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 Architecture, Fountains 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