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.
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.
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.
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.
Escala 1:1. 21 Artistas Contemporáneos Portugueses
This exhibition at Tabacalera Promoción del Arte was a reflection on the scale as a tool for reading, comparing and creating references to understand the space and context of each individual and how it affects the relationship between the body, space and the works.
¿Ornamento = delito?
At Bomba Gens Centro de Arte, Bunga was part part of this exhibition exploring ornamentation in contemporary art as non-contingent.
Hacer amar plantar árboles. Colección Valzuela.
Centro de Arte Alcobendas showed part of the Colección Valzuela, by María Pilar Cerezuela and Enrique Vallés. The exhibition aimed to transfer an extract of their daily environment and peaceful coexistence between periods and disciplines through a montage of that very personal narrative of what a collection can be.
Olor de Málaga. Percepciones olfativas de colección olorVISUAL
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.
La Colección de Hermann y Margrit Rupf
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.
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.
Colección Helga de Alvear
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.
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.
Itinerarios 2005/06
This exhibition at Centro Botín brought together the work carried out during artist residences by the winners of the XIII call for Plastic Arts Scholarships organized by Fundación Botín. With his grant, Bunga moved to New York for the International Studio & Curatorial Program.
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.