ORLAN (French, born )

Timeline

1947
Born on May 30 in Saint-Etienne, France
1977
Performance of The Artist’s Kiss during the FIAC in Paris
1978
Created the International Symposium of Performance in Lyon, France
1982
Founded on-line magazine of contemporary art, Art-Accès-Revue
1999
Appointed professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts Paris-Cergy, France
2003
Conferred with the honorary title of Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon
2005–2006
One-year residency at ISCP in New York, from the AFAA
2006–2007
Scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA and Paris, France

Exhibitions

2014
Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Personal Show, ORLAN : invited artist of "Riga, European City of Culture", Riga, Lettonie (solo)
2013
Friche de la Belle de Mai, Ici, Ailleurs, curator Juliette Laffon, MARSEILLE PROVENCE 2013 "European City of Culture", Marseille, France (solo)
2013
CENTRO CULTURAL MONTEHERMOSO, Re.act.feminism #2 . a performing archive, curators Bettina Knaup & Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain (solo)
2013
Museum Afro-Brazil, travelling exhibition, Sao Paulo, Brazil (solo)
2013
Fondation Eugénio de Almeida, Exposition de Self Hybridation, curator Claudia Gianetti, Evora, Portugal (solo)
2013
Akademie der Künste, Re.act.feminism # 2. a performing archive, curators Bettina Knaup et Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2013
National Museum of Brasilia, travelling exhibition, Brasilia, Brazil (solo)
2013
ORLAN et les déformations du crâne, Curator carte blanche à ORLAN, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France (solo)
2012–2013
Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, group show, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2012
Hors d'oeuvre collection, une exposition à vendre, group show, Appartement / Galerie Interface, Dijon, France
2012
25 years of Muhka, Muhka, Anvers, Belgium (solo)
2012
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Hybridization and Refiguration, curator Ricardo Arcos-Palma, Bogota, Colombia (solo)
2012
Museo de Antioquia, Carnal Art and Obsolet Body, curator Ricardo Arcos-Palma, Medellin, Colombia (solo)
2012
Academia Superior de Arte de Bogota, Le Manteau d'Arlequin, curator Gustavo Sanabria, Bogota, Colombia (solo)
2012
Gallery Axel Vervoordt – Kanaal,Kanaal, curator : Axel Vervoordt Wijnegem, BELGIUM
2012
Galeria Miroslav Kraljevic, Re.act.feminism # 2 . a performing archive, curator Bettina Knaup & Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Zagreb, Croatia
2012
Roskilde, Museum of Contemporary Art, Re.act.feminism # 2 . a performing archive, curator Bettina Knaup & Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Roskilde, Danemark
2012
Kinsey Institute, Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, curators Tanya Augsburg, Priscilla Otani, Karen Gutfreund & Brenda Oelbaum, Indiana, USA
2012
Teatro Valle, Promessa, curators Marianne Derrien, Rémy Yadan, Rome, Italy
2012
Festival Miradas de Mujeres, Indomitable Women, curator Macu Moran, Madrid, Spain
2012
Bibliothèque Universitaire Droit / Lettre de Grenoble, Théorèmes, curator Vincent Verlé, Grenoble, FRANCE
2012
Galerie Michel Journiac / Université Paris, Le Vif Etat de l'Art, curator Richard Shusterman, Paris, France
2012
RCOmadrid 2012, Booth Prometeo Gallery, curator Ida Pisani, Madrid, Spain
2012
Exit Art, Collective Performance, Curator Lauren Rosati, New York, USA
2012
Litvac Gallery, Liquids in Contemporary Art, Curator Marie Shek, tel Aviv, Israel
2012
Public Artworks Exhibition OPENAIRS, Historical center of Liège, Triennale d'art public 2012, curator Johan Muyle, Liège, Belgium
2012
Museum of Rio de Janeiro, From the cartography of power to the routes of Knowledge, curators Catarina Pires, Paulo Amarea, Sebastio Formoshino & Theresa Baumann, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
De passage sur terre - De paso en al tierra, curators Françoise Adamsbaum, William Jeffet, Séville, Spain
2012
Museum of Modern Art of Zagreb, L'amour du risque, curators Leila Topic, assisted by Emannuel Latreille & Pascal Neveux, Zagreb, Croatia
2012
Wyspa Art Institute, Re.act.feminism # 2 . a performing archive, curator Bettina Knaup & Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Gdansk, Poland
2012
Tallinna Kunstihoone, Re.act.feminism # 2 . a performing archive, curator Bettina Knaup & Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Tallin, Estonia
2012
Andy Warhol Museum, Factory Direct, curator Eric C. Schiner, Pittsburg, USA
2012
Nuit Blanche, La nuit des savoirs, curator Laurent Le Bon, Paris, France
2012
FIAC, Stand Michel Rein, Paris, France
2012
Standard Bank Gallery, XXth Century Masters : The Human Figure, curator Sylvie Ramond, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012
Festival A-Part, Grands et Petits Véhicules, "Délires d'Artistes", curator Leila Voight, Saint Rémy-de-Provence, France
2012
National Museum UFRJ, travelling exhibition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Re.act.feminism # 2. a performing archive, curators Bettina Knaup et Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Barcelona, Spain
2012
Hidden Mother (L’avenir dure longtemps), Mansion of Berthe Morizot, curator Sinziana Ravini
2012
Museet for Samtidskunst, Re.act.feminism # 2. a performing archive, curators Bettina Knaup et Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Roskilde, Denmark
2011
Un boeuf sur la langue, curator Blandine Chavanne, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Chapelle de l’oratoire, Nantes, France (solo)
2011
Dry baroque (cur. Carmelo Strano), ACAOS Gallery and Villa Fortuna, Aci Trezza, Italy
2011
Isole mai trovate, Island never found, exhibition tour, (cur. Lorand Hegyi), Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
2011
Le temps de l’action / acte 1, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2011
From the cartography of power into the itineraries of knowledge, curators Catarina Pires, Paulo Amarea, Sebastio Formoshino, Theresa Baumann, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2011
Man as object - reversing the gaz, (cur. Brenda Oelbaum), SOMARTS, San Francisco, USA
2011
Tour de France / Florida Contemporary Artists from France in Florida’s Private Collections, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA
2011
Paris-Delhi-Bombay, (cur. Sophie Duplaix / Fabrice Bousteau), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2011
Colères et pudeurs de femme, (cur. Diane Hennebert), Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Bruxelles, Belgium
2011
Iles jamais trouvées, (cur. Adriano Berengo), Musée de Saint Etienne Métropole, France
2011
Sculpture’Elles, (cur. Anne Rivière), Musée des années trente, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
2011
Beauty (cult)ure, (cur. Kohle Yohannan), The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, USA
2010
ORLAN Remix, Est ce que vous êtes Belges ? Ou les draps-peaux hybridés (cur.Johan Muyle), Project Room | La Cambre | Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2009–2010
Unions mixtes, mariages libres et noces barbares, solo show, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, France
2009
Métamorphoses, group show, Musée Paul-Dini, Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
2009
Self-hybridations, Musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France (solo)
2009
Expo Masken, group show, Museum Für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
2009
Glass Stress, group show, Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy
2009
elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Curators Camille Morineau, Paris, France
2009
La Force de l’art, Grand Palais, curators Jean-Louis Froment, Jean-Yves Jouannais Didier, Ottinger, Paris, France
2009
SK-interfaces, Exploring Borders in Art, Casino Luxembourg, Technology and Society, curator Jens Hauser, Luxembourg
2008
Le Plateau, L’argent, curators Caroline Bourgeois, Elisabeth Lebovici, Paris, France
2008
Self hybridation, Galerie Michel Rein, American-Indians, Paris, France (solo)
2008
Retrospective, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2007
Retrospective, Modern Art Museum of Saint-Etienne, France
2007
J’embrasse Pas, Collection Lambert, curator Eric de Mézil, Avignon, France
2006
La Force de l'Art, Grand Palais, Paris
2006
Into Me/ Out of Me, PS1, New York, NY
2006
Autopoesis, National Slovakian Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005
Superstars - Das Prinzip Prominenz. Von Warhol bis Madonna, Kunsthalle & Kunstforum Wien, Austria
2005
Inside Out Loud, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
2005
Eléments favoris n°4, Artothèque de la Réunion, La Réunion, France (solo)
2005
Pièce lumineuse (in collaboration with Philippe Chiambaretta), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (solo)
2005
Mirror Mirror: reflections on beauty, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2004
Body extensions, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004
Moi ! Autoportraits du XXè siècle, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2004
Making Faces: the death of the portrait, Hayward Gallery, London
2004
Je t’envisage, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004
Les Dix Commandements, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
2004
Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, France (solo)
2004
Méthodes de l’artiste, 1964-2004, retrospective, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (solo)
2003
Tricéphale, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (solo)
2002
Eléments favoris, FRAC des Pays-dela Loire, Carquefou, Nantes, France (solo)
2002
Tableaux Vivants, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2002
Art contemporain international Museum of Modern Art, Mexico
2002
Magazin 4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Germany
2002
Retrospective, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France
2002
Retrospective, Centro de Fotografia in Salamanca
2002
Retrospective, Museum Artrium in Vitoria, Spain
2001
Orlan 1964-2001, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (solo)
2000
Ceci est mon corps…ceci est mon logiciel, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Magazin 4, Austria (solo)
2000
Fondation Deste, Athens, Greece
2000
Partage d'exotisme, Biennale d’Art contemporain de Lyon, France
2000
The wounded Diva: Hysteria, the body and Technologie in the art, Kunsthaus - Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunsteverein, Munich, Germany
2000
The self is something else, Kunstsammlung NRW 235, Dusseldorf, Germany

Public Collections

Getty Museum Los Angeles, USA
Banca di Santo Spirito, Lisboa, Portugal
Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Hanlim Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Vittoria Museum, Vittoria, Spain
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Centre Georges Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
FNAC, National Fund of Contemporary Art, Paris, France
National Fund of Photography, Paris, France
MAC/VAL, Contemporary Art Museum of the Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
FRAC, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art, Rhônes-Alpes, Pays de Loire, Ile de France, Limoges
Neuflize Vie Collection, France
Fine Arts Museum of Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Le Magasin, Contemporary Art Center, Grenoble, France
LACMA Los Angeles, USA

Literature

2012
ORLAN MesuRAGES (1968-2012) Action: ORLAN-body, Texts by Bart de Baere, Sophie Gregoir, Wim Van Mulders, Hubert Besacier, Alain Charre, MUHKA Editions
2012
ORLAN Arte Carnal o cuerpo obsoleto / hibridaciones y refigurationes, texts by Nicolas Bourriaud, Michaël La Chance et Ricardo Arcos-Palma, MUSEUM DE ANTIOQUIA, Medellin, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART COLUMBIA, Bogota
2009
ORLAN, Unions mixtes, mariages libres et noces barbares, textes de Raphaël Enthoven, Raoul Vaneigem, Dilecta
2009
Transgression Transfiguration (conversation), ORLAN, Paul Virilio, L’une&l’autre édition, Paris
2004
Orlan, monographic catalogue, French & English version, Flammarion, Paris
2001
Orlan, Refiguration, Self-hybridations, série précolombienne, éditions Al Dante, Paris
2001
Orlan 1964-2001, Artium, Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, Spain
English (US)

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