May I help you? Posso Ajudar?
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Thursday 1 October · until 30 Dec
The MAC/CCB unveils its new permanent exhibition 'May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?', spanning five decades of artistic production from the 1970s onwards with works by 90 artists from the Berardo, State Contemporary Art, Holma/Ellipse and Teixeira de Freitas collections, asking what kind of help and connection a museum can still offer.
'May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?, Arts and artists from the 1970s onwards' is the new permanent exhibition at MAC/CCB. The everyday question 'May I help you?' was used by artist Andrea Fraser in a performance addressing the complex institutional relationships in the art world. The question also turns an inquiry on the museum itself: what kind of help is really being offered, and what kind of connection can still be hoped for in an era of growing fragmentation, dissonance and impermanence? Taking as its starting point five decades of artistic production from the 1970s onwards, the exhibition includes works by 90 artists, for example Ad Minoliti (in the museum's 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 MAC/CCB (Berardo, the State Contemporary Art Collection, Holma/Ellipse and Teixeira de Freitas), and also include new commissions from Portuguese artists. Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 6.30pm (last entry at 6pm). 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.