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Lucy and Jorge Orta

 

Lucy Orta b. 1966, Great Britain 

Jorge Orta b. 1953, Argentina


* = upcoming 

Lucy & Jorge Joint Exhibitions

2022                   For a Contextual Art, 
 Frédérick Mouraux Gallery (Brussels, Belgium) 

2021                   Masking, La Patinoire Royale, Galerie Valérie Bach (Brussels, Belgium) 

2020                  Interrelations, Les Tanneries - Contemporary Art Centre (Amilly, France)        

2019                  Still I Rise, De La Warr Pavilion (Brexhill-on-Sea, UK)

                          Potential Architecture, Jane Lombard Gallery (NYC, New York)

                          Life Guards, Palazzo Vecchio, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Museo Novecento (Florence)

                          Eldorama, Tripostal, (Lille, France)

                          Pouvoir & Pouvoir, Galleria Continua Les Moulins (France)

                          How the Light Gets In, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, (Ithaca, NY, USA)

                          Mariner, The Arts Institute, (Plymouth, UK)

                          Gaia, What are You Becoming? Maison Guerlain (Paris, France)

                          Tree Time, Museo Nazionale Della Montagna (Turin, Italy)

                          The Posthuman City, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore, Singapore)

                          The Hoodie, Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

                          

2018                  Antarctica World Passport, Migration Week (Marrakech, Morocco)

                          Procession Banners, Ikon Gallery, (Birmingham, UK)

                          Processions 1918-2018, Centenary March Banners (London, UK)

                          Warmingland, Parvis de l’Hôtel de Ville, (Paris, France)

                          Peewit, Cultural Capital 2018, Public Sculpture (Sloten, The Netherlands)

                          Women House, National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C, USA)

                          Gazing Ball, Folly! 2018 - Potential ArchitectureFountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water                                        Garden (Ripon, UK)

                          Peewit Fountain, Stolen (The Netherlands) 

                          Clouds, permanent installation, Trebanog mountain (Wales, UK)

                          70 x 7 The Meal Act XLI, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, (Singapore)

                          Trajectories, Galerie Valérie Bach, (Paris, France)

                          Refuge War-- Video Screening, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Danish Architecture Center,                                  (Copenhagen, Denmark) 

                          How to Fall with Grace, K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Arisvi Club, (Kalloni, Greece) 

 

2017                  Antarctica World Passport Delivery Bureau, Frieze Projects London (London, UK)

                          Modular Architecture, Raven Row (London, UK)
                          Naturaleza: Refugio Y Recurso Del Hombre, CCK - Centro Cultural Kirchner (Buenos Aires,                                       Argentina)

                          Disappearance, Artapes Project, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (Rome, Italy)                               Biennale Siana 2017 - Le Suaire De Turing, Domaine départemental de Chamarande                                                 (Chamarande, France)

                          Raft of the Medusa, Humber Street Gallery (Hull, UK)

                          Force of Nature II, The Art Pavilion (London, UK)

                          Glasstress Boca Raton - Fondazione Berengo, Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, FL)

                          Mort Des Animaux, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris, France)
                          Entangled: Threads and Making, Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)

                          Vitreous Bodies: Assembled Visions in Glass, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of                           Art and Design (Boston, MA)
                          Edgardo Vigo & Jorge Orta, Richard Saltoun Gallery, ARCO, Feria de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

                          Vies D'Ordures | De L'économie des déchets, MuCEM - Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de                              la Méditerranée (Marseille, France)

                          56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row (London, UK)

                          70 x 7 The Meal Act XL, Ideas Fest, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore, Singapore)                                   Libres d'Artista, LLUC FLUXÀ - Projectes d'art (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

                          Lucy + Orta Jorge, Valérie Bach Gallery (Brussels, Belgium)
                          State of the World, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO)
                          Solo Show, Galerie Valérie Bach (Brussels, Belgium)

                          Qu'est ce-que qu'on mange?, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Paris, France)

                          Fleeting Territories, Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna, Austria)

                          Agromania, MAIF Social Club (Paris, France)

                          L'autre...de l'image à la réalité, Maison Populaire (Montreuil, France)

                          Women House, Monnaie de Paris (Paris, France)

 

2016                  LA LITTORALE #6 (Anglet, France)

                          Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food, City Gallery and Museum (Peterborough, UK)

       Lucy + Jorge Orta, Attenborough Art Center (Leicester, UK) , Solo Exhibition

       Antarctica, Jane Lombard Gallery (New York, NY), Solo Exhibition

 

2015                  Glasstress 2015 Gotika, Palazzo Franchetti, Academia for the 56th Art Exhibition of the Venice                                    Biennale (Venice, Italy), Group Exhibition and Commission

       Food Water Life, Museum London (London, Ontario, Canada)

       Cloud | Meteoros, Gare Lille Flandres (Lille, France), temporary public art

       Orta Water, Museum de Lakenhal (Leiden, Netherlands)

 

2014                   A Posteriori, Centre d’art La Maréchalerie (Versailles, France), Group Exhibition

       Food Water Life, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA), Solo Exhibition

       The Source: Rethinking Water Through Contemporary Art, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock                       University (St. Catharines, ON, Canada), Group Exhibition

       The Politics and Pleasures of Food, ACC Galerie (Weimar, Germany), Group Exhibition

       Lens on Life, Federica Schiavo Gallery (Rome, Italy), Group Exhibition

       Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery, University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie, WY,            USA), Group Exhibition

       Since 1843: In the Making, Nottingham Trent University (Nottingham, UK), Group Exhibition

       Food / Water / Life, Parc de la Villette (Paris, France), Solo Exhibition

 

2013                  Glasstress: White Light / White Heat, Fashion Space Gallery London (London, UK)

       Aux Commandes !, Château de Tours (Tours, France)

       Glasstress: White Light / White Heat, 55th Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy)

       Internaturalism , 9th Shanghai Bienniale (Shanghai, China)

       Internaturalism , PAV Parco d’Arte Vivente (Turin, Italy)

       70 x 7 The Meal act XXXIV, Mural Arts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

       Potential Architecture, TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth (Poole, UK)

       Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food Water Life, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut,        USA)

       Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, Ulrich Museum of Art (Wichita, Kansas, USA)

       Spécimens, Domaine de Chamarande (Chamarande, France)

       Fantastic, lille3000, Hôtel de Ville (Lille, France)

 

2012                  FIAC Hors les Murs, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Paris (France)

       Sur le chemin des fées, City of Marseille Marseile (France)

       Unlimited Bodies / Corps Sans Limite, Palais ď Iéna, Paris (France) University Art Gallery (USA)

       Food-Water-Life, Tufts University Art Gallery (USA)

       Amazonia | Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art & Invention, Field Museum (Chicago, USA)

       Fabulae Romanae, MAXXI-National Museum of XXI Century Arts (Rome, Italy)

       Amazonia | Carbon 12: Art & Changement Climatique, Espace Foundation EDF (Paris, France)

 

2010                  Amazonia, Natural History Museum, London, UK, solo exhibition

       Wijheizij - Milk, Permekemuseum, Jabbeke, Belgium, Solo Exhibition - New Commission

       A New Stance For Tomorrow: Part 3, Sketch, London, UK, Group Show

       UNFOLD, The Universitaet fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, Group Show

       Weiss (Ice-White), Kunstverein, Untergröningen, Germany, Group Show, curator: Otto Rothfuss

       L'été des arts. Festival international d'arts visuels, Montbard, Montbard, France, Group Exhibition

       Climate Capsules: Means of Surviving Disaster, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe , Hamburg,                  Germany, Group Exhibition

       Light Works- Brasilia en Luz, National Museum by Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia, Brazil, Light Works, to         celebrate The Year of France in Brazil

       Art et Changement Climatique, EPCC-Le Quai, Angers, France, Group Exhibition - Performace

 

2009/10             (Un)Inhabitable? Art of Extreme Environments - Festival @rt Outsiders 2009, Maison Européenne                               de la Photographie, Paris, France, Group Exhibition + Performance

       Esthétique des pôles ou le testament des glaces, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France, Group Exhibition

       The Gift, Jam Factory Adelaide International, Adelaide, Australia, Solo Exhibition

       GSK Contemporary - Earth, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, Group Exhibition

 

2009                  Green Platform. Art, Ecology, Sustainability, Palazzo Strozzi, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea                                  Strozzina, Florence, Italy, Group Exhibition

       Dress Code, Iselp, Brussels, Belgium, Group Exhibition

       Pot Luck, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK, Group Touring Exhibition

       Intemperie. Fenomenos Esteticos da Mundaca Climatica e da Antartida, Centro Cultural OI                    Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Group Exhibition

       Sur Polar. Arte en Antartida, Mutec / Museo Tecnologico, Mexico City, Mexico, Group Exhibition

       Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, USA, Group Exhibition

       OrtaWater, Vienna Art Fair - Motive Gallery - A 0901 , Vienna, Austria, Installation

       OrtaWater, venue: DSM, Heerlen and Sittard, Holland, Solo Exhibition

       Frozen Time, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Group Exhibition

       HEAVEN, 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 - Live, Flisvos Building & P. Faliro Beach, Athens, Greece,              Group Exhibition

       Retreat, KunstFort Asperen, Acquoy, Holland, Group Exhibition

       Off the Beaten Path, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway, Group Exhibition

       A Way Beyond Fashion, apexart, New York, USA, Group Exhibition

       Antarctic Village - Nuit Blanche, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France, Group Exhibition

       Sphères, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel , France, Group Exhibition

       70 x 7 The Meal,act XXXI, Sherwell Church Hall, North Hill , Plymouth , UK, Event

       AntArctica, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tonsberg, Norway, Group Show

       The Spectacle of the Everyday - TAMA project, Xth Biennale de Lyon,Museum of Contemporary             Art, Lyon, Lyon, France, Group Show

 

2008/09             Life Size Utopia, Louis De Cordier, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland, Group                            Exhibition

 

2008                  Poëziezomer Watou 2008, Watou, Watou, Belgium, Group Exhibition

       Water and our future 1%, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, Group Exhibition

       Body Architecture, The Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden, Solo Exhibition

       Antarctica, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy Le Chatel, France, Solo Exhibition

       70 x 7 The Meal act XXIX, Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy, Event

       Antarctica, Hangar Bicocca spazio d'arte, Milan, Italy, Solo Exhibition

       Antarctic Village - Works in Progress, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland, Solo Exhibition

       OrtaWater, Austrian Pavilion International Expo, Zaragoza, Spain, Solo Exhibition

       70 x 7 The Meal act XXVIII, Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Monaco, France, Event

       Totipotent Architecture - Skin Deep, Fort Asperen, Leerdam, Holland, Group Exhibition

       Shelter / Survival - alternative homes for fantastic lives, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary           Art, Hiroshima, Japan, Group Exhibition

       Antarctic Village - 13:3, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland, Solo Exhibition

       Sur Polar, Arte en Antártida , MUNTREF Museo Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos         Aires, Argentina, Group Exhibition

 

2007                  Antarctic Village, Antarctic Marambio Base, Antarctica, Ephemeral Installation

       Antarctic Village - No Borders, Galeria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy, Solo Exhibition with Jorge           Orta

       Urban Life Guard, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France, Group Exhibition

       The Politics of Fear, Albion, London, UK, Group Exhibition

       Antarctic Village - No Borders, 1st End of the World Biennial, Ushuaia City, Argentina,                             Contemporary Art Biennial

       OrtaWater 06 - Envisioning Change, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway, Group Exhibition

       OrtaWater 06 - Environmental Renaissance, City Hall, San Francisco, USA, Group Exhibition

       Fallujah - works in progress, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland, Solo Exhibition

       Fallujah, Institute of Contemporary Art offsite Old Truman Brewery, London, UK, Solo Exhibition.             Theatre collaboration with Jonathan Holmes, Director

       70 x 7 The Meal, act XXVII, Albion Gallery, London, UK, Performance

       Fallujah - Auszug 01, Context Festival, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany, Collaboration with                    Jonathan Holmes, Performance and Installation

       OrtaWater 05 - Dans ces eaux là..., Chateau d'Avignon, Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, France,               Group Exhibition with Jorge Orta

       Fallujah, Casey's Pawns, 11th Prague Quadrennial of Performance and Theatre, Prague, Czech             Republic, Public Intervention, curator: Sodja Lotker

       Fallujah, Motive Gallery Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany, Solo Exhibition with Jorge Orta

 

2006                  70 x 7 The Meal, act XXV, Open House, Casa Argentina, London, U.K., Solo exhibition

       OrtaWater07, Galleria Continua Beijing, Beijing, China, Solo Exhibition

       Selected Works: Lucy + Jorge Orta, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Solo Exhibition

 

2005                  Drink Water !, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice Biennale, Italy, Solo Exhibition

                          Water & Works, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland, Solo Exhibition

       70x7 The Meal act XXII, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, Event

       70 x 7 The Meal act XXI, Plein Museum, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland, Event with Lucy Orta

 

2003                  70 x 7 The Meal act XX, UNESCO, Paris, France, Event with Jorge Orta

 

2002                  70 x 7 The Meal act XIX, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Holland, Event

                          70 x 7 The Meal act XVII (Enactments of the Self), Sterischer Herbst, Graz, Austria, Event

       Borderline, Compagnie Blanca Li/Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil, France, Performance with             Blanca Li

       70x7 The Meal act XVI Waltherplatz, Ar/ge Kunst Museum Gallery, Bolzano, Italy, Event

       Borderline, Berlin Ballet/Komisch Opera, Berlin, Germany, Collaboration with Blanca Li & Lucy               Orta

       70 x 7 The Meal act XVII, Rio Garonne, Toulouse, France, Event with Lucy Orta

 

2001                  70 x 7 The Meal act X (Active Ingredients), The American center for food wine & the arts, Napa                                 Valley, USA, Event

       70 x 7 The Meal act XI (They say this is the Place), Provinciebesturr van Antwerpen, Belgium,                 Performance Event

       70x7 The Meal act XII, Picnic installation 1500m, Amiens, France, Performance Event

       70 x 7 The Meal, act XIII, FirstSite Gallery, Colchester, UK, Performance event

       70 x 7 The Meal, act IX (Opera.tion Life Nexus), Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne,             Germany, Performance Event

       70x7 The Meal act V-VII, Casa de Francia / Museo Diego Rivero Museum / Couvent de la                        Mercedes, Mexico City, Mexico, Performance Event

 

 2000                 The Dairy, The Dairy, Saint Siméon, France, Purchase of the first modern dairy, found Studio Orta                              production studios

       70 x 7 The Meal act III (The Invisible Touch), Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria Solo event

       70 x 7 The Meal act IV, Town of Dieuze, France, Performance Event

 

1992                  Studio Orta, 13 rue Keller, Paris, France, Establish Studio Orta

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