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Biennial 2025 – Camino Irreal

Past events

Installation

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 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.

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.

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.

9 – 15 October

Lisboa

Estufa Fria de Lisboa

Installation, performance

El Conde de Torrefiel

Yo No Tengo Nombre

The performative installation Yo No Tengo Nombre, features an LED screen cutting through the landscape, projecting a text that oscillates between the poetic and the prophetic. This discourse questions the relationship between humans and nature, reversing the role of the observer: what if it were nature looking at us — and naming us?