Rui Calçada Bastos
Lisbon, Portugal. 1971.
Education
Experimental Course of Visual Arts. A.T.R.E (Atelier Livre), Lisbon .
Photography Course at the Macau Academy of Arts, China.
School of Fine Arts. Oporto, Portugal. School of Fine Arts, Lisbon.
Visual Arts. Course – Ar.CO. Lisbon.
Grants and Awards
2011 First Prize. AFA. International Video Festival of Macao.
2011 Resident Artist. Villa Aurora. Los Angeles. U.S.A
2008 Fundação Oriente Grant. Lisbon.
2006 Fundación Marcelino Botin Grant. Santander, Spain.
2005 Nominated for the “União Latina” Prize. Lisbon, Portugal.
2004 Arbeitsstipendium der Senatsverweltung fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin.
2003 Resident Artist, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
2002 Resident Artist, Cité International des Arts, Paris.
Solo Exhibitions
2011If you`re going through hell, keep going. Invaliden1 Galerie. Berlin.
The solo Project. Basel. Germany.
New City. Martin Mertens Galerie. München. Germany
Self-portrait while thinking. Galeria Fernando Santos. Porto. Portugal
2010 Dissonance, Galerie Sans Tire, Brussels, Belgium.
Programa 6, curated by Paulo Reis. Carpe Diem & Research, Lisbon.
New City, curated by José Drummond (cat.), AFA Gallery, Macao, South China.
2009 Lumen (cat.), curated by Paulo Reis, Street intervention, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Cabin Fever, Appleton Square, Lisbon.
2008 Life in a Bush of Ghosts, Invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin.
2007 Project Room, curated by Isabel Carlos, Lisbon Contemporary Art Fair, Lisbon.
Loop. A place for video Art Lovers, Vera Cortes Art Agency, Barcelona, Spain.
Scarface. Adhoc Gallery, Vigo, Spain.
2006 Avalon – Vera Cortes Agencia de Arte. Lisbon.
Walkabout, Invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin.
Pequeños Problemas (cat.), Sala Minerva, Circulo de Bellas Artes, curated by Seve Penelas, Madrid.
City Scapes, Project Room. ARCO Art Fair, curated Miguel von Haffe Perez. Pedro Oliveira Gallery Madrid.
2005 Ten years looking forward to see you. R. da Atalaia. Agencia de Arte Vera Cortes. Lisbon.
The Mirror Suitcase Man. Galeria Arte Contemporaneo, curated by Miguel Amado and Filipa Oliveira, Lisbon.
2004 Loneliness comes from one, Galeria Pedro Oliveira. Oporto , Portugal.
Studio Contents. Sala Poste- Ite. Oporto, Portugal.
Project Room. C.A.V Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra. (cat.) curated by Miguel Amado, Coimbra, Portugal.
2003 Identidades, S.N.B.A, curated by João Pinharanda.(cat.) Lisbon.
Its not romantic to be romantic, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, (cat.) Berlin.
2002 Ambos, Poste-ite, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Oporto, Portugal.
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, Galeria Monumental, (cat.)Lisbon.
Selected Group Shows (selected)
2011 VAFA 2011. Temporary Exhibitions Gallery, Casa Garden. Fundação Oriente. Macao. South China.
Passante no mundo. Paulo Reis e Ca. Curated by Fátima Lambert. Galeria Quase. Lisbon
Overseas. Curated by Vlado Velkov. Kunstverein Arnsberg. Arnsberg. Germany
Super 8. Curated by Reynold Reynolds. Christopher Grimes Gallery. Los Angeles. U.S.A
Nullportrait. Curated by Anne Geuder. Zink Galerie. Berlin.
Travesia. Curated by Salvador Carretero. Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. Spain.
Festival SOS.48. Curated by David Barro. Murcia. Spain.
Alive She Cries. Curated by Reynold Reynolds. Zink Galerie. Berlin.
The Solo Project Art Fair. Martin Mertens Galerie. Basel. Switzerland.
Hall of Fame. Jugada a 3 Bandas.Curated by Virginia Torriente. Galeria Jose Robles. Madrid.
2010 Geografía da Casa / Geography of Home, curated by Luisa Santos, P28 Contentores, Lisbon.
A culpa não é minha (cat.). Um percurso pela Colecçao Cachola. Museu Colecção Berardo. Arte Moderna e Contemporânea, Lisbon.
Leerstelle. Curated by Sabrina van der Ley. Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon.
Impressiones e comentarios. Fotografía contemporánea portuguesa. Curated by João Fernandes.
(cat.) Fundación FOTO Colectania, Barcelona, Spain.
Filme e Video na Colecção do CAM. Curated by Leonor Nazaré. (cat.) Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon.
Tirésias-Video de Artistas Made in Portugal. (cat.) Curated by Dinis Guarda. Centro Cultural de España. Montevideo, Uruguay.
Da outra margem do Atlântico - alguns exemplos de video e da fotografia portuguesa. (cat.). Curated by Paulo Reis. Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009 Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Berlin, curated by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin.
Do séc. XVII ao séc. XXI: além tempo, dentro do Museu (cat), curated by Fatima Lambert, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal.
Contemporary Photography, Pécs, Hungary.
Extended View, curated by Peter Lowas, City Gallery, Pécs, Hungary.
A Beleza do Erro / The Beauty of the Mistake (cat), curated by Christina Bravo/Felipa Almeida/Joana Astolfi, LX Factory, Lisbon.
Building Berlin, curated by Germaine Koh, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada.
Desdibujados (cat), curated by Jesus Alcaide, Fundación Botí - Sala Puertanueva, Córdoba, Spain.
ARTLV_09. Tel Aviv Biennial (cat), curated by Edna Moshenson, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Por entre a Ficção e a Realidade (cat.), curated by Maria do Mar Fazenda, BES Arte & Finança, Lisbon.
P.A.L (Línea de Acción Permanente) (cat), curated by Miguel Fuentes Torres, Ciudadela (El Horno), Pamplona, Spain.
Comunidad Ficticia (cat), curated by Paz A. Guevara, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile.
Berlin change plus vite que mon ceur. Images mouvantes pour une vision actuelle, curated by Paz Guevara, Saint Sauveur Station, Lille, France.
Invaliden1, Galería T20, Murcia, Spain.
Lá Fora, curated by João Pinharanda, Museu da Electricidade, Central Tejo, Lisbon.
2008 BES Arte. Colecção Banco Espirito Santo. O Presente: Uma Dimensão Infinita (cat), curated by Maria de Corral and Lorena Martinez de Corral, C.C.B Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon.
Horizontes. 3ª Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla: BIACS3, CAS, Centro de las Artes de Sevilla, Spain.
Checkpoint Berlin (cat), curated by Kathrin Becker, Villa du parc, Centre d´Art Contemporain, Annemasse, France.
Lá Fora (cat), curated by João Pinharanda, Museu da Presidência da República, Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
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 and David Barro, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain.
Itinerários 2006 / 2007 (cat), Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain.
2007 Wir haben keine Probleme, curated by Morten Kvamme, Solveig Ovstebo, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway.
Invaliden1 group show, Invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin.
Instantes de Memória (cat), curated by Antonio Veiga Pinto, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon.
Cinquenta Anos de Arte Portugesa (cat), curated by Raquel Henriques da Silva, Ana Ruiva, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
Photo - London, Adhoc Gallery, London.
Berlin Calling, curated by Kathrin Becker, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Siberia. Russia.
Où? Scènes du Sud (cat), curated by Françoise Cohen, Carré d´Art - Musée d´Art Contemporain de Nimes, France.
Transfert, curated by Leonor Nazaré, Escola Secundária D. Filipa de Lencastre, Lisbon.
O Banquete (cat), curated by Paulo Reis, Vera Cortes Art Agency, Lisbon.
25 Frames por Segundo – Videos da Colecção da Fundação PLMJ. Curated by Miguel Amado. S.Jorge Cinema. Lisbon
2006 Rio – ArtNews Project, Berlin.
Jeune Création Europeenne. Curated by Fatima Lambert, (cat.), Montrouge, Klalpeda, Salzburg, Genova, L´Hospitalet, Amarante.
Can not have it both ways, Invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin.
A Partir da Coleção Curated by Jorge Molder. Centro de Arte Moderna. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisbon.
Urban Appearances. Rosa Luxembourg Platz, Berlin.
Invisible Cities Curated by Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter (cat.), Zamosc, Poland, Potsdam, Germany.
Le Voyage, curated by Caroline Borgeouis and Pedro Cabrita Reis (cat.), Le Plateau, Paris.
XX, 26 anos, Encontros de Fotografia. (cat.) Curated by Delfim Sardo, Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra, Portugal.
Unwandlung. Curated by Erika Babatz. Glogauer Str.16, Berlin.
The Peninsula, Curated by Heman Chong. Singapore History Museum, Singapore.
Video appart. Curated by Indira Cruz, Paris.
2005 Memo. ACB Galeria. Curated by Janos Szoboszai, Budapest.
FAST. Daejon Museum of Art, Republic of Korea.
New Age – Macao Museum of Art. Curated by James Chu, Macao, China.
Common Space. Invaliden1 Galerie. Curated by Adina Popescu and Invaliden1, Berlin.
Densidade Relativa. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, (cat) curated by Leonor Nazaré, Lisbon.
GP031031405 Pedro Oliveira Gallery. Curated by Miguel Amado. Oporto, Portugal.
Six Ring Tones, Invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin.
União Latina. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, (cat.), Lisbon.
CGAC Collection - Recent Acquisitions. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Extensão do Olhar. Uma Antologia Visual da Fotografia Contemporânea, (cat), Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra, Portugal.
Algunas figuras. Arte Contemporanea en Portugal. Laboratorio Arte Alameda, (cat), curated by João Pinharanda, Mexico DF.
2004 Diego Santomé, ARTIUM, Centro – Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, Spain.
Markus Krieger and Rui Calçada Bastos, NBK, Berlin.
2003 Identidades, Continuação #4. S.N.B.A. Curated by João Pinharanda, (cat.), Lisbon.
Fragmentos de um Universo, Centro Cultural Emérico Nunes, (cat), curated by João Pinharanda, Sines, Portugal.
Outras Alternativas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, (cat.), curated by David Barro, Vigo, Spain.
With Bashful Longing, Dead Sober, Acb Gallery, curated by Janos Szoboszai, Budapest.
2002 Lugares (U)-tópicos, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Oporto , Portugal.
2001 InBloc, Edifício Maus Hábitos, curated by Pedro Maia, Oporto, Portugal.
2000 International Video Festival, Palácio das Galveias, Lisbon.
Bolseiros e Finalistas do ArCo . Edificio da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon.
Olhares da Contemporaneadade, Palácio da Rosa, Lisbon.
1999 BM99. Bienal da Maia. Maia, Portugal.
Festival do Fim Lux, Lisbon.
Park of the Future, Amsterdam.
Europe in the Box, Weimar, Pludiv, Prague, London, Bologne, Helsinki.
Novos Camiños. Amenaza e promessas del arte electronico, Casa das Artes, (cat.), Vigo, Spain.
1998 Rui Calçada Bastos, Sara Barros e Alexandra Ranner, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon.
Projecto Tabaqueira, Antigo Edifício da Tabaqueira, (cat) Lisbon.
1996 Do Oriente, Monumental Gallery. Lisbon.
Screenings (selected)
2011 Summer Film Series. Curated bz Doris Berger. Gagosian Gallery. Los Angeles. U.S.A.
Ikono TV. Artist of the Month. Curated by Ikono TV.
Geography of Home. Curated by Luisa Santos. P28 Contentores. Lisbon.
2010 Viva Festival, MUVIM. Museu Valencià de la Il-Lustraci#o i de la Modernita, Valencia, Spain.
2009 Viva Festival, P.Art of your Live, Zwolle, Netherlands.
Viva Festival, Invideo, Milao, Italy.
Viva Festival, Loop ALternative Space Seoul, Korea.
Morrer de vida, curated by Delfim Sardo, Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise, Lisbon.
Festival Fuso, curated by Jean-Francois Chougnet, BES Arte&Finança, Lisbon.
Warum real wenn´s irreal auch geht?, curated by Christian Niccoli, Friedrichs in der Temporäre Berliner Kunsthalle, Berlin.
Viva Festival, curated by Ana de Alvear, Teatro del Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, Spain.
The City as a Stage & My Favourite PastTime / London, curated by Kathrin Becker and David Thorp, ARTPROJX - Artists Film Club, London.
2008 Viva Festival, curated by Ana de Alvear, MOCA. Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China.
My Favourite Past Time, curated by Kathrin Becker, Royal Academy of London, London.
Vision:A, curated by Javier Duero, Instituto Cervantes Tokyo, Tokyo and Insituto Cervantes Stockholm, Stockholm.
E-Flux Video Rental, curated by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
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, Brazil.
Hybrid Praxen: Mixing, Sampling, Blending, curated by Doris Berger, NBK, Berlin.
Vision:A (cat), curated by Javier Duero, InVideo Festival, Milan, 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, Chisinau, Moldova Republic.
Video Program, curated by Steinar Sekkingstad, Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.
Art Summer University, curated by Manuel Saiz, Tate Modern, London.
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. USA.
The Last Evidence of the Drowning of the One Left with Thoughts of Dissolution and Gloom, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon.
25 frames por segundo. Vídeos da Colecção da Fundação PLMJ, curated by Miguel Amado, Sao Jorge. Cinema.
2005 Berlin Video Artists. Curated by Kathrin Becker. Tamayo Museum. Mexico DF.
Del Zero al 2005. Curated by David Barro, (cat.), Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain.
2004 Depicting Love, Eiszeitkino, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (cat.) curated by Montse Badia, Berlin.
Centro de Arte Rainha Sofia, Madrid, Centro Párraga, Murcia, Spain.
Slip Role. Artists in Character. Curated by Laura Bruce, Castlefield Galllery, Manchester, UK.
Bergstuebl PROJEKTE. Bergstuebl Gallery, Berlin.
The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK and Folly, Lancaster, UK.
Transnatura-Video Arte. Jardim Botânico de Coimbra, Portugal.
Collections
Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. Spain
Museu de Arte Contemporânea dos Açores. Portugal.
Susanne & Werner Peyer, Switzerland.
Centro de Arte Moderno de Valencia, Spain.
Plancius Collection. Amsterdam.
Fundacion COFF. Centro Ordoñez Falcón de Fotografía, San Sebastián, Spain.
Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon.
Banco B.E.S. Banco Espirito Santo, Lisbon.
CGAC- Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
NBK- Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
Fundação Oriente, Macao, China.
C.A.V. Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra, Portugal.
Colecção Privada E.D.P., Lisbon.
Juliao Sarmento Private Collection, Lisbon.
Pedro Cabrita Reis Private Collection, Lisbon.
António Cachola Private Collection.
Pedro Oliveira Gallery, Oporto, Portugal.
Represented in several private collections in Portugal, Germany, Spain, France and Macao.