Photography Zeynep Firat @zeynepfirt
LUZ BLANCO
French-Spanish artist
Lives and works in Paris
Represented by Sanatorium Gallery, Istanbul
EDUCATION
Duperré, Applied Arts High School, Paris. Qualified.
Master diploma: The light and its artefacts / Video & multimedia
COLLECTIONS
2021 / Istanbul Modern museum , Istanbul
2020 / Centre d'art contemporain Tignous, Montreuil,
CURATING
2021 / "Déjà Vu"
Curating: Luz Blanco & Jean-baptiste Perrot
Plateforme gallery, Paris
2019 / Fragments of a Hologram Rose
Curating: Luz Blanco & Ludovic Bernhardt
Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 / Floating Image - Solo exhibition - June 10 - 2022 - Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 / News from Nowhere - solo exhibition - Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 / Soft Error - solo exhibition - Plateforme gallery, Paris
2015 / Inside, duo with Ludovic Bernhardt, IIC Indian International Center, New-Delhi, India
2015 / Domestic, duo event, Istanbul
2014 / Eden - The End - solo exhibition - Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2012 / I don’t remember - solo exhibition - Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / ARTS FAIRS (Selected)
2023 / Biennale de l'Image Tangible - Paris
14 > 26 october 2023
2023 / Contemporary Istanbul'2023
with Sanatorium Gallery
26 sept > October 1
2023 / ART BRUSSELS 2023
with Sanatorium Gallery
20 > 23 april 2023
2023 / 2022 / Artists' jewelry
In EAST gallery, Strasbourg.
3 december > 4 February 2023
With Jean Arp, Peter Blake, Thomas Bayrle, Luz Blanco, Marine Chevanse, Osman Dinç, Jimmie Durham, ORLAN, Eduardo Paolozzi, Nicolas Schneider, Jamila Wallentin
2022 / VIVARIUM
in Plateforme gallery, Paris
Artists: Karine Adrover, Camille Benarab-Lopez, Caroline.T. Bender, Luz Blanco,
Nathalie Borowski, Stefan Brion, Philippe Calandre, Dominique Clerc,
Vidya-Kélie, Éric Le Maire, François Ronsiaux, Esther Wuhrlin.
2022 / Artweeks Akaretler / 7th edition
with Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2022 / Contemporary Istanbul, Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2022 / MINE, YOURS, OURS: SUGAR. "Sugar from the East",
Curating : Ferenc Gróf - Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia.
2022 / Artweeks Akaretler / 6th edition, Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2021-2022 / SUGAR, Industrial Heritage and Colonialism
Curating : Ferenc Gróf
< rotor > , centre for contemporary art - Graz, Austria
2021 / "Déjà Vu", mémoire, parasitages et fantômes de réalité.
Curating: Luz Blanco & Jean-baptiste Perrot, in Plateforme gallery, Paris
Artists: Luz Blanco, Pauline Dufour, Jean-baptiste Perrot, Samuel Yal, Brankica Žilović
2021 / Artweeks Akaretler , Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2021 / Contemporary Istanbul, Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2020 / Eastern Sugar, Galerie La Box, Bourges
Curating : Ferenc Gróf / Artists: Ilona Németh, Graciela Carnevale, Chris Marker, Fokus Grupa, Olivier Marboeuf, Ludovic Bernhardt, Luz Blanco, Honoré Daumier, Thibault Gauthier, Matteo Locci, Mariana Lombard et Samuel Ferreto, Kyo-Hyun Kim, Anna Poncho .
2020 / #Untitled, The Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2020 / Cibler le vivant - Centre d'art contemporain Tignous, Montreuil, France
Curating: Samantha Beck / Artists: Ludovic Bernhardt, Pascal Battus, Luz Blanco, Nathalie Noé Adam, Olga Karpinsky
2019 / Artificial Bloom; Fluid Archives - Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
Curating: Melih Aydemir / Artists: Zeynep Beler, Luz Blanco, and Christiane Peschek
2019 / Fragments of a Hologram Rose - Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
Curating: Ludovic Bernhardt, Luz Blanco
Artists: Chim↑Pom, Cari Gonzalez Casanova, Berkay Tuncay, Sergen Sehitoglu, Eric Arlix, Erol Eskici,
2018 Genèses - Aedaen gallery, Strasbourg
Curators: The Sloughis / Artists: Orlan, Thomas Bayrle, Nicolas Schneider, Osman Dinç.
2017 / Wiennachten - Propaganda gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
Artistes: KNOLL gallery- Blue Noses , Csaba Nemes, Akos Birkas, András J. Nagy, Kamil Kukla,
SCAG gallery - Ludovic Bernhardt , Luz Blanco - STEINEK gallery - Renate Bertlmann, Sébastien de Ganay Olga Georgieva , Matthias Herrmann, Gudrun Kampl, Jana Sterbak, Anouk Lamm Anouk, Clemens Wolf
2017 / Viennacontemporary, Sanatorium gallery, Vienna, Austria
2017 / MAD, Multiple art days, in La maison rouge, Paris. With (Global)*Z & Plateforme gallery
2015 / Contemporary Istanbul, Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2015 / Art Paris, Sanatorium gallery, Grand-Palais, Paris
2014 / Contemporary Istanbul - Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2014 / Sublime - Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul - Curator : Elif Gül Tirben / Artists : Ludovic Bernhardt, Luz Blanco, Orhan Cem Çetin, Erol Eskici, Handan Figen, Ahmet Doğu İpek, Çağla Köseoğulları, Kemal Özen,Yağız Özgen, Zeyno Pekünlü, Sergen Şehitoğlu, Sevil Tunaboylu,
2013 / ViennaFair, Sanatorium gallery, Vienna, Austria.
2013 / Contemporary Istanbul - Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul
2013 / Sanatorium to Okan',Okan University, Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition Space, Istanbul
Artists : Liu Bolin,Luo Qing, Luz Blanco, Ludovic Bernhardt, Stephan Kaluza
PROJECT
2018 / Contemporary literary & poetry journal - Group project directed by Ellen H. Mitchell,
Edited by Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, USA
2018 / Vanitas - Jewelry Art piece / Curated by The Sloughis
Necklace, gold and silver / edition 8+4 - Produced by URART , Istanbul
2017 / Missing - Artist Book - Excerpted from the "Confessions",St Augustine,Book X, chapter 13.
Presented by Studio Montespecchio, ( in Paris, Barcelone, Turin, New-york )
in its "alalimite 2a*" selection
and "YOU Books by women artists" collection.
2015 / Graphic Journalism for "Internazionale" magazine, Italy
2013 / Graphic Journalism for "Internazionale" magazine, Italy
2002 / Icons / Pondichéry / Artistic research in India: political iconography in India and Tibet,
with Ludovic Bernhardt /Supporting by Paris cultural department.
ARTICLES
2019 / Art Unlimited - about "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" exhibition, by Ezgi Yurteri
2015 / The Deccan Herald, "Of maps, boundaries, memories", by Shilpa Raina
2015 / The Daily pioneer, "The soul of dots", by Shrabasti Mallik
2014 / Istanbul Art News, "Baslangic, hatiralar ve son", by Tugba Esen
2014 / Istanbul Art News, " Piyasa ekrani"
2012 / Today Zaman, "An exhibition on memory", by H. Amsen Utku
2012 / Haberturk, "Hatirtamiyorum", by Hülia Kupçuoglu - 2012
