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  • MAXXI’s art and architecture collection - inauguration

    • Dates: 30 May 2010, 23 January 2011
    • Venue: MAXXI Rome
    • Country: Italy
    • Type: Group Exhibition

    For the opening of the new art museum MAXXI in Rome designed by Zaha Hadid, 90 works from the museum's permanent collection will be exhibited along a single route winding inside and outside the museum in an open dialogue with the site-specific installations of ten international architectural studios.
    Three works from the series Antarctic Village - No Borders by Lucy + Jorge Orta have been selected for this inaugural display and the visitor will be guided through an exploration of the complex concept of space understood in both the environmental senses, as a place of imagination and as a political and social dimension.

  • Climate Capsules: Means of Surviving Disaster

    • Dates: 28 May 2010, 12 September 2010
    • Venue: Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
    • Country: Germany
    • Type: Group Exhibition

    In view of the advancing climate change, the exhibition Climate Capsules: Means of Surviving Disaster poses the question: “How do we want to live in the future?” and draws attention to the socio-political consequences of coexistence under new climatic conditions. The world community is confronted with the challenge of investigating various possible means of adapting to the climate change.
    This exhibition brings together historical and current climate-related models, concepts, strategies, experiments and utopias from the areas of design, art, architecture and urban development – pursuing not the aim of stopping the climate change, but envisioning means of surviving after disaster has struck. More than twenty-five mobile, temporary and urban capsules intended to make human life possible independently of the surrounding climatic conditions will be on view. Lucy Orta will present her Refuge Wear and will be keynote speaker at the symposium organised to coincide with the exhibition on the 28-29th May.

  • Eclaircies - Art et Changement Climatique

    • Dates: 25 June 2010, 22 August 2010
    • Venue: Le Quai, Angers
    • Country: France
    • Type: Group Exhibition + Performance

    The exhibition Eclaircies brings together the most prominent French artists whose work sensitively highlights ways in which we can re-imagine our world, its environmental sustainability faced with the threat of climate change and offer different approaches of participation and engagement.

    "A la manière des philosophes éclairant les gouvernements des lumières, les artistes aujourd’hui cherchent à apporter un éclairage sensible pour repenser notre monde."

    Lucy + Jorge Orta present Urban Life Guard, first shown in 2005 at the Curve gallery, Barbican (2005. During the opening night, contemporary dance students from CNDC will imporvise a performance to create unexpected transformations.

  • Antartica

    • Dates: 11 June 2010, 15 August 2010
    • Venue: Montbard
    • Country: France
    • Type: Group Exhibition

    In the frame of the 7th edition of the International Festival of Visual Arts l'Eté des Arts en Auxois-Morvan, the artists present a fragment of Antarctic Village – No Borders, first installed on the Antarctic peninsular in 2007 and which toured to the Hangar Biccoca in Milan and Le Galleria Continua / Le Moulin in 2008.

    The series Antartica embodies the hope for a neutral peaceful land, free of conflict. The Dome Dwellings and Drop Parcahutes embelished with all nation flags are a physical embodiment of a new ‘Global Village’, referring to the right to freedom of movement enshrined within the UN Declaration for Human Rights. For the opening, the artists distributed the Antarctica World Passport to the inhabitants of Montbard adding to the online database: http://antarcticaworldpassport.mit.edu/citizens/news

  • Lucy Orta

    • Dates: 29 May 2010, 25 July 2010
    • Venue: CCANW - Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
    • Country: UK
    • Type: Solo Exhibition

    In the frame of the new 'Fashion, Textiles and the Environment' programme, CCANW presents a solo exhibition by Lucy Orta. Her work is often a critical response to sensitive areas of society, reflecting on themes such as community and social inclusion, dwellings and mobility, recycling and sustainable development.

    Lucy often uses facilitated workshop processes, harnessing fashion’s power to create identity and symbolic content for ‘social sculpture’ worn in public spaces and used as interventions commenting directly on social and global issues. She draws inspiration from a variety of disciplines including fashion, architecture, design philosophy, social activism and traditional art practice. The exhibition brings together her sculptures, videos, objects and drawings.

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