Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

Life Spacies II 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

2012 "Art and Artificial Life - VIDA 1999-2012 ", (from 8. Mai 2012- 6. January 2013)
curator: Karin Ohlenschläger
Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Gran Vía, 28.
- Madrid Spain

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

2008 "Digital senses - when digital data turns into art” (April 18th – May 11th 2008)
at the Center for Contemporary Art Kiev
Curators: Manuela Pfaffenberger and Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica
Artists: Christa Sommerer (AT) and Laurent Mignonneau (FR),
The Sancho Plan (UK)- Nataša Teofilovi? (RS), Takahiro Matsuo (JP), Catherine Nyeki (FR), Casey Reas (US), Aaron Koblin (US), Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman (US)
- Kiev, Ukraine

2007 Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA, (14th Sept 2007 – 6th January 2008)
Virtual Unreality - Interactive Artworks on the Virtual Frontier, http://www.exploratorium.edu/seeing/about/seeing_gallery.html
exhibiting artists: Sheldon Brown, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Dan Torop,
Curator: Pamela Winfrey
- San Francisco, USA

2006 "Natural Habitat" (Nov 4th - Dec 12)
at the Montevideo
- Amsterdam, Netherland

2006 "zerstörte welten" (20th April)
at the Kunstraum im Stadtgarten
- Dornbirn, Austria

2006 "Digital Transit"
Coproduced by Futurelab (Ars Electronica Center)
and MediaLabMadrid (Conde Duque Cultural Centre).
- Madrid, Spain

2005 Galeria Antonio Prates “Bioarte”
Lissabon, Portugal

2005 STUK Festival,
Leuven, Belgium

2004 "WissensKuenste −
Bilder jenseits des Bildes − Das lebende Bild” (curated by   Hamburger Bahnhof )
-  Berlin, Germany

2003 "RESPOND - Body/Data/Space"
Cambridge University, Life Spacies II at Sedwick Museum
- Cambridge, UK

2003 "Technogeist Festival 2003"
- Mexico City, Mexico

2002 @rt Outsiders
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie
- Paris, France

2002 II Bienal de Buenos Aires , Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
- Buenos Aires, Argentina

2002 LavalVirtual 2002
- Laval, France

2001 Microwave Media Art Festival 2001
Hong Kong City Hall Exhibition Hall - Hong Kong, China

2000 Kunsthalle Wien
"Living and Working in Vienna: 26 Positions of Contemporary Art"
Curator: Paulo Herkenhoff, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Rosa Martez
- Vienna, Austria

2000 Media City Seoul - Media Art 2000
Curator: Barbara London
Seoul Metropolitan Museum
- Seoul, South Korea

2000 Museum of Modern Art Webpage
(Kyoto link 2 image 6-11)- New York, USA

2000 Ars Electronica Center
"print on screen", collection: "Life Spacies II" - Linz, Austria

2000 Museum of Kommunication
- Bern, Switzerland

2000 IMAGINA 2000 Innovation Village
- Monte Carlo, Monaco

2000 Medi@Terra
- Athens, Greece

2000 Taipei Art and Technology Exhibition DEOA
- Taipei, Taiwan

2000 Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencies - City of Arts and Sciences
Palacio de las Artes, collection "Life Spacies II" - Valencia, Spain

1999 Cibervision'99
- Madrid, Spain

1999 ATR Open House'99
- Kyoto, Japan

1999 SMAU'99
- Milano, Italy

1999 Siggraph'99 - Emerging Technologies
- Los Angeles, USA