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.

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

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.

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.

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,

Carlos Bunga was part of the collective exhibition at MUSEU BIENAL DE CERVEIRA

Carlos Bunga was part of the exhibition “Europa, Oxalá“ at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

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.

At Bomba Gens Centro de Arte, Bunga was part part of this exhibition exploring ornamentation in contemporary art as non-contingent.

The exhibition at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology showcased historical and contemporary works by artists whose work promotes the discussion on topics that expand or narrow the relationship between art and architecture.

An exhibition at Museo del Patrimonio Municipal de Málaga with works from the olorVISUAL collection, that links places, customs, popular figures and historical moments from the city of Málaga with olfactory memories.

A travelling exhibition across four cities in Portugal, at Centro para os Asuntos da Arte e Arquitectura, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Centro de Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor and Espaço Adães Bermudesin. Bunga presented one of his video works.

Guggenheim Bilbao presents an exhibition with pieces from Hermann and Margrit Rupf’s collection. It puts works by key artists from art history such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee or Vasily Kandinsky in dialogue with works by contemporary artists. Two paintings by Bunga are part of the collection and were included in the exhibition.

Bunga created a site-specific construction for the covered public square “Couros” of the Guimarães Design Institute. The exhibition was part of the program Change in Progress for the Guimarães: 2012 European Capital of Culture.

Carlos Bunga was part of the exhibition Colección Helga de Alvear at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, curated by José María Viñuela, patron of the Foundation.

An exhibition investigating the nature of collage in contemporary art practices. Bunga’s objects were part of the 1st cycle Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, exploring the reemergence of sculptural assemblage that juxtaposes disparate elements for suggestive effect.

The exhibition brought together works by contemporary artists that delve into moments of crisis and fissure affecting everyday urban and domestic spaces. Bunga explored this through a site-specific architectural construction.

Bunga participated at this event organized by students of the Superior School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, where everyone is invited to show their work and projects on the streets of the city and in their homes. At the school’s student residence where he was staying, he showed a site-specific construction and registered an artistic action tearing it down.