Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

A-Volve exhibitions

2022 OK Zentrum Linz "The Artwork as a Living System"
Retrospective exhibition (2nd September 2022 - 26th Feb 2023)
Featuring "Interactive Plant Growing", "A-Volve", "Phototropy", "Life Writer", "Life Spacies II", "Mobile Feelings II", "Portrait on the Fly", "Haze Express", "Eau de Jardin", "People on the Fly", "Fly Plotter Portraits", "Digital Fly Portraits", "Scavengers", "The Value of Art", "Fly Objects", "Anthroposcope", "Antopolis", "Ar(t)chive", and "ToBee".

2022 ZKM Retrospective "The Artwork as a Living System"
Retrospective exhibition (Sat, 07.May.2022 – Sun, 31.July.2022)
The interactive installations in the exhibition tell the story of almost 30 years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.
Based on an idea of Karin Ohlenschläger.
The exhibition is a co-production of ZKM | Karlsruhe, OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, Linz and iMal, Brussels. The exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly publication in English edited by Karin Ohlenschläger, Peter Weibel and Alfred Weidinger in the Leonardo Book Series in collaboration with MIT Press.
Featuring "Interactive Plant Growing", "A-Volve", "Phototropy", "Life Writer", "Life Spacies II", "Mobile Feelings II", "Portrait on the Fly", "Haze Express", "Eau de Jardin", "People on the Fly", "Fly Plotter Portraits", "Digital Fly Portraits", "Scavengers", "The Value of Art", "Fly Objects", "Ar(t)chive", and "ToBee".
- Karlsruhe, Germany

2021 ZKM Karlsruhe "Bio Medien"
Curators: Peter Weibel, Sarah Donderer, Daria Mille, Karin Ohlenschlaeger
Exhibition: Saturday 18th December 2021 – Sunday, 28th August 2022
Featuring "A-Volve"
- Karlsruhe, Germany

2018 City University Hong Kong
Exhibition "Animals"
Featuring A-Volve and Portrait on the Fly
Curator: Jeffrey Shaw and Paul Lam

Hong Kong, China

2012 Laznia Centre for Contemporary(Art, 14. May .2012 - 24. June.2012)
Solo Exhibition "Wonderful Life, Art& Science Meeting"
Curator: Ryszard Kluszinsky
Artists: Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
- Gdansk, Poland

2011 Arts Santa Monica Barcelona (1st June 2011- 30th September 2011)
Curator: Josep Perello & irma vilà òdena
Solo exhibition: "A-Volve, Eau de Jardin, Phototropy, Life Spacies II, Mobile Feelings
- Barcelona, Spain

2007 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud (March 16 – August 5)
“Tierschau”
- Cologne, Germany

2006 ICC Museum
"Art*Communication=Open!"
- Tokyo, Japan

2005 Van Gogh Museum
“Fierce Friends: Artists & Animals in the Industrial Age” (curated by Stefan Blühm)
- Amsterdam, Netherlands

2003 ArtInteractive Gallery
- Cambridge, MA, USA

2001 Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie
"L'homme transforme" - collection: "A-Volve"
- Paris, France

2000 Miramon - Kutxaespacio de la Ciencia
Kutxa Museum of Science, permanent collection: "A-Volve"
- San Sebastian, Spain

2000 ZOOM Kindermuseum - Time Travel Exhibition
- Vienna, Austria

1997 Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum
"InterAct" - Schluesselwerke Interaktiver Kunst"
- Duisburg, Germany

1997 Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Gardens
- San Francisco, USA

1996 Kunsthalle Bonn
"
A-Volve" exhibition
- Bonn, Germany

1996 NTT Tokei - NHK
permanent installation "A-Volve"
- Nagoya, Japan

1996 ARCO'96 - Art Fair
represented by Fundacion Arte Y Tecnologia
- Madrid, Spain

1995 Interactive Media Festival
"Ovation Award" - Los Angeles, USA

1995 The Interaction '95
International interactive computer art
- Ogaki City, Gifu Japan

1995 WRO - Audio, Video & Computer Art Festival
- Wroclaw, Poland

1994 ICC Intercommunication Gallery
ICC-Intercommunication Center, 2 exhibitions
- Tokyo, Japan

1994 Siggraph 94
"The Edge"
- Orlando, Florida USA

1994 Ars Electronica '94
"Golden Nica Award"
- Linz, Austria