- Entry
- Free admission
- Tickets available
- Accessibility
- Event with captions
- With visual impairment
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10 September – 26 October
Lisboa
Espaço BoCA
Installation
Free admission
Os Espacialistas
Mappa: Concetto Spaziale
Designed for Espaço BoCA in Lisbon, the Espacialista scenographic installation entitled “Mappa: Concetto Spaziale” was created to be the biennial’s meeting point, a space that hosts concerts, performances, talks, workshops, a store and moments of conviviality. -
11 September – 15 October
Lisboa
Cinemateca Portuguesa
13 September – 23 October
Madrid
Filmoteca Española
cinema
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Malamor / Tainted Love
“Malamor / Tainted Love” is the name of the film cycle that brings together the BoCA, the Cinemateca Portuguesa and the Filmoteca Española, in a collaboration dedicated to cinema as an affective, political and unclassifiable territory. -
12 – 14 September
Lisboa
Centro Cultural de Belém
19 September
Theatro Circo
24 – 25 October
Teatro das Figuras
7 November
Teatro Aveirense
opera
Dino D’Santiago
Adilson
More than an individual, Adilson represents thousands of people left on the margins of the system. The opera turns waiting into poetry and turns invisibility into an act of resistance. -
19 September – 26 October
Lisboa
Galerias Municipais EGEAC - Galeria Quadrum
Installation, Visual Arts
Free admission
Adriana Proganó
Echoes of whispers, plimplim
Through sculptures arranged in the space, the visitor is led to perceive sounds coming from unusual places, expanding listening beyond the usual. -
28 September
Madrid
Parque de El Retiro
26 October
Lisboa
Lago do Jardim do Campo Grande
performance
Free admission
Gemma Luz Bosch
El Sonido del Barro
Gemma Luz Bosch creates ceramic instruments that transform clay into music. In this performance, she leads the audience on an intimate and attentive listen. Crafts, sound and landscape merge, revealing the poetry of the molded earth. Part of the “I Want to See My Mountains” cycle.
- October
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3 – 4 October
Madrid
Teatro de la Abadía
25 – 26 October
Lisboa
Teatro do Bairro Alto
Theatre
Alberto Cortés, João Gabriel
Os Rapazes da Praia Adoro
A creation that brings together theatre and painting to explore the intimate encounter between two male bodies — one Portuguese, the other Spanish — on an imaginary beach somewhere between Lisbon and Madrid. This symbolic place becomes a space of connection and healing, where intimacy and desire intertwine, evoking memories of 1970s and 80s pornographic cinema. The piece proposes alternative ways of understanding male sexuality, marked by delicacy, poetry, and the need for affection. -
15 October
Lisboa
Cinemateca Portuguesa
23 October
Madrid
Filmoteca Española
cinema
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
13 Alfinetes
Commissioned by BoCA, “13 Alfinetes” is the new film by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, a work of fiction that blends devotion, desire and spectres. Drawing inspiration from a miracle attributed to Santo António and filtered through the restless gaze of the two directors, the film draws on this legend to construct a contemporary tale of faith, revenge and disillusionment. -
22 October
Lisboa
Espaço BoCA
talk
Free admission
Seba Calfuqueo
Talk with Seba Calfuqueo
Seba Calfuqueo’s work draws on her cultural heritage and life experience as a starting point for a critical reflection on social, cultural and political dynamics surrounding the Mapuche subject in contemporary Chilean and Latin-American society. -
Seba Calfuqueo
Situar el cuerpo
In the workshop, which results in a performative public sharing and a lecture by the artist, at Espaço BoCA, the artist seeks to bring a contemporary reflection on the relationship between the human and what we understand as nature, developing a point of rupture in which we can understand that these two concepts can coexist. -
Marcos Morau
Totentanz
A show conceived for unconventional spaces where death — that age-old figure, feared yet fascinating — takes centre stage. Drawing inspiration from the medieval tradition of danse macabre (“dance of death”), the performance invokes a collective ritual for our times: a nameless mourning, a meditation on the fragility of life and its indiscernable end. -
Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou
A BEGINNING #16161D
Five dancer-singers bearing portable lamps breathe, walk and talk, in a composition where the body that sings dissociates itself from the body that moves -
25 October
Madrid
Goethe-Institut Madrid
26 October
Lisboa
Espaço BoCA
performance
Free admission
Creation resulting from BoCA Sub21
BoCA Sub21 is a participatory and experimental project in which a collective of young people aged between 16 and 21 follow the biennial’s programme and the issues it raises. In 2025, two groups will be formed, each in one of the biennial’s cities: Lisbon and Madrid. -
25 October
Lisboa
Espaço BoCA
performance, Visual Arts
Free admission
Public presentation of the workshop “Situar el cuerpo”
Public sharing from the workshop led by artist Seba Calfuqueo, which seeks to bring a contemporary reflection on the relationship between humans and what we understand as nature, developing a breaking point in which we can understand that these two concepts can coexist.
Past events
- Entry
- Free admission
- Tickets available
- Accessibility
- Event with captions
- With visual impairment
10 – 28 September
Lisboa
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado
10 – 26 September
Lisboa
Carpintarias de São Lázaro
Exhibition, Visual Arts
Felipe Romero Beltrán
Dialecto
10 September
Lisboa
Espaço BoCA
Installation, performance, Music
Free admission
Os Espacialistas, Farra Fanfarra, Veludo
Opening Espaço BoCA
11 – 12 September
Madrid
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
20 September
Lisboa
MAC/CCB Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura
performance
Free admission
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
De Espiral en Espiral
11 September – 10 October
Lisboa
Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes
Installation, cinema
Free admission
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
With No Before and After
13 September
Madrid
La Casa Encendida
20 September
Madrid
Esta es una plaza
11 October
Madrid
Esta es una plaza
Installation, Visual Arts, performance
Free admission
Gabriel Chaile, Batuko Tabanka, Batucada Sico Bana, Agnes Essonti, Megane Mercury, Estefanía Santiago
Alcindo Monteiro
13 – 14 September
Lisboa
Sala Estúdio Valentim de Barros / Jardins do Bombarda (TNDM II)
performance
Julián Pacomio
Toda la Luz del Mediodía
Tianzhuo Chen, Siko Setyanto
Ocean Cage
20 September
Lisboa
MAC/CCB Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura
talk, Visual Arts
Free admission
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
Talk with the artist
20 – 21 September
Lisboa
Sala Estúdio Valentim de Barros / Jardins do Bombarda (TNDM II)
Theatre
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Coral of Bodies without North
22 September
Madrid
Nave de Terneras del Centro Cultural Casa del Reloj
27 – 28 September
Lisboa
Carpintarias de São Lázaro
Dance
Elena Córdoba, Francisco Camacho
Uma ficção na dobra do mapa
23 September
Madrid
Goethe-Institut Madrid
3 October
Lisboa
Fundação PLMJ
masterclass, talk, Visual Arts
Free admission
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Memória, Poder e Paisagem: a Arte de Kiluanji Kia Henda
27 September
Madrid
Goethe-Institut Madrid
28 September
Lisboa
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
performance
Free admission
Isabel Cordovil
Historia do Escudo
27 – 28 September
Madrid
Museo Nacional del Prado
5 October
Madrid
Museo Nacional del Prado
Theatre, Dance
Tiago Rodrigues, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, Patrícia Portela, Angélica Liddell, Rodrigo García
Words and gestures: for a performative collection at Museo del Prado
Ana Pérez-Quiroga
¿De qué casa eres?
3 October
Lisboa
CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
9 October
Madrid
Museo del Traje
conferência, performance
Pedro G. Romero, Niño de Elche
Descomposición/Choro
4 October
Lisboa
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Anfiteatro ao ar livre
11 October
Madrid
Museo del Traje
Concert
Niño de Elche, Pedro G. Romero
El cante rasgueado
Tristany Mundu
Essays from a city around a city
5 October
Lisboa
MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
12 October
Lisboa
MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
19 October
Lisboa
MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
Installation, Visual Arts, performance
Free admission
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Coral of Bodies without North
6 October
Lisboa
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - NOVA FCSH
masterclass, talk, Theatre
Free admission
Julián Pacomio
Trilogia do Sol
9 October
Lisboa
Estufa Fria de Lisboa
talk, Installation, Theatre
Free admission
El Conde de Torrefiel
Talk with the artist
Deborah Krystall
Romi Ibérica
9 – 15 October
Lisboa
Estufa Fria de Lisboa
Installation, performance
El Conde de Torrefiel
Yo No Tengo Nombre
Chrystabell
The Spirit Lamp
Elena Córdoba
Anatomia poética: o calor vital dos vivos
11 October
Lisboa
Panteão Nacional
performance
Free admission
Milo Rau, Servane Dècle
The Pelicot Trial
15 October
Lisboa
Espaço BoCA
leitura, talk
Free admission
Elvis Guerra
Ramonera
16 October
Lisboa
Teatro da Garagem / Teatro Taborda
17 October
Madrid
Sala Berlanga
Concert, Music
Tânia Carvalho, Rocío Guzmán
Nossas Mãos / Nuestras Manos
Candela Capitán
SOLAS
Raquel André
Belonging | E di | Pertenencia | Zugehörigkeit | Pertença | 絆
Maria Reis
Suspiro…
19 October
Lisboa
Espaço BoCA
performance
Free admission
Julián Pacomio
Os Teus Mortos
21 October
Lisboa
Fundação PLMJ
masterclass, talk, Music
Free admission
Martim Sousa Tavares