ORLAN

Biography

ORLAN was born on May 30th 1947 in Saint Etienne, France. She lives and works between Los Angeles and Paris.

From 1965, she has been active in photography, video, sculpture, installations, performance, etc. In 1977, her performance The Artist's Kiss during the FIAC in Paris was a huge scandal. In 1978 she created the International Symposium of Performance in Lyon. In 1982, she founded the first on-line magazine of contemporary art, Art-Accès-Revue, on France?s precursor to the internet, the Minitel. She wrote the Carnal Art manifesto, and from 1990 to 1993 she conducted her series of 9 surgery-performances, filmed and broadcast in institutions throughout the world, among which the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

She has had several retrospectives (selection):
M HKA Museum, Antwerpen, 2012
Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia, 2008
Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France, 2007
CCC Tours, France, 2004
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France, 2004
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France, 2002
Centro de Fotografia, Salamanca, Spain, 2002
Museum Artium, Victoria, Spain, 2002

ORLAN has been featured in many exhibitions (selection):
In the USA: Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh ; LACMA, MOCA, Getty Museum, Los Angeles; PS1, New York; Bass Museum, Miami ; Milred Kemper Art Museum, Saint-Louis, Missouri ; Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska ; The Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
In Belgium : M HKA Museum, Antwerpen
In Canada: Art Gallery of Vancouver
In Italy: MADRE Museum, Napoli ; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Palazzo Grassi and Palazzo Franchetti, Venice
In France: in Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Maison Européenne de la Photographie
In Germany: Kunst Museum, Ahlen; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe
In Austria: Kunsthalle and MAK, Vienna
In Luxembourg: Casino of Luxembourg
In Spain: Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Contemporary Art Museum, Vitoria; Museum of Photography, Salamanca; MACBA, Madrid
In Switzerland: Musée de l?Elysée, Lausanne
In Russia: House of Photography, Laboratoria Art & Science Space, Moscow
In South Korea: Center Hall of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
In Japan : Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Gallery exhibitions

Michel Rein, Paris /1ST FLOOR

Le Drapé, Le Baroque, Palazzo Grassi, Venise, 1979 et autres sculptures de plis

May. 20 - Jul. 22, 2017

Michel Rein, Paris

Masques, Pekin Opera facing designs & réalité augmentée

Sep. 06 - Oct. 18, 2014

Michel Rein, Paris

Self-hybridations Indienne-Américaines

Apr. 12 - May. 17, 2008

Michel Rein, Paris

Tricephale

Oct. 18 - Dec. 06, 2003

Museum exhibitions

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ORLAN EN CAPITALES, (cur. Jerôme Neutres), Maison Européenne de la photographie (MEP), Paris, France, 2017

À pied d'oeuvre(s) (cur. Camille Morineau), Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France, 2017

ORLAN solo show cur. Sabrina Zannier, Maravee Therapy Festival, Italy, 2015

ORLAN: The icon of the French contemporary art (cur. Inese Baranovska), Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia, 2014

ORLAN: Men sana in corporel..., B.P.S.22, Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose, Lessines, Belgium, 2013 - solo show

Ici, Ailleurs, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, 2013

ORLAN: MesuRAGE, MUHKA, Antwerpen, Belgium, 2012 © photo MUHKA - solo show

ORLAN: Un boeuf sur la langue, 2011, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France, 2011 © Ville de Nantes - solo show

Paris-Delhi-Bombay, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2011

Colères et pudeurs de femme, Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, 2011

ORLAN: Bodies, Technology, Fashion, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, 2010 - solo show

ORLAN Remix, Est-ce que vous êtes Belges ? Ou les draps-peaux hybrids, Project Room | La Cambre | Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels, Brussels, 2010 - solo show

EN MAI FAIT CE QU'IL TE PLAIT , Musée Bourdelle, Paris, 2010

ORLAN: Unions Mixtes, Mariages Libres et Noces Barbares, Abbaye de Maubuisson, France, 2009 - solo show

elles@centrepompidou, curators Camille Morineau Emma Lavigne, Quentin Bajac, Cécile Debray and Valérie Guillaume, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2009