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
2019 ZKM
Exhibition: "Writing the History of the Future"
Opening: 19 July 2019 - 28.03.2021
Curated by Peter Weibel and Margit Rosen
Featuring "Life Writer" "Interactive Plant Growing" and "Portrait on the Fly" from the ZKM collection
- Karlsruhe, Germany
2019 ZHI Art Museum
Exhibition: "Growing" exhibition in collaboration with Chronos Art Center
Exhibiting
our classical interactive art work "Interactive Plant Growing" developed in 1992
curated by Zhang Ga
- Chengdu, China
2019 Museum Sinclair Haus
Exhibition:"Illusionary Nature" Digital Worlds (November 10th, 2019 to February 2nd, 2020)
Featuring "Interactive Plant Growing"
With works of Arno Beck, Eelco Brand, Miguel Chevalier, Driessens & Verstappen, Joanie Lemercier, Vera Molnár, Casey Reas, Michael Reisch, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer, Studer/van den Berg, Jennifer Steinkamp, Tamiko Thiel
- Bad Homburg, Germany
2019 THE VIEW
Jubiläumsausstellung
until the end of October 2019
Featuring "Interactive Plant Growing"
- Salenstein, Switzerland
2018 Speculum Artium Festival "Decades"
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the festival
Featuring "Portrait on the Fly", "Interactive Plant Growing"
and our Speculum Artium Festival's commissioned VR artwork "Fly Simulator"
Curated by Maša Jazbec
- Trbovlje, Slovenia
2015 B3 Biennial of the Moving Image 2015
7.-11. October 2015
Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt
- Frankfurt, Germany
2015 THE VIEW Contemporary Art Collection
20th June - 2nd October 2015
featuring "Interactive Plant Growing"
PDF flyer from THE VIEW
- Salenstein, Switzerland
2014 öga fair
(25.-27. June .2014)
featuring "Interactive Plant Growing" from the ZKM
- Oeschberg, Switzerland
2012 Genial & Geheim, (9th August.2012 til 30th December 2012)
Heinz Nixdorf Forum
Curator: Viehoff, Jochen
- Paderborn, Germany
2012 Nagoya University Museum (17th - 25th August 2012)
Solo show of Interactive Plant Growing
Curator: Kiyoka Fushimi
- Nagoya, Japan
2012 THE VIEW Contemporary Art Space, (June-September 2012)
Solo Exhibition,
Artists: Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Salenstein, Switzerland
2010 "Silicon Dreams - Art Science and Technology in the European Union"
commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
Tabakalera Art Center
February 7th - March 21 2010
artists: Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Raffael Lozano-Hemmer, Knowbotic Research, Ulrike Gabriel, et al.
- San Sebastian, Spain2008 Net.Culture.Space at Museumsquartier 21 (March 18th – May 6th 2008)
sponsored by Ars Electronica and Telecom Austria
- Vienna, Austria
2007 NTT-ICC Museum (Nov 23 2007 – Feb 17 2008)
"silent_dialogue --invisible communication"
exhibiting artists: Masaki Fujihata, Lois and Franziska Weinberger, Felix Hess, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau et al.
- Tokyo, Japan
2007 Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum (June 14 – August 26) “Just Use It !”
with works by Yoko Ono, Feliz Gonzales-Torres, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jeppe Hein, Marco Evaristti, Dieter Buchhart
curated by Anna-Karina Hofbauer
- Aalborg, Denmark
2007 Centraal Museum Utrecht (April 14 – August 12, 2007)
“Genesis – Life at the End of Information Age”
with works by Mark Dion, Charles and Ray Eames, George Gessert,
Eduardo Kac, Frieder Nake, Karl Sims, Stan Vanderbeek, Steina & Woody Vasulka, James Watson and Francis Crick, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, John Whitney
Curator: Peter Weibel, ZKM Karlsruhe
- Utrecht, Netherlands
2006 "BioArt" (Nov 7th-12th)
at the Czech Academy of Science
organized by ciant
- Prague, Tcheck Republic
2006 "Night Garden" (Nov 3rd 2006 - Jan07 2007)
at the Mediamatic
- Amsterdam, Netherland
2005 “Touch Me”
curated by Lauren Parker
Victoria and Albert Museum
- London, UK
2005 “ElectroScape” Intern. New Media Art Exhibition
curated by Wonil Rhee
Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
- Shanghai, China
2004 Digital Avant-Garde – 25 years of Ars Electronica
curated by Benjamin Weil
Lentos Museum
- Linz, Austria
2004 Digital Avant-Garde - celebrating 25years of Ars Electronica
curated by Benjamin Weil
Eyebeam
- New York, USA
2001 Bits and Pieces Joseloff Gallery at Hartford Art School
- Hartford, USA
2000 Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin "Das
Neue Berlin - Zeitreise"
-Berlin, Germany
1999 "Biennal du Mercosul"
-Mercosul, Brasil
1999 "Material-Immaterial"
- International Media Art Exhibition
- Bozen, Italy
1997 Museo de Monterrey, "Arte Virtual - Realidad
Plural"
-Monterrey, Mexiko
1997 Media
Museum of the ZKM
permanent collection: "Interactive Plant Growing"
-Karlsruhe, Germany
1996 Henie
Onstad Kunstcenter
- Oslo, Norway
1996 Cyber
96
- Lisbon, Portugal
1995 ExtraMuseum
ArsLab - I Sensi del Virtuale
- Turino, Italy
1995 Kwangju
Biennale (curated by Nam Jun Paik)
Info Art Pavilion
- Kwangju, Korea
1995 Images du Future
curated by Hervé Fischer
"L'art interactif"
- Montreal, Canada
1995 The
Interaction '95
curated by Itsuo Sakane
International interactive computer art
- Ogaki City, Gifu Japan
1995 Kulturpraemie
curated by Kasper Koenig
BASF Ludwigshafen
- Ludwigshafen, Germany
1995 Center of Contemporary Art
curated by Ryszard W. Kluszczy?ski
International Film, Video and Computer Art
- Warschau, Poland
1994 ICC
Intercommunication Gallery
ICC-Intercommunication Center, 2 exhibitions
- Tokyo, Japan
1994 Arte Virtual
curated by Rafael Lozano hemmer
"12 Propuestas de Arte Reactivo"
- Madrid, Spain
1994 Carre Seita
curated by Michel Corbou
Rendez-Vous d'Imagina
- Paris, France
1994 Imagina 94 -
curated by Michel Corbou
- Monte Carlo, Monaco
1993 Minneapolis College of Art
and Design
Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art
- Minneapolis, USA
1993 Eldorado Media Festival Antwerpen
- Antwerpen, Belgium
1993 Siggraph 93
Machine Culture: The Virtual Frontier
curated by Simon Penny
-Anaheim, Californien, USA
1993 Ars
Electronica '93 -
"Genetic Art - Artificial Life"
- Linz, Austria
1993 Institut fuer Neue Medien
curated by Peter Weibel
"Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt"
- Frankfurt, Germany
1993 Otso Gallery
curated by Erkki Huhtamo
"Interactive Garden"
- Helsinki, Finland
1993 Mediale 93
- Hamburg, Germany
1992 Zeitschnitt 92
Aktuelle Kunst aus Österreich
- Vienna, Austria
