Carlos Bunga. Performing Nature

Performing Nature is the first major anthological exhibition by Carlos Bunga (Porto, Portugal, 1976) in Spain, offering the opportunity to delve into his complex and poetic work. Curated by Sandra Guimarães.
Starting from pictorial research, Bunga has developed a personal language that deconstructs the painting as a medium, hybridizing it with sculpture, architecture, installation, video, and performance elements. His expanded paintings slide across floors and walls, tensing the limits of the work, rethinking its supports and surfaces, spreading the works to other physical and conceptual places, and materializing in installation constructions that become performative spaces.
Performing Nature will reflect on the temporalities of Nature, its shelters, and its living and organic qualities through a selection of representative works by the author ranging from the beginnings of his career to the present, including drawing, painting, collage, video, performance, and sculpture - some of which have never been exhibited before.
This show will also feature works specially produced for the exhibition and a monumental site-specific work created for the occasion. In it, Bunga understands the spectator as another element of the installation: his experience integrates and transforms the work.
Carlos Bunga's work has been exhibited in international museums and art centers such as the Museu de Serralves in Oporto (2012), the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC-UNAM in Mexico City (2013), the Whitechapel Gallery in London (2020), the Secession in Vienna (2021), or the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (2022), among others.