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Biennial 2025 – Camino Irreal

Past events

Madrid

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

Taking as its starting point the deck of cards — a colonial artifact strictly regulated by the Spanish Crown as a means of economic and symbolic control — Ramírez-Figueroa follows a winding path between imposition and deviation, power and witchcraft. In the hands of the women in his family, these same cards, once an accessory of entertainment and imperial earnings, become fortune telling tools, instruments for survival and the transmission of occult knowledge.

11 September – 15 October

Lisboa

Cinemateca Portuguesa

13 September – 23 October

Madrid

Filmoteca Española

cinema

Tickets

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.

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

The oven-sculpture “Alcindo Monteiro” by Gabriel Chaile pays tribute to the Portuguese youth of Cape Verdean origin who was murdered in 1995, in Lisbon, in a racist attack that became a symbol of the anti-racist struggle in Portugal. The installation will be on display from September 13 to October 13 and activations will take place on September 13, 20 and October 11.

22 September

Madrid

Nave de Terneras del Centro Cultural Casa del Reloj

27 – 28 September

Lisboa

Carpintarias de São Lázaro

Dance

Tickets

Elena Córdoba, Francisco Camacho

Uma ficção na dobra do mapa

A reunion between two choreographers, returning to a dialog that began ten years ago, where memory and the body are living archives. Based on the idea of inhabiting each other, this project revisits the deep sharing between the two, now aware of the transformations of time and the way the past resonates in the present.

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

In this masterclass, the Angolan artist takes us through his creative and reflective universe, situated at the forefront of anti-colonial thinking, proposing a reflection on how the generations that grew up during and after the war re-signify these events and analyze the impact of geopolitics on Angola’s history.

27 September

Madrid

Goethe-Institut Madrid

28 September

Lisboa

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

performance

Free admission

Isabel Cordovil

Historia do Escudo

The performance invites the public on a reflective walk, starting at the Goethe-Institut in Madrid and the National Library in Lisbon, towards the site of the action, collectively reimagining the relationship between care, resistance and public space. Part of the “I Want to See My Mountains” cycle.

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

“Words and Gestures” is a cycle that invites four theater artists - Tiago Rodrigues (PT) with Sofia Dias& Vítor Roriz (PT), Patrícia Portela (PT), Angélica Liddell (ES) and Rodrigo García (AR/ES) - to write and direct creations inspired by works from the Prado Museum’s collection.

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.

3 October

Lisboa

CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

9 October

Madrid

Museo del Traje

conferência, performance

Tickets

Pedro G. Romero, Niño de Elche

Descomposición/Choro

This conference-performance assumes itself as a listening to the border that refuses its connotation as a line of separation, but embraces it as a vibrant zone of encounters and tensions, where music, language and collective practices continue to (re)write stories to come.

3 – 4 October

Madrid

Teatro de la Abadía

25 – 26 October

Lisboa

Teatro do Bairro Alto

Theatre

Tickets

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.

4 October

Lisboa

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Anfiteatro ao ar livre

11 October

Madrid

Museo del Traje

Concert

Tickets

Niño de Elche, Pedro G. Romero

El cante rasgueado

In the ‘stripe’ that separates — or unites — the south of Portugal, Huelva and Extremadura, sound operates as a link in a chain between geographies and histories. There we hear the cante alentejano with its viola campaniças, the fandango cané in Alosno chanted by groups of men over the incessant strumming of guitars, or even the luso-extremaduran tangos and jaleos handed down by Portuguese Romani communities.

15 October

Lisboa

Cinemateca Portuguesa

23 October

Madrid

Filmoteca Española

cinema

Tickets

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.

16 October

Lisboa

Teatro da Garagem / Teatro Taborda

17 October

Madrid

Sala Berlanga

Concert, Music

Tickets

Tânia Carvalho, Rocío Guzmán

Nossas Mãos / Nuestras Manos

This encounter reveals not the fusion but the coexistence of the Portuguese and Spanish artists, between melancholy and force, between the fragility of gestures and the power of presence.

17 – 18 October

Madrid

Réplika Teatro

performance, cinema, Music

Tickets

Raquel André

Belonging | E di | Pertenencia | Zugehörigkeit | Pertença | 絆

Meeting people, getting to know their personal stories, their lives, their memories full of future. This show, which could be a performance film, suggests an immersion in the complexity of the idea of belonging.

25 October

Madrid

Goethe-Institut Madrid

performance

Free admission

Encuentros (im)posibles

Young artists between the ages of 16 and 21 are exploring time, space and the collective in two laboratories located in Lisbon and Madrid. In “Encuentros (im)posibles”, they inhabit collectively constructed maps, exploring detours, rituals and the possibilities of walking side by side.