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)
a breath? a name? the ways of worldmaking
a breath? a name? the ways of worldmaking was the 7th edition of Biennale Gherdënia, curated by Adam Budak.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Sculpture as a Verb
Carlos Bunga was part of the collective exhibition at Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Sculpture As Verb. Expands on the ideas proposed by one of Richard Serra’s most influential works, Verb List
Zonas de Transição
Carlos Bunga was part of the collective exhibition Transition Zones – Works from the PLMJ Foundation Collection at the Torreão Nascente of the Cordoaria Nacional. The selection of works and artists includes different generations from Portuguese-speaking countries,
Perspectiva 24
Carlos Bunga was part of the collective exhibition at MUSEU BIENAL DE CERVEIRA
Uma Cadeira É Uma Cadeira É Uma Cadeira
Carlos Bunga was part of the collective exhibition Uma Cadeira É Uma Cadeira É Uma Cadeira at Galeria Luisa Strina in São Paulo, Brasil.
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.
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.
The Future Rises With Each Dawn
At the MU.SA - Museu das Artes de Sintra, a group exhibition showcasing the VASCO Collection.
Imagining Futures, Manifesta 15
For Manifesta 15 in Barcelona, Bunga created La irrupción de lo impredecible, which consists of a monumental painting that emanates light from the floor and a series of cocoons that hang from the ceiling.
Colección MACBA. Preludio. Intención poética
At MACBA Barcelona, Bunga presented the installation Animismo. Tables, sideboards and other elements recovered from flea markets are given a new lease of life, in which they merge with the Museum building through interventions with cardboard panels and adhesive tape, ephemeral elements that configure their own unique language.. Reusing furniture as a reflection on the life we bestow on inanimate objects, a new animism that, in this case, inhabits a museum space.
Choreographies of the impossible, Bienal São Paulo
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.
History(ies) of Art: Recent Acquisitions in the Serralves Collection
Carlos Bunga’s “Intento de conservácion IV, 2015“, was part of the exhibition “HISTORY(IES) OF ART RECENT ACQUISITIONS IN THE SERRALVES COLLECTION” at the Serralves Museum, next to 11 other artists’ whose work had been recently acquired.