Lara Erel (*1989, Tassin-la-Demi-Lune in France)
I live and work in Lyon and Vienna (AT)
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For about three years, I have been researching the topic of having and being a body and what it means, when this body is female.
Drawing and painting are my main media but I also use ceramic, papier-mâché or printmaking.
​Education
2014-2020 studied graphics and printmaking at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (diploma)
2019-2020 Guest year in the class for Site-specific art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2017-18 Erasmus semester in the department of Monumental arts, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
Prices and Residencies
2020 Nomination for Ö1 Talentstipendium, Vienna (AT)
2018 Nomination for the Figurative Art Price of Bodenseekreis, Meersburg (D)
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Solo exhibitions
2022 Gentle Care, MAPRAA, Lyon (F)
2020 Soft Self, diploma exhibition, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna (AT)
2019 Waiting Zone, in the frame of Transit, Paulusplatz 5, Vienna (AT)
2018 re-collection, KAESH MAESH, Vienna (AT)
2017 First Settlement, VDA Outdoors Expo, Vilnius (LT)
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Group exhibitions
2023
leerstoff, with collective living rooms, Eisenbergerfabrik, Gmünd (AT)
Supersachen, collaborative shop between AIL and Die Artists, in the frame of Vienna Design Week, Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, Vienna (AT)
Terre Ephémère, collaborative perfomance with E. Dubernet et V. Pommel in the frame of the "Le Nouveau Printemps de Toulouse", Museum FRAC Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (F)
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2022
Highlights, Bildraum 01, Vienna (AT)
Terre Ephémère, collaborative perfomance with E. Dubernet et V. Pommel in the frame of the Off programme of the Lyon Biennial "Résonnance", Lyon (F)
Hou la Gadoue!, Atelier Gadoue, Lyon (F)
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2021
Die Archivierung der Gegenwart, Big Art, Vordere Zollamtstrasse 7, Vienna (AT)
DOMINO, Raum mit Licht gallery, Vienna (AT)
I KNOW I CARE, VBKÖ (Austrian Association of Female Artists), Vienna (AT)
2020
Die sichtbare Wahrheit, Galerie Hilger Next, Vienna (AT)
bleischwer, Fabrikraum, Vienna (AT)
2019
just a detail, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna (AT)
"You can Touch Them!", Vienna Art Book Fair, Vienna (AT)
I KNOW I CARE, in the frame of "Bitches and Witches", Wien Woche, Vienna (AT)
The Essence 2019, Angewandte Festival, Vienna (AT)
Realitäten, ORF Funkhaus, Vienna (AT)
2018
Any Printmaker Out There?, KAESH MAESH, Vienna (AT) [co-curated]
Monstruosität (Melania’s Hat), with Eva Yurkova, Essence Angewandte, Vienna (AT)
unframed, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Wien (AT)
Grand Stable, with Sarah Bogner for Galerie Raum mit Licht, Parallel Vienna (AT)
VOR ORT, Dorfbründl, Niederschrems (AT)

SACH MAL!, Rotes Haus - Galerie Bodenseekreis, Meersburg (G)

2017


Melange REMIX, Galerie Hochdruck, Vienna (AT)

Keramik und Porzellan im Augarten, Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur, Vienna (AT)
International Print Festival, Contemporary Art Space, Batumi (Georgia)
Katzen, Heaven and No Sun, The Essence, Alte Post, Vienna (AT)

Stiller Dialog, Educult, Museumsquartier, Vienna (AT)
Mini Print Fair, Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna (AT)

Fahnen Versuch, Tansform KPÖ, Vienna (AT)
Echoed in the wells of silence, Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna (AT)
2016

UNFRAMED, Raum mit Licht Gallery, Vienna (AT)

pseudoscienza „Überraschung“, Jan Arnold Gallery, Vienna (AT)

Artists as Independent Publishers, Sala Terrena, Vienna (AT) ; Royal College of Art, London (GB) ; Galeri Mejan, Stockholm (SE) ; Gallery Rom8, Bergen (NO)
; Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen (G)

The Essence 16, Alte Post, Dominikanerbastei, Vienna (AT)

Singular, Galerie Z, Hard (AT)
signed and numbered II, Jan Arnold Gallery, Vienna (AT)
STADTMENSCH, Die Schöne, Vienna (AT)
2015

UNFRAMED, Raum mit Licht Gallery, Vienna (AT)
SOMETHING IN BETWEEN, private flat, Vienna (AT)
2014

UNFRAMED, Raum mit Licht Gallery (in cooperation with EIKON), Vienna (AT)
Site-specific projects
2021
Monumental paintings with Eva Yurkova for the scaffolding of the renovation of Franz Novy Hof, Vienna
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2018
Future Tree House, collaborative woodcut in the frame of Oskar Nimmt Platz, Angewandte, Vienna (AT)
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2017
WIE N VERWOBEN, Temporary wall painting in collaboration with N. Eckhart, B. Hechtova, E. Yurkova, Z. Marinova, A. Neto, Wien Museum, Vienna (AT)
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2016
Wall painting, Wien Mitte - The Mall, Vienna (AT)
Wall painting, private house, Coburg (G)

a day and an hour in urbo kune, a production of netzzeit and f.e.a in collaboration with Klangforum Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna (AT)
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2015
Wall paintings for the Centre Culturel et Oecuménique (CCO), Villeurbanne (F)

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2014
Wall painting, private flat, Lyon (F)

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2013
Painted swimming pool, private house, Coburg (G)
Publications
2022 Kunst am Gemeindebau, edited by Jan Svenungsson & Flora Zimmeter, De Gruyter Verlag, Vienna
2020 Ö1 Talenstipendium, catalogue, Vienna
2019 kollektiv, SYN Magazin, Vienna (illustrations)
2018 SACH MAL!, catalogue, Meersburg
2017 Print Festival, catalogue, Batumi
Melange, Vienna/Leipzig

Highlights, Vienna
2016 pseudoscienza - Überraschung, Vienna
2015 FRANK goes Werkschau, Vienna (online)
2014 FRANK – Memento Mori, Vienna (online)
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