Dora García

Dora García Dismembered (hand with coin) III, 2026
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Coin, 925 Sterling silver, 18 carat gold plated, notepad drawing wih 1 original drawing and blank pages
Coin: ⌀ 30 mm x 2 mm. Notepad: 30 x 42 cm

Dora García El objeto inalcanzable “A”, 2023
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Graphite and wax crayon on paper
42 x 57,5 cm. Framed: 45,5 x 62,5 x 3 cm
Dora García El viaje de Oedipus, 2026
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Graphite on paper
42 x 57,5 cm
Dora García Moebius Strip, 2026
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Graphite on paper
42 x 57,5 cm
Dora García Coyolxauhqui, 2020
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Graphite and pencil on paper, fixed on canvas
220 x 210 cm
Dora García Frase de oro (Todo es espejo), 2023
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Painted letters in gold leaf. Variable dimension. Typography: Helvetica Bold
Dora García The Prophets, 2005-2020
Installation view: Arco 2026
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Installation view: Arco 2026
Work in 4 parts:
Framed poster, 125.5 x 90 x 5 cm; commemorative medal with magnifying glass, on wall shelf; two binders with prophecies 1/10 and 2/10, one open and one closed, 35 x 29 x 8 cm each. The work is presented on a table (not part of the work) measuring approx. 200 x65 x74 cm. Potential performance of "The Prophets".
Dora García Letters of Disappointment (Nº 2), 2022-2023
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7 books, each with: handwritten letters (one inserted, one displayed)
Dora García Letters of Disappointment (Nº 2), 2022-2023
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Detail
Angela Davis. Un libro + carta 1 pág. Book + letter one page . Measures with frame: 37 x 49,5 x 6,5 cm
Dora García 58 prólogos y un final, 2024
Installation view: 58 prólogos y un final, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2024
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Installation view: 58 prólogos y un final, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2024
Table, two lamps and three books
Books:
James Joyce, Ulysses (19.7 x 13 x 2,8 cm)
Macedonio Fernández, Museo de la Novela La Eterna (20 x 14 x 2 cm)
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (20 x 13 x 3 cm)
Table: 80,5 x 140 x 80 cm
Variable dimensions
Dora García 58 prólogos y un final, 2024
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Dora García 58 prólogos y un final, 2024
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Dora García El Laberinto de la Libertad Femenina, 2024
Installation view: 58 prólogos y un final, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2024
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Installation view: 58 prólogos y un final, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2024
Drawing on the floor. Performance. 15 books
Variable dimensions
Dora García El Laberinto de la Libertad Femenina, 2024 (detail)
Installation view: 58 prólogos y un final, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2024
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Installation view: 58 prólogos y un final, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2024

Dora García The Plague Annotated, 2018
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Graphite on wallpaper
330 x 370 cm
UniquePhoto: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García The Plague Annotated, 2018 (Detail)
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Graphite on wallpaper
330 x 370 cm
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Dora García The Plague, 2018 (Detail)
Installation view: La peste (The plague), ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2018
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Installation view: La peste (The plague), ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2018
Drawing on the floor
Variable dimension
Installation view: Segunda Vez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2018
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Photo: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Joaquín Cortés/Román Lores
Installation view: Segunda Vez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2018
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Photo: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Joaquín Cortés/Román Lores
Dora García Mad Marginal Charts, notes on Love #1, 2018
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Pencil on paper, 27,5 x 21 cm. Framed: 30,5 x 24 x 3 cm
Unique
Photo: ProjecteSD
Dora García Mad Marginal Charts, notes on Love #3, 2018
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Pencil on paper, 27,5 x 21 cm. Framed: 30,5 x 24 x 3 cm
Unique
Photo: ProjecteSD
Dora García Segunda Vez, 2018
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Video, color, 16:9. Audio: Spanish, Basque, French & English, length; 92'
Available with Spanish, English or French subtitles
Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copy
Dora García Segunda vez, 2017
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Video, color, 16:9. Audio: Spanish, length; 44'
Available with English or French subtitles
Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copy
Dora García La Eterna, 2017
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Video, color, 16:9. Audio: Spanish, French and English, length; 49'
Available with Spanish, English or French subtitles
Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copy
Photo: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Joaquín Cortés/Román Lores
Dora García Para Inducir el Espíritu de la Imagen, 2016
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Video, color, 16:9. Audio: Spanish, length; 63'
Available with English or French subtitles
Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copy
Dora García El Helicóptero, 2017
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Single channel, HD Video, colour, sound, 16:9, 23'10"
Audio: Basque & Spanish
Available with English or French subtitles
Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copy
Dora García On the way to Language, 2017
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Book by Martin Heidegger and hand written book by Dora García
20,5 x 13,5 x 1,5 each
Unique work
Photo: Francesc Daniel
Dora García Eco Oscuro, 2016
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Pencil and color pencil on various copies of book Eco Oscuro by Francisco Baena
Measure each book: 18 x 11 cm
Unique work
Photo: Francesc Daniel
Dora García Respiración Artificial (Escalera II), 2017
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Ladder and two books
129 h x 132 cm diameter
Unique work
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García Respiración Artificial (Escalera II), 2017 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García Respiración Artificial, 2016
Installation view: Respiración artificial. Performance. Eco oscuro.
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Installation view: Respiración artificial. Performance. Eco oscuro.
Performance
IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
2 performers, 2 tables, 2 chairs, texts
Unique work
Photo: Elisa Bermejo. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Dora García Respiración Artificial, 2016
Installation view: Respiración artificial. Performance. Eco oscuro.
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Installation view: Respiración artificial. Performance. Eco oscuro.
Performance
IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
2 performers, 2 tables, 2 chairs, texts
Unique work
Photo: Elisa Bermejo. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Dora García Performance, 2016
Installation view: Respiración artificial. Performance. Eco oscuro.
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Installation view: Respiración artificial. Performance. Eco oscuro.
Performance
IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
6 actors, 6 scripts, table, 6 chairs
Unique
Photo: Elisa Bermejo. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Dora García Attempts to Forge a Letter from Joyce to Ibsen in 1901 Nº 12, 2015
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Ink on paper, 4 parts
29,5 x 18 cm each part
Unique work
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García Attempt to Forge a Letter from Joyce to Ibsen in 1901 Nº 12, 2015 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García Attempt to Forge a Letter from Joyce to Ibsen in 1901 Nº 11, 2015
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Ink on paper, 2 parts
27,5 x 21 cm each part
Measures with frame structure: 61 x 2,5 x 24,6 cm
Unique work
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García Attempt to Forge a Letter from Joyce to Ibsen in 1901 Nº 11, 2015 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García The Joycean Society #1, 2013
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Chair engraved plate, book
60 x 50 x 50 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García The Joycean Society #1, 2013 (detail)
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Chair engraved plate, book
60 x 50 x 50 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García The Joycean Society #1, 2013 (detail)
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Chair engraved plate, book
60 x 50 x 50 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Dora García Die Klau Mich Show, 2012 (Detail of set)
Installation view: dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany
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Installation view: dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany

Dora García Die Klau Mich Show, 2012
Installation view: dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany
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Installation view: dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany
Performance view: Metanoia: destruction in art and the dialectics of liberation with Ellen Blumenstein, Samir Kandil, Jan Mech, Theater Chaosium and Tabu. Guests: Peter Cross, Leon Redler and Homage to Gustav Metzger.
Dora García The Inadequate, 2011
Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
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Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
Installation, mixed media
Photo: Miguel Balbuena
Dora García Real Artists Don’t Have Teeth, 2010-2011
Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
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Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
Performance
Performer: Jacob Tamm
Photo: Thorsten Arendt
Dora García The essential Lenny Bruce, 2007-2011
Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
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Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
Performance
Performer: Peter Aers
Photo: Thorsten Arendt
Dora García The artist without works: A Guided Tour Around Nothing, 2008-2011
Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
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Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
Performance
Performers: Michelangelo Miccolis (left) and Paolo Ferrara
Photo: Thorsten Arendt
Dora García Where do characters go when the story is over?, 2009-2011
Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
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Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011.
Performance
Performers: William Holden and Geoffrey Carrey

Dora García The Inadequate (Archive), 2011
Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011
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Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011
Photo: Roman Mensig
Dora García The Inadequate (Archive), 2011
Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011
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Installation view: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011
Photo: Roman Mensig
Dora García The Inadequate, 2011
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Video HD, colour, stereo, sound. Length: 40'
Available with subtitles in English and Spanish
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
Dora García The Deviant Majority, 2010
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Video HD, color, stereo, 16:9. Length: 34’
Available with subtitles in English and Spanish
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
Dora García And then, between two shots of the camera, he’s gone, 2009
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2 C-prints, 60 x 40 cm each
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
Dora García The Beggar’s Opera, 2007
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Performance of Charles Filch for Skulptur Projekte Munster, 2007
Dora García Film (Hôtel Wolfers), 2007
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35 mm film transferred to digibeta
Length; 11'31"
Ed. 5 + 2AP
Dora García Forever, 2005 / New Forever, 2011
Exhibition view: Forever, ProjecteSD, 2011
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Exhibition view: Forever, ProjecteSD, 2011
2 monitors connected via computer to 2 webcams installed in one room of the FRAC Lorraine (Metz, France) and the New Museum (New York, USA). Contracts signed by the artist and both institutions. Complete series of the Forever books published up-to-date.
Photo: ProjecteSD
Dora García Fahrenheit 451 (1969), 2002
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2000 mirror-printed books of the 1969 edition of Ray Bradbury´s masterpiece, table. Dimensions variable.
Unique work

Dora García La habitación cerrada, 2002
Exhibition view: Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, 2008
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Exhibition view: Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, 2008
Door, wall and vinil lettering
Typography: Times bold, title in italics; colour: dark grey matt
Variable dimensions
Ed. 3
Photo: Freddy Le Saux
Biography
Born in Valladolid, Spain, 1965. Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain
Dora García reflects on the parameters and conventions governing the presentation of art, on the question of time (real and fictional) and on the boundaries between representation and reality. Through her work the artist presents reality as multiple and questionable and explores the relationship between the artist, the work, and the public. She acts like a cinema director who tells stories (or simply selects them), unchains a situation, situates us in a scenario or makes us participants in a game the rules of which are very similar to reality and for this very fact allow us to question it. Her work, conceptual in nature, consists of text, photographs, and installations restricted to a specific location. She often draws on participation and performance. Through minimal changes, the exhibition space is converted into a different experience for each visitor, who leaves it with his or her perceptions altered, or at least with a degree of scepticism and doubt.
Selected Texts
- 2016Various AuthorsJournal de La Verrière
- 2014Bryne McLaughlinArtforum
- 2013Angela MolinaBabelia
- 2011Paula AchiagaEl Cultural
- 2011Max AndrewsFrieze
- 2009Vincent HonoréInterview with Dora García
- 2007Montse BadiaContes Choisis
- 2007Peio AguirreArqueologías del Futuro
- 2002Sonia Dermience- Jan MotThe Locked Room
Exhibitions
- 11 April — 20 June 2024
- 03—04 May 2022
- 13 September — 06 November 2013
- 27 September — 03 November 2018
- 18 November 2023 — 13 January 2024
- 01—28 February 2023
- 07 May — 29 July 2022
- 23 February — 30 April 2021
- 10 September — 14 November 2020
- 23 April — 04 May 2019
- 30 August — 16 September 2017
- 14 December 2016 — 03 January 2017
News
- 19 December 2024 — 19 May 2025
GROUP SHOW: MADRE, NAPOLI, ITALY
- 17 June — 21 October 2024
GUEST WORK AT MUSEO NACIONAL THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, MADRID. SPAIN
- 31 May 2024 — 19 January 2025
GROUP SHOW: HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE, HAMBURG, GERMANY
- 30 April — 31 July 2024
SOLO SHOW: FONDAZIONE BARUCHELLO, ROMA
- 31 December 2023 — 27 May 2024
GROUP SHOW: CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ, METZ, FRANCE
- 22 September 2023 — 7 January 2024
SOLO SHOW: ES BALUARD, PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN
- 21 June — 28 August 2023
GROUP SHOW: MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA, MADRID, SPAIN
- 10 February — 21 May 2023
SOLO SHOW: MUHKA, ANTWERP
- 24 November 2022 — 26 March 2023
SOLO SHOW: Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Ciudad de México
- 17 November 2022 — 16 April 2023
Group show: El Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria, Barcelona
- 30 October — 31 December 2022
SOLO PRESENTATION: REIAL MONESTIR DE SANTES CREUS
- 16 September — 16 December 2022
SOLO SHOW: RIALTO6, LISBON
- 27 November 2021 — 16 December 2022
GROUP SHOW: MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA, MADRID, SPAIN
- 19 October — 31 December 2021
- 7 October 2021 — 9 January 2022
SOLO SHOW: Mattatoio di Roma
- 3 September — 19 December 2021
TWO SOLO SHOWS: Fotogalleriet, OSLO / Netwerk Aalst, BELGIUM
- 6 August — 23 September 2021
GROUP SHOW: Gallery Arsenał in Białystok, Poland
- 28 May — 29 August 2021
Group show: Tabakalera, San Sebastián, Spain
- 25 March — 23 May 2021
Group show: IVAM, Valencia
- 14 February — 17 May 2020
SOLO SHOW: ROSE ART MUSEUM, WALTHAM
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Spanish artist Dora García (b. Valladolid, 1965) focuses on her work of the recent years to open new platforms of analysis, reflection and visibility. Through a practice that prioritizes the use of performance in a participative manner, García will transform the Lois Foster Gallery into a living platform to investigate the relationship between audience, architecture and artistic work.
Love with Obstacles includes both newly commissioned works and existing projects, and also features drawings, films, intervened documents and letters that will be activated through performances and readings to articulate a collective space where dialogue is central. Two newly commissioned works will be premiered at the Rose Art Museum: the film Love with Obstacles, focusing on the legacy of the extraordinary author, feminist, October revolutionary, political exile and diplomat, Alexandra Kollontai (St. Petersburg,1872– Moscow, 1952) who advocated for the sexual emancipation of women and radical equality; The Labyrinth of Female Freedom, a performance where female poetics and politics meet; and a new production of García’s series Golden Sentences: the sentence “She has many names” opens the exhibition.
- 17—21 December 2019
SCREENING: FABRA I COATS, BARCELONA
- 20 September — 27 October 2019
GROUP SHOW: TIMISOARA BIENNIAL
- 14 September — 17 November 2019
GROUP SHOW: Can Palauet, Mataró
- 12 September 2019 — 19 January 2020
GROUP SHOW: GROPIUS BAU, BERLIN
- 1 August — 26 October 2019
GROUP SHOW: AICHI TRIENNALE
- 20 June — 15 September 2019
GROUP SHOW: BÒLIT, CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORANI GIRONA
- 14 June — 1 August 2019
GROUP SHOW: GRAZER KUNSTVEREIN
- 6 April — 11 August 2019
GROUP SHOW: ZKM KARLSRUHE
- 8 June — 18 August 2019
GROUP SHOW: GALERIA MUNICIPAL DO PORTO
- 6—11 June 2019
SCREENING: OLHAR DE CINEMA - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CURITIBA
- 25 May 2019 — 31 May 2024
GROUP SHOW: FIRST BIENNALE IN OSLO
- 30—31 March 2019
SCREENING: SEGUNDA VEZ AND JOYCEAN SOCIETY AT ICA, LONDON
- 15 March — 25 August 2019
GROUP SHOW: LES ABATTOIRS, TOULOUSE
- 15 February — 5 April 2019
GROUP SHOW: FONDAZIONE BARUCHELLO, ROME
- 17 January — 28 April 2019
GROUP SHOW: WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, LONDON
- 5 December 2018 — 17 February 2019
SOLO SHOW: BONNIERS KONSTHALL, STOCKHOLM
- 15 October — 16 December 2018
GROUP SHOW, FONDATION HIPPOCRÊNE, PARIS
- 9 September 2018 — 6 January 2019
GROUP SHOW: WITTE DE WITH
- 11 July 2018
2018'S ARTE Y MECENAZGO ARTIST AWARD
- 25 May — 16 September 2018
SOLO SHOW, TRONDHEIM KUNSTMUSEUM, TRONDHEIM. NORWAY
- 17 April — 3 September 2018
SOLO SHOW, MNCARS, MADRID