birth
Porto, Portugal, 12-5-1976
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23-04-2025
Carlos Bunga's work is located at the point where architecture, painting and performance meet. Bunga first became known in the early 2000s with ephemeral interventions whose main action, rather than constructing through addition in the traditional sense, was the apparent opposite: subtraction, destruction and removal. His habitual material, cardboard, allows the exploitation of relatively opposite qualities, such as malleability and hardness, strength and fragility.
Bunga creates architectural-sculptural installations that respond to the constructive elements of the context in which they are sited. For the most part, therefore, these are responses to existing buildings. Demanding great physical exertion, their execution is never pre-planned with the aid of preliminary drawings, but rather embraces the cultivation of intuition and chance.
Exhibitions in which he has participated include Manifesta 5 (San Sebastian, 2004); In Site 05 (San Diego Museum of Art, 2005); Unmonumental. The Object in the 21st Century (The New Museum, New York, 2007); Fundación Marcelino Botín (Santander), IVAM (Valencia), Museo Patio Herreriano (Valladolid), 2008; National Museum in Warsaw (Warsaw, 2009); 29th São Paulo Biennale (2010); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel, 2012); and Bronx Museum (New York, 2014). Individual exhibitions include Culturgest Porto (Oporto, 2005); Milton Keynes Gallery (United Kingdom, 2006); Miami Art Museum (Miami, 2009); Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Lisbon, 2010); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2011); Museu de Serralves (Oporto) and Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2012; MUAC (Mexico City, 2013); Haus Konstruktiv Museum (Zurich, 2015); Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá and the 1st Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago.
Bunga creates architectural-sculptural installations that respond to the constructive elements of the context in which they are sited. For the most part, therefore, these are responses to existing buildings. Demanding great physical exertion, their execution is never pre-planned with the aid of preliminary drawings, but rather embraces the cultivation of intuition and chance.
Exhibitions in which he has participated include Manifesta 5 (San Sebastian, 2004); In Site 05 (San Diego Museum of Art, 2005); Unmonumental. The Object in the 21st Century (The New Museum, New York, 2007); Fundación Marcelino Botín (Santander), IVAM (Valencia), Museo Patio Herreriano (Valladolid), 2008; National Museum in Warsaw (Warsaw, 2009); 29th São Paulo Biennale (2010); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel, 2012); and Bronx Museum (New York, 2014). Individual exhibitions include Culturgest Porto (Oporto, 2005); Milton Keynes Gallery (United Kingdom, 2006); Miami Art Museum (Miami, 2009); Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Lisbon, 2010); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2011); Museu de Serralves (Oporto) and Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2012; MUAC (Mexico City, 2013); Haus Konstruktiv Museum (Zurich, 2015); Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá and the 1st Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago.
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Microòperes d'avui [Enregistrament audiovisual roda de premsa]
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30-1-2025
Melic -- Parlem de... María Teresa Hincapié. Si aquest fos un principi d'infinit [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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19-1-2023
Time/Temporality / Carlos Bunga
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2017
Visita comentada per als Amics del MACBA -- Carlos Bunga [Enregistrament sonor visita guiada]
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5-11-2015
Carlos Bunga [Enregistrament audiovisual d'exposició per mitjans de comunicació]
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30-10-2015 - 7-2-2016
La Capella / Carlos Bunga [Enregistrament audiovisual procés de muntatge/desmuntatge obra exposada temporalment]
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30-10-2015 - 7-2-2016
Carlos Bunga [Reportatge fotogràfic procés de muntatge/desmuntatge exposició]
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30-10-2015 - 7-2-2016
Carlos Bunga [Reportatge fotogràfic exposició]
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30-10-2015 - 7-2-2016
La Capella / Carlos Bunga [Enregistrament audiovisual procés de muntatge/desmuntatge obra exposada temporalment]
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30-10-2015 - 7-2-2016
Carlos Bunga [Enregistrament audiovisual exposició]
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30-10-2015 - 7-2-2016
Carlos Bunga [Reportatge fotogràfic inauguració exposició]
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29-10-2015
Carlos Bunga [Enregistrament audiovisual roda de premsa]
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28-10-2015
Fons àudio #30. Podcast amb Carlos Bunga [Publicació sonora]
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16-4-2015
DNA / Carlos Bunga
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2015