Cecilia Bengolea (Buenos Aires, 1979), works on a range of media including performance, video and sculpture. Using dance as a tool and a medium for radical empathy and emotional exchange. Infused with the symbolic energies found within nature and relationships, her compositions are formed around ideas of the body - both individually and collectively - as a medium. Bengolea develops a broad artistry where she sees movement, dance and performance as animated sculpture.
Bengolea has collaborated with dancehall artists such as Craig Black Eagle, Bombom DHQ, Damion BG, and with artists Dominique Gonzalez Forster and Jeremy Deller. Her collaborative work with French choreographer François Chaignaud, Pâquerette (2005-2008) and Sylphides (2009), have earned several awards such as the Award de la Critique de Paris in 2010 and the Young Artist Prize at the Gwangju Biennial in 2014. They have also co-created dance pieces for their dance company as well as for the Ballet de Lyon (2013), the Ballet de Lorraine (2014) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal.
SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Mistake Room, Los Angeles-Installation and performance program collaboration with Ceramica Suro
Museo Eco, Mexico City-performance and video
Mudam, Luxembourg- performance and video installation
2021 Animations in water, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Oneness Barroco, commission ArtBasel Messeplatz Basel
Baiser Mortel, Bourse du Commerce, Collection Pinault
Es siempre verano en algun lugar del planeta, Angels Barcelona, Barcelona
2020 Dancehall Weather, Tryptique. Jean Nouvel train Station, Champel, Geneva
Liquid Guru, Gallerie Andreh-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
2019 Alliga, Sfer ik, Tulum
Oneness, Der Tank, Art Basel, Basel
La danza de la esponja, Arte Ba, Faena Festival, Buenos Aires
2018 La danza de la esponja Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
2017 Sylphides and Dub Love, with Francois Chaignaud, Dia Art Fondation, Beacon, Upstate New York
2016 ANSYTAE, with Francois Chaignaud, Tokyo Spiral Hall
2015 Georges Condo’ s Masques, with François Chaignaud, Block Universe, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Yes, It moves !, Copenhaguen Contemporary, Bikuben Vision Award 2021
2022 Be Water, CAC Cincinatti Museum
The Imposters, VAC Moscow
2021 Triptych, 13ThGwangju Biennale
Lux, 180 Studios, London
Drawings, Angels Barcelona
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, ArtBasel Basel
Shelly Belly inna Real life, Parcours ArtBasel
La chambre humaine de Dominique Gonzalez Forster, Galerie Chantal Croussel
Grimlove, Exposition Universelle 2020 Dubai, Art Explora
Autres Habitants, Art Explora Dubai-Paris
Sweat, Haus der Kunst Munich
Grimlove, Fiac Paris, Musée du Louvre, Art Explora
2020 More, more More, Tank Shanghai
Danse au fond de la mer, Angels Barcelona, Art Geneve
Ceramics and drawings, Angels Barcelona, Arco Madrid
Lightning Dance, Highline Art Program, New York
Film Program. LEFEST- Festival de video, selection par Pascale Cassagnau, Loop Barcelona
2019 Mosquito Net, DesertX, Salton Sea
Dancehall Weather, Pompidou Center, Paris
Les Trois Grâces, Engadin Art Talks, Engadin
Serendipity, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisboa
Lightning Dance, Loop Barcelona, Angels Barcelona
Before We Die, with Michele Lamy, Performa19, New York
Sylphides, with Francois Chaignaud, Fondation Giacometti, Paris
Favorite Positions, with Francois Chaignaud, Fiac, Louvre Museum, Paris
Anti-clock wise spin, Frieze Live, London Angels Barcelona
2018 Carnival des animaux de la mer, TBA21, Chiessa San Lorenzo, Venice
Volcano Extravaganza, Stromboli. Fiorucci Arts Trust Program
Volcano Extravaganza, Dhaka Summit.
Repetition et Roy, Consortium Dijon, Almanch
Party Animal- Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo
Repetition et Roy, Brussells Independent, Almine Rech
2017 Auto Body II Faena Art Centre
Same Same Joy, Elevation, Gstaad
Art Night, ICA London
2016 The Infinite Mix, Hayward Gallery, London
Bombom’s Dream, Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo, Incerteza Viva
2015 Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Fig2, ICA, London
Auto Body, Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires
In dialogue with Charles Atlas, Tate Modern, London
Rythm ass poetry, La vie Moderne, Lyon Biennial, Lyon
2014 Sylphides, Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju
(M)Mimosa, Centre Pompidou
Cecilia Bengolea’s work is a part of numerous public and private collections including TBA21 Accademy, Mire Fond Cantonal de La Ville de Geneve, The Vinyl Factory, Le CNAP, Le Consortium, Peter Handschin and Martin Hatebur, Fiorucci Arts and Trusts, Tank Shanghai, Fundacion Arco, Jimena Blazquez Bonte, Fernando Arriola.