Her work often explores neglected or overlooked sites, carefully cataloguing and highlighting each location's tendency towards entropy. Her projects range from a guide to ruins in Holland to the display of materials used to construct the cities in which she shows. Her works are simple actions. Behind them are vast research processes.
EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES/SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
- Ruins in Nederlands, Gallery Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam.
- Bilbao Wastelands, Cabineta, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao.
- Ruinas de Holanda, Gallery Pepe Cobo, Madrid.
- La Box ENSBA, Bourges.
2007
- CGAC, Santiago de Compostela.
2003
- INDEX The Swedish Art Foundation, Stockholm.
- Chantiers ouverts au public, Centre D'Art Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire.
EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS/SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
- Radical Nature, Barbican Art Center, London. (by Francesco Manaconda)
- Athens Splendid Isolation, 2nd Athens Biennale (by Can Sophie Rabinovitz)
- Monument to transformation, Tranzit, Praha.
- Evento, Biennale de Bordeaux. (by Didier Faustino)
- 3rd Riwaq Biennale : a geography of 50 villages , Ramallah. (by Khalil Rabah, Charles Esche, Reen Fuda)
- Utopia and Monument, Sterische Herbst, Graz. (by Sabine Breitwieser)
- Sloop gebouw SFF, Flux-s, Eindhoven (by Annie Fletcher)
- The Boundary Layer, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, Alberta. (by Catherine Dean)
- Liquid Times, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster.
2008
- Annual Report, 7th Gwangju Biennale. (By Okwui Enwezor)
- Taipei Biennale 2008, (By Manray and Vasif Kortum).
- Matiere à Paysage, Biennale de la Seine, La Gallerie, Noissy-le-Sec.
- Greenwashing, Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities', Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Turin. (by Ilaria Bonacossa and Latitudes, Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna).
- Estratos, PAC Murcia. (Curated by Nicolas Bourrieau)
- Lofoten International Arts Festival, Svolvaer, Norge.
2007
- Sharjah Art Biennial 8 : Still life, Art, Ecology and Politics of Change, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates. (By Jonathan Watkins and Eva Schaer)
- Shelter, Haarderwijk. ( by Henk Slager)
- Mimetic, Chateau de Tanlay, Yonne Art Center. (curated by Jean Marc Huitorel)
2006
- Momentum, Festival of Nordic Art, Moss. (by Marc Sladen and Annete Kiefluk)
- 27 Biennial of Sao Paulo, (by Rosa Martinez, Lisette Lagnado, A Pedrosa)
- Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London. (by Polly Staple)
- Biacs, Sevilla Biennale, Sevilla. (by Okwui Enwezor)
- Theater of Life, Galeria Civica d'arte Contemporanea, Trento ( by Fabio Cavaluzzi)
2005
- Public Act, Kunsthalle, Lund, Lund. (by Mats Stjernstedt)
- Le genie du lieu, Musee des Beaux Arts, Dijon Delicious , Sint-Truiden. (by Luk Lambrecht)
2004
- International Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool. (by Cuauthemoc Medina)
- VI Werkleitz Biennale, Common propierty, Halle, Deutschland. Le Prochaine et le Lontaine, Domein de Kerguennec, Bignan, France. LAB, Kröller Müller Museuma, Otterloo. (by Nathalie Zonneberg).
- Catastrofi Minime, Museo di Arti Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Cerdeña.
2003
- Idealism, De Appel, Amsterdam. Sin Título, Sala Montcada de la Caixa, Barcelona. (by Moritz Kung).
- 1:1 x temps, quantités, proportions et fuites, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon.
- Dispersion, Bas Museum of Art, Miami.
2002
- Lost Past, Yeper. (by Moritz Kung)
- Bigtorino 2002, Torino Biennial. (by Pistolleto, Corinne Disirennes)
2000
- Scripted Spaces, Witte de With, Rotterdam. (by Bartomeu Mari)
- Espacio como Realidad, como Proyecto, Pontevedra Biennal (by Maria del Corral).
1999
- Stediljk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam.
RPOYECTOS EN ESPACIOS PÚBLICOS/PROJECTS IN PUBLIC SPACE
2009
- Relocated houses, One Day Sculpture, Wellington, New Zealand. (by Claire Doherty).
- Scavo, PAV, Torino.
2006
- Het braakliggend terrein van de Norfolkline open voor het publiek, Den Haag. Comisioned by STROOM, Den Haag and SKOR, Amsterdam.
2003
- Allotment Gardens, Urban Festival, Zagreb.
- Een brakliggend terrein, Europoort Rotterdam, Rijksgebouwdienst, Rijkswaterstadt.
2002
- Wastelands Tour, British Architectural Week, FACT, Liverpool.
2000
- Opening of a wasteland, Container Project Nicc, Bruxelles.
BIBLIOGRAFÍA/BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
- Pablo Llorca, Lara Almarcegui, Art Forum # February.
- Rachel Wolff 'Runing over a new leaf', Artnews, New York # april.
2008
- Katherina Deschka-Hoeck: Brachland der Freiheit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, #27 Oktober.
- Tijs van den Boomen, Ruine als dankbaar object, NRC, Rotterdam # 10 June.
- Jean-Max Colard : Lara Almarcegui, Ruines in Nederland, Inrocks # 656.
- Pei-Tsen: Dig into the enviroment, Lara Almarcegui ARTCO, Taipei # july.
- L'art, le territoire, espace public, urbaine, Veduta, Biennale de Lyon, Ed Certu.
2007
- Tom Morton: City Limits: Lara Almarcegui, FRIEZE pages 124-127 #
- Summer 20. Anna minton, Down to a fine art, The Guardian, London, 10th January.
- Francis Alys: Artists Favourites, Spike Art # 11, Wien.
- Ecology, Luxury and Degradation, Edited by Lattitudes, Uovo # 14, Torino.
- With/Without, Cultures of Space in the Middle east' Edited by Antonia Carver, Shumon Basar and Markus Miessen, New York.
- Design and Landscape for people, Edited by Clare Cumberlidge and Lucy Musgrave.
- Thames & Hudson. 2006 Land Art.
- A Cultural Ecology Hand Book, Edited by Max Andrews. RSA, London.
2005
- Jean Marc Huitorel, Entropic promise: Lara Almarcegui, Art Press February.
- Binna Choi, A Statute of the inhabitable, Reader: Contributions to a topical artistic discourse, De Appel.
2004
- Ole Bouman: The emancipation of nowhere land, Pasajes de Arquitectura y crítica, Madrid, # February.
- Lara Almarcegui, l'idealisme en déconstruction, Bénédicte Ramade. L'œil, Paris summer.
2003
- Carole Smidt, La Force de l'abandone, A+ architecture, urbanism, design and art. # agust-september, Bruxelles.
- Thorsten Smiededrecht, Art and Architecture a reciprocal relationship?, Architectural Design, London # may/June.
2002
- Santiago Cirugeda: Lara arreglatodo, Subrosa, editions la Letre Volé, Bruxelles.
2001
- Anne Pontégnie, Lara Almarcegui takes apart the gallery, Artforum digital, May.
PUBLICACIONES/WRITINGS
1999
- Wastelands Map Amsterdam, a guide to the empty sites of the city, Stedelijk Museum
Bureau, Amsterdam.
2006
- Guide of wastelands Sao Paulo, Edited by Biennial Sao Paulo.
2007
- Guide to Al Khan, An empty village in the city of Sharjah, Edited by Sharjah Art Biennial.
2008
- Ruins in the Netherlands, XIX- XX, Episode publishers, Rotterdam.
2009
- Ruins in Bourgogne, XIX-XXI, Le Press du Reel, Dijon.
OBRAS EN COLECCIONES PÚBLICAS/WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo (Arnheem).
- FRAC Piamonte, Torino.
- Les Abattoirs, Toulousse.
- FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon. FRAC Alsace, Sélestat.
- Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona.
- MUSAC, León.
- CGAC, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela.
- Marcelino Botin Foundation, Santander.
- La Panera Art Cenrtre, Lérida. CAM Foundation.
- Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Hsinchu City.
BECAS Y PREMIOS/AWARDS AND GRANTS
2006
- Sculpture art prize given by the Madrid Municipality.
TALLERES/GUEST TEACHER AND WOKSHOPS
- Studio visits as guest teacher in De Ateliers, postgraduate art program, Amsterdam.
- Dutch Art Institute, postgraduate art program, Enschede.
- Workshops at Piet Zwart Intitute, postgraduate art program, Rotterdam.
- Art in Public space master of Art School, Geneve.
- Umea Art School, Umea; Minerva Art Academy, Groningen.
- Annecy Art School.
- Centro Atlántico de Arte Contemporáneo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
- Art School of Universidad Europea, Madrid.
- Cuenca Art School; Hangar, Barcelona.
- La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Graduation jury at Art in Public Space.
- La Cambre Art School, Brusels.
- Design of Public Space, Lyon Art School.
