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Lucy was born in Sutton Coldfield, UK 1966 / Jorge was born in Rosario, Argentina 1953

Contemporary artists Lucy Lucy + Jorge Orta have been collaborating since 1991. Their studios are situated in central Paris, The Dairy and Les Moulins two historical buildings for the production of their artworks, commissions and limited editions. The artist duo assembles their artwork and installations together with a team of curators, artists, architects, designers, skilled technicians and craftsmen employing a range of techniques from sculpture, object making, couture, painting, printing and light projections.

Parallel and feeding into their studio practice they stage ephemeral interventions, performances, workshops, which explore the crucial themes of contemporary world: Refuge Wear and Body Architecture: portable minimum habitats bridging architecture and dress; HortaRecycling: the food chain in global and local contexts; 70 x 7: the ritual of the meal and its role in the community; Nexus Architecture: alternative methods to recreate the social link; Life Nexus: the metaphor of the heart versus the biomedical ethics of organ donation; OrtaWater: the general scarcity of this vital natural resource, the problems arising from the pollution and corporate control effecting access to clean water for All.

Lucy + Jorge Orta have exhibited their work in major contemporary art museums around the world including: Hangar Biccoca Milano; Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa Venezia; Barbican Art Gallery London; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam; ICA London; Modern Art Museum Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney; as well as the Venice, Havana and Johannesburg Biennials.

This website will provide you with an overview of the activities of this prolific team, the current exhibitions and public commissions; the artworks and limited editions, the educational and sustainable projects; the workshops and residencies; and more…
Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information, to make appointments or discuss a new commission.

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Exhibitions

    • 2010
    • Super Farmers' Market 
    • venue: Handel Street Projects, London, UK
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Mary Anne Francis and Lucy Heyward
    • site: http://www.handelstreetprojects.com
    • A New Stance For Tomorrow: Part 3 
    • venue: Sketch, London, UK
    • type: Group Show
    • site: http://www.sketch.uk.com
    • UNFOLD 
    • venue: The Universitaet fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
    • type: Group Show, curator: Capefarewell
    • site: http://www.capefarewell.com
    • Weiss (Ice-White) 
    • venue: Kunstverein, Untergröningen, Germany
    • type: Group Show, curator: Otto Rothfuss
    • site: http://www.kiss-untergroeningen.de/
    • L'été des arts. Festival international d'arts visuels 
    • venue: Montbard, Montbard, France
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Jean Voguet
    • site: http://auxois.arts.free.fr/
    • Amazonia 
    • venue: Natural History Museum, London, UK
    • type: Solo exhibition, curator: Bergit Arends
    • Light Works- Brasilia en Luz 
    • venue: National Museum by Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia, Brazil
    • , curator: Year of France in Brazil
    • Art et Changement Climatique 
    • venue: EPCC-Le Quai, Angers, France
    • type: Group Exhibition - Performace, curator: Lauranne Germond
    • site: http://www.lequai-angers.eu/en
    • 2009-2010
    • (Un)Inhabitable? Art of Extreme Environments - Festival @rt Outsiders 2009 
    • venue: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
    • type: Group Exhibition + Performance, curator: Jean-Luc Soret and Annick Bureaud
    • site: http://www.art-outsiders.com
    • Esthétique des pôles ou le testament des glaces 
    • venue: FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Beatrice Josse
    • site: http://collection.fraclorraine.org/
    • 2009
    • Green Platform. Art, Ecology, Sustainability 
    • venue: Palazzo Strozzi, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Valentina Gensini, Lorenzo Giusti
    • site: http://www.strozzina.org/e_index.htm
    • Pot Luck 
    • venue: The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
    • type: Group Touring Exhibition, curator: Cynthia Morrison-Bell and Anthony Key
    • site: http://www.art-circuit.org.uk/exhibitions/Soon.html
    • Intemperie. Fenomenos Esteticos da Mundaca Climatica e da Antartida 
    • venue: Centro Cultural OI Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Alfons Hug and Alberto Saraiva
    • site: www.oifuturo.org.br
    • Sur Polar. Arte en Antartida 
    • venue: Mutec / Museo Tecnologico, Mexico City, Mexico
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Andrea Juan
    • OrtaWater 
    • venue: Vienna Art Fair - Motive Gallery - A 0901 , Vienna, Austria
    • type: Installation, curator: Motive Gallery
    • site: http://motivegallery.nl
    • Frozen Time 
    • venue: Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Alfons Hug (director of the Goethe-Institut, Rio de Janeiro) and Alberto Saraiva (curator at the Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro)
    • site: www.stadtgalerie-kiel.de
    • HEAVEN, 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 - Live 
    • venue: Flisvos Building & P. Faliro Beach, Athens, Greece
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Dimitris Papaioannou and Ζafos Xagoraris
    • site: http://www.athensbiennial.org
    • Retreat 
    • venue: KunstFort Asperen, Acquoy, Holland
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos
    • site: www.kunstfortasperen.nl
    • Off the Beaten Path 
    • venue: The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Randy Jayne Rosenberg
    • site: www.stenersen.museum.no; www.artworksforchange.org
    • A Way Beyond Fashion 
    • venue: apexart, New York, USA
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Robert Punkenhofer
    • site: http://apexart.org
    • Antarctic Village - Nuit Blanche 
    • venue: FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
    • type: Group Exhibition
    • Sphères  
    • venue: Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel , France
    • type: Group Exhibition
    • site: http://www.galleriacontinua.com
    • 70 x 7 The Meal,act XXXI 
    • venue: Sherwell Church Hall, North Hill , Plymouth , UK
    • type: Event
    • AntArctica 
    • venue: Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tonsberg, Norway
    • type: Group Show, curator: Tone Lyngstad Nyaas
    • site: http://www.haugar.com
    • The Spectacle of the Everyday - TAMA project 
    • venue: Xth Biennale de Lyon,Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, Lyon, France
    • type: Group Show, curator: Gabi Scardi, Maria Papadimitriou, Lucy Orta
    • site: http://www.biennaledelyon.com/contemporaryart2009/
    • 2008-2009
    • Life Size Utopia, Louis De Cordier, Lucy + Jorge Orta 
    • venue: Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
    • type: Group Exhibition
    • site: www.motivegallery.nl
    • 2008
    • Poëziezomer Watou 2008 
    • venue: Watou, Watou, Belgium
    • type: Group Exhibition , curator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
    • site: http://www.poeziezomerswatou.be
    • Water and our future 1% 
    • venue: Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Ilse Crawford and Jane Withers
    • site: http://onepercentwater.org
    • Body Architecture 
    • venue: The Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden
    • type: Solo Exhibition
    • site: www.arkitekturmuseet.se
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act XXIX 
    • venue: Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy
    • type: Event, curator: Maria Perosino and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
    • Antarctica 
    • venue: Hangar Bicocca spazio d'arte, Milan, Italy
    • type: Solo Exhibition, curator: Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
    • site: http://www.hangarbicocca.it/
    • Antarctic Village - Works in Progress 
    • venue: Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
    • type: Solo Exhibition
    • site: http://motivegallery.nl
    • OrtaWater 
    • venue: Austrian Pavilion International Expo, Zaragoza, Spain
    • type: Solo Exhibition, curator: Robert Punkenhofer
    • site: http://www.expoaustria.at
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act XXVIII 
    • venue: Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Monaco, France
    • type: Event, curator: Randy Rosenburg
    • Totipotent Architecture - Skin Deep 
    • venue: Fort Asperen, Leerdam, Holland
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Arnoud Odding and Tiziana Nespoli
    • site: http://www.fortasperen.nl
    • Shelter / Survival - alternative homes for fantastic lives 
    • venue: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Takeshi Matsuoka
    • site: http://www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp/web/main_e/menupage.html
    • Antarctic Village - 13:3 
    • venue: Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland
    • type: Solo Exhibition
    • site: http://www.friesmuseum.nl/
    • Sur Polar, Arte en Antártida 
    • venue: MUNTREF Museo Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Andrea Juan
    • site: http://www.untref.edu.ar/index_page.htm
    • 2007
    • Antarctic Village 
    • venue: Antarctic Marambio Base, Antarctica
    • type: Ephemeral Installation, curator: Biennale al Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia
    • site: http://www.bienalfindelmundo.com/eng/index.html
    • The Politics of Fear 
    • venue: Albion, London, UK
    • type: Group Exhibition
    • site: http://www.albion-gallery.com/
    • Antarctic Village - No Borders 
    • venue: 1st End of the World Biennial, Ushuaia City, Argentina
    • type: Contemporary Art Biennial
    • site: www.bienalfindelmundo.com
    • OrtaWater 06 - Envisioning Change 
    • venue: Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Randy Rosenberg, Natural World Museum
    • site: http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=199908
    • OrtaWater 06 - Environmental Renaissance 
    • venue: City Hall, San Francisco, USA
    • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Randy Rosenberg, Natural World Museum
    • site: http://www.artintoaction.org/exhibitions.html
    • Fallujah - works in progress 
    • venue: Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
    • type: Solo Exhibition
    • site: www.peterkilchmann.com
    • Fallujah 
    • venue: Institute of Contemporary Art offsite Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
    • type: Solo Exhibition. Theatre collaboration with Jonathan Holmes, Director
    • site: http://www.studio-orta.com/news.php
    • 70 x 7 The Meal, act XXVII 
    • venue: Albion Gallery, London, UK
    • type: Performance
    • site: http://www.albion-gallery.com/
    • Fallujah, Casey's Pawns 
    • venue: 11th Prague Quadrennial of Performance and Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic
    • type: Public Intervention, curator: Sodja Lotker
    • site: http://www.pq.cz/en/
    • Fallujah 
    • venue: Motive Gallery Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
    • type: Solo Exhibition with Jorge Orta
    • site: http://www.motivegallery.nl/index.php?pageid=13
    • 2006
    • 70 x 7 The Meal, act XXV 
    • venue: Open House, Casa Argentina, London, U.K.
    • type: Solo exhibition
    • OrtaWater07 
    • venue: Galleria Continua Beijing, Beijing, China
    • type: Solo Exhibition
    • site: ww.galleriacontinua.com
    • Selected Works: Lucy + Jorge Orta 
    • venue: Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • type: Solo Exhibition
    • site: www.motivegallery.nl
    • 2005
    • Drink Water ! 
    • venue: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice Biennale, Italy
    • type: Solo Exhibition, curator: Gabi Scardi / Angela Vetesse
    • Water & Works 
    • venue: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
    • type: Solo Exhibition, curator: Bregje Van Woensel / Annemartine Van Kesteren
    • site: http://www.boijmans.nl/en/
    • 70x7 The Meal act XXII 
    • venue: Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
    • type: Event
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act XXI 
    • venue: Plein Museum, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland
    • type: Event with Lucy Orta, curator: Meta knol
    • 2003
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act XX 
    • venue: UNESCO, Paris, France
    • type: Event with Jorge Orta
    • 2002
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act XIX 
    • venue: Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Holland
    • type: Event, curator: Li Edelkoort
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act XVII (Enactments of the Self) 
    • venue: Sterischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
    • type: Event, curator: Maia Damianovic
    • Borderline 
    • venue: Compagnie Blanca Li/Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil, France
    • type: Performance with Blanca Li, curator: Berlin Ballet, Komische Oper
    • 70x7 The Meal act XVI Waltherplatz 
    • venue: Ar/ge Kunst Museum Gallery, Bolzano, Italy
    • type: Event, curator: Maia Damianovic
    • Borderline 
    • venue: Berlin Ballet/Komisch Opera, Berlin, Germany
    • type: Collaboration with Blanca Li & Lucy Orta
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act XVII 
    • venue: Rio Garonne, Toulouse, France
    • type: Event with Lucy Orta
    • 2001
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act X (Active Ingredients) 
    • venue: The American center for food wine & the arts, Napa Valley, USA
    • type: Event, curator: Margaret Miller / Amy Capellazo
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act XI (They say this is the Place) 
    • venue: Provinciebesturr van Antwerpen, Belgium
    • type: Performance Event, curator: Edith Doove
    • site: http://www.studio-orta.com/limited_edition_fiche.php?of=10
    • 70x7 The Meal act XII 
    • venue: Picnic installation 1500m, Amiens, France
    • type: Performance Event
    • 70 x 7 The Meal, act IX (Opera.tion Life Nexus) 
    • venue: Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
    • type: Performance Event
    • 70x7 The Meal act V-VII 
    • venue: Casa de Francia / Museo Diego Rivero Museum / Couvent de la Mercedes, Mexico City, Mexico
    • type: Performance Event
    • 2000
    • The Dairy 
    • venue: The Dairy, Saint Siméon, France
    • type: Purchase of the first modern dairy, found Studio Orta production studios
    • 70 x 7 The Meal act IV 
    • venue: Town of Dieuze, France
    • type: Performance Event
    • 1992
    • Studio Orta 
    • venue: 13 rue Keller, Paris, France
    • type: Establish Studio Orta

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