MACAM Opening Party

Do you have plans for the weekend?
MACAM does. 

Free Admission 22, 23 and 24 March
10am - 7pm

Art exhibitions - Music and poetry events - Activities for kids
and many more surprises!


Saturday - 22nd March

10am - Doors Open.

Mediation and Participation Programme (MeP)

Close Encounters with the MACAM Collection - 30m.

Brief explanation of key artworks in the exhibitions. 

Permanent Collection Exhibition (Galleries 1 and 2)  A Collection in Two Stages
Meeting point: Entrance hall. Subject to capacity.

Gallery 1
11.30am - Naturalism and the first modernist generation 
12.30am - Rupture and renewal 
3pm - Avant-gardes: from Surrealism to the New Figuration 
4pm - Figuration reinvented
5pm - Order, rhythm and illusion

Gallery 2 
11.30am - Landscape-architecture: between interior and exterior
12.30am - Memory as image
3.30pm - Norm and transgression
4.30pm - Oppression and resistance 

Temporary Exhibitions (Galleries 3 and 4)
Meeting Point: Great Hall (Temporary Exhibitions)

The Anthropocene: in search of a new human? - Gallery 3
11.30am - There is always something more important, Mariele Neudecker
12.30am - Pavilion influenced by Moon Windows (variation E), Dan Graham
3.30pm - Animal Architecture, Ernesto Neto

War: Reality, Myth and Fiction- Gallery 4
12am - Litle Boy #1, João Louro
3pm - No life lost, Berlinda De Bruyckere, 
4pm - One Million + Untitled (sad musk), Fábio Colaço

Play Cart: Inventories

From 11am to 1pm and from 2.30pm to 6pm
For Children and Families

Meeting point: Great Hall (Temporary Buildings). Subject to capacity.

We've created a special trolley to develop experiences based on the artworks in the collection.

Gestures come from the hands

From 11.30am to 1pm and from 3pm to 5pm
Meeting point: to be determined. Subject to capacity.

Symbols and phrases that take wings through an ancient art: mehndi, which consists of applying henna paint to the skin. This is a practice that takes place on special occasions, during celebrations. Let yourself be painted by henna artists in earthy colours.

Musical Programme

From 4pm to 7pm - Ambient music by Rui Miguel Abreu (Garden) 
From 6pm to 7pm - Poetry set to music: readings by Rita Loureiro and music by Bruno Castro Silva (àCapela)

7pm - Doors close.


Sunday – 23rd March

10am - Doors Open.

Mediation and Participation Programme (MeP)

Close Encounters with the MACAM Collection - 30m.

Brief explanation of key artworks in the exhibitions. 

Permanent Collection Exhibition (Galleries 1 and 2)  A Collection in Two Stages
Meeting point: Entrance hall. Subject to capacity.

Gallery 1 

11.30am - Naturalism and the first modernist generation 
12.30am - Rupture and renewal 
3pm - Avant-gardes: from Surrealism to the New Figuration 
4pm - Figuration reinvented 5pm - Order, rhythm and illusion

Gallery 2  

11.30am - Landscape-architecture: between interior and exterior
12.30am - Memory as image
3.30pm - Norm and transgression
4.30pm - Oppression and resistance 

Temporary Exhibitions (Galleries 3 and 4)
Meeting Point: Great Hall (Temporary Exhibitions)

The Anthropocene: in search of a new human? - Gallery 3 

11.30am - There is always something more important, Mariele Neudecker
12.30am - Pavilion influenced by Moon Windows (variation E), Dan Graham
3.30pm - Animal Architecture, Ernesto Neto

War: Reality, Myth and Fiction- Gallery 4 

12am - Litle Boy #1, João Louro
3pm - No life lost, Berlinda De Bruyckere  
4pm - One Million + Untitled (sad musk), Fábio Colaço

Play Cart: Inventories

From 11am to 1pm and from 2.30pm to 6pm
Meeting point: Great Hall (Temporary Buildings). Subject to capacity.
For Children and Families

We've created a special trolley to develop experiences based on the artworks in the collection.

Gestures come from the hands

From 11.30am to 1pm, and from 3pm to 5pm
Meeting point: to be determined. Subject to capacity. 

Symbols and phrases that take wings through an ancient art: mehndi, which consists of applying henna paint to the skin. This is a practice that takes place on special occasions, during celebrations. Let yourself be painted by henna artists in earthy colours.

Musical Programme

From 4pm to 7pm - Ambient music by Rui Miguel Abreu (Garden) 

From 6pm to 7pm - Presentation of the album Afloat by André Barros and Tiago Ferreira (piano 4 hands), guest Paulo Bernardino (Clarinet) - (àCapela) 

7pm - Doors close.


Monday 24th March

10am - Doors open.

Close Encounters with the MACAM Collection - 30m.

Brief explanation of key works in the exhibitions. 

Permanent Collection Exhibition (Galleries 1 and 2) 
A Collection in Two Stages
Meeting point: Entrance Hall. Subject to capacity.

GALLERY 1
11.30 am - Rupture and renewal
2:30 pm - Figuration Reinvented

GALLERY 2
12:30 pm - Oppression and Resistance
3:30 pm - Memory as Image

Temporary Exhibitions (Galleries 3 and 4)
Meeting Point: Great Hall (Temporary Exhibitions)

The Anthropocene: In search of a new human? - Gallery 3
12pm - There is always something more important, Mariele Neudecker

War: Reality, Myth and Fiction - Gallery 4
3pm - Litle Boy #1, João Louro

7pm - Doors close.


Close Encounters with the MACAM Collection: Permanent Collection Exhibition
Play Cart: Inventories
From 11am to 1pm and from 2.30pm to 6pm
Gestures come from the hands

DJ set by Rui Miguel Abreu
4pm - 7pm
Poetry set to music: readings by Rita Loureiro and music by Bruno Castro Silva
6pm - 7pm
Presentation of the album Afloat by André Barros and Tiago Ferreira (piano, four hands), guest Paulo Bernardino (Clarinet) - àCapela - Live Arts Bar
6pm - 7pm