The project 'The World is Our House' grew out of the exhibition 'Carlos Bunga. Inhabit the Contradiction' and involved young people aged 11 to 20 from the Zambujal neighborhood in Amadora.
A workshop led by Katharina Lackner encouraged children and adults to explore creativity through free experimentation. In this article, BANTUMEN contributor Edson Vidal reflects on the value of the creative process that marks the start of this residency.
In this article, curator Jule Kurbjeweit presents the pedagogical programme 'Lugar à Mesa' [A Place at the Table] and reflects on how food and the table are used as both material and metaphor to explore memory, ecology, interdependence and sharing.
In this interview, conducted by curator Francisca Portugal, artist Sara Bichão explains the process behind her work ‘Longínquo (dur)’, commissioned by CAM, included in the exhibition ‘Scheherazade: the Never-ending Collection of CAM’, and now part of the CAM Collection.
Presented at CAM, the European project ‘Institution(ing)s’ questions the supposed neutrality of institutional language and proposes a collaboratively constructed glossary.
In this video, Bruno Zhu invites us to take a look around his home, the exhibition 'Belas Artes', while answering 46 intriguing questions.
Curator Raquel Castro presents the work of Jacob Kirkegaard. Both discuss listening as a way of making sense of the world, the sound of each place, and the potential of artistic practice to create spaces for attention, reflection, and transformation.
In this opinion piece, Carolina Sebastião, from BANTUMEN, takes us on a tour of ‘Bruno Zhu. Belas Artes’ , revealing, room by room, the concerns that inhabit each space.
Unfolding over a single disorienting night, ‘Salt Bath’ drifts between dream and simulation, where reality fractures. In this conversation with curator Jule Kurbjeweit, K. Desbouis reflects on artistic collaboration, liminal states of becoming, and the tension between purification and contamination.
Covering topics ranging from how the project emerged to its collaboration with CAM through the ZAF – Family Arts Zone, curator Marta Espiridião chatted with the creators of Teatro da Maluca, exploring the intersection between theatre and contemporary art.
Bruno Zhu spoke with Marisa Mendes Rodrigues from Bantumen about his artistic practice, which spans Portugal, London and the Netherlands. ‘Belas Artes’ [Fine Arts] has now arrived at CAM and stems from a very specific institutional frustration, raising questions that go far beyond the museum’s walls.
For her new collection, designer Lidija Kolovrat turns to seeds as a way of thinking about change. In this conversation with curator Jule Kurbjeweit, Kolovrat reflects on potential, rupture, and the quiet strength required for things to grow.
The curator Luísa Santos, within the framework of the Institutio(ning)s project, spoke with the collective Apparatus 22 about their artistic practice, their time at CAM, and their research and critical reflection within the context of cultural institutions.
Choreographer and dancer Gustavo Ciríaco is preparing a Carnival parade, in a process that encompasses his mother’s poetic legacy, pedagogy and community participation. In an interview with Marisa Mendes Rodrigues from Bantumen, he tells us about the culmination of this residency.
In this article, Marisa Mendes Rodrigues, from BANTUMEN, analyses the selection of works from the CAM Collection that artist Carlos Bunga and curator Rui Mateus Amaral brought together for the exhibition 'Carlos Bunga. Inhabit the Contradiction'.
In this article, curator Francisca Portugal offers a reflection on the work of Eduardo Batarda, presenting some of the central themes and discourses in his practice, taking as a starting point the paintings recently acquired for the CAM Collection and now available to the public in the Open Storage.
Curator Francisca Portugal spoke with Sara Duarte and Alfredo Martins, who explained the aim of the ‘Imagination Laboratory – Plantarium’ programme and the outcomes of several months of work with young people.
A selection from Gulbenkian Editions and national and international titles, ranging from botany to contemporary culture.
Professor and researcher Manuel Bogalheiro spoke with the creative team of ‘carne.exe’, Carincur and João Pedro Fonseca, about the dynamics in the relationship between artificial intelligence and the human being explored in this performance.
The artist duo Sara & André who, along with the multidisciplinary collective Plataforma 285, are organising the performance-visit ‘WOW! This isn’t a visit... Is it?’ talked to the curator Francisca Portugal. During the interview, they explained how this collaboration will encourage participants to see, touch and speak about that which ‘isn’t supposed to be.’
Around the table, as in the museum, relationships are formed. The CAM recognises food as both artistic medium and metaphor: a lens through which to reflect on the symbolic, ecological, and affective dimensions of lived experience, thought by Jule Kurbjeweit.
Carlos Bunga, in a conversation with BANTUMEN’s Marisa Mendes Rodrigues, talks about turning the museological space into a territory of listening and presence. Between the ephemeral and the political, the artist seeks to reflect on vulnerability as a structure and impermanence as a language.
Between Angola, France and Portugal, the director Pocas Pascoal, in conversation with BANTUMEN’s Marisa Mendes Rodrigues, reflects on memory, exile and the Black gaze in cinema. Her career reflects an ongoing fight for representation, justice and creative freedom.
Researcher Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, who developed the workshop ‘Becoming Fungal’ at CAM, explores how her fascination with the world of fungi translates into the reality of artistic institutions and interspecies collaboration.
