With All Due Intent, Manifesta 5

Carlos Bunga’s interest in the performativity of architecture informed the temporary cardboard structure he built within Rafael Moneo’s Kursaal for Manifesta 5. This structure was imploded through a series of strategic cuts during the opening of the biennale. The remaining skin of the original edifice served as a marker of both interior and exterior.

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Hospital de cartón. Un proyecto de Primož Bizjak y Carlos Bunga

The artists Carlos Bunga (Portugal, 1976) and Primož Bizjak (Slovenia, 1976) joined forces in 2019 to work on a collaborative project that combined various aspects of their practices.

Drawn by their interest in an example of prefabricated architecture that has survided for more than a century in the middle of the Catalan Pyrenees, they show us a living organism in an advanced state of decay.

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Com [en present d’indicatiu] #Com01 Carlos Bunga + Joana Roda + Pía Sommer

Com [en present d’indicatiu] #Com01 Carlos Bunga + Joana Roda + Pía Sommer brings together these 3 artists to develop a performance during the pandemic, adapting to the challenges generated by the period of confinement.

Centered around a fragment of Enric Casasses' poem, El nudo la flor (The Flower Knot)

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Inaspettatamente

Inaspettatamente is an exhibition inspired by the life, work and world view of the late artist Alighiero Boetti. A dialogue emerges between Boetti and the living artists present in FdG Collection that echoes conversations around seriality and processes, order and disorder, and experimentation with different modes of production; either in a direct thematic connection or on a more intuitive level.

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Más que espacio

Más que espacio, at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, aims to reflect on how artists have reproduced, interpreted, imagined, denied, or deconstructed the space. Not only from a formal point of view, but also bringing into play other social, political, economic, and emotional implications.

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Sari Dienes

An exhibition about at Philadephia Art Alliance about Sara Dienes, whose experimental work expanded what was permissible in the visual arts. She was an early influence on younger artists such as Jasper Johns. Her junk constructions were included in MoMA’s Art of Assemblage exhibit.

The exhibition includes analogous efforts by contemporary artists, including paintings by Carlos Bunga

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Dialecto CA2M

Carlos Bunga was part of the group exhibition Dialecto at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo. For the first time since the museum's founding, the collections are set up throughout the entire building in an exhibition that aims to explain what this museum is, why it exists, to put on display the reasoning behind its programme and, above all, to celebrate the importance of a collaboratively built collection as a project that can take responsibility for telling us what contemporary art is from the perspective of right here, with more than 400 works by 250 artists.

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Modus Operandi

Carlos Bunga was part of the group exhibition Modus Operandi at Serralves. The exhibition brings together works that have been incorporated into the Serralves Collection since it was launched in 1989. It reflects specific experimental or transdisciplinary approaches and includes conceptual and formal themes that convey the attitudes, contexts and concerns that marked art production since the 1960s.

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Oneiroikos

Carlos Bunga was part of the collective exhibition Oneiroikos at Broteria. It brings together works through the prism of the book The poetics of space by Gaston Bachelard. The works act as discreet worlds, that contain micro- and macrocosms, and that aim to explore and reflect the relation between interiority and exteriority, both physical and psychic, creating Bachelardian poetic images that are born out of the meeting between subjectivity and reality, between intimacy and the world.

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Microoperas of Today

Carlos Bunga designed the set for the micro opera You Will Disinherit the Earth, presented at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. This was part of a cycle of 3 multidisciplinary operas, that raised questions about issues regarding the climate crisis, interspecies communication, and the acoustics of nature, exploring the relationship between music, new technologies and new dramaturgies.

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Choreographies of the Impossible, Luanda Itinerancy

A traveling exhibition For the 35th edition of the Sao Paulo Art Biennial. Bunga presented Habitar el color, a site-specific commissioned work that invited visitors to a sensory experience of walking on a thick layer of crackled paint and feeling the color and its ephemeral nature with their feet.

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