Europa Oxalá
Carlos Bunga was part of the exhibition “Europa, Oxalá“ at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
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.
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.
Materiais Transitórios – Núcleo de Escultura da Colecção da Fundação PLMJ
The PLMJ Foundation organized an exhibition at the Fine Arts Society (Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes) with a selection of works focusing on sculptures by artists from Portugal and Mozambique belonging to the PLMJ Foundation collection.
Múltiples mundos
Art gallery CarrerasMugica hosted an exhibition at La Nave with a selection of artists from Galeria Elba Benitez. It approached contemporary art from the idea of multiplicity, aiming for a narrative to emerge on its own accord. Bunga exhibited several of his Models – sculptures made out of cardboard and paint.
Informed by Function
The exhibition at Lehman College Art Gallery explored the dialogue between art and the domestic object in sculptural objects influenced by the vocabulary of furniture, design, and architecture.
Low Key
The show at Centro Botín brought together artists whose proposals derive from an economy of means, involving manual production, the use of poor materials and an emphasis on the small, the homely and the humble, expressing sensations of vulnerability and transience motivated by the phenomena of uncertainty that plague today's society.
Unmonumental. The Object in the 21st Century
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.