Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

Eau de Jardin 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

2015 Art Bahrain
13.-16. October 2015
represented by Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
- Manama, Bahrain

2015 Parallel Art Fair
23.-27. September 2015
represented by Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
- Vienna, Austria

2014 Museum of Screen Culture(14-16 October 2014 )
Manege / MediaArtLab
featuring "Eau de Jardin"
- Moscow, Russia


2014 Solo Show at the Galerie Charlot Paris, (10th September - 11th October 2014)
featuring "Escape", "Excavate" and "The Value of Art"
- Paris, France

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 beap07 (biennale of electronic art in perth, australia) "Eau de Jardin" - sommerer/mignonneau at the
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology presents: "impermanence [contemplating stillness]"
Exhibition artists are: Bill Viola (USA ), Mark Cypher (Australia), Daniel Lee (Taiwan/USA ), Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (Austria & France), Lynette Wallworth (Australia) / CURATOR: Chris Malcolm.
Impermanence explores the value of the contemplative within the growing global technological maelstrom. It presents a range of projects that encourage audiences to slow down and pause in reflection of our place in a rapidly changing world. (PDF brochure and invitation card )
- Perth, Australia

2005 “Art Rock 05
Pavillion Art Numerique
- Saint-Bieuc, France

2004 Eau De Jardin  (curated by Tosiharu Itoh)
House of Shiseido
-Tokyo, Japan