“Baile dos Bugalhos” by Francisco Trêpa, opens on 19 September

The Institution(ing)s space at CAM – Gulbenkian Modern Art Centre in Lisbon, which will be the headquarters of this project from 20 September onwards, begins with “Baile dos Bugalhos”, an exhibition-process by Francisco Trêpa, curated by a group of students from The Lisbon Consortium, Master’s in Cultural Studies at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Baile dos Bugalhos, which opens on 19 September and runs until 12 January, is the prologue to Institution(ing)s and part of the observation of the bugalhos (water troughs) in the CAM garden.

Institution(ing)s is a cooperation project co-financed by Creative Europe and led by Universidade Católica Portuguesa, under the artistic and scientific direction of curator and researcher Luísa Santos.

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Photo credit: Baile dos Bugalhos CAM ©Pedro Pina

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