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








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Gallery exhibitions
Museum exhibitions







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Videos
EXHIBITION
Dora García, "L'insecte", Michel Rein, Paris, 2023
Press

Cineuropa
Critique : (Revolucin, cumple tu promesa) Amor rojo
2024

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
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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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