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.
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.
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).
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.
The State of the Art of Architecture
For the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, The State of the Art of Architecture, Bunga presented the installation Under the Skin, as the inaugural exhibit at the Stony Island Arts Bank.
Performing Abstraction
The exhibition at art gallery Luciana Brito traced performative dimensions in contemporary abstract art, connections to modernism, and the reinvention of abstraction. Bunga presented one of his site-specific architectural constructions.
Ramada Project
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.
Postmonument
De-monumentalisation was the theme, referring to the sculpture being freed from any celebratory, encomiastic function, and rethinking how it could be possible to once again identify ourselves with monuments.
Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem / There is always a cup of sea to sail in
For the 29th São Paulo Biennial, Bunga presented Simultaneo, a site-specific installation made out of mass-produced materials like cardboard, glue, adhesive-tape and home paint.
ArtUnlimited
Bunga exhibited his piece Ruins in Art Basel’s 2008 fair, through art gallery Elba Benitez. An installation made from cardboard laid out on the floor as if a structure had previously been there and had since vanished.
III Premio Internacional de Pintura Diputación de Castellón
Bunga won this international award organized by the Diputación Provincial de Castellón. He presented one of his architectural installations.
Things Fall Apart All Over Again
The exhibition at Artists Space showed artists who employed strategies of construction, destruction, and transformation to explore the architectural structure of the house.Bunga presented a site-specific installation made out of everyday materials, which he then collapsed and documented in pictures.
Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art
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.
Caldas Late Night
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.