Dora García


Dora García is a contemporary Spanish artist. García draws on interactivity and performance in her work, using the exhibition space as a platform to investigate the relationship between artwork, audience, and place. García transforms spaces into a sensory experiences by altering perception and creating situations of interaction, often using intermediaries to enhance critical thinking. By engaging with the binary of reality vs. fiction, visitors become implicated as protagonists either in the construction of a collective fiction or questioning of empirical constructions–sometimes knowingly, and sometimes not. Since 1999 García has created several artworks on the web.

Work

Dora García was born in Spain and studied in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As a young artist she moved to Brussels where she lived for 16 years.
She participated with the real time theatre in public space "" in Münster Sculpture Projects 2007, where the character Charles Filch made his first appearance in her work. She has always been interested in anti-heroic and marginal personas as a prototype to study the social status of the artist, and in narratives of resistance and counterculture. In this regard, Dora García has developed works on the DDR political police, the Stasi, on the charismatic figure of US stand up comedian Lenny Bruce or on the origins, rhizomatic associations and consequences of antipsychiatry.
In the last years, she has used classical TV formats to research Germany's most recent history, frequented Finnegans Wake reading groups, created meeting points for voice hearers and researched the crossover between performance and psychoanalysis.
She represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, and presented her work in the next in the collateral events, and in the international exhibition of the Biennale 2015, curated by Okwui Ewenzor.

Biography

García was born in Valladolid, Spain and studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Holland. She is represented by , Paris/Brussels, , galería , Madrid, and , Amsterdam.

Selected exhibitions

Selected exhibitions include: documenta 13, Kassel, Germany, 2012; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, 2010; Lyon Biennial, France, 2009; TATE Modern, London, UK, 2008; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2008; SMAK, Gent, Belgium, 2006, MUSAC, Leon, Spain, 2004, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.

Selected collections