2024 was a colourful year for BoCA. We kicked off in January with Um Bruto Enlace, a sound arts workshop by Pedro Alves Sousa, embracing sound as a meta-architectural experience. We also launched a series of Mini-Docs that allow us to continue exploring the different layers of the creations that keep BoCA thriving. The colour green took […]

“Workshops are spaces to prove that philosophies, different thoughts and actions always find new life in one another. That’s why we have to keep sharing everything we learn.” The words of multidisciplinary artist Niño de Elche, summing up Sculpting the Voices workshop at CCB, also summarise perfectly the purpose of the BoCA Summer School. And this […]

From 13 April, the Galpão Gallery at the Inhotim Institute, the largest open-air museum in Latin America, will host Grada Kilomba’s poetic, performative and sculptural work, “O Barco / The Boat”. Made up of 134 blocks of burnt wood, stretched over 32 metres in the shape of a ship, the piece was commissioned and inaugurated […]

Grada Kilomba and the Portuguese representation in the Venice Biennale We don’t know the direction or the course of History, that runs at a speed in which emerges all the imponderable aspects, randomnesses, passions and unexpected arrhythmias, illogical minutenesses that are capable of defining what we call future. But there are defining and significant moments […]

BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts 3rd edition takes place between the 3rd of September and the 17th of October 2021 in Lisbon, Almada, and Faro. BoCA proposes a synergy between cultural venues (museums, theaters and cultural centres), natural space, across several artistic territories (visual arts, performing arts, performance and music) and its publics. Delivering […]