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Biennial 2025 – Camino Irreal

Past events

Free admission

10 September

Lisboa

Espaço BoCA

Installation, performance, Music

Free admission

Os Espacialistas, Farra Fanfarra, Veludo

Opening Espaço BoCA

With a scenographic installation by the architecture collective Os Espacialistas, who will guide us through the corners of the house, we open the doors of Espaço BoCA with trumpets, trombones and tubas to the sound of Farra Fanfarra, and then let ourselves be carried away by the beats of Veludo’s DJ set.

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 – 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 – 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

A film installation by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, which calls on the past to question the present. Drawing on their film “Where Is the Street? or “With No Before and After”, which they shot in 16 mm in the middle of the pandemic, the two filmmakers now present an installation establishing a dialogue with the film “Os Verdes Anos” (1963), the debut feature by Paulo Rocha that founded the New Portuguese Cinema movement.

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.

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.

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

The talk takes place within the framework of the performance “De Espiral en Espiral” commissioned by TBA21 and co-produced by BoCA, premiering during the biennial in Madrid at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and in Lisbon at the MAC/CCB Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitectura.

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.

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.

4 October – 3 November

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

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

This installation by Kia Henda, an enormous metallic fence, is a receptive stage with pathways formed by railings of various geometric patterns, such as those placed over windows to prevent break-ins.

6 October

Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - NOVA FCSH

masterclass, talk, Theatre

Free admission

Julián Pacomio

Trilogia do Sol

In this masterclass, artist and performer Julián Pacomio shares his artistic journey and the creative process behind the project “The Sun Trilogy”, an investigation into the different intensities, mythologies and dramaturgies of sunlight throughout the day.

9 October

Lisboa

Estufa Fria de Lisboa

talk, Installation, Theatre

Free admission

El Conde de Torrefiel

Talk with the artist

El Conde Torrefiel’s practice crosses theater, choreography, visual arts and literature, building a hybrid language that looks at the present, exploring the relationship between the individual and the collective, the private and the political. The conversation takes place as part of the inauguration of the installation “Yo No Tengo Nombre”, which will be on show at Lisbon’s Estufa Fria from October 9 to 15, 2025.

11 October

Lisboa

Panteão Nacional

performance

Free admission

Milo Rau, Servane Dècle

The Pelicot Trial

A performance vigil that reconstructs the real and devastating case of Gisèle Pelicot. Conceived by Milo Rau and Servane Dècle, the play transforms the stage into an expanded courtroom, giving a voice to the victim and exposing the banality of violence and the complicit silence that sustains it.

15 October

Lisboa

Espaço BoCA

leitura, talk

Free admission

Elvis Guerra

Ramonera

Elvis Guerra will present his book Ramonera, which will be published in Portugal in October this year by Orfeu Negro, marking the first time a work has been translated from Zapotec into European Portuguese. In this context, Elvis will present the poems he has written based on his personal experiences and cultural identity.

19 October

Lisboa

Espaço BoCA

performance

Free admission

Julián Pacomio

Os Teus Mortos

On the border between text and performance, words and choreography, “Os Teus Mortos” presents a staging of blindness: an expanded vision out of darkness, where the invisible is no longer absence but dramatic material. The public presentation resulting from this artistic residency will be a rite of passage, a gesture that embraces the end of the day as a site of vitality, beauty and the reinvention of our dead — and our ways of living with them.

21 October

Lisboa

Fundação PLMJ

masterclass, talk, Music

Free admission

Martim Sousa Tavares

Masterclass based on the opera “Adilson”

In this masterclass, maestro and artistic director Martim Sousa Tavares shares the creative process of the piece “Adilson”, exploring the ideas, choices and challenges that marked its conception.

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.

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.

26 October

Lisboa

Espaço BoCA

performance

Free admission

Analogy of a Wait

Young artists aged between 16 and 21 explore time, space and the collective in two laboratories located in Lisbon and Madrid. In ‘Analogia de uma espera’ (Analogy of a wait), presented at Espaço BoCA, the group presents a performance about waiting as a political and poetic gesture.