Exhibition programme 2025

MAC/CCB Lisbon presents its 2025 cross-disciplinary programme, featuring a major update to its permanent exhibition An Atlantic Drift: The Arts of the 20th Century Based on the Berardo Collection and the reopening of its Architecture Centre with a project by BUREAU. The year also includes solo and group shows, many in collaboration with Portuguese and international partners.

The programme reflects the new MAC/CCB in Belém: a living, inhabited space, committed to critical thought and engaging diverse audiences through a dynamic range of exhibitions and activities, as described by artistic director Nuria Enguita.

2025 exhibition programme MAC/CCB, Lisbon

An Atlantic Drift: The Arts of the 20th Century Based on the Berardo Collection (permanent exhibition)
Curated by Nuria Enguita, Marta Mestre, and Mariana Pinto dos Santos

This permanent exhibition brings together around 170 Portuguese and international artists, framing art as part of global history. In it, the Atlantic emerges as a central space of transit, shaping modern subjectivities and new geopolitical affinities.

The show draws from key collections on long-term loan to MAC/CCB—primarily the Berardo Collection, alongside the Holma/Elipse, Teixeira de Freitas, and the Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection.

Presented alongside the permanent exhibition Object, Body, and Space, which revisits artistic genres from the 1960s onwards, MAC/CCB offers a unique survey of modern and contemporary art.

31 Women: An Exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim
Until September 7, 2025
Curated by Patricia Mayayo

Organised by Fundación MAPFRE, with an exceptional loan from The 31 Women Collection.

This exhibition pays tribute to Peggy Guggenheim’s iconic 1943 show, dedicated exclusively to women artists at her Art of This Century gallery in New York.

Vanishing Intimacies: Surrounding Nan Goldin
Until August 31, 2025
Curated by Nuria Enguita

Taking Nan Goldin’s work as a point of departure, this exhibition brings together 36 artists to explore intimacy as a way of living and storytelling—through desire, daily rituals, and affect. With works by Helena Almeida, Louise Bourgeois, Mike Kelley, Ana Mendieta, and others.

Interspecies
Until August 31, 2025
Curated by Mariana Pestana

Interspecies delves into the historic and current desire for humans to understand, connect with, and coexist with other species.

Chantal Akerman: Travelling
April 17–September 7, 2025
Curated by Laurence Rassel

Conceived by Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (Bozar), the Fondation Chantal Akerman, and Royal Film Archive of Belgium (CINEMATEK), and produced in collaboration with MAC/CCB. Partnership with Cinemateca Portuguesa

Offering a fresh perspective on Akerman’s work, this show affirms the Belgian filmmaker, writer, and artist as a political voice shaped by her deep observation of everyday life.

Uncensored Posters
The 25th of April and the “Hot Summer” Revolution
April 24–September 28, 2025

Organised with WPP.

A powerful look back at the revolutionary days of April 1974 through the lens of political posters and graphic activism.

Experiences of the World
May 14, 2025–October 26, 2025
Curated by Nuria Enguita

Featuring artists such as Ann Veronica Janssens, Belén Uriel, Ernesto Neto, Horácio Frutuoso, Mona Hatoum, and William Kentridge, this exhibition explores art as experience—with its capacity to reveal, question, and poetically rethink the world.

Avenida 211
October 25, 2025 – February 22, 2026
Curated by Nuria Enguita and Marta Mestre

Focusing on Lisbon’s early 2000s art scene, this show reflects on a formative local space that shaped a generation of now-established artists.

Lighter: Triennial 2025
October 2, 2025–December 7, 2025
Curated by Territorial Agency
Organised with Lisbon Architecture Triennale

A thought-provoking exhibition on the infections and deviations of the Anthropocene and the urgent rethinking of how to inhabit the planet.

Place of Being: The Burle Marx Legacy
November 26, 2025–April 5, 2026
Originally curated by Isabela Ono, Beatriz Lemos, and Pablo Lafuente.
Curated at MAC/CCB by Nuria Enguita and Marta Mestre.
Organised by Instituto Burle Marx, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, and MAC/CCB

This exhibition revisits Burle Marx’s urban design legacy, inviting Portuguese artists to reflect on his lasting influence in public space today.