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.
MEIA-NOITE
Carlos Bunga was part of the Anozero–Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art ‘21-22. In the exhibition “Meia-Noite”, he presented the video and site-specific installation “Mother”.
18 May 2022
Carlos Bunga was part of the exhibition “18 May 2022“ at the 3+1 Contemporary Art gallery in Lisboa, where he presented the painting “Homeless #4“
Feast. Fury. Femina. – Works from FLAD’s Collection
Bunga’s Nicho #10, acquired by FLAD, was part of the exhibition Feast. Fury. Femina. Works from FLAD Collection presented at the Arquipelago. Centro de Artes Contemporâneas in São Miguel.
Europa Oxalá
Carlos Bunga was part of the exhibition “Europa, Oxalá“ at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
GIGANTISME — ART & INDUSTRIE. Chapter 1: Mental Landscapes
For the exhibition Chapter 1: Mental Landscapes of the triennal GIGANTISME - ART & INDUSTRIE, organized by Frac Grand Large, Bunga created the site-specific Cathédrale, presented at Dunkirk’s Halle AP2 (‘Atelier de Préfabrication n° 2).
Criteria – Works from the Fundación ARCO/IFEMA collection
This group exhibition presented at Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria showcased some of Fundación ARCO’s collection and how art has been evolving since the 60s. Bunga’s included piece was Intento de conservación III.
Fernanda Fragateiro and Carlos Bunga: A Conversation on Lines
FdG Projects was the first exhibition space of art collector Frédéric de Goldschmidt, where he shared his acquisitions with the public. He has several artworks by Bunga, which were part of this double exhibition with Fernanda Fragateiro.
La pintura. Un reto permanente
An exhibition at CaixaForum, on innovations and transformations in painting with works from the collection “La Caixa”, exploring a changed understanding of this technique.
Department of Carving and Modeling Section II: Form and Volume
An exhibition that outlined recent developments in contemporary sculpture. Curated by Jens Hoffmann. The title is a reference to Marcel Broodthaers’s Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles.
Art at the Turn of the Century
With works from the Fundación Botín collection, this exhibition was a reflection on a the current world marked by mutation, instability, social conflict, political tension and environmental danger, and the fragmented perception of reality where the real and the imaginary come increasingly closer together.
Variations portugaises
An exhibition at Centre Art Contemporain Meymac with works of the Portuguese art scene, as part of the Les Printemps de Haute-Corrèze festival.
Germinal. The Cabrita Reis section in the EDP Foundation Art Collection
The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology presented an exhibition on Pedro Cabrita Reis’s collection acquired by EDP Foundation, focusing on the initial moments of the careers of Portuguese artists.