[1] Bêka & Lemoine's complete work (16 films) was acquired in 2016 by MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and is now part of its permanent collection.
[2] The acquisition of a complete work by MoMA, Museum of Modern Art is an extremely rare event for a living artist.
[3] Ila Bêka trained as an architect with a degree from the Università Iuav di Venezia of Venice and the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, where he studied with Aldo Rossi, Manfredo Tafuri, Vittorio Gregotti, Massimo Cacciari, Bernardo Secchi, Gino Valle, Ugo La Pietra, Henri Ciriani and Jacques Lucan.
[5] Koolhaas Houselife, the first film Ila Bêka co-directed with Lemoine in 2008, has been acclaimed by the international critique as "The architectural cult movie".
[6] Ila Bêka has been invited to lecture and present his films at many international cultural institutions and prestigious universities such as Venice Biennale (2008,[7] 2010, 2014[8]), MoMA (New-York), Metropolitan Museum of Art[9] (New-York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Palais de Tokyo[10] (Paris), Barbican Art Gallery[11] (London), Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal), NAi (Rotterdam, NL), MAXXI[12] (Rome), SALT (Istanbul), Harvard GSD, Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), Mextropoli (Mexico).