ELENA BAJO *1976, in Madrid, Spain. Lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin www.elenabajo.com Education 2005 Central Saint Martins School of Art London UK MA Fine Arts 2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Maine US 2002 ESARQ School of Architecture Barcelona Spain MA Architecture Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 The Owl of Minerva only Flies at Dusk (Urania’s Mirror) Parallel, Oaxaca, Mexico All Tangled Up in a Fading Star, Arco Madrid, Madrid, Spain 2016 Throwing Car Parts form a Cliff before Sunrise, Garcia Galeria, Madrid, Spain Victory Over the Sun, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Kai 10, Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany 2015 Isle of Innocence After Fordlandia, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Brazil Time is the Form of the Object, annex14, Zurich, Switzerland 2014 Timeless Considerations Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina, Kosovo A Universe comes into Being, ARTIUM Basque Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain With Entheogenic Intent (Burn the Witch), 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, US The Absence of Work, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium An Arbitrary Issue, Garcia Galeria, Madrid, Spain 2013 La Femme Radicale or The Point of No Return, D+T Project, Brussels, Belgium Opening - Solo Objects, ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain BCC Brussels, Cologne Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium 2012 The Absence of Work, PLATFORM3, curated by Marlene Rigler, Munich, Germany Reconstructing of the Common, D+T Project, Brussels, Belgium The Factory of Forms, Manifesta Parallel, Genk, Belgium The Factory of Forms, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands 2011 The Pervasive Element, Frieze Art Fair, London, England On Uncertain Terms, S/T Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Berlin, Germany 2010 The Object of A Movement, D+T Project, Brussels, Belgium The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Woodmill, London, England Performance Universal Flag, Lake Dry Desert CA, Los Angeles, US 2008 The Divided Line, Museum of the City Puerto Lumbreras Explum, Murcia, Spain 2007 The Garden of Dreams, Museum of the City, Galway, Ireland annex14 I Raum für aktuelle Kunst Limmatstrasse 270 I CH - 8005 Zürich I T +41 44 202 44 22 I [email protected] I www.annex14.com Öffnungszeiten: Di - Fr 12 - 18 h, Sa 11 - 17 h oder nach Vereinbarung Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 I want to know Now, Center of Contemporary Art Complutense University Madrid, ES (upcoming) 2018 Itineraria XXIV, Centro Botin, Santander, Spain Hände haben eine tragische Hierachie, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, US I never thought I’d need so many people, Garcia Galeria, Madrid, Spain Universal Flag, La Galerie Imaginaire, Brussels, Belgium The Pleiades (Anarchoreographies), Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona, Spain So Sieht der Hase, annex14, Zurich, Switzerland Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal Pitzer, Art Galleries, Los Angeles, US White Covers, Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, US Movement Research, New York, US 2017 Urania’s Mirror – Parallel, curated by Oliver Martinez Kandt, Oaxaca, Mexico Modus Operandi, La Societé, curatey by Société, with Gregory Lang, Brussels, Belgium The Box, curated by Corazon de Sol, Los Angeles, US Miart Art Fair, Garcia Galeria, Milan, Italy Posters, Frac Noramandie Rouan, Paris, France 2016 Aun, The 44th Salon Nacional de Artes, Pereira, Colombia Victory Over the Sun (Black Love, Two Bodies Racing in Space, D+T Project, Brussels, Belgium Take Up your Space, Kai 10, Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany Scoping Spaces, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, US Piel y simulacro, Travesia Cuatro, Gudadalajara Jalisco, Mexico Art and the Politics of Individuation: Affect and the Multiple Body in Cognitive Capitalism, SAAS-FEE Summer Institute of Art, Berlin Not really really, Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium ArcoMadrid, Madrid, Spain 2015 Josuha Treenial, curated by Koah Jeff Baysa, Joshua Tree, US Let Power Take A Female Form Talk, with Corazon de Sol Paul and Paul McCarthy, The Bodx, Los Angeles, US LAXART, 10 year Benefit Exhibition, Los Angeles, US The Infinite Persistence of Matter, ESPTV – Human Resources, Los Angeles, US Plagiarizing the Future, Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal Universal Flag (Reloaded), SWAB, Barcelona, Spain Trust The Palace, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark The Gaia Effect, Los Angeles, US Figment, Angstrom Gallery, Venice, US Mythologies, 3rd Mardin Biennial, Mardin, Turkey Theorem, Contemporary Art Center, Newark, US Movements Toward Formation, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Sounds like Music, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Berlin, Berlin Botschaft von Spanien, Berlin, Germany Buscadores de Oro, OTR – Espacio de Arte, Madrid, Spain 2014 With Entheogenic Intent, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, US The Absence of Work, LACA, Los Angeles, US The Factory of Forms, For your Art, Los Angeles, US If I Can’t Dance to it, It’s not my Revolution, The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, 2 | 6 Haverford College, Philadelphia, US Retrolimentacion, Atelier Sala de Arte Joven Comunidad, Madrid, Spain 2013 Rockaway to LA, Waterhouse Project Gallery, Los Angeles, US Ma Vie Prochaine, Ceci N’est Pas Courtesy, Los Angeles, US Original Doubt, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal Zero Hours, Art Sheffield, Sheffield, UK The Phylogenesis of Generosity, Berlin, Germany Vers une Hypothese Fort Du Bruissin Xll, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France Material Conceptualism, Der Trost der Dinge, Anaant and Zoo Gallery, Berlin, Germany Throw a Rock and see what happens, La Casa, Madrid, Spain The Cosmic Artisan, Contemporary London, UK Can't Hear my Eyes, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain Social Sound, VHDG Blokhuispoort, Leeuwarden, Netherlands Petrella's Pictorial Field, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Imports, Newstand Project Bowery & Canal, New York, US Art Brussels, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Quick Response, PRACTICE, Philadelphia, US 2012 Artist Tower of Protest, Public Domain, Los Angeles, US Art in the Parking Space PST 2012 Pacific Standard Time, LAXART, Los Angeles US Art in the Parking RedCat CALARTS, LAXART, Los Angeles US Who told you so? #2 Truth vs. Organization, Onomatope, Eindhoven, Netherlands The Absence of Work, Liste 17, Basel, Switzerland 2011 LAXART Benefit Exhibiton, Los Angeles, US Uncommon Places: Reinventing the Everyday, Extra City Antwerp / ICI, New York, US A Script for a Form PERFORMA 11, Biennial, New York, US VESSEL-The Stone House, Fringe BAS 7, Plymouth, UK Art in the Parking Space A One Year Long Project, LAXART, Los Angeles, US Art in the Parking PERFORM! NOW!, LAXART, Los Angeles, US Studies for an Exhibition, DRAF, London, UK Berlin:Metrospective 1, Program-Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany Love Letters to a Surrogate Stage ll, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium Aesthetic Anarchy, Scaramouche, New York, US Photomusee de la Danse, L'Ecole d'Art à Avignon, Avignon, France 2010 Perform! Now!, Human Resources Gallery Chinatown, Los Angeles, US Universal Flag, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles, US Discretion/Determination, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France When A Tree Falls in the Forrest..., Sølyst Skulpturpark, Copenhagen, Denmark Love Letters to a Surrogate Torrance, Art Museum Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US The Horizon Line is Here, Galleria Umberto di Marino, Naples, Italy 36 Dramatic Situations, Louis V.E.S.P., New York, US Done to a Dead End & the Dead or Alive, Sale One Hundred and One Nights, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2009 Registered, White Columns, New York, US Bread and Roses 101, with Jon Cuyson, University of Trash Sculpture Center, New York, US EXHIBITION 211, Elizabeth St, New York, US Haunting the City, Le Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US Unaddressed Circumventions...Gresham’s Ghost New York, Financial District ISCP, New York, US Off the Streets, A Foundation Rochelle School, London, UK The 4th annual Festival TINA B, Prague, Czech Republic 3 | 6 Dodai, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia A New Refutation of Time, 179 Canal, New York, US A New Refutation of Time, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany 2008 Visions Request, A-Z West Andrea Zittel, Los Angeles, US Wanderlust, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, US VonJetz Bis Dann Goldrausch 08, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Public Improvisations, Fondazione Ratti, Milan, Italy Lost in Your Eyes, Le Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US Peekskill Project, HVCCA Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York, US Destino Futuro, Arte Madrid 6, Royal Botanical Garden, Madrid, Spain Bad Moon Rising, ISCP, New York, US 2007 Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Myths, Air Garten, Berlin, Germany 2006 The Space Between, Saheb Galerie, Berlin, Germany One Hundred, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York, US 2005 Two Continents and Beyond: Waterways, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey The One, NGC 224, New York, US Leviathan, Candid Arts, London, UK MFA Degree Show, Central Saint Martins School of Art, London, UK 2004 Border Conditions, East 66 Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Public.Exe, Exit Art, New York, US Water, Yoko Ono, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, US Grants & Awards 2016 Grant: Becas Internationales de Artes Plásticas Fundación Botín, Barcelona,Spain Grant for the project Urania’s Mirror (Mexico – Los Angeles) 2014 18th St Arts Center Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, US 2012 Platform3 Artist in Residence, Munich, Germany 23 Studio Time Geoffrey Farmer BANFF Center Artist in Residence, Alberta, Canada 2011 Accion y Promocion Cultural Ministerio de Cultura Gobierno de Espana s/t, Berlin Germany