David Lamelas 1946 Born in Buenos Aires EDUCATION 1968 M.A., St. Martin s School of Arts, London 1969 B.A., Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 David Lamelas, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles David Lamelas, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo 2012 The Light At The Ednge of A Nightmare, Parra&Romero, Madrid Signalling, Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporanea, Buenos Aires Proyeccion, Jan Mot, Mexico D.F. New York Exists In 8.8 Billion Sq. Ft. Maccarone Inc 2011 Comma36, Bloomberg Space, London Limit of Projection II, Jan Mot, Brussels 2008 David Lamelas, Spruth Magers, Berlin 2007 David Lamelas, Spruth Magers, London Time as Activity, St. Gallen, Neue Kunst Halle Early Works, Spruth Magers, Munich 2006 Lo Super- Real. Obras 1969-1984, Buenos Aires Malba- Museo De Arte Latino Americano Tiempo Como Actividad, Buenos Aires Malba, Museo de Arte Latino Americano Secession, Galerie Grafisches Kabinett, Vienna Time as Activity, MC Los Angeles Part 1 and Part 2, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels Time as Activity, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw 2005 Foreigner (Retrospective), Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City David Lamelas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Behind the Facts, Kunstalle Fridericianum, Kassel 2004 Exhibiting Mediality, ICA, Philadelphia Space/Time/Fiction, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2003 Edge of a Nightmare 1+II, Galerie Kienzle and Gmeiner, Berlin 2002 Dentro y Fuera de la Pantalla, Mamba Museo de Arte Moderno de La Ciudad, Buenos Aires 2001 David Lamelas, Fri-Art, Freiburg Fri-Art, Centre D Art Contemporain, Freiburg 2000 (No Title), Kunstalle Basel Projects on Canvas and Paper, 1984-1990, Galerie Kienzle and Gmeiner, Berlin The Invention of Dr. Morel, Berlin- Time as Activity, Neue National Galerie, Berlin (No Title), Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen (No Title), Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth 1999 Time as Activity, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne L Invention, Cabinet D Art Contemporain, Brussels Art/Film- Art 30 Basel, Kunstalle Basel, Basel 1998 Time Cuts, Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart (No Title), Galerie Kienzle and Gmeiner, Berlin (No Title), Daad Galerie, Berlin Filme, Institut Fur Gegenwartskunst, Vienna Cinefrac, Frac Film Script, Bordeaux Raum/Schnitt/Denken 3-David Lamelas/Marguerite Duras, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin 1997 A New Refutation of Time, Werke 1963-76, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich David Lamelas, Witte de With- Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
House People, Encore Bruxelles, Brussels 1995 Lecture: Reading Films, App. BXL Lobby, Brussels 1993 (No Title), Galleria Fac-Simile, Milan 8 Disegni, Studio Michela Scotti, Milan (No Title), Galerie Des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1992 Lichtspiele, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 1991 Lavandula, Labiatae, Lamiales, Galerie Des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1989 Inner&Outer, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York City (No Title), Adriana Rosenberg Galeria, Buenos Aires 1988 (No Title), Art House Galeria, Buenos Aires 1980 Scheherazade, Museum of Art, Long Beach 1978 Fifteen Years, Centro de Arte y Communicacion en El Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad, Buenos Aires 28. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Internationales Forum Des Jungen Films, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin 1977 University Art Museum, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 1976 The Desert People- Five Actors Dreaming About a Documentary Movie, Dickson Auditorium, UCLA, Los Angeles A Fiction, Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles Filme, Stadtisches Museum, Monchengladbach 1975 (No Title), Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Brussels A Fiction, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (No Title), Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (No Title), Musee National D Art Moderne, Paris (No Title), Palais de Tokyo, Paris The Violent Tapes of 1975, Institute of Contemporary Art, London 1974 Films, M. Poirier Dit Caulier, Antwerp The Desert People, Jack Wendler Gallery/Collegiate Cinema, London Cumulative Script, Galleria Francoise Lambert, Milan (No Title), Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne 1973 (No Title), Royal College of Art, London (No Title), Jack Wendler Gallery, London To Pour Milk Into a Glass, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (No Title), Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp 1972 Film Script, Nigel Greenwood Inc, London Reading of an Extract From Labyrinths By J.L. Borges, Galleria Francoise Lambert, Milan Script, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (No Title), Lia Rumma/Studio D Arte, Naples 1971 Reading of an Extract From Labyrinths by J.L. Borges, Galerie y Von Lambert, Paris 1970 (No Title), Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp Gente-Milano. Un Film, Galleria Francoise Lambert, Milan Interview, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Publication, Nigel Greenwood Inc, London Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (No Title), Musee D Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, Paris 1968 XXXIV Esposizione Internazionale D Arte-Padiglione De L Argentina, Biennale Di Venezia, Venice 1965 El Super Elastico, Galeria Lirolay, Buenos Aires 1964 Carlos Gardel, Galeria Lirolay, Buenos Aires No Title, Galeria, Sao Paulo 1962 Dibujos, Galeria Estimulo, Buenos Aires
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 GLAM!, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz Various Stages-Bedingte Buhnen, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden GLAM!, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main GLAM!, Tate, Liverpool 2010 29 th Bienal De Sao Paulo, 29 th Bienal De Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Che Cosa Sono Le Nuvole?, Museion of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano Changing Channels, Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien 2009 False Friends, Brandengurgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam Berlin 89/09-Kunst Zwischen Spurensuche Und Utopie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin Source Codes, Spruth Magers, Berlin 2008 7 th Gwang Ju Biennale, Musuem Fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel Above-The-Fold, Museum Fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel Weder Entweder Noch Oder, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart Pop! Goes The Weasel, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe Other Than Yourself- An Investigation Between Inner and Outer Space, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe The Living Currency, Tate Modern, London Time Pieces, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels 2007 In The Poem About Love You Don t Write The Word Love, Overgaden-Institut For Samtidskunst, Copenhagen Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles, Spruth Magers Munich In The Poem About Love You Don t Write The Word Love, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis A Theater Without Theatre, MACBA, Barcelona A Theater Without Theatre, Museu Berardo De Lisboa, Lissabon Out of Place- Performing The Everyday, Argos Brussels DIE GESCHICHTE WIEDERHOLT SICH NICHT! ANNY DE DECKER UND STELLA LOHAUS: ZWEI GALERISTINNEN ZWEI GENERATIONEN, Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen 2006 In The Poem About Love You Don t Write The Word Love, Artists Space, New York City David Lamelas, Wiener Secession, Vienna Thank you For The Music (London Beat), Spruth Magers London The Expanded Eye. Sehen- Entgrenzt Und Verflussigt, Kunsthaus, Zurich Why Pictures Now, MUMOK- Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna Frac. Mouvement, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Urconia, 49 Nord 6 Est, Metz, Franc Lorrainge La Monnaie Vivane, CAC, Bretigny Sur Orge Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2005 Thank You For The Music, Spruth Magers, Munich Today Is Just a Copy of Yesterday, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels Beyond Geometry: Experiements in Form 1940 s-70 s, Art Museum, Miami 2004 The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Minimal Artists Try to Make Nothing Look Like Something or is it The Other Way Round?, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Behind the Facts, Interfucktionen 1968-1975, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serrakves, Porto Behind the Facts, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona 3. Berlin Biennale Fur Zeitgenossische Kunst 2004, Berlin X-Screen, MUMOK, Vienna A Century of Artists Film in Britain, Tate Britain, London L Effet Ecran. David Lamelas, Cac Bretigny&Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, Museo Arte Eontemporanea Vigo The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, FotoMuseum, Winterthur The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, Art Central, Miami 2003 The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, Walker Art Center, Minnesota 2002 On General Release, Norwich Gallery, Norwich 2001 Doublelife- Identitat Und Transformation in Der Zeitgenossischen Kunst, Ganerali Foundation, Vienna 2000 Children of Berlin- Cultural Developments 1989-1999, Museum Folkwang, Essen Flight Patterns, MOCA The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles Global Conceptualism- Points of Origin, 1950;s-1980 s, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge Vivencias- Lebenserfahrung, Generali Foundation, Vienna The Sleep of Reason, Norwich Gallery, Norwich Live in Your Head, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Inaugural Exhibition Making Time- Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film and Video, Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach 1999 Children of Berlin-Cultural Developments 1989-1999, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Serien Und Konzepte in Der Photo-Und Videokunst, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 1998 4. Internationale Foto Triennale Esslingen-Fotografie Als Handlung. Photography as Concept, Villa Merkel/Bahnwarterhaus, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen 1997 The Impossible Document: Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain 1966-1976, Camerawork, London Insite 97, Installation Gallery, San Diego (Legende), Centre Regional D Art Contemporain Open Museum, Provinciaal Centrum Voor Beeldernde Kunsten, Hasselt 1996 Zoersel 96, Domein Kasteel Van Halle, Zoersel 1994 Wide White Space 1966-1976. Behind the Museum, Galeries Contemporaines Des Musees, Marseille and at Kunstmuseum, Bonn 1992 America Bride of the Sun 500 Years of Latin America and the Low Countries, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp 1990 David Lamelas/Luis Camnitzer, Carla Stellweg Gallery, NYC 1989 Heat the Roof, NYC 1987 Variations III, Irvine Northridge, Los Angeles 1984 Flowers of Life for Central America, ICA, Los Angeles 1983 Film as Installation, The Clocktower, NYC 1977 Filmex, Filmex, LA The New American Filmmakers Series: Clark/Lamelas, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 1976 The New American Filmmakers Series: California Images, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 1974 Projekt 74-Kunst Bleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 8.Kolner Kunstmarkt, Kunsthalle Koln, Cologne 1973 Contemporanea, Villa Borghese, Rome 1972 Documenta 5, Kassel Book as Artwork 1960-1972, Nigel Greenwood Inc, London 1971 Prospect 71-Projektion Filme, Video, Diaserien, Photoprojekte von 76 Kunstlern, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf Septieme Biennale de Paris, Parc Floral de Paris, Paris 1970 Art Concepts from Europe, Bonino Gallery, NYC 1969 Prospect 69, Kunstalle, Dusseldorf Konzeption-Conception, Stadtisches Museumm-Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen 1968 Prospect 68, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf Beuys, Broodthaers, Christo, Lamelas, Lohaus, Palermo, Panamarenko, Ruthenbeck, Venet, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp
AWARDS AND GRANTS 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York 1968 British Arts Council Fellowship, London 1967 Award for Skulpture, IX Bienal de Sao Paulo, San Paulo 1967 Premio Georges Braques, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires 1966 Premio Georges Braques, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes 1966 Jury Special Award, Premio Nacional, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires 1966 Plastica con plasticos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires 1965 Premio de honor ver y estimar, Galeria Van Riel, Buenos Aires