Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

Life Writer 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 Genoteerd ! (Noted)
from 27.2.-2.03.2014
Festival in the Concertgebouw
featuring "Life Writer"
- Brugge, Belgium

2014 Solo show at the Galerie Charlot
(8th January til 22nd February)
featuring "Life Writer", "Eau de Jardin" and "Phototropy"

- Paris, France

2013 - Arte Cibernetica
at MEPE - Museum of the State of Pernambuco
Itau Cultural's collection,
- Recife, Brasil

2012 Art Bodensee 2012 (13.-15. July 2012)
Solo presentation in "The View Contemporary Art Space"
Curator: Anna Emmerling
- Dornbirn, Austria

2012 - Arte Cibernetica
at Estacao Cabo Branco
Itau Cultural's collection,
- Joao Pessoa , Brasil

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

2012 MUSEUM VILLA ROT (25.March.2012 until 17.June.2012)
Exhibition: "Jäger und Gejagdte,"
Curator: Stefanie Dathe
Artists: Jennifer Angus, Jana Eske, Jan Fabre, Tessa Farmer, Lili Fischer, Kirsten Geisler, Douglas Gordon, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Sanna Kannisto, Susanne Kutter, Cyrill Lachauer, Polonca Lovs(in, Joanna Maxellon, Katharina Meldner, Lucy Powell, Bärbel Rothhaar, Günther & Loredana Selichar, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Eva Teppe, Mark Thompson, Evgenija Wassil
Burgfrieden, Germany

2012 Art Karlsruhe THE VIEW Contemporary Art Space, (08 March 3.2012 until 11. March .2012)
Karlsruhe, Germany

2011 Albury LibraryMuseum ( 3 Dec, 2011 - 29 Jan, 2012.)
Experimenta Utopia Now
- Kiewa Street, Albury, Australia

2011 Wood Street Galleries "Parallel Universe" September 30th - December 31st, 2011
Lawrence Malstaf, Arnold Dreyblatt, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer
- Pittsburgh, USA

2011 Fourth Moscow Biennale starting September 22nd until October 30th 2011
complete list of artists
- Moscow, Russia

2011 Ars Electronica Berlin
" What Machines Dream Of " - Ars Electronica at VW Berlin. 201
(7th of July 2011– 28th of August 2011)
-Berlin, Germany

2011 Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
Experimenta Utopia Now, International Biennial of Media Art (EUN)
from 5th of August til 3rd of October, 2011.
- Hobart, Tasmania

2011 - Arte Cibernetica
at the "Usina do Gasometro"
Itau Cultural's collection
,
- Porto Alegre, Brasil

2011 Hans Arp Museun "BIOMORPH!" (27th May - 22nd January 2012)
Hans Arp, Angelika Arendt -Jackie Brookner, Bonnie Collura, Tony Cragg, Jachym Fleig, Julie Hayward, Bodo Korsig, Gerhard Mantz, Maix Mayer, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer, Wilhelm Mundt, Ernesto Neto, Thomas Rentmeister, venske & spanle, Luis Vidal, Birgitta Weimer
Rolandseck, Germany

2011 Experimenta "Utopia Now" from the 12 May - 19 June, 2011
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG)
Melbourne, Australia

2011 Techfest, 7.-9.1.2011 We are part of the "Ars Electronica" exhibition "Magic Eye-Dissolving Borders" and "Life Writer" installation:
- Mumbai, India

2010 Kunsthaus Graz
"Roboterträume"
October 10th 2010 - January 9th 2011
curator: Peter Pakesch
- Graz, Austria

2010 Redland Art Gallery
"Experiementa Utopia Now - International Biennale of Media Art"
June 6th – July 11th 2010
artists: Peter Alwast (Poland) // Patrick Bernatchez (Canada) // Michael Burton (UK) // Penelope Cain (Australia) // Cao Fei (China) // Leon Cmielewski & Josephine Starrs (Australia) // Christopher Fulham (Australia) // Susan Jacobs (Australia) Christian Jankowski (Germany) // Jimmy McGilchrist (Australia) //Rowan McNaught (Australia) // Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer (France/Austria) // Van Sowerwine & Isobel Knowles (Australia) // Dorota Mytych (Poland) // Stuart Ringholt (Australia) // Kuang-Yu Tsui (Taiwan) // Kit Wise (Australia)
- Queensland, Australia

2010 FMX - Festival de México
Centro Cultural de Espana
March 18th – 28th 12010
curators: Karla Jasso, Manuela Pfaffenbichler, Gerfried Stocker

- Mexico City, Mexico

2010 The Arts Center Melbourne
"Experimenta-Art for the 21st Century"
Feb 12th-March14th 2010
artists: Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, William Kentridge, Shilpa Gupta, Kit Wise, at al.
- Melbourne, Australia

2010 Tinguely Museum
"Roboterträume"
June 9th - September 12th 2010
in collaboration with Kunsthaus Graz
curator: Peter Pakesch
Artists: Yan Duyvendak, Jessica Field, Ed Kienholz, Richard Kriesche, Nam June Paik, Walter Pichler, Christa Sommerer und Laurent Mignonneau and Stelarc
- Basel, Switzerland

2010 Museum Stift Admont
“Play Admont” an exhibition as part of the Regionale 2010
June 3rd - November 7th 2010
curators: Michael Braunsteiner & Christine Peters
artists: Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Thomas Baumann, Johannes   Deutsch, Julius Deutschbauer, Tim Etchells, William Forsythe, Armin Linke & Peter Hanappe, Reactable – Martin Kaltenbrunner/Sergi Jorda/Günter Geiger/Marcos Alonso, Hubert Machnik, Hans Polhammer, Werner Reiterer, Robotlab - Matthias Gommel/Martina Haitz/Jan Zappe, Constanze Ruhm, Richard Siegal/The Bakery, Martin Walde, Hans Winkler, Erwin Wurm
- Admont, Austria

2010 MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Feb. 2 | Mar. 22 2010)
"Technoclasm Cyber Arts Japan /Ars Electronica 30 years for Art and Media Technology"
curator: Tomoe Moriyama
artists: Isao Tomita, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Toshio Iwai, Maywa Denki, Sommerer&Mignonneau, et al.
-Tokyo, Japan

2009 "Cultures of Change - Changing Cultures" (December 11th 2009 - Feburay 28th 2010)
ArtsSantaMonica in Barcelona, Spain
Curator: Josep Perello & Pau Alsina
Artists: Sommerer & Mignonneau, Usman Hague, Luc Steels, James Crutchfield, et al.
- Barcelona, Spain

2009 KINOKINO media art exhibition
from 11.09.2009 until 31.10.2009
- Sandnes, Norway

2009 Ars Electronica 2009 - 30 years Ars Electronica exhibition
from 03.09.2009 - 08.09.2009
- Linz, Austria

2009 - Arte Cibernetica
at the Inima de Paula Museum
Itau Cultural's collection
- Belo Horizonte , Brasil

2009 ZKM Media Museum (from 01.05.2009 - 30.08.2009)
YOU_ser 2.0: celebration of the consumer
curated by Peter Weibel
with works by: Peter Campus, Jeffrey Shaw, Jim Cambell, Kurst Hofstetter, Informationlab, Mark Lee,
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jonas Mekas, reactTable, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau,
uebermorgen.com, Peter Weibel, Martin Walde et al.
- ZKM Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany

2009 Uncharted - User Frames in Media Arts (21.03.09-20.09.2009)
YOU_ser: The Century of the Consumer
Sanstral Instanbul & ZKM Media Museum Karlsruhe
- Instanbul, Turkey

2009 ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (7.2. – 26.4.2009)
Enter Action – Digital Art Now
artists: Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Ben Rubin & Mark Hansen, aka 0100101110101101.org, Knowbotic Research, Erik Olofsen, Alexei Shulgin, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Manu Luksch, Mari Velonaki, Mogens Jacobsen, Marnix de Nijs, Kaffe Matthews, Ludic Society
curator: Giite Orskou
- Aarhus, Denmark

2009 ZKM Media Museum
YOU[ser] The Century of the Consumer
curator: Peter Weibel
- Karlsruhe, Germany

2008 KOSMOPOLIS 2008 International Festival of the Literature (22nd – 26th October 2008)
CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
curator: Anna Guarro
- Barcelona, Spain

2008 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo
curators: Peter Weibel, Wonil Rhee and Marie-Ange Brayer
- Sevilla, Spain

2008 Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2008
Curator: Nora Ng
- Hong Kong

2008 Media_City Seoul 2008
Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Sept 12th – Nov 12th 2008)
Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator: Joo-yun Lee
- Seoul, South Korea

2008 Net.Culture.Space at Museumsquartier 21 (March 18th – May 6th 2008)
sponsored by Ars Electronica and Telecom Austria
- Vienna, Austria

2008 Zentrum Paul Klee (26 January 2008 – 27 April 2008)
"Genesis – The Art of Creation"
exhibiting artists: Jean Arp, Aziz & Cucher, Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, Ross Bleckner, Christine Borland, Jaq Chartier, Douglass Crockwell, Agnes Denes, Mark Dion, Charles & Ray Eames, Mark Francis, Herbert W. Franke, David Fried, Fritz Glarner, Antony Gormley, Thomas Grünfeld, Mona Hatoum, Georg Herold, Floris Kaayk, Eduardo Kac, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee , Thomas Kovachevich, Sol LeWitt, Aaron Marcus, Larry Miller, Vera Molnar, Piet Mondrian, Frieder Nake, Bruce Nauman, Georg Nees, Michel Paysant, Marc Quinn, Kathleen Rogers, Dieter Roth, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Tomas Schmit, Lillian Schwartz, Karl Sims, Rudolf Steiner, Koen Vanmechelen, Woody & Steina Vasulka
Curator: Fabienne Eggelhöfer
- Bern, Switzerland

2007 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial
“Feedback – Art Responsive to Instructions, Input, or its Environment”
(March 30 – June 30)
with works by Antonio Muntadas, Hans Haake, Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Duchamp, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Jean Tinguely, Nam June Paik, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Paul Sermon, David Rokeby, et al.
curated by Christiane Paul (Whitney New York), Jemima Rellie (Tate Modern, London), Charlie Gere
- Gijon, Spain

2006 "the gen(h)ome project exhibition"
at "the Schindler's House"
MAK Center for the Arts
- West Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA

2006 "simposio - exhibition interface cibernetica" (August)
"emocao art.ficial 3.0"
at the Itau Cultural Center

2006 MOCA Museum of Modern Art Cleveland
- Cleveland USA