Bildhauerei guest lectures: Lara Almarcegui
Rotterdam-based Spanish artist Lara Almarcegui (Zaragoza, 1972) often explores neglected sites, carefully cataloguing and highlighting each location's tendency towards entropy. As Spain’s representative to the 55th Venice Biennial, she filled the pavilion with massive piles of building rubble similar to that used for it’s construction. Working at a time of widespread urban renewal in Europe, she has remained a champion of forgotten sites — creating guides for the cities’ wastelands and even instigating their legal protection.
Recent solo exhibitions include Gravel, Gallery Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam (2018), Sand, Kunstverein Springhornhof, (2017); Le Gypse, Casino Luxembourg (2016); Kunsthaus Baselland; Gemeente Museum Den Haag (2015); Mineral Rights, Gallery Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (2015); Gisement, Gallery Mor Charpenter, Paris; Underneath, Gallery Parra y Romero, Madrid; Spanish Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennial, CREDAC, Ivry sur Seine (2013)