Performance

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

22 – 25 October

Lisboa

Espaço BoCA

Workshop, performance, Visual Arts

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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.

25 October

Madrid

Goethe-Institut Madrid

26 October

Lisboa

Espaço BoCA

performance

Free admission

BoCA Sub21

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. In “Analogia de uma espera”, they investigate waiting as a shared experience, between desires, encounters and imaginary paths.

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

Performance

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.

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.

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.

13 – 14 September

Lisboa

Sala Estúdio Valentim de Barros / Jardins do Bombarda (TNDM II)

performance

Tickets

Julián Pacomio

Toda la Luz del Mediodía

The second part of a long-term trilogy, this project explores the moment of midday, where intense, vertical light brings both clarity and weight. The work investigates the transition from excess energy to stillness, from exposure to fading, translating into choreography the tension between heat, rest, and visibility.

19 – 20 September

Lisboa

Culturgest

Theatre, performance

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Tianzhuo Chen, Siko Setyanto

Ocean Cage

An immersive performance combining installation, dance, and film, inspired by the traditions of Lamalera, Indonesia. It explores ecology, spirituality, and interdependent relationships between species, in a sensory experience where ancestral rituals intersect with visions of the future.

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.

1 October

Lisboa

Cinema Fernando Lopes

performance, cinema

Tickets

Ana Pérez-Quiroga

¿De qué casa eres?

Alongside the film screening, in the performance created for BoCA 2025, “De qué casa eres? – performance #1”, this cartography of memory steps out onto the stage. A games table, a lampshade, a bench: objects that recreate the intimacy of home and a place of leisure.

3 October

Lisboa

CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

9 October

Madrid

Museo del Traje

conferência, performance

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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.

4 October

Lisboa

Espaço BoCA

Concert, performance

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Tristany Mundu

Essays from a city around a city

“Ensaios de uma cidade volta de uma cidade” is an acoustic performance that proposes a sensitive reflection on the movements of the city and its margins.

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

Espaço BoCA

Concert, performance

Tickets

Deborah Krystall

Romi Ibérica

At BoCA Bienal, Romi Ibérica is presented as a concert-performance, revealing the rigour and inventiveness that Deborah Krystall has been asserting for decades at the iconic Finalmente Club in Lisbon. An invitation to breathe in the living memory of the Iberian axis, where every song and every gesture carries the indomitable beauty of a destiny that is sung to continue to exist.

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?

10 October

Lisboa

A Voz do Operário

Concert, performance

Tickets

Chrystabell

The Spirit Lamp

Chrystabell presents “The Spirit Lamp”, a show that transports us to a territory where music and image become luminescence, mapped by the creative memory of David Lynch.

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.

16 October

Lisboa

8 Marvila

performance, Dance

Tickets

Candela Capitán

SOLAS

The performance “SOLAS” addresses the overexposure of the female body in the digital age. Five performers, five computers and a streaming platform share the same space - physical and virtual - in a choreographic device where a group of female performers contemplate themselves while being observed, in a staging that confronts the gaze, repetition and surveillance.

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.

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.