Installation view of Argela at Parra & Romero Ibiza, 2019.
Installation view of Argela at Parra & Romero Ibiza, 2019.
Installation view of Basilea, 2018, commissioned by Messe Basel. Courtesy of Creative Time, Art Basel and the artist.
The Last Coal Extraction, 2014. Exhibition view at AV FESTIVAL 14, Newcastle, UK.
Forever Immigrant, 2017. Installation view at the 14th Biennale de Lyon, 2017.
Installation view of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2013. Rubbles of the building’s construction materials.
Installation view of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2013. Rubbles of the building’s construction materials.
Construction materials of the exhibition room Espacio 2 at CAC Málaga, 2007
Installation view Construction Rubble of Secession’s Main Hall, 2010. Photo Wolfgang Thaler.
Construction Rubble of Secession’s Main Hall, 2010. Photo Wolfgang Thaler.
Removal of the Wooden Floor, Grafisches Kabinett, Secession, 2010. Photos Oliver Ottenschlagerr.
Removal of the Wooden Floor, Grafisches Kabinett, Secession, 2010. Photos Oliver Ottenschlagerr.
Guide to the wastelands of Bilbao river estuary, 2008
Water Tower: construction materials. Phalsburg, 2000
Lifting the asphalt, trade fair, Amsterdam, 2004.
List of construction materials of São Paulo. Installation view at Kunsthaus Baselland, 2015.
EXHIBITIONS
2019
2014
2014
2014
2013
Born 1972 in Zaragoza, Spain
Lives and works in Rotterdam
Solo Exhibitions
2019
– Volcán de Agras. Derechos mineros, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
– Lara Almarcegui. Deep Inside – Out, Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, Switzerland
– Argela, Parra & Romero Ibiza, Spain
– Beton, CAIRN Centre d’Art, Digne, France
2018
– Gravel, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2017
– Sand, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany
2016
– Le Gypse, Casino Luxembourg- Forum d’art Contemporany, Luxembourg
2015
– Lara Almarcegui, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
– Lara Almarcegui, De Ateliers- Debut Series, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands.
2014
– Lara Almarcegui, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain.
– Living in the material world, Museen Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
2013
– Spanish Pavillion, 55 Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy.
– Abandonned River Park, MUSAC, León, Spain.
– Ivry souterrain. Le Crédac, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Ivry, France.
2012
– Madrid Subterráneo, CA2M, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain.
2011
– Brachflächen, Grabungen, Baustoffe, Künstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany.
– Een braakliggend terrein, Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands.
– Postcard from… Lara Almarcegui, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma, Italy.
– Construction materials, excavations, wastelands, TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands. – Margin and City, CAAC,Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain.
2010
– Lara Almarcegui, Secession, Viena, Austria.
– Lara Almarcegui, Ludlow 38, Goethe Institute New York and European Kunsthalle, Colonia, Germany.
– Statements, Art Basel, Gallery Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2008
– Guide to ruined Buildings in the Netherlands XIX-XXI Century, Gallery Ellen de Bruijne projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
– Bilbao Wastelands, Cabineta, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain.
– Ruinas de los Países Bajos, Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain.
– Colocation #6, La Box ENSBA. Bourges, France.
2007
– Lara Almarcegui, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. – Construction Materials of the exhibition Room, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo del Ayunta- miento de Málaga, CAC, Málaga, Spain.
– Still life, Art, Ecology and Politics of Change, Sharjah Art Biennial 8, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirated.
2004
– Lara Almarcegui, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
2003
– Rehearsal, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
– INDEX, The Swedish Art Foundation. Estocolmo, Sweden.
– Chantiers ouverts au public, Centre D’Art Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire, France.
Group Exhibitions
2021
– Dialecto, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Ca2M), Móstoles, Madrid, España
–Les Friches Río Tinto à L’Estaque, Marseille, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, France
2019
– Coleccionando procesos. 25 años de itinerarios, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain -Cielos abiertos, CEDAN, Huesca, Spain
– Five Artist. Site Encountered. M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong
2018
– Biennal internacional de Cuenca , Ecuador
– Querer Parecer Noche, CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
2016
– Fertile Lands, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France.
– Riddle Of The Burial Grounds, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen, Belgium.
2015
– Farming Folk. Adventures in the Countryside, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands. – Hospitalidade, CGAC- Centro Galego de Arte Conpemporánea, A Coruña, Spain.
2014
– Cumulum, Calculum, Sequence, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain.
– Museum of Arte Útil, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Germany.
– The Last Coal Extraction in NewCastle, AV Festival, NewCastle, United Kingdom.
– Circular Ruins, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
– Living in the Material World: Materiality in Contemporary Art, Museum Haus Esters, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany.
– Lost in Ladscape, Mart Rovereto, Trento, Italy.
– Epicentre: conversations and discussions between artists, Parra & Romero, Ibiza, Spain.
– The marvellous real, Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Art from the Musac Co- llection, MOT, Tokyo, Japan.
– Nada se detiene, Colecciones Josep Suñol y Centre d’Art La Panera, Fundació Suñol, Barce- lona, Spain.
2013
– THINGS FROM BEFORE / BESIDE / THINGS FROM AFTER / AROUND / THINGS OF THE MO- MENT, Inaugural exhibition, Parra & Romero | Ibiza, Spain
– 10 Years, 10 Artist, 10 Sites. Nasher XChange, Nasher Foundation, Dallas, Texas, EEUU. -Artificial Amsterdam, de Appel Boys’ School, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
– Les Nouvelles Babylones, Centre d’Art du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux Activum, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway.
– Jetztzeit (el tiempo del ahora) + La Espalda del ángel, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain. -The City, the Artists and the Museum, 25 Years Rotterdam City Collection, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
– Concrete – Fotografie und Architektur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
– SPHÈRES 6, GALLERIA CONTINUA, La Moulin, France.
– Art, Place & Dislocation in the 21st Century, The Creative Time, New York, EEUU.
– 4 Houses, Some Buildings and Other Spaces, 80WSE, Washington, EEUU.
– Shrinking Cities I Expanding Landscapes, Sculpture Court, Edinburgh, Collage of Art, Uni- versity of Edimburg, United Kingdom.
– Archeologia, 40mcube, Rennes, France.
2012
– The Traveller – A Visual Journey by Alexander Ramselaar – TENT, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netheland.
– Status – 24 Documents, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
– Art and the City, Zurich, Switzerland.
– Manifesta 9, Genk, Limburg, Belgium, curated by Cuahutémoc Medina.
– Si j’avais un marteau…, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France.
– Trayectorias. Diez años de video y fotografía en la colección Coca-Cola, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain.
– Alternativa 2012, Materiality, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, Poland.
– Status – 24 Documents, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
– Materiality, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland, curated by Arne Hendriks, Ines Moreira, Aneta Szylak y Leire Vergara.
– Parckdesign, Bruselas, Belgium.
– Kirunatopia / In the Shadow of the Future, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden.
– The Beirut Experience II, villa Bernasconi, Lancy, Switzerland.
– The Beirut Experience II – attitudes, espace d’arts contemporains, Geneva, Czech Repu- blic.
– Contours of the Common, CCA Centre for Contemporary Art Derry, London-Derry, United Kingdom.
– The stumbling present, California University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
– Lugares en pérdida, Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, Huarte, Spain.
2011
– The Ultraperiferic, CBK Emmen, Emmen, Netherlands.
– Portscapes, Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Netherlands.
– Found in Translation, Chapter L, Maison Grégoire, Brussels, Belgium.
– Found in Translation, Chapter L , Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxem- bourg, curated by Emmanuel Lambion.
– Archivision 1: poétique urbaine, Le parvis, scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Ibos, France. -Coleção Coca-Cola: Dez anos de fotografia espanhola contemporânea, Instituto Cervantes, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
– Tabula Rasa, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain.
– L’Idee de nature, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France.
– Oh Crisis 2.0, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
– Noreste, IAACC Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza, Spain.
– Communauté/Gemeinschaft, Le Grand Café, Centre d’art contemporain de Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Nazaire, France.
– Ruins recycled, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
– De Nederlandse Identiteit? De Kracht van Heden!, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, Nether- lands.
– Viaje a Yucatán, Museo Tamayo, México, curated by Pablo León de la Barra.
– “Over your city’s grass will grow”, Hidde van Seggele Gallery, London, United Kingdom, cu- rated by Ardi Poels.
– Too late, too little, (and how) to fail gracefully, Fort Asperen. Netherlands, curated by Bik van der Pol.
– Living as art form, Creative Time, New York, USA.
– Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
2010
– Communauté/Gemeinschaft, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.
– ¡Double Infinity, Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai, China.
– ¡El Ángel Exterminador – A Room for Spanish Contemporary Art, BOZAR, -Brussels, Bel- gium, curated by Fernando Castro.
– ¡Desplazamientos (displacements), Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
– The Garden of Forking Paths, Akbank Art Center Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Claire Levestief. – Radical Natures, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock East Ayshire, United Kingdom.
– Portscapes, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
– Afuera, Centro Cultural de España en Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, curated by Gerardo Mosquera and Rodrigo Alonso.
2009
– After architecture: typologiess of the afterward, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
– El resto: Superfluos y utópicos, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain.
– 25 obras, 17 Artistas, 4 Relatos, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lérida, Spain.
– Fluchtige Zeiten, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany.
– Radical Nature: Art & Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, Barbican London, United Kingdom, curated bye Francesco Manaconda.
– Splendid Isolation, Athens, Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece, curated by Can Sophie Rabinovitz.
– Détruire, disent-ils, École des beaux-arts de Rennes, France.
– 40 lives of One Space, The Third Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia, curated by Nicolas Audureau and Elena Yaichnikova.
– Utopia and Monument Sterische Herbst, Graz, Austria, curated by Sabine Breitwieser.
– The Boundary Layer, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada, curated by Catherine Dean.
– Liquid Times, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany.
– After architecture: typologiess of the afterward, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
2008
– Matière à paysage, La Galerie, Centre d’art contemporain, Noissy-le-Sec, -France.
– Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions, 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, curated by Okwui Enwezor.
– Estratos, PAC, Murcia, Spain.
– El Medio es el Museo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
– Lofoten International Arts Festival, Svolvar, Norway.
– Power of Place, Apeldoorn Triennal Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
– Fragment #7: Communism Never Happened/Vocabulary, Monument to Transformation, Tranzit, Prague, Czech Republic.
– Greenwashing, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Centre for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy.
– Bienal de Taiwan 2008, curated by Manray and Vasif Kortum.
2007
– 8 Bienal de Sharjah: Still life, Art, Ecology and Politics of Change, Sharjah Art Museum, Uni-
ted Emirates, curated by Jonathan Watkins and Eva Scharrer.
– Mimetic, Centre d’art de l’Yonne, Château de Tanlay, France.
– Shelter 07: Freedom of Public Art in the Cover of Urban Space, Catharinakapel, Harderwijk,
Parra & Romero
Claudio Coello, 14 Carretera de San Miguel Km 2,300 +34 91576 28 13
Netherlands.
– 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla, Spain, curated by Okwui Enwezor.
– Theater of Life, Galeria Civica d’arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy, curated by Carlos Jime- nez.
– Prix Altadis Arts Plastiques 2005-06, Gallery Lelong, Paris, France.
– Prix Altadis Arts Plastiques 2005-06, Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain.
– Momentum, Festival of Nordic Art, Moss, Norway, curated by Marc Sladen and Annete Kie- fluk.
– Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom, curated by Polly Staple.
2005
– Public Act, Kunsthalle, Lund, Sweden, curated by Mats Stjernstedt.
– Project Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
– La genie du lieu, Musee des Beaux Arts, Dijon, France.
– Delicious, Sint-Truiden, Belgium, curated by Luk Lambrecht.
– Empirismos, Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Galeria de Pintura do Rei D. Luís, Lisboa, Portugal. – Cultivating nature, Fundacion Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote, Spain.
2004
– “LAB”, Kröller Müller Museuma, Otterloo, Netherlands, curated by Nathalie
Zonneberg.
– International Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina.
– Common Property, VI Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany.
– Le proche et le lointain, domaine de Kerguehennec, centre d’art contemporain, Bignan, France.
– Catastrofi Minime, Museo di Arti Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy.
– Antirealismos: Spanish Photomedia now, IMA – Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia. – Antirealismos: Spanish Photomedia now, Govett – Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand.
2003
– Idealism, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
– Antirealismos: Spanish Photomedia now, Australian Centre for photography, Sydney, AU – Untitled, Sala Moncada de la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain.
– 1:1 x temps, quantités, proportions et fuites, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
– Esto no es performance, Departamento Audiovisuales Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madri- d,Spain
– Dispersions: a decade of art in Spain, Bas Museum of Art, Miami, US
2002
– Lost Past, Ieper, Belgium.
– Changing Places, INDEX, Stockholm, Sweden
– Bigtorino 2002, Torino Biennial, Italy, curated by Pistolleto and Corinne Disirennes.
– Desreglements, protocols en situation, Galerie Art & Essai Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France.
– Hortus Ludi, Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands.
– Plural el Arte Español en el siglo XXI, Senado, Madrid, Spain.
– Ultimas Adquisiciones, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
– Early works: De Ateliers 1998-2002, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2001
– Lecture Lounge, Clock Tower Gallery of Ps1, New York, USA.
2000
– Scripted Spaces, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands, curated by Bartomeu Mari.
– Espacio como Realidad, como Proyecto, Bienal de Pontevedra, Spain, curated by María del Corral.
1999
– N°43, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1997
– Subjetiles: tres escenarios, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, CASM, Barcelona; Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, Spain.
Selected Bibliography
2011
– Moosje Goosen Lara Almarcegui, Frieze, Londres # Septiembre.
– Hans den Hartog-Jager “Conceptualist zoekt de Romantiek”, NRC, Róterdam 19 mayo.
– Catherine Somzé: Lara Almarcegui: Construction Materials,Excavations, Wastelands, Ar- tpulse # verano de 2011.
2010
– Lattitudes: Lara Almarcegui: Under Construction, Mousse # abril, Milán.
2009
– Pablo Llorca Lara Almarcegui, Art Forum # Febrero.
2007
– Tom Morton: City Limits: Lara Almarcegui. FRIEZE páginas 124-127 # Verano 20
– Francis Alÿs: Artists Favourites, Spike Art # 11, Viena.
– Ecology, Luxury and Degradation Edited by Lattitudes, Uovo # 14, Torino.
– With/Without, Cultures of Space in the Middle east editado por Antonia Carver, Shumon Basar y Markus Miessen, New York, USA.
2005
– Jean Marc Huitorel Entropic promise: Lara Almarcegui Art Press. Febrero
– Binna Choi A Statute of the inhabitable Reader: Contributions to a topical artistic discourse. De Appel.
2004
– Ole Bouman: The emancipation of nowhere land Pasajes de Arquitectura y crítica, Madrid, # Febrero.
– Lara Almarcegui, l’idealisme en déconstruction Bénédicte Ramade. L’œil, Paris, Verano.
Works in public collections
– MNCARS, Museo Nacional Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
– FRAC Piemonte, Torino, Italy.
– Króller-Müller Museum, Otterloo, Arnhem, Netherlands.
– Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.
– FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
– FRAC Alsace, Selestat, France.
– Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain.
– MUSAC, León, Spain.
– CA2M, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain.
– CGAC, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
– Marcelino Botín Foundation, Santander, Spain.
– Museo de Teruel, Spain.
– Centro de Arte La Panera, Lerida, Spain.