EXHIBITIONS
NIRVANA STUDIOS "TOUR MAP"
(2017)
This huge outdoor gallery articulates a circuit composed by around 100 contents of cultural, museum and sociologic interest.
The central idea behind this complex structure is to offer, in situ or via internet, a guided visit into the whole Nirvana Studios community in order to unveil through an interactive way the artistic movement born in the Cultural Alternative Center since 2004, a movement that pulses daily towards all cardinal points.
Link Tour Map: nirvana.pt/mapa
APOKALIPSE HEIRS
(2016)
This roadshow exhibition is an adrift shelter lost in the ruins of an amnesic retro-futuristic world we hope will never exist, where objects and anachronistic remains rise as past witnesses. It’s composed by two 40 feet containers and a classic truck linked for an unexpected tour of Steampunk, Bizarre Chic and Dieselpunk art.
Link Expo. Heirs of the Apokalipse:
ARTEXPRESS - WALL OF FAME
(2008)
This habitable volumetry active the year round also gets to be the platform for the Wall of Fame and for the exhibitions of installations theme related to Oldschool Motor Culture, Tours, Roadshows and Shows.
Above the containers that form Artexpress will spread out an extensive longitudinal sculpture yet to inaugurate between 2019-2010.
Link Wall of Fame:
cUSTOM CAFÉ COLLECTION
(2012)
This vast unconventional collection is the very own contour of Custom Café, where Burlesque Cabaret crosses Industrial Goth and an exotic Art Nouveau with rents of Post apocalypse.
Due to the variety and quantity of pieces it’s impossible to develop here an explanation of the whole, however every contents are also available on the website at the option The Collection.
BAND BOX CORRIDORS I & II
(2006)
The Band Box project was created by Custom Circus to harbor alternative music bands and tour productions. This impressive compound of more than 60 clubhouses studios has had an astonishing history that the troupe started to depict in a mural art form back in 2006.
Today, more than 200 bands form this musician’s community inside the artist’s community and the intertwined items of memorabilia on the murals are conceived to leave an impression on Rock’ n’ Roll aficionados.
BAND BOX CORRIDORS II & IV
(2008)
The Band Box project was created by Custom Circus to harbor alternative music bands and tour productions. This impressive compound of more than 60 clubhouses studios has had an astonishing history that the troupe started to depict in a mural art form back in 2006.
Today, more than 200 bands form this musician’s community inside the artist’s community and the intertwined items of memorabilia on the murals are conceived to leave an impression on Rock’ n’ Roll aficionados.
UNITED WORLD 2072
(2018)
Launched on the STRANGE Gallery at Nirvana Studios 2018 open day, this Custom Circus exhibition presented before the public the whole 50 piece collection used in the Absurdium show. The structure features an isle of decrepit sofas surrounded by a truss haunted with deformed mask molds, while a real body suspension (with hooks piercing) occurs performed by the Ascendus group.
STEAMPUNK CORRIDORS
(2017)
Being a studio mostly dominated by artisanship ateliers, the hall and interior corridors where decorated with murals depicting obsolete objects, tools or tasks related to them or performed by our ancestral artisans.