Performing Nature
This solo exhibition is a major anthology offering the opportunity to delve into the complex and poetic work of Bunga. It includes artworks from the Helga de Alvear Collection, works specially produced for the exhibition, as well as a site-specific monumental piece created in situ. In it, Bunga understands the spectator as another element of the installation: his experience integrates the work itself and transforms it.
Reassembling Split Light
A temporary cardboard structure in the Koski Gallery of the Sarasota Art Museum. Beginning and ending as a dialogue with the existing architecture, this installation transforms the gallery’s spatial configuration for the duration of the exhibition. By deploying light as his primary conceptual basis, just as James Turrell has done before him, Bunga explains that he sculpts light, which cannot be touched, but only felt viscerally.
Performing Nature
Bunga’s first major anthological exhibition in Spain. It reflects on the temporalities of nature, its shelters and its living and organic qualities.
Against the extravagance of desire
This exhibition for the Museo Reina Sofía was shown at the Palacio de Cristal, where Bunga constructed one of his biggest site-specifics up until now, accompanied by a performance and a sculpture.
I Always Tried to Imagine My Home
At Schirn’s La Rotunda, Bunga created a site-specific installation following the space’s architecture, using cardboard and home furnishing as his raw materials.
Por amor a la disidencia. Carlos Bunga 3/4. Intento de conservación
At Museo Amparo, Bunga reflects on the idea of conservation and how hospitals and museums play a central role as spaces dedicated to the conservation of humanity or its cultural heritage.
Ecosystem
Ecosystem is a winner of the ArtPrize international art competition. Bunga’s exhibition was part of SiTE:LAB at 54 Jefferson, the former Grand Rapids Public Museum. His site-specific interacted directly with original dioramas and showcases from the 1970s, which illustrate the diversity of the local wildlife, and blended in with the old building to create a new museology.
Khôra
Using the concept “Khôra” - from Platos’s work - as a starting point, Bunga’s site-specific arquitectural construction at MUAC-UNAM reflects on constant oscillation between exclusion and participation, asking the audience to open up to other ways of receiving and being received within the museum’s space.
Hammer Projects: Carlos Bunga
Bunga’s exhibition at Hammer Museum brought together past drawings, paintings, sculptures, and videos, and the new site-specific construction “Landscape”.
Espacio mental
At Oficina para Proyectos de Arte, Bunga presents a site-specific installation. The labyrinth made of cardboard represents the complexity of thinking during the work process and invites the audience to intervene it.
Heterotopías
Bunga approached the recent history of the city of Vigo, its architecture, urbanism and transformations, through a research process with field work, resulting in a series of drawings, photographs, collages, a video and a sound file.
Metamorphosis
For his first solo exhibition in the United States, Bunga presented two large-scale site-specific installations at MAM, and later on brought them down during a performance.
New Artist Award 2003
The EDP Foundation organizes a yearly award for young artists. In 2003, the exhibition took place at the Serralves Museum and showed 9 artists’ works. Among them, Bunga was elected as the winner by the international jury. He presented one of his site-specific constructions made out of cardboard and paint.