Dora García
© photo: Tom Van Hee
° 1965
Works in Oslo (NO), born in Valladolid (ES), works in Barcelona (ES).
Dora García lives and works in Oslo. She studied visual arts at the University of Salamanca in Barcelona and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the early nineties. Subsequently, she moved to Belgium, where she spent fifteen years developing her personal visual language, experimenting with film, printed matter, performance, theatre and web-based works. García’s practice is situated at the intersection of the visual arts, performing arts, theatre and literature. She represented Spain at the Venice Biennale in 2011. She has participated in the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, Documenta 13 in 2012, and other international events such as Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, Sydney Biennial 2008, and São Paulo Bienal 2010.
Works
>Dora García, The Black Veil, 2000.Performance, durational performance.
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>Dora García, The Messenger, 2002.Performance, durational performance.
>Dora García, The Locked Room, 2002.Installation, installation, vinyl text on wall, Dimensions variable .
>Dora García, The Sphinx , 2005.Performance, durational performance.
>Dora García, The Romeos , 2008.Other, poster and performance.
>Dora García, Rehearsal/Retrospective , 2009.Performance.
>Dora García, The Artist Without Works – A guided tour around nothing, 2009.Performance.
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>Dora García, Real Artists Don't Have Teeth , 2010.Performance.
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>Dora García, Best Regards from Charles Filch, 2011.Performance.
>Dora García, Malson [ from the series: I Read with Golden Fingers], 2013.Book, 15 x 10.5 cm .
>Dora García, Jacques Lacan Wallpaper, 2013.Other, flexography on wallpaper .
>Dora García, Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years, 2017.Performance, durational performance and floor drawing.
>Dora García, Mapping The Plague, 2018.Other, chart made of photographic reproductions, handwritten texts, and annotated copies in english and french of the plague (camus, 1947).
>Dora García, The Drawing on the Floor: A Monologue, 2018.Performance.
>Dora García, Mad Marginal Charts, notes on The Plague #1-10, 2018.Drawing, pencil on paper, 30.5 x 24 x 3 cm.
>Dora García, Segunda Vez / Second Time Around, 2018.Film, video, color, 16:9, 92 min.
>Dora García, The Plague Annotated , 2018.Drawing, graphite and pencil on paper laid down on canvas , 330 x 371cm.
>Dora García, The Plague, 2018.Installation, photographs, handwritten cards, books, drawing on the floor, drawings on wallpapers.
>Dora García, ALP (Anna Livia Plurabelle) , 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 71.5 x 101 x 3.5 cm.
>Dora García, She Has Many Names (Golden sentences series), 2020.Other, gold leaf on wall/ on glass, Dimensions variable.
>Dora García, Coyolxauhqui, 2020.Drawing, graphite and pencil on paper laid down on canvas, 220 x 210 cm .
>Dora García, The Labyrinth of Female Freedom, 2020.Mixed Media, durational performance, drawing, poetry books .
>Dora García, The Bug Timeline (No. 2), 2021.Installation, installation (4 blackboards).
>Dora García, Little object < a >, 2022.Performance, durational performance.
>Dora García, Amor Rojo / Love With Obstacles, 2022.Film, 90 min.
>Dora García, Révolution , , 2022.Performance, chair, folded poster, performance , Dimensions variable.
>Dora García, Letters of Disappointment (No. 2), 2022-2023.Other, 7 books, each of them with two handwritten letters, one inserted, one displayed, Dimensions variable.
>Dora García, Dismembered (hand with coin), 2022.Other, drawing pad, drawing, golden coin.
>Dora García, Jacques Lacan L'Angoisse (annotated books), 2022.Book, two books by jacques lacan and two notebooks with drawings and handwritten texts , 30 x 21 x 1 cm (x4).
>Dora García, Joanna Zielińska, Dora Garcia: Inserts in Real Time – Performance Work 2000-2023, 2023.Book, 328 pages, illustrated, paperback, english, 26 x 21 cm.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: She Has Many Names . 10 February 2023 - 21 May 2023.
> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_PUBLICATIONS.