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.
Au sud d’aujourd’hui
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian organized an exhibition at its Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, including works from Portuguese contemporary artists who demonstrate critical thinking in the face of modernity and reflect on being marked by the cosmopolitan and critical experience of their national reality.
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.
Beyond the Supersquare
The Bronx Museum of the Arts presented an exhibition that explored the influence and legacies of major Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture and thought on contemporary artists.
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.
Individual Order
The exhibition at KARST explored how diverse artistic strategies, seemingly humble or even invisible, can unfold as gestures of resistance, as instruments for radical change.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mobility at work
Bunga presented a series of collages using photos of the Justus Lipsuis building in Brussels, Belgium as a base and altering the spaces with planes of color.
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.
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.