Dora García

Dora García was born in 1965 in Valladolid, Spain, and currently lives and works in Barcelona. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Dora García uses the exhibition space as platform to investigate the relationship between the visitor, the artwork, and place. The artist engages herself with the question of what is real and what is fiction, and visitors often turn into protagonists in her work: sometimes knowingly, sometimes not.

She represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Selected solo exhibitions include Second Time Around, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2018); Somewhere, Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years (The Thinker as Poet), La Verrière, Fondation d'Entreprise Hermes, Brussels (2017); Dora Garcia: These books were alive: they spoke to me, The Tetley, Leeds (2017); I see words, I hear voices, The Inadequate, Punkt Ø, Moss (2015); The Power Plant, Toronto. García also took part in (d)OCUMENTA 13, Kassel (2012), Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2010), and the Lyon Biennial, Lyon (2009).