Biography (selected)

Rui Calçada Bastos

Born 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal. Lives and works in Berlin and Lisbon.



Education

School of Fine Arts, Oporto, Portugal

Experimental Course of Visual Arts, ATRE (Atelier Livre), Lisbon

Visual Arts Course, Ar.Co, Lisbon

School of Fine Arts, Lisbon

2002

Resident Artist, Cité International des Arts, Paris

2003

Resident Artist, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2004

Arbeitsstipendium der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin

2005

Nominated for the União Latina Visual Arts Prize, Portugal

2006

Fundación Marcelino Botín Grant, Santander, Spain



Current

CHECKPOINT BERLIN, curated by Kathrin Becker, Villa du parc, Centre d`art Contemporain, Annemasse, France

Lá Fora, curated by João Pinharanda, Museu da Presidência da República, Viana do Castelo - Praça da Liberdade (Edifício Fernando Távora)

E-flux Video Rental, curated by Organized by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal


Solo Exhibitions

2007

Project Room, curated by Isabel Carlos, Lisbon Contemporary Art Fair, Lisbon, Portugal

LOOP ART FAIR, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Barcelona, Spain

Scarface, Adhoc Gallery, Vigo, Spain

2006

Avalon, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon, Portugal

Walkabout, Invaliden1 Gallery, Berlin

Pequeños Problemas (cat.), curated by Seve Penelas, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

Project Room. Cityscapes, curated by Miguel Von Hafe Perez, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, ARCO Art Fair, Madrid

2005

Ten Years Looking Forward To See You, LisboaPhoto2005, Vera Cortês Art Agency, R. da Atalaia 73, Lisbon

The Mirror Suitcase Man, Galeria AC, curated by Miguel Amado, Lisbon

2004

Loneliness comes from one, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Oporto

Contents, Sala Poste-Ite, Oporto

2003

Identidades (cat.), curated by João Pinharanda, SNBA, Lisbon

It's not romantic to be romantic (cat.), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2002

Both, Poste-ite, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Oporto

1999

Ten Years Looking Forward To See You, Galeria Lino António, Lisbon

Entrada/Saída, Art Attack, Museu da Ceramica, Caldas da Raínha, Portugal

1996

Ambulant, Galeria Lino António, Lisbon

1995

Pausa, Boqueirão da praia da Galé, Lisbon

1994

Nove dias cento e quarenta quilómetros, Boqueirão da Praia da Galé, Lisbon

From East to East (cat.), Galeria Monumental, Lisbon



Group Shows (selected)

2008

Barcelona Video Art Festival (cat), curated by Javier Duero, Centro de Imagen La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain

Parangolé. Fragmentos desde los noventa en España, Portugal y Brasil (cat), curated by Paulo Reis e David Barro, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain

Itinerários 2006 / 2007 (cat), Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain

2007

Wir haben keine Probleme, curated by Morten Kvamme, Solveig Ovstebo, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

Invaliden1 group show, invaliden1 gallery, Berlin

Instantes de Memória (cat), curated by Antonio Veiga Pinto, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal

Cinquenta Anos de Arte Portugesa (cat), curated by Raquel Henriques da Silva, Ana Ruiva, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Photo - London, Adhoc Gallery, London

Berlin Calling, curated by Kathrin Becker, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Siberia. Russia, Siberia, Russia

Où? Scènes du Sud (cat), curated by Francoise Cohen, Carré d`art - Museé d`Art Contemporain de Nimes, Nimes, France

Transfert, curated by Leonor Nazaré, Escola Secundária D. Filipa de Lencastre, Lisbon, Portugal

O Banquete (cat), curated by Paulo Reis, Vera Cortes Art Agency, Lisbon, Portugal

2006

Seifenblasentreffen, curated by Rakel Ochoa, Glogauer Str. 16, Berlin, Germany

Rio, curated by Vlado Velkov, Artnews Project, Berlin, Germany

Urban Appearances, curated by Lillian Engelman, Rosa Luxembourg Str., Berlin

JEUNE CRÉATION EUROPÉENNE, Salon Itinérant d´Art Contemporain, curated by Fatima Lambert, Montrouge, France / Klaipeda, Lithuania / Salzburg, Austria / Genova, Italy / L´Hospitalet, Spain / Amarante, Portugal

Ideal City – Invisible Cities, curated by Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter, Potsdam, Germany

Can not have it both ways, Invaliden1 gallery, Berlin

A partir da Colecção, curated by Jorge Molder, Centro de Arte Moderna. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

Densidade Relativa, Centro de Arte de Sines/Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes, Sines, Portugal

En Voyage (cat.), curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Le Plateau, Paris

Ideal City – Invisible Cities (cat.), curated by Sabrina van der Lay and Markus Richter, Zamosc, Poland

Vidéo'appart, curated by Indira Cruz, 15 rue Fabre d'Eglantine, Paris

XX 26 anos - Encontros de fotografia (cat.), curated by Delfim Sardo, CAV, Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra, Portugal

umwandlung, curated by Erika Babaty, Glogauer Str.16, Berlin

The Peninsula, curated by Heman Chong, Singapore History Museum, Singapore

2005

Six Ring Tones, Invaliden1 Gallery, Berlin

União Latina 2004 Visual Arts Prize (cat.), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

CGAC Collection, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

GPO31031405, curated by Miguel Amado, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Oporto, Portugal

Algumas Figuras (cat.), curated by João Pinharanda, Alameda das Artes, México City

Extensão do Olhar, Uma Antologia Visual da Fotografia Contemporânea (cat.), Obras da colecção da Fundação PLMJ, CAV, Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra, Portugal

MEMO, curated by János Szoboszlai, ACB Gallery, Budapest

Fast (cat.), Daejon Museum of Art, Republic of Korea

New Age, curated by James Chu, Macao Museum of Art, Macao

Common Space, curated by Adina Popescu and Invaliden1, Invaliden1 Gallery, Berlin

Densidade Relativa (cat.), curated by Leonor Nazaré, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

2004

Diego Santomé, ARTIUM, Centro-Museu Vasco de Arte Contemporanea, Spain

Markus Krieger and Rui Calçada Bastos, NBK, Kunst Bank Gallery, Berlin

Project Room (cat.), curated by Miguel Amado, CAV, Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra, Portugal

2003

Fragmentos de um universo (cat.), curated by Joao Pinharanda, Centro cultural Emérico Nunes, Sines, Portugal

Outras Alternativas (cat.), curated by David Barro, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Vigo, Spain

With Bashful Longing, Dead Sober, curated by János Szoboszlai, ACB Gallery, Budapest

2002

Lugares (U) tópicos, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Oporto, Portugal

2001

InBloc, curated by Pedro Maia, Edifício Maus Hábitos, Oporto, Portugal

2000

International Video Festival, Palácio das Galveias, Lisbon

Ar.Co, Edificio da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon

Olhares da Contemporaneadade, Palácio da Rosa, Lisbon

1999

Park of the Future, Amsterdam

Europe in the Box, Weimar, Pludiv, Prague, London, Bologne, Helsinki

Novos Camiños: ameazas e promesas da arte electrónica (cat.), Casa das Artes, Vigo, Spain

1998

Rui Calçada Bastos, Sara Barros e Alexandra Ranner, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon



Screenings

2008

Vision A, curated by Javier Duero, Cervantes Institute of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

Vision:A (cat), curated by Javier Duero, International Film Festival, Casablanca, Morocco

Grandes Sinais. Encenação de Rita Calçada Bastos, Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa, Lisbon

Vision:A (cat), curated by Javier Duero, Video Biennale, Lyon, France

2007

Vision:A, curated by Javier Duero, Foto Arte Brasil, Brasilia, Brasil

Hybrid Praxen: Mixing, Sampling, Blending, curated by Doris Berger, NBK, Berlin, Germany

Vision:A (cat), curated by Javier Duero, InVideo Festival, Milano, Italy

All That I Am. International Video Art from the Collection of the NBK Video-Forum, Berlin, curated by Kathrin Becker, [KSA:K] Centre for Contemporary Art (Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana), Chisinau, Republica Moldova

VIDEO PROGRAM, curated by Steinar Sekkingstad, Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

Art Summer University, curated by Manuel Saiz, Tate Modern, London, England

Vision A (Cat), curated by Javier Duero, Art Beijing, China

Portugal in Motion Film and Video Screenings, curated by Miguel Amado, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Washington. U.S.A

The Last Evidence of the Drowning of the One Left with Thoughts of Dissolution and Gloom, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon, Portugal

25 frames por segundo. Vídeos da Coleção da Fundação PLMJ, curated by Miguel Amado, Sao Jorge. Cinema.

2005

Berlin Video Artists, curated by Kathrin Becker, Tamayo Museum, México City

Del Zero al 2005 (cat.), curated by David Barro, Fundación Marcelino Botin, Spain

2004

Depicting Love (cat.), curated by Montse Badia, Eiszeitkino, Berlin

Describiendo el amor, curated by Montse Badia, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

Describiendo el amor, curated by Montse Badia, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

Slip Role, Artists in Character, curated by Laura Bruce, Castlefields Gallery, Manchester

Slip Role, Artists in Character, curated by Laura Bruce, Bergstüb'l Projects, Berlin

Transnatura-Video Arte, Jardim Botânico de Coimbra, Portugal

Agencia Vera Cortes, Lisbon



Collections

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

NBK, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Fundação Oriente, Lisbon / Macao

CAV, Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra, Portugal

Juliao Sarmento Private Collection, Lisbon

Pedro Cabrita Reis Private Collection, Lisbon

António Cachola Private Collection

BES, Banco Espírito Santo, Portugal

CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Spain

Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon

Fundación COFF, Colección Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografía, Private Collection, San Sebastián, Spain

Colecção Privada E.D.P., Lisbon

Plancius Collection, Amsterdam

Pedro Oliveira Gallery, Oporto, Portugal

Susanne & Werner Peyer, Switzerland

Jason Associates Collection, Lisbon

Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain




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