Bugarin + Castle

"This is about Scotland. It's about the Philippines, it's about transness, and Scottish experience. This is not about something that's disconnected from the world. It's very much about being part of the world.” For the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2026, Bugarin + Castle (@bugarinandcastle ) are representing Scotland, in a project curated by Mount Stuart Trust (@mount_stuart_visual_arts ) and commissioned by Scotland + Venice (@scotlandvisuals ). Bugarin + Castle’s commission is a multi-layered new project that uses the concept of the parade as a lens to explore complex emotional legacies of shame, sound and voice, drawing on queer histories, Scottish archives and Filipino cultural heritage. Read Lena Kammerer's (@lenamkammerer ) conversation with the artist duo on Scottish Art News. Link in bio. 🔗 🎞️ (1) Bugarin + Castle on the occasion of Shame Parade opening at Scotland + Venice during the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the Artists and Scotland + Venice. (2) Bugarin + Castle, Submit to Sound, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Film curated by Mount Stuart and produced by Forma. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice. (3) Bugarin + Castle, Submit to Sound, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Film curated by Mount Stuart and produced by Forma. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice. (4) Bugarin + Castle, Nocturnal Amusements, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice.

“The practice is bold, courageous, playful, collective. I suppose holistic and just really, really fun and exciting.” - Lucia Pietroiusti on the selection of Bugarin + Castle and their presentation Shame Parade, curated by Mount Stuart, for Scotland + Venice. Lucia Pietroiusti stewards research and experimentation in art, ecology and systems. She is Head of Research & Emergence at Hartwig Museum, Amsterdam, opening in 2028 and the Curator of the 6th Autostrada Biennale (Prizren, Kosovo, 2027). Part 2/2 🎥 @ryanscottmedia 📣 Shame Parade by Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart 📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice 📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 ⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm. #BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys #AreYouDiscreet

If shame is social in nature, guilt is almost certainly individual. The release of the Epstein files last year clarified this theory by Dutch social psychologist Geert Hofstede. With the ignominy of being identified publicly in those files as a friend of—or collaborator with—a sex criminal, shame as a social and psychological phenomenon was revealed at its most attenuated.⁠ ⁠ The vicissitudes of shame are a central theme of the multidisciplinary projects by artists by Glasgow-based duo Bugarin + Castle (@bugarinandcastle ) and Aline Bouvy’s (@alinebouvy ) at this year’s Venice Biennale.⁠ ⁠ Read Aimee Walleston's (@aimeewalleston ) opinion piece in full on Ocula.

Scotland + Venice is now open to the public 📣 Visit us at Olivolo, where Bugarin + Castle’s multi-layered exhibition ‘Shame Parade’, curated by Mount Stuart, will represent Scotland throughout La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Open Tuesday - Sunday from 10am - 6pm until 22 November 2026. Shame Parade reimagines centuries-old European shaming rituals, known as rough music, charivari and scampanate, where spectacle, sound, and costume were used to discipline social transgressors through multiple artworks. The exhibition includes new film work ‘Submit to Sound’ produced by Forma. 📣 Shame Parade by Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart 📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice 📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 ⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm. 📷 Bugarin + Castle at the launch of Scotland + Venice 2026. Photograph by Karoly Tendl. Image courtesy Forma. #BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys #AreYouDiscreet

Bugarin + Castle’s ‘Shame Parade’ uses the concept of the parade as a lens to explore complex emotional legacies of shame, sound and voice. Across multiple artworks, the exhibition Shame Parade reimagines centuries-old European shaming rituals, known as rough music, charivari and scampanate, where spectacle, sound, and costume were used to discipline social transgressors. Shame here is not banished, but stretched to new emotional registers where defiance, play, and intimacy coexist. Bugarin + Castle offer no moral resolution. By mapping shame and transformation across continents and through time, they create a politically charged space where power and identity remain in motion. 📣 Scotland + Venice: Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart 📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice 📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 ⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm. 📷 Installation Images by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice. 1. Bugarin + Castle, ‘Nocturnal Amusements’, Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust. 2. Bugarin + Castle, ‘At Certayne Tymes’, Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust. 3. Bugarin + Castle, ‘Submit to Sound’, film curated by Mount Stuart and produced by Forma. Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust. 4. Bugarin + Castle, ‘Set Upon, Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust. #BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys #AreYouDiscreet

Opening tomorrow Shame Parade by Bugarin + Castle for Scotland + Venice is a deeply layered exhibition. One source of inspiration is drawn from illustrations of shaming parades by English painter and satirist William Hogarth (1697 - 1764). References to his work can be found throughout the exhibition including on nail art: talons that can be worn, claimed or removed. 📣 Shame Parade by Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice 📍Olivolo, Castello 59/C 30122, Venice 🗓️ Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026. 📸 photo by Charlotte Rogers, nail art by Ivy McGoldrick

The Scotland + Venice Preview takes place Thursday 7 May, 3 - 5pm 📣 Join us at Olivolo to be among the first to experience Bugarin + Castle’s Shame Parade, curated by Mount Stuart for the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. In Shame Parade, the concept of shame is used as a lens to explore complex emotional legacies of shame, sound and voice in a multi-layered exhibition that features new film ‘Submit to Sound’, produced with Forma, and new works across the space; ‘Set Upon’, ‘Soundtrack for a clock and a jeepney’, ‘Nocturnal Amusements’ and ‘At Certayne Tymes’. Location: What three words: ///solids.sensial.amuses Google map: Olivolo 📣 Scotland + Venice: Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart for La Biennale Di Venezia 📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice 📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 ⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm. 🎥 @ryanscottmedia Titles by @tangentgraphic #BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys #AreYouDiscreet

Bugarin + Castle Stage a Carnival of Defiance in Venice Presented by Scotland + Venice, Shame Parade by Bugarin + Castle unfolds as a layered exploration of public shaming rituals, reimagined through a contemporary queer and trans lens. Spanning architecture, moving image, sculpture and performance, the project connects geographies from Scotland to the Philippines, weaving together personal histories and diasporic narratives. Drawing on historical practices such as charivari and scampanate, the exhibition transforms these collective acts of discipline into a fluid, performative language. Medieval armour, court transcripts, karaoke ballads and Filipino visual culture converge in a world where past and present continuously intersect. Works such as At Certayne Tymes and Submit to Sound merge mechanical, vocal and embodied elements, while the installation Nocturnal Amusements extends across the space, directly addressing the viewer. Rather than resolving the tension embedded in shame, the artists expand it—turning it into a site of resistance, intimacy and transformation. Through this process, Shame Parade constructs a politically charged environment where identity remains unstable and in motion. Curated by Mount Stuart Trust, the project will continue beyond Venice with a presentation in Scotland in 2027 @scotlandvenice @bugarinandcastle @mount_stuart_visual_arts @labiennale Images: 1. Mr. Mimic [Submit to Sound], 2026, Photo (detail), Courtesy the Artists and Scotland + Venice. © Bugarin + Castle. 2. Submit to Sound, 2026, Moving Image, Courtesy the Artists and Scotland + Venice © Bugarin + Castle 3. Davide Bugarin and Angel Cohn Castle at Mount Stuart. Photo by Charlotte Cullen @charlottesaintcullen , courtesy Scotland + Venice. 4. Set Upon, 2026, Digital Image, Courtesy the Artists and Scotland + Venice © Bugarin + Castle. 5. Davide Bugarin and Angel Cohn Castle at Mount Stuart. Photo by Charlotte Cullen @charlottesaintcullen , courtesy Scotland + Venice. Credits: @larafacco_press

Representing Scotland at the 61st Venice Biennale, Bugarin + Castle (@bugarinandcastle ) are leading a ‘Shame Parade’ — foregrounding Scottish archives and Filipino heritage to tease out the unsettling contemporary echoes of the charivari, an Early Modern public shaming ritual. Communities would parade people who'd broken social rules (especially marriage norms) through the streets while jeering and performing mockery. Often, the ritual included cross-dressing and role reversals to publicly humiliate the accused and reinforce social order.⁠ ⁠ Rooted in research, such as an 18th century engraving by William Hogarth depicting the charivari, the duo brings together a re-enactment of the ritual, alongside sculpture and moving image that contends with today’s hostile climate of gender policing, surveillance and so-called ‘transvestigations’. Across the exhibition, imagery of queer and trans Filipinos, debris gathered by the artists at Pride parades last year, medieval motifs and iconic Filipino objects such as karaoke machines and a Jeepney collide to shift punishment to play, vulnerability into visibility – and visibility into defiance. ⁠ ⁠ Read the full article at the link in bio ⁠ ⁠ Bugarin + Castle will represent Scotland at the 2026 Venice Biennale, on view from 9 May to 22 November⁠ ⁠ Read the full column at the link in bio, or in frieze magazine’s Venice Issue - available now. Follow @friezeofficial for the latest on the 61st Venice Biennale @labiennale ⁠ ⁠ #Frieze #VeniceBiennale #InMinorKeys #LaBiennalediVenezia #BiennaleArte2026 ⁠ ⁠ Words:⁠ @alastair_curtis Images: All images © Bugarin + Castle and Scotland + Venice⁠ 1/5. Bugarin + Castle, Submit to Sound, 2026⁠ 2. Bugarin + Castle, Davide Bugarin and Angel Cohn Castle, at Mount Stuart. Photo by Charlotte Cullen⁠ 3. William Hogarth, Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington (Plate 7: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras), 1725-30. Courtesy: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection and Fund⁠ 4. Bugarin + Castle, Set Upon, 2026⁠ 6/7. Bugarin + Castle, At Certayne Tymes (production image), 2026⁠ 8. Bugarin + Castle, Noctural Amusement [production image - discreet visor], 2026

ARE YOU DISCREET? Bugarin + Castle’s Shame Parade will soon open at Olivolo, inviting audiences to explore an exhibition that uses the concept of the parade as a lens to explore complex emotional legacies of shame, sound and voice. Bugarin + Castle are the Glasgow-based artists Angel Cohn Castle and Davide Bugarin; their presentation as a Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will be curated by Morven Gregor, Curator of Contemporary and Learning at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute. Across multiple artworks, the exhibition Scotland + Venice: Bugarin + Castle reimagines centuries-old European shaming rituals, known as rough music, charivari and scampanate, where spectacle, sound, and costume were used to discipline social transgressors. Sculptural work At Certayne Tymes fuses mechanical, anatomical, and vocal elements; sculptural intervention Nocturnal Amusements poses the question “Are you Discreet” and moving-image work Submit to Sound, curated by Mount Stuart and produced by Forma, layers voice feminisation exercises and songs made with Manila-based band Kalye Teresa. Shame here is not banished, but stretched to new emotional registers where defiance, play, and intimacy coexist. Bugarin + Castle offer no moral resolution. By mapping shame and transformation across continents and through time, they create a politically charged space where power and identity remain in motion. 📣 Scotland + Venice: Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart 📍 Olivolo, Castello 59/C 30122, Venice 📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 ⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm. Film by Nat McGowan | Second Camera: Jen Martin | Titles: Tangent Film © Scotland + Venice 2026 #BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys #AreYouDiscreet

⏱️ It’s almost time for Shame Parade, Bugarin + Castle’s presentation for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia. Here’s a view of At Certayne Tymes, a sculpture that fuses together mechanical, anatomical and vocal elements as part of Bugarin + Castles exhibition; a layered world where historic voices and contemporary culture loop together in scenes that are both defiant and tender. Handmade by the artists in Glasgow alongside a team of fabricators, this work now awaits us in Olivolo, part of the artist’s multi-layered exhibition curated by Mount Stuart Trust. 📍 Olivolo, Castello 59/C 30122, Venice 📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 🎥 Video courtesy of Bugarin + Castle #inminorkeys #biennalearte2026

The vicissitudes of shame are a central theme of the multidisciplinary projects by three artists exhibiting in national pavilions at this year’s Venice Biennale, which opens to the public in May.⁠ ⁠ 'Shame Parade', by Glasgow-based duo Bugarin + Castle (@bugarinandcastle ), takes over the Scottish pavilion. Drenched in the pair’s signature dramatic lighting and sour candy hues, the work takes the form of a procession that emulates the historic shaming rituals that were a major aspect of European culture from the medieval period until as late as the mid-1900s.⁠ ⁠ Meanwhile, things take a scatological turn in Aline Bouvy’s (@alinebouvy ) 'La Merde', the artist’s presentation at the Luxembourg pavilion, in which she focuses on the universality of shame as it relates to the processes of defecation.⁠ ⁠ Read Aimee Walleston's (@aimeewalleston ) opinion piece in full on Ocula, link in bio.