Stigter Van Doesburg - Contemporary Art Gallery

Amalia Pica

Amalia Pica's exhibition is a wordless narrative, an invitation to reflect on the construction, composition and effectiveness of all narrative and all language: in short, a visual semiotics. And it is also a playful take on the way we reconstruct events and the fictional recreation that takes place when making history, when linking one thing after another into a bigger narrative.

Amalia Pica uses sculpture, performance, installation and photography to explore the nuances of communication.

Amalia Pica lives and works in London (UK).

(UN)HEARD

Plastered noise-making objects of protest

Amalia Pica

JOY IN PAPERWORK

Office stamps on paper

Amalia Pica

INSTALLATION VIEW THE POWERPLANT

Installation

Amalia Pica

PLEASE OPEN HURRY (IN MEMORY OF WASHOE)

Plaster

Amalia Pica

INSTALLATION VIEW SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Installation

Amalia Pica

INSTALLATION VIEW KUNSTVEREIN FREIBURG

Installation

Amalia Pica

INSTALLATION VIEW BRISBANE INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART

Installation

Amalia Pica

SILVERWARE

Tools made by chimpansees out of forest wood to extract food such as honey or insects, cast in silver.

Amalia Pica

UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENT (A TRIBUTE TO THE NAGOYA TV-TOWER)

TV-antennas made of found material

Amalia Pica

UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENT (A TRIBUTE TO THE NAGOYA TV-TOWER)

Tv-antennas made out of found material

Amalia Pica

A INTERSECTION B INTERSECTION C (DETAIL)

Installation view Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX

Amalia Pica

CATACHRESIS #25

Head of the screw, eye of the needle, teeth of the comb, head of the nail

Amalia Pica

A INTERSECTION B INTERSECTION C (INSTALLATION)

Installation Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX

Amalia Pica

CATACHRESIS SERIES (INSTALLATION VIEW)

Installation view at Art Basel 43

Amalia Pica

CATACHRESIS #10

Leg of the chair, neck of the bottle)

Amalia Pica

SOME OF THAT COLOR (1)

Paper flags, drained dye on watercolor paper and chair

Amalia Pica

MEMORIAL FOR INTERSECTIONS #11

Colour coated steel and coloured Perspex

Amalia Pica

MEMORIAL FOR INTERSECTIONS #12

Colour coated steel and coloured Perspex

Amalia Pica

TO EVERYONE THAT WAVES (INSTALLATION VIEW)

16mm B/W film, 3 min 36 sec. with stack of white handkerchiefs on white plinth

Amalia Pica

DEVICE FOR MUTUAL EAVESDROPPING #4

Drinking glasses and wood

Amalia Pica

DEVICE FOR MUTUAL EAVESDROPPING #5

Drinking glasses and wood

Amalia Pica

CATHACHRESIS #20

Teeth of the comb, legs of the sofa, legs of the table, tongue of the shoe

Amalia Pica

SORRY FOR THE METHAPHORE #1

A3 b/w photo copies, dimensions variable

Amalia Pica

VENN DIAGRAMS (UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT)

Spotlights on tripod, motion sensors, lighting gels, and graphite on wall

Amalia Pica

INTERSECTION FRAGMENT #3 (PINK)

Ilford silver bromide fibre based print, coloured perspex, walnut frame

Amalia Pica

INTERSECTION FRAGMENT #3 (YELLOW)

Ilford silver bromide fibre based print, coloured perspex, walnut frame

Amalia Pica

2020	Round table (and other forms), Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
2019	Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville
2019	Private & Confidential, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2018	please open hurry, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2018	Cc Foundation, Shanghai
2017	The Power Plant, Toronto
2017	NC Arte, Bogota
2017	please open hurry, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2017	Instituto de Vision, Bogota, CO (two-person with Otto Berchem)
2016	Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, DE (forthcoming)
2016	El Nuevo Museo de Arts Contemporaneo, Cludad de Guatemala, GT (forthcoming)
2016	Mark Foxx, Los Angeles, US
2014	Switchboard, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales, UK.
2014	One Thing After Another, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL.
2014	One Thing After Another, La Criée, Rennes, FR.
2014	A ∩ B ∩ C (Line), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL.
2013	Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX
2013	Herald ST, London, UK
2013	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
2013	Galerie Johann Konig, Berlin, DE
2013	Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Neuquen, AR
2013	Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT
2013	MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, MA, USA.
2012	Amalia Pica, Basis, Frankfurt, DL.
2012	Art Basel Statements, Galerie Diana Stigter
2012	Amalia Pica, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK.
2012	Amalia Pica, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK.
2012	Amalia Pica and Karsten Födinger, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, CH
2011	‘I am Tower of Hamlets, as I am in Towers of Hamlets, just like a lot of other people are’, ChisenhX
2011	‘Endymion’s Journey’, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2011	‘Umma Projects’, University of Michigan Museum of Art, USA.
2011	Skor Inkijk, Amsterdam, NL.
2010	‘Alongside' (with Leonor Antunes), Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2010	‘babble, blabber, chatter, gibber, jabber, patter, prattle, rattle, yammer, yada Malmo Konsthall, SE
2010	‘babble, blabber, chatter, gibber, jabber, patter, prattle, rattle, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2010	‘Alon Levin presents Arte Shows: Amalia Pica’, Klemms, Berlin, DE.
2009	'Some of that colour', Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL.
2009	'On Education', Project Space Galerie Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, DK.
2008	‘Sorry for the metaphor’, Artis, Den Bosch, NL.
2007	’Grayscale’, BijlmAIR, Amsterdam, NL.
2006	‘Si no estas tu’, PlayStation of Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL.
2003	‘Final Insomne’, INTER / medio, Cordoba, AR.
2002	‘Colectivo-Colectiva’ with M Cordiano, L Green y T Espina, Arguibel Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, AR.

2020	FRAC Lorraine, Metz
2019	Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2019	Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
2019	Moon Golem, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
2019	Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires
2019	A∩B∩C∩A∩B∩C, a reading, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2019	Borderilne, Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
2018	Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2018	Darbyshire, Gander, Pica, Starling, Hayward Gallery, London
2017	Curators’ Series #10. Greater than the Sum, Lisbon
2017	Dark Matter, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
2017	Double Edge, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone
2017	The String Traveller, S.M.A.K, Ghent
2017	A Gesture Towards Transformation, Tenderpixel, London
2017	Soundtracks, SFMOMA, San Francisco
2017	Drawing Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London
2017	The Shyness of the Crowns, 49 NORD 6, Metz
2017	Amalia Pica and Otto Berchem, Instituto de Vision, Bogotá
2017	MAZ–Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan
2017	Murmur, NetwerkCenter for Contemporary Art, Aalst
2017	Nieuw Amsterdams Peil: Where do we go from here?, Amsterdam
2017	EAT SLEEP WORK REPEAT, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh
2017	CONDO, Herald St, London
2017	Asamble (performance), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2017	La timidité des cimes, FRAC Lorraine, Metz
2016	One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2016	Spielerei, SCHUNCK
2016	Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, South London Gallery, London
2016	Manifesta 11, Zurich
2016	Strangers (performance), Switch House, Tate Modern, London
2016	Informed Matter, curated by Rosario Güiraldes, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, New York
2016	XVI Biennale Donna I SILENCIO VIVO. Artiste dall’America Latina, GAMC, Ferrara
2016	El que camina al la do, curated by Ana Luiza Teixeira and Claudia Segura Campins, Travesia Cuatro, M
2016	Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
2016	The Space Between, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts
2015	Un Nouveau festival / Expanding the Field of Play, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2015	Asamble, performance on Plaza de los dos Congresos, BP.15 Performance Biennale, Buenos Aires, AR
2015	Epur Si Mouve: Art and Technology, a Shared Sphere, MUDAM Luxembourg, LU
2015	San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, Intituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, PR
2015	Pipe Dream, WUK / Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT.
2015	Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim, NY, US
2015	Do it, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2015	Adventures of the Black Square, Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB
2015	Display Show, curator Celine Condorelli, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, GB
2015	Display Show, curator Celine Condorelli, Stroom den Haag, NL
2015	Vienna Biennale, MAK, Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartkunst
2015	Repetition and Difference, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
2015	Frieze Projects 2015: Tribute to Flux-Labyrinth (1976/2015), Frieze, New York, US
2015	Beauty Codes, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT
2014	BEYON THE PROCESS – Werke aus der SAMMLUNG LENIKUS im Kunstraum Innsbruck, AT
2014	From Speaker to Receiver - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2014	Histories: Works From The Serralves Collection-Museu Serralves- Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
2014	do it Moscow - Garage Center for Contemporary Culture - GCCC, Moscow, RU
2014	Call me on Sunday - Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, AT
2013	When Attitude Became form Became Attitudes,CCA Wattis, San Francisco, US
2013	When Attitude Became form Became Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, US
2013	Ruins in Reverse, Tate Modern project Space, London, GB
2013	Ruins in Reverse, Museo De Arte De Lima, PE
2012	Silence, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, US
2012	Material Information, Permanenten Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, NO
2012	New Works, Herald Street, London UK
2012	Silence, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, US
2012	Common Ground, Public Art Fund, New York, US
2012	Ritual without Myth, Royal College of Art, London, GB
2012	On Geometry and Speculation, Marrakech Biennale, MA
2012	The Ungovernables, The New Museum, New York, US
2012	‘Au loin, une ile!’, Fondation Ricard, Paris, FR
2011	’Au loin, une ile!’, FRAC Bordeaux, FR
2011	‘Coup d’eclat’, Fort du Bruissin, Francheville, FR
2011	‘Distant Star’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
2011	‘Estrella Distante’, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MX
2011	‘CIFO Grants and Commissions Program’, Cisneros Fontanais Art Foundation, Miami, US
2011	’ILLUMInations’, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
2011	’Wallpaperism’, Motel Campio, Geneva, CH
2011	’WELTRAUM/SPACE: ABOUT A DREAM’ Kunsthalle Wien, Aut
2010	’To the highest mountain’, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, DK
2010	'With words like smoke', Chelsea Project Space, London GB
2010	‘Buen viaje’ for ‘Hey, we are closed’, Hayward Gallery, London, GB
2010	Aichi Triennial 2010, Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, JP
2010	’The Chained Lady, the Microscope and the Southern Fish', SoFA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
2010	Figures don’t lie but liars can figure’ (performance with Mariana Castillo Debal), Serpentine,LN,UK
2009	'Every version belongs to the myth'’, Project Arts Center, Dublin, IE
2009	'Pete and repeate', 176 Zabludowicz Collection project space, London, GB
2009	'Manifestacion Internacional de performance', CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR.
2009	'Deceitful moon', Hayward Gallery project space, London, GB
2009	'Amalia Pica & Felix Gmelin', Vilma Gold Gallery, London, GB
2009	‘Street of Sculptures’, Open Source, Public Realm, Amsterdam, NL.
2008	‘Word Event’, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
2008	‘Nothing of North’, curated by Alexandra Saheb Gallery, Berlin, DE
2008	‘Robinson Crusoe’, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES
2008	’Certamen Explum’, Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia, ES
2007	’Drawing typologies’ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2007	’Border Jam’ Museo Municipal Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo, UR
2007	‘I know the world 2’, Spawasser Hq, Berlin, DE
2007	‘100 x winter’, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, NL
2006	‘Lichtjaren. Gouda bij kunstlicht’, SKOR, Gouda (public realm), Gouda, NL
2006	‘We all laughed at Christopher Columbus’, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TR
2006	‘We all laughed at Christopher Columbus’, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2006	‘International 2006’, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, GB
2006	‘In order of appearance’, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
2005	‘Open Ateliers 2005’, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2005	Utrechtse Voormalige, ‘Poetics of a place’, Utrecht, NL
2004	‘Open Ateliers 2005’, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2004	‘Who if not we…? Cordially Invited, episode 3’, BAK, Utrecht, NL

Wednesday - Friday	12:00-18:00
Saturday -	13:00-18:00

Amalia Pica

(UN)HEARD, 2016

(UN)HEARD

Plastered noise-making objects of protest

Amalia Pica

JOY IN PAPERWORK, 2016

JOY IN PAPERWORK

Office stamps on paper

Amalia Pica

INSTALLATION VIEW THE POWERPLANT, 2017

INSTALLATION VIEW THE POWERPLANT

Installation

Amalia Pica

PLEASE OPEN HURRY (IN MEMORY OF WASHOE), 2017

PLEASE OPEN HURRY (IN MEMORY OF WASHOE)

Plaster

Amalia Pica

INSTALLATION VIEW SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 2017

INSTALLATION VIEW SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Installation

Amalia Pica

INSTALLATION VIEW KUNSTVEREIN FREIBURG, 2016

INSTALLATION VIEW KUNSTVEREIN FREIBURG

Installation

Amalia Pica

INSTALLATION VIEW BRISBANE INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, 2017

INSTALLATION VIEW BRISBANE INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART

Installation

Amalia Pica

SILVERWARE, 2017

SILVERWARE

Tools made by chimpansees out of forest wood to extract food such as honey or insects, cast in silver.

Amalia Pica

UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENT (A TRIBUTE TO THE NAGOYA TV-TOWER), 2010

UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENT (A TRIBUTE TO THE NAGOYA TV-TOWER)

TV-antennas made of found material

Amalia Pica

UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENT (A TRIBUTE TO THE NAGOYA TV-TOWER), 2010

UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENT (A TRIBUTE TO THE NAGOYA TV-TOWER)

Tv-antennas made out of found material

Amalia Pica

A INTERSECTION B INTERSECTION C (DETAIL), 2013

A INTERSECTION B INTERSECTION C (DETAIL)

Installation view Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX

Amalia Pica

CATACHRESIS #25, 2012

CATACHRESIS #25

Head of the screw, eye of the needle, teeth of the comb, head of the nail

Amalia Pica

A INTERSECTION B INTERSECTION C (INSTALLATION), 2013

A INTERSECTION B INTERSECTION C (INSTALLATION)

Installation Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX

Amalia Pica

CATACHRESIS SERIES (INSTALLATION VIEW), 2012

CATACHRESIS SERIES (INSTALLATION VIEW)

Installation view at Art Basel 43

Amalia Pica

CATACHRESIS #10, 2011

CATACHRESIS #10

Leg of the chair, neck of the bottle)

Amalia Pica

SOME OF THAT COLOR (1), 2009

SOME OF THAT COLOR (1)

Paper flags, drained dye on watercolor paper and chair

Amalia Pica

MEMORIAL FOR INTERSECTIONS #11, 2014

MEMORIAL FOR INTERSECTIONS #11

Colour coated steel and coloured Perspex

Amalia Pica

MEMORIAL FOR INTERSECTIONS #12, 2014

MEMORIAL FOR INTERSECTIONS #12

Colour coated steel and coloured Perspex

Amalia Pica

TO EVERYONE THAT WAVES (INSTALLATION VIEW), 2005

TO EVERYONE THAT WAVES (INSTALLATION VIEW)

16mm B/W film, 3 min 36 sec. with stack of white handkerchiefs on white plinth

Amalia Pica

DEVICE FOR MUTUAL EAVESDROPPING #4, 2013

DEVICE FOR MUTUAL EAVESDROPPING #4

Drinking glasses and wood