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.
2006 Fundacion Marcelino Botin Grant. Santander, Spain.
2005 Nominated for the “Uniao 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
2010 Dissonance, Galerie Sans Tire, Brussels, Belgium.
Programa 6, curated by Paulo Reis. Carpe Diem & Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
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, Portugal.
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)
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, Cordoba, 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 mouvants 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 Contemporaneo 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), Fundacion Marcelino Botin, 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 Francoise Cohen, Carré d`art - Museé 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 Creation 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 Colecção 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, Enocntros 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 Contemporanea, 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 Contemporaneo, Spain.
Markus Krieger and Rui Calçada Bastos, NBK, Berlin.
2003 Identidades, Continuação #4. S.N.B.A. Curated by Joao Pinharanda, (cat.), Lisbon.
Fragmentos de um Universo, Centro cultural Emérico Nunes, (cat), curated by Joao Pinharanda, Sines, Portugal.
Outras Alternativas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo 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)
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 Coleção 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
Susanne & Werner Peyer, Switzerland.
Centro de Arte Moderna de Valencia, Spain.
Plancius Collection. Amsterdam.
Fundacion COFF. Centro Ordonez Falcon Fotografia, San Sebastian, Spain.
Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon.
Banco B.E.S. Banco Espirito Santo, Lisbon.
CGAC- Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, 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.