Dora García

Born:
1965
Residence:
Barcelona, Spain
Nationality:
Spanish
Trust:
APT London
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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • As 2017 opens there is a sense that all bets are off—that it is time to roll the dice and keep a hand open to all possibilities.

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  • A group show entitled “Resonating Surfaces” curated by Catalan artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, which displays artworks crafted by acclaimed 27 artis

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  • The exhibition part of the 11th Gwangju Biennale entitled The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?) opens to the public on September 2, 2016.

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  • The Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco presents details of a new work by Rosa Barba, winner of the PIAC – Prix International d’Art Contemporain 2016 (International Prize for Contemporary Art).

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  • In her first solo exhibition in North America, Aleksandra Domanović brings together a body of work that spans her practice, including her ongoing paper stacks and video and installation work at the Plug In ICA.

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  • As new artistic director at MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires), appointed last year, Augustín Pérez Rubio has chosen to begin his program with “Experiencia Infinita,” an intelligent survey of performative art featuring Allora & Calzadilla, Diego Bianchi, Dora García, Elmgreen & Dragset, Pierre Huyghe, Roman Ondák, Tino Sehgal and Judi Werthein.

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  • Yes! After months and months of speculation, prayers, and rumors, the Venice Biennale has released the artist list for its 56th edition, “All the World’s Futures,” which is being curated by Okwui Enwezor.

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  • The country spent a fortune trying to place itself at the centre of the art world. So why do its best artists all leave? Adrian Searle travels to a nation in the grip of a cultural crisis

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  • The Spanish artist Dora García’s conceptual works comprise texts, photographs, films, performances, and installations, frequently involving actors

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  • The country spent a fortune trying to place itself at the centre of the art world. So why do its best artists all leave? Adrian Searle travels to a nation in the grip of a cultural crisis

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  • The artist Dora García has been selected by Katya García-Antón, curator for the Spanish Pavilion, to represent Spain in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale

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  • Considered one of the largest and most important art fairs in the world, Art 41 Basel assembles over 300 galleries from 26 countries. See what's happening this year.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born 1965 in Valladolid, Spain, Dora García now lives and works in Barcelona after having resided in Brussels for over two decades. García uses a range of media including performance, video, text and installation. Her practice investigates the conditions that shape the encounter between the artist, the artwork and the viewer. Her work focuses more particularly on the notions of duration, access and readability, concerned with the privilege afforded to “those in the know”. García’s pieces often involve staging unscripted scenarios that elicit doubt as to the fictional or spontaneous nature of a given situation. They predetermine set rules of engagement or utilize recording devices to frame both conscious and unconscious forms of spectator participation. García’s work also explores the political potential rooted in marginal positions: namely the figures of the outsider, the outcast and the outlaw, paying homage through several works to eccentric and often anti-heroic personas, including the stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce.

Dora García has recently presented solo exhibitions including at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2010), Index Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2010), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (2009), Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (2009), Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (2009) and Wilkinson Gallery, London (2009). Her work has been shown in numerous museums and international exhibitions, including “The Flower of May” as part of the Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju (2010), “Heaven”, the 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens (2009), “Le spectacle du quotidian”, the 10me Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (2009), “U-Turn”, the 1st Quadrennial for Contemporary art, Copenhagen (2008) and “H Box” at Centre Pompidou, Paris, MUSAC, Leon, Spain, MUDAM, Luxembourg and Tate Modern, London (2007-2008).

Dora García is represented by Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam and Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.


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