Forest of Being Time
Exhibition / presentation
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01-07-2023 t/m 24-09-2023
- Location: Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei
- Based on the TFAM collection of Time-Based Media, Forest of being Time attempts to explore the “liminal/marginal moments” in contemporary art and to locate the space-time of passage “between” here and there.
- https://www.tfam.museum/index.aspx?ddlLang=en-us
Mondriaan Residency - Pumping Station
Residencies / exchange
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06-02-2023 t/m 31-03-2023
- In collaboration with: Mondriaan Fund
- Location: Pumping station, Den Helder
- A residency undertaken with Erika Roux investigating water management in the Netherlands.
Residency - Buitenplaats Brienenoord
Residencies / exchange
La Hormigas (performance)
Performance
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29-10-2022 t/m 17-12-2022
- In collaboration with: Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Venue: Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, Perth
- 60mins. Three unreliable narrators play members of the artist's family, constantly changing roles, as they attempt to piece together testimonies of a past mediated through Mata Dupont's auto-fiction screenplay, interweaving elements of family drama, and experimental, absurdist performance With new scenes added and removed each week, it depicts a live negotiation in contested, half-remembered memories.
- https://pilarmatadupont.com/Las-Hormigas
Las Hormigas/The Ants (exhibition)
Exhibition / presentation
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28-10-2022 t/m 08-01-2023
- Venue: Perth Institute of Contremporary Arts, Perth
- Across Las Hormigas, Mata Dupont's works play out the complex, constantly unfolding process of remembering, forgetting, and rewriting history. The exhibition debuts a new performance and video installation drawing from the artist's rich archive of her family's history, assembled over a period of almost ten years. Presented in the adjoining galleries is La Maruja (2021) – a powerful series of large-scale photographs and a single-channel video, continuing her theatrical and cinematic explorations
- https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pilar-mata-dupont/
A TableRead
Performance
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04-12-2021 t/m 05-12-2021
- In collaboration with: WET
- Location: Hillevliet 90, Rotterdam
- A Table Read is an autofictive performance, unfolding fragmentary information collected from women in Mata Dupont's family who lived through the last military dictatorship in Argentina. With with Petra Ball, Ratri Notosudirdjo, and Lili Ullrich. Dramaturgy by Nicola Unger. Costume by Rico Dyks. Co-produced by WET, Rotterdam.
- http://wetfilm.org/2021/11/23/a-table-read-a-performance-by-pilar-mata-dupont/
Only Weeds Emerge
Exhibition / presentation
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27-09-2018 t/m 02-12-2018
- In collaboration with: TENT; CBK; video brasil; Culture and the Arts, WA; Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation; FORM WA
- Location: TENT, Rotterdam
- TENT presented the first solo exhibition of Pilar Mata Dupont in the Netherlands. In three theatrical video installations she depicted the dormant presence of colonial histories in contemporary culture and in the natural landscape. Invasive plants, dormant seeds, the red soil of Western Australia and a tap dancer played the main role.
- https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/tentoonstelling/pilar-mata-dupont-only-weeds-emerge/
The Ague
Exhibition / presentation
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01-01-2019 t/m 01-02-2019
- In collaboration with: Wexner Center for the Arts, Videobrasil, Culture and the Arts, WA.
- Location: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Box, Columbus
- Set in London's Kew Gardens and adapted from Virginia Woolf's short story on the site, Pilar Mata Dupont's solo exhibition, 'The Ague' is a hallucinatory wandering through the world's largest and most diverse collection of living plants. Upending scientific and historical narratives and conflating truth and misinformation, the Australian artist's newest work explores the underlying systemic presence of colonial legacies in contemporary culture and the environment.
- https://wexarts.org/film-video/pilar-mata-dupont
Into the Open
Exhibition / presentation
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22-02-2020 t/m 01-03-2020
- Location: Te Papa, on the waterfront, Wellington
- Throughout history, public spaces have been the setting for both shared catharsis and collective imagination. Into the Open is a program of moving-image artworks that will be projected along the waterfront throughout the Festival. Responding to the programs curated by Lemi Ponifasio, Laurie Anderson and Bret McKenzie, this three-week series brings into the open artistic visions of what it means to be human, together.
- https://www.festival.nz/events/all/open/
Island Tales - Taiwan and Australia
Exhibition / presentation
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16-11-2019 t/m 01-03-2020
- In collaboration with: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
- Location: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
- As opposed to history, which emphasizes realistic descriptions of the past, tales employ fictional language to interpret and reinterpret stories from the past and various subjects. This process of “remémoration” forms a bridge between time and locality. The exhibition sets out from a rewriting of history, and recruit 13 artists from Taiwan and West Australia were invited to be part of this journey inspired by the idea of tales.
- https://www.tfam.museum/Exhibition/Exhibition_page.aspx?ddlLang=en-us&id=660
The National - New Australian Art
Exhibition / presentation
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29-03-2019 t/m 21-07-2019
- In collaboration with: Wynscreen
- Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- A six-year initiative over three editions in 2017, 2019 and 2021, the curatorial vision for the exhibition represents a mix of emerging, mid-career and established artists drawn from around the country and Australian artists practicing overseas.
- https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/pilar-mata-dupont/shuffle/
NewHistory
Exhibition / presentation
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13-04-2018 t/m 25-07-2018
- In collaboration with: Australia Council for the Arts, CBK; Seecum Cheung, Maike Hemmers, Isabelle Sully, Flora Woudstra, Helen Zeru.
- Location: Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
- In New Histories contemporary artists reimagine ten historic works from the collection at Bendigo Art Gallery. Informed by technological, social, environmental, political and historical events that have occurred since the original work's creation, artists in the exhibition revisit interpretations of Australian and European histories through the lens of contemporary culture. I made 'Attending to Agnes' with Rotterdam artists, Seecum Cheung, Maike Hemmers, Isabelle Sully and Flora Woudstra.
- https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/bendigo-art-gallery/exhibitions/new-histories
Undesirable Bodies
Exhibition / presentation
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01-02-2018 t/m 06-04-2018
- In collaboration with: FORM WA; Culture and the Arts WA; Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation
- Location: FORM Gallery, Perth
- Pilar Mata Dupont returns to Western Australia this February with Undesirable Bodies, a major exhibition installation exploring colonial legacies and ecological conservation. Filmed in the Pilbara region, Undesirable Bodies challenges Euro-centric notions of beauty through striking images and a three-screen video. Using invasive flora species as her primary subject, Mata Dupont explores conflicting contemporary issues at Jirndawurrunha, a sacred place for the Yindjibarndi People.
- https://archive.form.net.au/2018/02/undesirable-bodies-pilar-mata-dupont/
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin
Exhibition / presentation
Purgatory was itself a mountain
Exhibition / presentation
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03-09-2016 t/m 20-09-2016
- In collaboration with: Australia Council for the Arts, Culture and the Arts WA
- Location: Galleria Rajatila, Tampere
- In this solo exhibition are three recent, award-winning or nominated video works made in Australia, Germany, Switzerland. The films look at the mountain as a metaphor for alienation and inequity, and how history makes itself known in the present. Using allegorical adaptations of texts by Sigmund Freud, Dante Alighieri, and Thomas Mann, the works investigate group psychology and tyranny, the bureaucratese and politicization of asylum seeker policy, and the glorification of historical wars.
- https://rajataide.fi/pilar-mata-dupont-purgatory-was-itself-a-mountain/
Hotel Europa
Exhibition / presentation
The social contract
Exhibition / presentation
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30-06-2016 t/m 24-08-2020
- Location: Izolyastia Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kiev
- The exhibition that will be on view at IZOLYATSIA showcases various examples of rethinking, instrumentalizing and manipulating commemorative objects that shape our perception of collective history. The featured works deal with controversial monuments within different discourses - post-Soviet (Krassimir Terziev, Arseny Zhilyaev) and post-Cold War (Kristina Benjocki, Pilar Mata Dupont) - stimulating viewers to re-evaluate their own experiences.
- https://izolyatsia.org/en/project/social-contract
19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil
Exhibition / presentation
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06-10-2015 t/m 06-12-2015
- Location: Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo
- Created in 1983 by Solange Farkas, its chief curator ever since, the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil has been consolidating itself over the years as a diversified and multifaceted platform focused on promoting, fostering, and reflecting on the artistic production of the Global South.
- http://site.videobrasil.org.br/en/festival
Salon Fluchthilfe - Utopian Pulse, Flares in the Darkroom
Exhibition / presentation
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01-10-2014 t/m 16-08-2015
- Location: Secession and Württem. Kunstverein, Vienna and Stuttgart, Germany
- Focusing concrete sociopolitical situations, this group exhibition follows utopian projections that serve the purposes of secession from and resistance to our particular present. Utopia here is understood as an always incomplete alternative, the invocation within the given world of something incompatible with, and hostile to, given conditions.
- https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/30631/utopian-pulse-flares-in-the-darkroom/
SeMA Biennial: Mediacity Seoul 2014
Exhibition / presentation
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02-09-2014 t/m 23-12-2014
- Location: Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
- Mediacity Seoul is an international biennale of media art and contemporary art organized by Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). This year's artistic director is artist / film director Park Chan-kyong, who conceived the theme of exhibition as 'Asia' with the title, 'Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers'. More than 452 teams of artists from 51 countries have participated in total in the past exhibitions. This year, 42 international artists (teams included) from 17 countries are presenting their works.
- http://sema.seoul.go.kr/mediacityseoul/2014/en/index.html
kaiho
Exhibition / presentation
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26-09-2014 t/m 23-11-2014
- In collaboration with: Australia Council for the Arts
- Location: Pori Art Museum, Rappu screen space, Pori
- 'Kaiho', the solo exhibition by Australian artist Pilar Mata Dupont, is a video based triptych relating to the concept of the 'kaiho' (Finland's version of Saudade, or longing for something unobtainable). The trilogy has been created in various locations in Finland during the years 2011-2013. This is the premiere of the trilogy in Finland.
- http://www.poriartmuseum.fi/fin/nayttelyt/2014/158/mediaeng.pdf
Wagner 2013: Künstlerpositions
Exhibition / presentation
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07-12-2012 t/m 17-02-2013
- Location: Akademie der Künste - Hanseatenweg, Berlin
- Work made as part of Hold Your Horses. Group exhibition including: Christian Boltanski / Jean Kalman, Romeo Castellucci, Friedrich Dieckmann, Jürgen Flimm, Achim Freyer, Andreas Homoki, Alexander Kluge, Peter Konwitschny, Barrie Kosky, Jonathan Meese, Hans Neuenfels, Helmut Oehring, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Anna Viebrock , Robert Wilson.
- https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/sektionen/darstellende-kunst/schwerpunkte/wagner-2013.htm
Wexner Center for the Arts - film residency
Residencies / exchange
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, and Royal Pavilion
Residencies / exchange
Campbelltown Arts Center residency
Residencies / exchange
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01-03-2014 t/m 30-05-2014
- Location: Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney
- A residency awarded to create a commissioned work, 'Purgatorio', for the group exhibition, 'The List'.
- https://c-a-c.com.au/the-list-publication/
Asialink residency at the The National Art Studio
Residencies / exchange
Freud Museum residency
Residencies / exchange
Helsinki International Artist Program, Australia Council Studio
Residencies / exchange
Acknowledgments
Scholarship
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Australia Council for the Arts
- 2019
Scholarship
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Culture and the Arts WA
- 2019
Scholarship
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Culture and the Arts WA
- 2018
Scholarship
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Australia Council for the Arts
- 2015
Scholarship
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Culture and the Arts WA
- 2015
Scholarship
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Australia Council for the Arts
- 2022
Scholarship
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Mondrian residency
- 2023
Pricing
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Winner - Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art
- 2010
Pricing
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Winner - Plymouth Contemporary Open, UK
- 2015
Pricing
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Winner - Residency Prize, Videobrasil
- 2015
Collection
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Art Gallery of Western Australia
- 2018, Perth, Australia
Collection
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Campbelltown Arts Center
- 2015, Sydney, Australia
Collection
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Queensland Stadiums
- 2011, Brisbane, Australia
Collection
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Murdoch University of Art
- 2022, Perth, Australia
Collection
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Wesfarmers
- 2022, Perth, Australia
Publication
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Diaspora dialogues
- 2021
- Magazine article
- Metropolis M - Isabelle Sully
Publication
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Portfolio - Pilar Mata Dupont
- 2016
- Magazine article
- Even Magazine - Jason Farago
Publication
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Apropos Art
- 2019
- Magazine article
- CBK Rotterdam - Xandra Nibbeling et al