Dora GARCIA

B. 1965, lives and works in Oslo (Norway).

Dora García uses the exhibition space as platform to investigate the relationship between the visitor, the artwork, and place.

Working from text, archives, and audio files, she narrates both real and fictional stories to question and shake up society. Across a multifaceted body of work (video, writing, performance and installation), she challenges the traditional relationships between artworks and spectators within the exhibition space. Her scenarios combine fiction and reality to the point of confusion, thus create unique situations that are both intellectual and playful, which rely on an active, and sometimes obligatory, participation of the public in the creation, activation or destruction of the work.

Dora Garcia's works have been exhibited at the 54th, 55th, 56th Venice Biennale, (d)OCUMENTA 13, 2nd Athens Biennale, Lyon Biennale, 29th São Paulo Biennial , Reina Sofía (Madrid), Fondation d'Entreprise Hermes (Brussels), Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto), Fonderie Darling (Montreal), Punkt Ø (Moss), Rose Art Museum, Brandreis University, Waltham (USA), FRAC Ile-de-France (Paris), MuHKA (Belgium), Tate Modern (London) Centre Pompidou (Paris), MUDAM (Luxembourg), SMAK (Gent), MUSAC (León), MACBA (Barcelona), Index Contemporary Art Foundation (Stokholm), Fundació La Caixa (Barcelona), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid), Tel Aviv Museum (Israel), MAC's (Bossu), MOCAK (Krakow), Fondation d'entreprise Ricard (Paris), Villa Arson (Nice), Henry art Foundation (Seattle)...

Dora García participed at the 54th, 55th, 56th Venice Biennale (Italy), (d)OCUMENTA 13 (Kassel), 2nd Athens Biennale (Greece), Lyon Biennale (France), 29th São Paulo Biennial (Brazil), 16th Biennale of Sydney (Autralia), 10th Lyon Biennial Gwangju Biennial (Korea) and more.

Her work is part of prestigious collections as Reina Sofía (Madrid), San Francisco MoMA, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Sevilla), Coca-Cola Foundation Collection (Madrid), CNAP (Paris), La Caixa Contemporary Art Collection (Barcelona), Fundación ARCO (Spain), De Bruyn Collection (Rótterdam), Flannan Browne Collection (UK), FRAC (Bourgogne, Franche-Comté, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Rousillon, Lorraine), Henry Art Foundation (Seattle), Kadist Foundation (Paris, San Francisco), MACBA