Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

Phototropy exhibitions

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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 HERE COMES THE SUN 09 at the M. Koç Museum (November 2012 – 14. Juli 2013)
Curator: Yvonne Leonard
a collaboration between Humboldt-Universität Berlin and Neues Universum Berlin
Istanbul, Turkey

2012 "|Project Daejeon 2012: Energy"(September-2. December 2012)
Daejeon Museum of Art,
Curator: Minkyung Yoo, Minkyung Kim participating artists: Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Eduardo Kac, Laurent Grasso, Ji Haru & Graham Wakefield, Marcos Novak, Scenocosme, Seiko Mikami & Sota Ichikawa, Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky, who will perform for the opening show), Ai Weiwei, Lu Yang, Giuliana Cunéaz, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer et. al.
- Daejeon, South Korea

2012 THE VIEW Contemporary Art Space, (June-September 2012)
Solo Exhibition,
Artists: Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Salenstein, Switzerland

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)
Solo exhibition:
Curator: Josep Perello & irma vilà òdena
"A-Volve, Eau de Jardin, Phototropy, Life Spacies II, Mobile Feelings
- Barcelona, Spain

2010 Mondo Mio
Here comes the Sun" - Exhibition about Sun and Energy
July 15^th – August 29^th 2010
curator: Yvonne Leonard
- Dortmund, Germany

2009 Winzavod Contemporary Art Center Moscow
Science as Suspence (15.-29.3.09)
Curator: Dmitry Bulatov
Participating Artists: Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Stelarc, Ken Rinaldo, Bill Vorn, Paul Granjon, Nicolas Reeves, Orlan, Symbiotica, et al.
- Moscow, Russia

2000 Millennium Dome - "Play Zone- Interactive Art"
- London, England

1999 Kuenstlerhaus Wien - "Zeichenbau - Interactive Art Exhibition"
- Vienna, Austria

1999 Ciber@rt - Int. Exhibition of New Technologies, Art and Communication
- Valencia, Spain

1999 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography - "HIKARI-KAGE"
-Tokyo, Japan

1998 Videoformes
- Clermont Ferrand, France

1998 Shiroishi Multimedia Art Center
permanent collection: " Phototropy"
- Shiroishi, Japan

1997 The Interaction '97
IAMAS and Softopia Japan
- Gifu, Japan

1997 Center of Contemorary Art
"Lab 6"
- Warsaw, Poland

1995 Nagoya City Art Museum
ARTEC'95 - The 4th international Biennale in Nagoya
- Nagoya, Japan

1995 Triennale di Milano
Palazzo dell' Arte
- Mailand, Italy

1995 Williamson Gallery
"Digital Mediations"
- Pasadena, Los Angeles, USA

1995 Krannert Art Museum

"Art as Signal"

- Urbana, Illinois USA

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1994 Artifices 3
Salle de la Legion d'honneur
- Saint-Denis, France