Dora García
Biography
Born in 1965 in Valladolid (Spain), lives and work in Oslo.
Dora García uses the exhibition space as platform to investigate the relationship between the visitor, the artwork, and place. To this end the artist often draws on interactivity and performance. She represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.
Working from text, archives, and audio files, she narrates both real and fictional stories to question and shake up society. Across a multifaceted body of work (video, writing, performance and installation), she challenges the traditional relationships between artworks and spectators within the exhibition space. Her scenarios combine fiction and reality to the point of confusion, thus create unique situations that are both intellectual and playful, which rely on an active, and sometimes obligatory, participation of the public in the creation, activation or destruction of the work.
Dora Garcia's works have been exhibited in Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Fondation d'Entreprise Hermes (Brussels), Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto), Fonderie Darling - Centre d'arts visuels (Montreal), Punkt Ø (Moss), Centre d'Arts Visuels (Montréal), FRAC Ile-de-France (Paris), Tate Modern (London), MNAM - Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris), MUDAM (Luxembourg), SMAK (Gent), MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Index Contemporary Art Foundation (Stokholm), Fundació La Caixa (Barcelona), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid), Tel Aviv Museum (Israel), MAC's - Musée des Arts Contemporains (Bossu), MOCAK (Krakow), Fondation d'entreprise Ricard (Paris), Villa Arson (Nice), Henry art Foundation (Seattle)...
Dora García participed at the 54th, 55th, 56th Venice Biennale (Italy), (d)OCUMENTA 13 (Kassel), 2nd Athens Biennale (Greece), Lyon Biennale (France), 29th São Paulo Biennial (Brazil), 16th Biennale of Sydney (Autralia), 10th Lyon Biennial Gwangju Biennial (Korea) and more.
Her work is part of prestigious collections as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), San Francisco MoMA, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Sevilla), Coca-Cola Foundation Collection (Madrid), CNAP - National Center for Plastics Arts (Paris), La Caixa Contemporary Art Collection (Barcelona), Fundación ARCO (Spain), De Bruyn Collection (Rótterdam), Flannan Browne Collection (UK), FRAC: Bourgogne / Franche-Comté / Ile-de-France Le Plateau / Languedoc-Rousillon / Lorraine, Henry Art Foundation (Seattle), Kadist Foundation (Paris/San Francisco), MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo de Vitoria-Gasteiz (Araba), Patio Herreriano - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español (Valladolid)...
SHORT BIO
B. 1965, lives and works in Oslo (Norway).
Dora García uses the exhibition space as platform to investigate the relationship between the visitor, the artwork, and place.
Working from text, archives, and audio files, she narrates both real and fictional stories to question and shake up society. Across a multifaceted body of work (video, writing, performance and installation), she challenges the traditional relationships between artworks and spectators within the exhibition space. Her scenarios combine fiction and reality to the point of confusion, thus create unique situations that are both intellectual and playful, which rely on an active, and sometimes obligatory, participation of the public in the creation, activation or destruction of the work.
Dora Garcia's works have been exhibited at the 54th, 55th, 56th Venice Biennale, (d)OCUMENTA 13, 2nd Athens Biennale, Lyon Biennale, 29th São Paulo Biennial , Reina Sofía (Madrid), Fondation d'Entreprise Hermes (Brussels), Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto), Fonderie Darling (Montreal), Punkt Ø (Moss), Rose Art Museum, Brandreis University, Waltham (USA), FRAC Ile-de-France (Paris), MuHKA (Belgium), Tate Modern (London) Centre Pompidou (Paris), MUDAM (Luxembourg), SMAK (Gent), MUSAC (León), MACBA (Barcelona), Index Contemporary Art Foundation (Stokholm), Fundació La Caixa (Barcelona), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid), Tel Aviv Museum (Israel), MAC's (Bossu), MOCAK (Krakow), Fondation d'entreprise Ricard (Paris), Villa Arson (Nice), Henry art Foundation (Seattle)...
Dora García participed at the 54th, 55th, 56th Venice Biennale (Italy), (d)OCUMENTA 13 (Kassel), 2nd Athens Biennale (Greece), Lyon Biennale (France), 29th São Paulo Biennial (Brazil), 16th Biennale of Sydney (Autralia), 10th Lyon Biennial Gwangju Biennial (Korea) and more.
Her work is part of prestigious collections as Reina Sofía (Madrid), San Francisco MoMA, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Sevilla), Coca-Cola Foundation Collection (Madrid), CNAP (Paris), La Caixa Contemporary Art Collection (Barcelona), Fundación ARCO (Spain), De Bruyn Collection (Rótterdam), Flannan Browne Collection (UK), FRAC (Bourgogne, Franche-Comté, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Rousillon, Lorraine), Henry Art Foundation (Seattle), Kadist Foundation (Paris, San Francisco), MACBA
Selected works
Dora García
I read it with golden fingers (Denkbilder) , 2022
book, golden powder
18 x 11,5 x 1,4 cm (7.09 x 4.33 x 0.39 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Paris
N° Inv. GARC22090
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Dora García
Mad Marginal Charts (3) , 2019
pencil on paper, wooden frame, plexiglas
70 x 100 cm (27.56 x 39.37 in)
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC19074
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Mad Marginal Charts (2) , 2019
pencil on paper
70 x 100 cm (27.56 x 39.37 in)
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC19073
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Segunda Vez (Second Time Around) , 2018
HD video, color, sound, spanish, french or english subtitles
94'
Edition of 6 + 2 EA
Collection : CNAP, Paris, France
N° Inv. GARC18071
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Todo Estado es ficticio y todo dinero falso. , 2018
golden leaf on wall
variable dimensions
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC18063
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Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years , 2017
performance and installation, for technical specificities please consult adjunct document 'instruction'
Edition of 3 + 1 EA
Collection : SF MOMA, San Francisco, USA / Private collection, Paris, France
N° Inv. GARC17060
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Segunda vez (44) , 2017
digital film, color, sound, spanish, french or english subtitles
44'
Edition of 6 + 2 EA
Collection : MNAM - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
N° Inv. GARC17057
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Dora García
Écrits 1 & 2 , 2017
4 books : ''Ecrits 1 & 2'' of Lacan, 2 manuscript notebooks
variable dimensions
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC17056
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Dora García
Mad Marginal Charts (floor 1) , 2017
blanc d'espagne on floor, realised with stencil
variable dimensions
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC17053
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Dora García
Mad marginal chart (Philip K Dick and the vesica piscis) , 2014
pencil on wallpaper
variable size
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC14048
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Doorstep piece (Rodez) , 2014
wood, book
4 x 110,5 x 37 cm / 1.5 x 43.5 x 14.5 in
unique artwork
Private collection, Madrid, Spain
N° Inv. GARC14047
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Dora García
All men harbor a small living roomin their rib cage; when rushed and forced to run, the tinkling of the living room mirror can be heard, faintly, as it jiggles up and down. , 2014
golden leaf
size variable
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC14046
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The Joycean Society , 2013
video HD, english version subtitled in english or french, spanish, and german
53'
Edition of 6 + 2 EA
Collections: Nouveau Musée National de Monaco / FRAC PACA, Marseille, France / Private collections, Spain / Private collection, Netherlands
N° Inv. GARC13043
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I read it with golden fingers (réponses à des étudiants en philosophie sur l'objet de la psychanalyse) , 2011
book, golden powder
21 x 15 cm / 8.26 x 5.9 in
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC17061
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Dora García
Barbara Sturmar , 2011
paper, wood frame, plexiglas
33,7 x 25 x 7 cm / 13.26 x 9.84 x 2.75 in
Edition of 3 + 1 EA
N° Inv. GARC12030
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Dora García
Steal This Book , 2009
unique artwork
Collection : CNAP, Paris, France
N° Inv. GARC09023
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Real Artists Don't Have Teeth , 2008
performance, print, frame
40 x 60 cm, duration: 15' - 20'
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC12034
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What a fucking wonderful audience , 2008
Annotated original script used during the performance
framed documents: 4 x (53,8 x 78,5 cm) photograph: 53,8 x 66 cm
unique artwork
Collection : Kadist art foundation, Paris, France
N° Inv. GARC09017
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Dora García
Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed: Lenny Bruce In Sydney , 2008
video HD, 60', english version, subtitled in english
With Richard Neville, Lawrence Shearer and Harli Ammouchi in the role of Lenny Bruce
Edition of 5 + 1 EA
N° Inv. GARC08014
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Dora García
The Beggar's Things , 2007
items from the performance «the Beggar's Opera» which took place in the Skulptur Projeckte, Münster, 2007
various dimensions
unique artwork
N° Inv. GARC12028
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Dora García
Film (Hôtel Wolfers) , 2007
black and white 35mm film, transferred to DVD Produced by Hermès (program Hbox)
11'30''
Edition of 5 + 2 EA
Collections: Centre Pompidou, Paris / SF MOMA, San Francisco, USA / FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
N° Inv. GARC08010
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Instant Narrative , 2006/2008
computer software, videoprojection, performance
variable duration
Edition of 3 + 1 EA
Collection : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain / CNAP, Paris, France / SF MOMA, San Francisco, USA
N° Inv. GARC08002
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Tout peut arriver , 20052009
unique artwork
Collection : Domaine de Chamarande, France
N° Inv. GARC09021
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Golden Sentence (Il y a un trou dans le réel.) , 2005-2014
golden leaf
size variable
unique artwork
Collection : FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
N° Inv. GARC14045
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Nous sommes des extraterrestres. , 2005-2012
golden leaf on wall
variable dimensions
unique artwork
Collection : Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
N° Inv. GARC17059
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Dora García
Le Futur doit être dangereux. , 2005-2008
gold leaf
unique artwork
Collection : FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
N° Inv. GARC08003
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Lettres à d'autres planètes , 2005
Press release translated into twelve languages, not identifiable or recognizable and incomprehensible to almost all visitors to the exhibition because
Edition of 3
FRAC Bourgogne (deposit)
N° Inv. GARC08009
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100 oeuvres d'art impossibles , 2001
unique artwork
Collection : Musac, Leon, Spain
N° Inv. GARC08012
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Gallery exhibitions
Museum exhibitions
Centre Pompidou Metz, 2024
Centre Pompidou Metz, 2024
Musée Transitoire, Paris, France
Elle a plusieurs noms, M HKA, Anvers, Belgium, 2023
Elle a plusieurs noms, M HKA, Anvers, Belgium, 2023
Elle a plusieurs noms, M HKA, Anvers, Belgium, 2023
Elle a plusieurs noms, M HKA, Anvers, Belgium, 2023
Mattatoio, Roma
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Lacan, l'exposition, (cur. Marie-Laure Bernadac et Bernard Marcadé), Centre Pompidou Metz, 2024, ph. Marc Domage
Lacan, l'exposition, (cur. Marie-Laure Bernadac et Bernard Marcadé), Centre Pompidou Metz, 2024, ph. Marc Domage
L'insecte Dora Garcia, Musée Transitoire, Paris, France, 2023
Elle a plusieurs noms, M HKA, Anvers, Belgium © Nathan Ishar, 2023
Elle a plusieurs noms, M HKA, Anvers, Belgium © Nathan Ishar, 2023
Elle a plusieurs noms, M HKA, Anvers, Belgium © Nathan Ishar, 2023
Elle a plusieurs noms, M HKA, Anvers, Belgium © Nathan Ishar, 2023
Conosco un labirintho che è una linea retta, Mattatoio, Roma, (cur. Angel Moya Garcia), © M3 Studio, 2021
Conosco un labirintho che è una linea retta, Mattatoio, Roma, (cur. Angel Moya Garcia), © M3 Studio, 2021
Conosco un labirintho che è una linea retta, Mattatoio, Roma, (cur. Angel Moya Garcia), © M3 Studio, 2021
Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada, 2021
Nouer le reste, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France, 2021
Love with Obstacles, Rose Art Museum Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, 2020
Love with Obstacles, Rose Art Museum Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, 2020
Love with Obstacles, Rose Art Museum Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, 2020
Love with Obstacles, Rose Art Museum Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, 2020
The Beggar's Things, from Skulptur Projeckte, Münster (2007), Special Project, ARCO , Madrid, Spain, 2020, ph. Roberto Ruiz
The Beggar's Things, from Skulptur Projeckte, Münster (2007), Special Project, ARCO , Madrid, Spain, 2020, ph. Roberto Ruiz
Picasso et l'Exil, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, 2019
Second Time Around Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 2018
Second Time Around Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 2018
Second Time Around Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 2018
Nous sommes des extraterrestres, coll.Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, château de Rochechouart, France, 2017
Nous sommes des extraterrestres, coll.Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, château de Rochechouart, France, 2017
Somewhere, two planets have been colliding for thousands of years (The Thinker as Poet) (Guillaume Désange), La Verrière, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Brussels, Belgium, 2017
Somewhere, two planets have been colliding for thousands of years (The Thinker as Poet) (Guillaume Désange), La Verrière, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Brussels, Belgium, 2017
Somewhere, two planets have been colliding for thousands of years (The Thinker as Poet) (Guillaume Désange), La Verrière, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Brussels, Belgium, 2017
Somewhere, two planets have been colliding for thousands of years (The Thinker as Poet) (Guillaume Désange), La Verrière, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Brussels, Belgium, 2017
These books were alive: they spoke to me, The Tetley, Leeds, UK, 2017
These books were alive: they spoke to me, The Tetley, Leeds, UK, 2017
These books were alive: they spoke to me, The Tetley, Leeds, UK, 2017
These books were alive: they spoke to me, The Tetley, Leeds, UK, 2017
11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2016
11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2016
I see words, I hear voices (cur. Chantal Pontbriand), The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, 2015
I see words, I hear voices (cur. Chantal Pontbriand), The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, 2015
I see words, I hear voices (cur. Chantal Pontbriand), The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, 2015
The Sinthome score, All the world's futures, (cur. Okwui Enwezor), 56th International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, Italy, 2015
The Sinthome score, All the world's futures, (cur. Okwui Enwezor), 56th International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, Italy, 2015
The Sinthome score, All the world's futures, (cur. Okwui Enwezor), 56th International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, Italy, 2015
Dora Garcia, Des crimes et des rêves (cur. Chantal Pontbriand), Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada, 2014
Dora Garcia, Des crimes et des rêves (cur. Chantal Pontbriand), Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada, 2014
Dora Garcia, Des crimes et des rêves (cur. Chantal Pontbriand), Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada, 2014
Des choses en moins, des choses en plus (cur. Sébastien Faucon & Agnès Violeau) Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2014, ph. Aurélien Mole
Klau Mich: radicalism in society meets experiment on TV, DOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany, 2012
Klau Mich: radicalism in society meets experiment on TV, DOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany, 2012
What the monkey says no one pays attention to (cur. Marie Gautier and Clémence de Montgolfier), TCB, Melbourne, Australia, 2012
The Joycean Society Kunsthaus Bregenz, (cur. by Eva Birkenstock), Austria, 2012
The Joycean Society Kunsthaus Bregenz, (cur. by Eva Birkenstock), Austria, 2012
The Joycean Society Kunsthaus Bregenz, (cur. by Eva Birkenstock), Austria, 2012
The Joycean Society Kunsthaus Bregenz, (cur. by Eva Birkenstock), Austria, 2012
Les Roméos (cur. Chantal Pontbriand), Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris,France, 2011
Les Roméos (cur. Chantal Pontbriand), Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris,France, 2011
54th Biennale di Venezia (cur. Bice Curiger), Spanish Pavilon, Italy, 2011
54th Biennale di Venezia (cur. Bice Curiger), Spanish Pavilon, Italy, 2011
Nul si découvert (cur. Guillaume Désanges), Le Plateau, FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, France, 2011
Nul si découvert (cur. Guillaume Désanges), Le Plateau, FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, France, 2011
There is always a cup of sea to sail, 29th Sao Paulo Biennial (cur. Moacir dos & Agnaldo Farias), Brasil, 2010
The Conspiracy, Kunsthalle, Bern, Germany, 2010, ph. Dominique Uldry
LAST DAYS / derniers jours, Le Parvis, Centre d'art, Pau, France, 2010
Répétition, Rétrospective, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, France, 2010
Au pied de la lettre, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, France, 2009, ph. Marc Domage
Au pied de la lettre, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, France, 2009
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France, 2009
¿Dónde van los personajes cuando la novela se acaba?, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2009, ph. Mark Ritchie
¿Dónde van los personajes cuando la novela se acaba?, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2009, ph. Mark Ritchie
¿Dónde van los personajes cuando la novela se acaba?, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2009, ph. Mark Ritchie
¿Dónde van los personajes cuando la novela se acaba?, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2009, ph. Mark Ritchie
Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK, 2009
Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK, 2009
Steal book, Lyon Biennal of contemporary art, France, 2009
Steal book, Lyon Biennal of contemporary art, France, 2009
Just Because Everything is Different Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed (The Essential Lenny Bruce), reading performance, U-Turn, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
Le jour et la nuit, Frac Ile-de-France au Parc culturel de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, France, 2008
Italia, Italie, Italien, Italy, Wlochy, Arcos - Museo d'arte contemporanea, Sannio, Italy, 2008, ph. Pasquale Palmieri
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, Villa Arson, Nice, France, 2008
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, Villa Arson, Nice, France, 2008
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, Villa Arson, Nice, France, 2008
Skulpture Projekte, Münster, Germany, 2007
Instant Narrative, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, 2007
Instant Narrative, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, 2007
Nouvelles du Mont Analogue, Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, France, 2007
Où? Scènes du sud : Espagne, Italie, Portugal (cur. Françoise Cohen), Carré d'art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, France, 2007, ph. David Huguenin
Code inconnu, SMAK, Gent, Belgium, 2006
Code Inconnu, SMAK, Gent, Belgium, 2006
Code inconnu, SMAK, Gent, Belgium, 2006
Temps de video, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain, 2006
Contes choisis (cur. Montse Badia), Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain, 2006
Le futur doit être dangereux (cur. Eva González-Sancho), FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2005
Le futur doit être dangereux (cur. Eva González-Sancho), FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2005
Le futur doit être dangereux (cur. Eva González-Sancho), FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2005
Le futur doit être dangereux (cur. Eva González-Sancho), FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 2005
Sí/yes/ oui, No/no/non, MUSAC, León, Spain, 2005
Sí/yes/ oui, No/no/non, MUSAC, León, Spain, 2005
Monocanal, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2004
Monocanal, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2004
Videos
EXHIBITION
Dora García, "L'insecte", Michel Rein, Paris, 2023
Press
The Art Newspaper
Dora Garcia : L'insecte
2023
Arts Hebdo Médias
Dans le cercle des performances de Dora Garcia
2023
Unidivers
Visite guidee : art contemporain, architecture et patrimoine
2022
Artforum
Dora Garcia
2021
ARTFORUM
Dora Garcia : Netwerk aalst
2021
Arte Informado
Dora Garcia
2020
Artpress
Dora Garcia
2017
Slash
Dora Garcia
2017
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Publications
Segunda Vez: How Masotta Was Repeated
Publisher: Oslo National Academy of the Arts et Torpedo Press
2018
Second Time Around - Which is in fact the first
Publisher: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
2018
Segunda Vez, que siempre es la primera
Publisher: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
2018
I See Words, I Hear Voices - Mad Marginal - Cahier #4
Publisher: Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany
2015
The Joycean Society
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale, Milan, Italy
2013
All the stories
Publisher: Book Works
2011
Steal this book
Publisher: Paraguay press
2010
The Beggar's - Book, Diary, Evenings
Publisher: Verlag König, Köln, 2008
2008
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