on the Berardo Collection

◾ Course An Atlantic Journey through Modern Art
Saturdays, October 17 and 31 , November 7, 14, 21 and 28, 202610:00am to 13:00pm

What possibilities does telling the story of modern art from an Atlantic perspective offer us? Guided by the idea of deviation, this course brings into the discussion artists, journeys and intersections that are rarely covered in textbooks but which the exhibition “An Atlantic Drift. The Arts of the 20th Century Based on the Berardo Collection” allows us to explore. Challenging the notion of a single interpretation and championing multiple possibilities for exploration, the course is delivered in person, comprising six guided sessions held between the exhibition space and the auditorium.

Coordination Cristina Gameiro / Conceived and led by Fabrícia Valente
Fee: €95 per participant / Booking deadline: 9 October

Exhibition Ângela Ferreira

◾ Exhibition Tour/Conversation with Ângela Ferreira and Nuria Enguita
Sunday, october 25 at 3:00pm