| Dates: | born 1972
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2004)
Born 1972, Zaragoza, Spain. Lives and
works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
SELECTED SOLO EXHBITIONS
2004 FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
2003 INDEX, Stockholm, Sweden
Chantiers ouverts au public, Le Grand
Café, Saint-Nazaire, France
Demolition in Front of the Exhibition
Room, Gallery Marta Cervera, Madrid,
Spain
2001 Etablissement d’en Face,
Brussels,Belgium
Gallery Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2000 Gallery Ray Gun, Valencia, Spain
1999 Stedelijk Museum Bureau
Amsterdam, with Birthe
Leijmeier,Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1998 Gallery Marta Cervera, Madrid,
Spain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Le Prochain et le Lointain,
Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan,
France
LAB, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterloo,
the Netherlands (curated by Nathalie
Zonneberg)
1x 1 realité, quantité, temps, FRAC
Bourgogne, Dijon, France (curated by
Eva onzález-Sancho)
2003 Idealism, De Appel, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands (curated by Theo
Tegelaers) Antirealismos, Australian
Centre for Photography, Sydney,
Australia (curated by P. Barragan)
Sin Título, Sala Montcada de la Caixa,
Barcelona, Spain (curated by Moritz
Küng)
2002 Big Torino 2002, Torino Biennial,
Torino, Italy
Últimas Adquisiciones, CGAC, Santiago
de Compostela, Spain
2000 Scripted Spaces, Witte de With,
Rotterdam, the Netherlands (curated by
Bartomeu Marì)
Espacio como Realidad, como Proyecto,
Pontevedra Biennial, Pontevedra, Spain
(curated by Maria del Corral)
PROJECTS IN PUBLIC SPACES
2003 Allotment Gardens, Urban Festival,
Zagreb, Croatia
Making a Wasteland, Rotterdam Port,
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2002 Wastelands Tour, British
Architectural Week, FACT, Liverpool, UK
Looking for Wreckage, FRAC Lorraine,
Metz, France
2000 ‘Guided Tours to Allotment
Gardens that will Disappear’, within the
project Becoming an Allotment
Gardener, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the
Netherlands
Opening of a Wasteland, Container
Project Nicc, Brussels, Belgium
FURTHER READING
Jeroem Boomgaard, ‘An Injection of
Planlessness’, in One Year in the Wild,
edited by Lectoraat Art in Public Space,
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, University of
Amsterdam, 2004
Ole Bouman, ‘The Emancipation of
Nowhere Land’, Pasajes de Arquitectura
y Crítica, Madrid (February 2004)
Santiago Cirugeda, ‘Lara arreglatodo’, in
Subrosa, Brussels: Editions La Lettre
Volé, 2002
Beatrice Josse, ‘La Tentation de
l’espace/ouvre ou comme échapper à
l’architecte’, Cahier teorique, 1, FRAC
Lorraine, Metz (2003)
Anne Pontégnie, ‘Lara Almarcegui Takes
Apart the Gallery’, Artforum Digital (May
2001)
Ramon Tio Bellido, ‘Lara almar lara al
campo’, in Lara Almarcegui, exh. cat.,
Brussels: Etablissement d’en Face;
Saint-Nazaire: Le Grand Café, 2003 | | | Source: | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, International 04 Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2004 |
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