Lucy + Jorge Orta
CURRICULUM
Lucy Orta / Born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwicksh (UK), 1966
Jorge Orta / Born in Argentina (Rosario), 1957
Live and work in Paris
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Antarctica, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Survival, Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, London, UK
70 x 7 The Meal act XXIX, La Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy
Body Architecture, The Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden
Antarctica, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Antarctica, Hangar Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Antarctic Village - No Borders; Fallujah, Motive gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Antarctic Village - No Borders, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland, The Netherlands
70 x 7 The Meal act XXVIII, Villa Rothschild Monaco, France
2007
Antarctic Village-No Borders, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Antarctic Village-No Borders, Antarctica, South Pole
Totipotent Architecture, Atoll, public art commission, Mirafiori Park, Turin, Italy
Fallujah, Institute of Contemporary Art offsite Old Truman Brewery, London, UK 70 x 7 The Meal, act XXVII, (performance) Albion Gallery, London, UK
2006
Orta Water03, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2005
Water & Werken, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland Barbican Curve Gallery, London, UK
70x7 The Meal, act XXII, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (event)
70x7 The Meal, act XXI, Plein Museum, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland (event)
Drink Water01, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, Venice, Italy
Totipotent Architectecture, University of Brighton Gallery, UK
2004
Dwelling X, RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), London, UK
Nexus Architecture x 110, L.O.G. Attwood Green, Birmingham, UK (action)
Nexus Architecture - Peace Intervention 25.6.04, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (Performance)
2003
Transgressing Fashion≠0103, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany (solo installation and dance performance)
Connector Mobile Village, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA
Body Architecture, Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany
Connector Mobile Village, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
70 x 7 The Meal, act XX, UNESCO, Paris, France
Collective Dwelling, Institute for Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
Collective Dwelling act VIII, Cicignon School Fredrikstad, Norway (community workshops and new sculpture commission)
2002
70 x 7 The Meal act XIX, Design Academy Eindhoven, Holland (event)
Connector Mobile Village, Florida Atlantic University Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Nexus Architecture x 110,Miami Design District for Art Miami Basel, USA (community workshops andpublic intervention organised by Florida Atlantic University Galleries)
Fluid Architecture II, Stroom centre for the visual arts, The Hague, Holland
Connector Mobile Architecture IX, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Cholet, Cholet, France
Fluid Architecture I, City of Melbourne, Australia (residency and community workshop)
Two Ten Gallery, The Welcome Trust, London, UK
2001
Connector Mobile Village sector IV, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Washington, USA
Connector Guardian Angel sector VIII, Casa de Francia, Mexico City, Mexico
2000
Connector Mobile Village sector VII, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Connector MacroWear sector VI, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Connector Mobile Village sector V, Musashino Art University Tokyo, Japan (workshop initiated by Professor Kazuko Koike)
Connector Mobile Village I, Pitti Imagine, Florence, Italy
Connector Mobile Village I, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
70 x 7 The Meal act IV, Town of Dieuze, Dieuze, France (public event)
The Dairy,St Siméon (purchase of the first industrial dairy in Brie, plans drawnup for a centre for research and cross disciplinary collaborations)
1999
Hortirecycling Entreprise Act II, Wein Secession, Vienna, Austria
Nexus Architecture, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany (intervention)
Passages, centre d’art contemporain, Troyes, France
Collective Dwelling Act VII, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK
1997
Collective Dwelling Act II, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
All in One Basket Act I, Gallerie du Forum St Eustache, Paris, France
Refuge Wear, East End London, UK (interventions)
Commune Communicate Act III, Metz detention centre, Metz, France
Ici et Ailleurs, Le Parvis, Tarnes, France
1996
Modular Architecture, La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Soirées Nomades, Paris, France (dance intervention)
Refuge Wear, Soho Festival, New York, USA (intervention)
Espace d’Art Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France
Refuge Wear, Première Vision, Paris, France (installation for the international textile trade fair)
1995
Identity + Refuge Act I, Salvation Army Cité de Refuge, Paris (pilot workshop and catwalk performance)
Nexus Architecture-Collective Wear x 16, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1994
Refuge Wear, Montparnasse station, Paris, France (intervention)
Nexus Architecture x 8, Cité La Noue, Montreuil, France (intervention)
Refuge Wear, Louvre/Le Pont des Arts, Paris, France (intervention)
1992
Establish Studio Orta, Paris Bastille, France
Imprints on the Andes, Machu Picchu / Andes Mountain range, Peru
Poussière, Galerie Paris Bastille, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2008
Life Size Utopia, Motive gallery, The Netherlands
1% Water and our future, Z33, Hassalt, Belgium
Carried away Procession in art, Arnhem Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Holland
House for All, La Triennale di Milano, Italy
Shelter / Survival - alternative homes for fantastic lives, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2007
Ouverture, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Antarctic-No Borders, 1st End of the World Biennial, Ushuaia City, Argentina
Envisioning Change, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
Environmental Renaissance, City Hall, San Francisco, USA
The Politics of Fear, Albion, London, UK
2006
This is America!, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland
Monumental minimal: cabanes et micro-architectures, Chåteau d’Avignon, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Encore du corps, Orangerie du Sénat/Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France
Residences, Nomadism, Cupola Gallery, Hillsborough, Sheffield, UK
Less, Strategie alternative dell’abitare, PAC, Milano, Italy
9th Havana Biennale, Cuba
Other then Art, G Fine Art Gallery, USA
Pattern Language, Clothing as Communicator, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead
Pavilion, Champaign, IL, USA
Metro Pictures, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, USA
2005
Future Textiles: Fast Wear for Sport & Fashion, The HUB, Sleaford, UK
Fear Gear, Roebling Hall, New York, USA
Pattern Language / Clothing as Communicator exhibition, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusets, USA
Fée Maison, La Briqueterie en Bourgogne, Le Creusot, France
Contemporaneo Liquido The Liquid Contemporary, FrancoSoffiantino Artecontemporanea Gallery, Turin, Italy
Est-Ouest/Nord-Sud, faire habiter l'homme là, encore, autrement, arc en rêve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux, France
Art-Robe: Women artists in a nexus of art and fashion, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
On Conceptual Clothing, Musashino Art University Tokyo; Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Japan
Art Brussels, 23th contemporary Art Fair, Galleria Continua, Brussels, Belgium (fair)
Biennale de l’urgence en Tchétchénie’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2004
A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale 2004, South Korea
Totipotent Architectecture, Arte all’ Arte IX, Associazione Arte Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Nexus Architecture x 110, L.O.G. Attwood Green, Birmingham, (temporary public installation in collaboration with Woodview primary school, Birmingham)
Transgressing Fashion≠0204 (Nexus Architecture), Victoria & Albert Museum, London (live installation commissioned by the Arts Council of England for Architecture Week)
Dwelling X, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
The Interventionists, MASS MoCA, USA
Flexible 4: Identities, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Space Between, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
Transgressing Fashion, ARTEZ School of the Arts, Arnhem, Holland
Lies, Lust, Art & Fashion, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
2003
Flexible,Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK - Nederlands Textielmuseum,Tiburg, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Landesgalerie, Linz,Rhinisches Industriemuseum, Euskirchen
Creuats/Cruzados/Crossed, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
Armour, Fort Asperen, Holland
Design et Habitats, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
Micro Utopias, Art and Architecture, Biennale de Valencia, Spain
M.I.U., Kaape Helder, Den Helder, Holland
Fashion, The Greatest Show on Earth, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA
Doublures, Musée national des beaux-arts du Quebec, Quebec, Canada
2002
Enactments of the Self, ‘70 x 7 The Meal act XVIII’, Sterischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Borderline, Compagnie Blanca Li/Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil, France
Fluid Architecture II, The Dairy, St Siméon, France
Borderline, Berlin Ballet/Komisch Oper, Berlin (Premier, dance collaboration with Blanca Li, Jorge Orta, Mathew Herbert)
All you need to know, The Laing Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
Somewhere: places of refuge in art and life, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Shine, The Lowry, Salford Quays, UK
Comfort Zone, Portable Living Spaces, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
To Actuality, ‘70x7 The Meal act XVI Waltherplatz’, Ar/ge Kunst Museum Gallery, Bolzano, Italy
Fragilités, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
2001
OPERA.tion Life Nexus act VII, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Germany
Active Ingredients, ‘70 x 7 The Meal act X’, The American center for food, wine & the arts, COPIA, Napa Valley, California, USA
Mobile Village, Plug In, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Munster, Germany
Untragbar, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
They say this is the Place, ‘70 x 7 The Meal act XI’, Provinciebesturr van Antwerpen, Antwerp
To the Trade, Diverse Works, Houston, USA
Wegziehen, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
Global Tools, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
Transform’s, G8 Environment Summit, Trieste, Italy
Arbor Vitae, Freeport Talke, Talke, Staffordshire, UK
2000
OPERA.tion Life Nexus act III, Chapiteau LarueForaine, Paris, France
Dynamic City, La Fondation pour l’architecture, Brussels, Belgium
Connector Mobile Village II, E.N.S.A.V. La Cambre, Brussels (community workshop), Brussels
Air en Forme, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Invisible Touch, ‘70x70 The Meal Act III’, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Ici On Peut Toucher, Galerie TBN, Rennes, France
Home, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Mutations/Modes 1960-2000, Musée Galliera, Paris, France
1999
Institut Français d’Architecture, Paris, France
Urban Life Guards, Expofil, Paris, France
Visions of the Body, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto tour to Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Life Nexus Village Fête, In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village Green, Birmingham, UK
Design Machine, Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, UK
Collective Dwelling Act VI, Gorbals Estate, Glasgow, UK (community workshop)
Model Homes, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
1998
Personal Effects - The Collective Conscious, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Collective Dwelling act V, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (community workshop)
Collective Dwelling Act III, Grand Street Rink, New York, USA (community workshop and event)
Addressing the Century, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
The Campaign Against Living Miserably, The Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
Passage de Retz, Paris, France
1997
Trade Routes, History & Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (installation and community workshop)
Produire Créer Collectionner, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
PSI Open, PSI, New York, USA
Ici et Maintenant, ‘Citizen Platform action’, La Villette, Paris, France
Touche pour Voiz, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
1996
Visual Reports, ICC Cultural Centre, Antwerp, The Netherlands
On Route to Mex, Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico
Actions Urbaines, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Commune Communicate Act I, Metz detention centre/Metz city centre, Metz, France (workshop with inmates from the detention centre and public action)
Shopping, Identity + Refuge Act II, Deitch Projects/Salvation Army, New York
L’art du plastique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
1995
Shopping, capc Musée d’art contemporain / TATI, Bordeaux, France
On Board, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
1994
Ateliers 94, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris - ARC, Paris, France
Refuge Wear, Salvation Army, Cité de Refuge, Paris, France (workshop with the residents)
1993
Art Fonction Sociale!, Salvation Army, Cité de Refuge, Paris, France
Body Ware, Habitus, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
PUBLIC ART
• Leebank Middleway Birmingham: project for pedestrian bridge, Attwood Green UK (2005)
• Parc Mirafiori Nord Turin: meeting place, Fondazione Adrianno Olivetti, Italy (2004-2007)
• Attwood Green regeneration program: L.O.G. strategy for permanent public artwork, Birmingham (2004)
• Ecole Maternelle Suzanne Buisson, Chatenay Malabry: 1% landscape artwork, Ile-de-France, France (2004-2005)
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
• University of Edinburgh, ARHB/EPSRC's 'Designing in the 21st Century', Participant (2004)
• London College of Fashion (University of the Arts, London): Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion (2002-2007)
• Design Academy Eindhoven: Holland, Head, ‘Man & Humanity’ Master in industrial design (2002 ongoing)
• E.N.S.A.D. (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs): visiting professor, Paris (2002/04)
• Edinburgh College of Art: ‘Virtual Fellow’ (2000/01)
• E.N.S.A.D. (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs): Head tutor fashion/costume, Paris, (1999/02)
WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES / LECTURES
2005
• Lecture: Department of Architecture Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Lecture: ‘Wild Lecture Series’ Royal College of Art, London
•Lecture and Masterclass: ‘Wanted Creativity’ Fabrica, The BenettonGroup communication research centre, Italy (second part in Studio Orta,Paris)
2004
• Key speaker: ‘Challenging the Frame’ 8th ELIA - European League of Institutes of the Arts, Luzern, Switzerland
• Public Lecture: Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
• Key Speaker: ‘Nomad + Object, portable technology for erratic habitats’ University of Rome, Faculty of Architecture, Italy
•Public Lecture: ‘Lucy Orta & Aran Chadwick, Dwelling X’, RIBA(Royal Institute for British Architects), London, (chaired by ColinFournier)
• Lecture: Central Saint Martins School of Design, London
• Key Speaker: ‘Fashion on the Edge Symposium’, Musis Sacrum, Arnhem, Holland
•Key Speaker: ‘Art04 Arts Council North West & BBC’, Manchester ArtGallery, Manchester, (international conference chaired by Alan Yentob)
2003
•Speaker: ‘Architecture Dialogues: Architectural Bodies, ReflectiveSpaces, and Responsive Materials’, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, NewYork, USA
•Moderated discussion: Lucy Orta & Catarina Leitao, ‘Nomades inResidence: Body Architecture, Between Intervention and Survival’, VanAllen Institute, New York, USA
• Key Speaker: ‘Public and Community Art’ Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
• Key Speaker: ‘Design Camp’ University of Minnesota Design Institute & School of Architecture, USA
• Key Speaker: ‘World Creative Design Forum’, London Design Week, Bloomberg, London, UK
• Speaker: Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
• Key Speaker: ‘Women in Design Symposium’, University Pennsylvania Graduate School Fine Art, USA
• Speaker: ‘Public Interventions Symposium’, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
• Lecture: ‘Contemporary Issues’, Kingston University School of Art and Design, UK
2002
•Key Speaker: ‘From Material Things’ (international conference exploringthe new geographies of visual culture), The British Museum, UK
2001
• Key Speaker: ‘The More Things Change’, I.D.C.A. International Design Conference Aspen, 51st anniversary, Colorado, USA
• Key Speaker: ‘Soul of Design’, Design Academy Eindhoven, Holland
• Speaker: ‘Generazione delle Immagini, VII Racconti d’Identita’, Commune of Milan, Italy
1999
•Round Table: ‘Architecture Mobile et Nouvelles Cultures Urbaines’,Claire Pétetin et Philippe Grégoire, Debis Gaudel, Marie-Claude Vachez,Paul Virillio, Odile Decq, École Supérieure de l’Architecture, Paris,France
