Dora Garcia

Some recent solo exhibitions
Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid 2009, 'Piezas Habladas'
Ellen de Bruijne projects, Amsterdam 2008, 'Be an outlaw, be a hero'
Galerie Michel Rein, Paris 2007, 'Zimmer, Gespräche / Chambres, conversations'
SMAK, Ghent 2006, 'Code Inconnu'
MACBA, Barcelona 2003, 'The Kingdom'
Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels 2002, 'The Locked Room'

Some recent group exhibitions
New Museum, New York 2010, 'H BOX'
ICA, London 2008, 'Double Agent'
Tate Modern, London 2008, 'H BOX'
Skulptur Projekte Münster 07, Münster 2007, 'The Beggar's Opera / Die Bettleroper'
Yvon Lambert, Paris 2007, 'Art Protects'

Selected publications
Egbert and Loes Dommering, Collectie Dommering: imaginair museum, Amsterdam: Dommering 2008
Denis Gielen, Atlas of contemporary art for use by everyone, Grand Hornu: Musée des Arts Contemporains 2007
Dora García, El Reino/The Kingdom, Barcelona: Macba 2003
Margaita Aizpuru [et al.], Dora García: la pared de cristal, Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana 2001

Selected public and corporate collections
MACBA, Barcelona, ES • CaixaForum, Barcelona, ES • Musac, Léon, ES • Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, ES • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, ES • FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, FR • FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FR • FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, FR

The work of Dora García incorporates performance, text and installation. The relationship between artist, artwork and viewer is pivotal to her conceptual oeuvre. Garcia utilises a wide variety of media including drawing, photography, site-specific installation, performance, video, sound, net.art and text. She often works in the public space as with the ambitious project Inserts in real time (2001), a series of ten performances in which actors execute her instructions in 'real time'. Language plays an important role as a specific means of communication and as a coded system of signs. The impossibility of clear communication is often the starting point. The artist also draws inspiration from literature. Garcia's predominant interest lies in creating a situation or context that alters the traditional relations between artist, artwork and viewer. Her work is the product of an attempt to understand how an artwork is made, and how it relates to the audience. Garcia has also created a variety of works for the Internet since 1999 (doragarcia.net).

Dora García was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 1989-1991.
She won the Uriôt Prize (NL) in 1990.

www.doragarcia.net