May I help you? Posso Ajudar?
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Saturday 3 October · until 30 Dec
The MAC/CCB's new permanent exhibition surveys five decades of art from the 1970s onward, bringing together works by 90 artists such as Andrea Fraser, Helena Almeida, Jeff Koons and Kara Walker from the collections held at the museum, alongside new commissions from Portuguese artists. Curated by Nuria Enguita and Marta Mestre, it takes its title from Fraser's performance questioning institutional relations in the art world.
May I Help You? Posso ajudar? [May I help you?], Arts and artists from the 1970s onwards is the new permanent exhibition of the MAC/CCB. The everyday question “May I help you?” was used by the artist Andrea Fraser in a performance that addressed the complex institutional relationships in the art world. The question also directs a questioning at the museum itself: what kind of help is really offered and what kind of connection can still be expected in an era of growing fragmentation, dissonance and impermanence? The exhibition takes as its starting point five decades of artistic production, from the 1970s onwards, and includes works by 90 artists, for example, Ad Minoliti (in the museum hall), Alberto Carneiro, Carla Filipe, Doris Salcedo, Helena Almeida, Gabriel Abrantes, Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons, Júlia Ventura, Kara Walker and Richard Serra, among many others. The works belong to the collections on deposit at the MAC/CCB (Berardo, Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado [State Contemporary Art Collection], Holma/Ellipse and Teixeira de Freitas), also counting on new commissions from Portuguese artists. Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (last entry at 6 p.m.). Technical sheet: Curated by Nuria Enguita and Marta Mestre; curatorial advisory by Raphael Fonseca (Denver Art Museum). Artists: Gabriel Abrantes, Helena Almeida, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Taysir Batniji, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sara Bichão, Irma Blank, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Olaf Breuning, Daniel Buren, Alberto Carneiro, Gabriel Chaile, Adriano Costa, Jim Dine, Jimmie Durham, Carla Filipe, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Flavin, Fernanda Fragateiro, Andrea Fraser, Gilbert & George, Simryn Gill, Fernanda Gomes, Félix González-Torres, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, David Hammons, Ana Hatherly, Mona Hatoum, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Sanja Iveković, Ana Jotta, Donald Judd, Mike Kelley, Yazan Khalili, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, João Marçal, Agnes Martin, Cildo Meireles, Mario Merz, Ad Minoliti, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Senga Nengudi, Chris Ofili, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Pino Pascali, Silvestre Pestana, Raymond Pettibon, Antonio Pichillá, Sandra Poulson, Robert Rauschenberg, Doris Salcedo, Alan Saret, Julião Sarmento, Allan Sekula, Richard Serra, Jim Shaw, Susana Solano, Haim Steinbach, Frank Stella, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, João Pedro Vale + Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, Júlia Ventura, Vídeo nas Aldeias, Kara Walker, Franz West, Yonamine, Bruno Zhu.