Francisca Carneiro Fernandes will assume the presidency of the board of directors of the Belém Cultural Center Foundation (FCCB), thus succeeding Elísio Summavielle, at a time when the institution opens to new audiences, the Government announced this Friday, October 7. .
Francisca Carneiro Fernandes, with experience in the management of cultural facilities and close to the performing arts, is the name chosen by the Ministry of Culture to preside over the Belém Cultural Center Foundation,” the authority announced in a statement.
According to the same note, this appointment comes at a time when the CCB wants to “strengthen the relationship between the different spaces” and open itself “to new audiences, the city and the country.”
President of Performart and executive director of New Projects of the municipal company of Porto Ágora, Francisca Carneiro Fernandes will succeed Elísio Summavielle, who was at the head of the CCB for the last seven years and whose mandate was renewed in April last year.
The CCB will enter a new stage, with the recovery of the management of the Museum space. This opportunity places the CCB in a unique position at the national level, allowing dialogue between different spaces. As it turns 30, the CCB has a great challenge: to design a new identity and promote an intimate relationship between the Performing Arts Center and the new MAC/CCB [Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Cultural de Belém]which will be inaugurated at the end of the month,” said the Minister of Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva, quoted in the statement.
For the governor, Francisca Carneiro Fernandes has the profile to respond to these challenges, since she is a person “close to the performing arts and with extensive experience in the management of cultural facilities,” specifically at the head of the São João National Theater, in Port.
The inauguration of the MAC/CCB is scheduled between the 27th and 29th, with a free admission program that includes concerts and guided tours.
The MAC/CCB opens with the presentation of the stored collections: the Berardo Collection, the Ellipse Collection and an exhibition of drawings from the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, in addition to a solo exhibition by the Belgian artist Berlinde de Bruyckere, who will be present in Lisbon .
At the beginning of September, curator Delfim Sardo, of the CCB board of directors, told Lusa that a reformulation of the permanent exhibition was prepared for the museum’s inauguration, with “a cross-sectional sample of pieces from the Berardo Collection stored [no CCB] with the Ellipse Collection, expanding to include works by younger artists.”
The MAC/CCB will open its doors at a time when the process of choosing the artistic direction is still continuing, which began with an international competition and whose final decision is scheduled for December, according to Delfim Sardo.
In June, the Minister of Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva, stated that the opening of the MAC/CCB begins a new stage in the 30 years of existence of the CCB.
The MAC/CCB was born after the extinction of the Foundation of Modern Art and Contemporary Art – Berardo Collection and the denunciation of a loan protocol signed between the State and the art collector José Berardo, which came into force as of January 1 of this year.
The CCB Foundation remains faithful custodian of the Berardo Collection by judicial decision – with responsibility for conservation and public enjoyment – but the works have been detained by the courts since July 2019, after a process initiated before the courts by Novo Banco, Caixa Geral de Depósitos and BCP, to recover a debt that is around 1,000 million euros.
Source: Observadora
