ZARAGOZA, SPAIN, 1972
VIVE Y TRABAJA EN ROTTERDAM
OBRA EN MADRID ABIERTO: BAJAR AL SUBTERRÁNEO RECIÉN EXCAVADO / GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED UNDERGROUND PASSAGE

EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES (selección) 
2008
Ruins in Nederlands, Gallery Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam.
Bilbao Wastelands, Cabineta, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao.
Ruinas de Holanda, Gallery Pepe Cobo, Madrid.
La Box ENSBA, Bourges.

2007
CGAC, Santiago de Compostela.

2004
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.

2003   
INDEX The Swedish Art Foundation, Stockholm.
Chantiers ouverts au public, Centre D’Art Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire.

EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS (selección)
2009
Radical Nature, Barbican Art Center, London. (by Francesco Manaconda)
Athens Splendid Isolation, 2nd Athens Biennale (by Can Sophie Rabinovitz)
Monument to transformation, Tranzit, Praha.
Evento, Biennale de Bordeaux. (by Didier Faustino)
3rd Riwaq Biennale : a geography of 50 villages , Ramallah. (by Khalil Rabah, Charles Esche, Reen Fuda)
Utopia and Monument, Sterische Herbst, Graz. (by Sabine Breitwieser)
Sloop gebouw SFF, Flux-s, Eindhoven (by Annie Fletcher)
The Boundary Layer, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, Alberta. (by Catherine Dean)
Liquid Times, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster.

2008
Annual Report, 7th Gwangju Biennale. (By Okwui Enwezor)
Taipei Biennale 2008, (By Manray and Vasif Kortum).
Matiere à Paysage, Biennale de la Seine, La Gallerie, Noissy-le-Sec.
Greenwashing, Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities”, Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Turin. (by Ilaria Bonacossa and Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna).
Estratos, PAC Murcia. (Curated by Nicolas Bourrieau)
Lofoten International Arts Festival, Svolvaer, Norge.

2007   
Sharjah Art Biennial 8 : Still life, Art, Ecology  and Politics of Change, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates. (By Jonathan Watkins and Eva Schaer)
Shelter, Haarderwijk. ( by Henk Slager)
Mimetic, Chateau de Tanlay, Yonne Art Center. (curated by Jean Marc Huitorel)

2006
Momentum, Festival of Nordic Art, Moss. (by Marc Sladen and Annete Kiefluk)
27 Biennial of Sao Paulo, (by Rosa Martinez, Lisette Lagnado, A Pedrosa)
Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London. (by Polly Staple)
Biacs, Sevilla Biennale, Sevilla. (by Okwui Enwezor)
Theater of Life, Galeria Civica d’arte Contemporanea, Trento ( by Fabio Cavaluzzi)

2005
Public Act, Kunsthalle, Lund, Lund. (by Mats Stjernstedt)
Le genie du lieu, Musee des Beaux Arts, Dijon Delicious, Sint-Truiden. (by Luk Lambrecht)

2004   
International Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool. (by Cuauthemoc Medina)
VI Werkleitz Biennale, Common propierty, Halle, Deutschland.
Le Prochaine et le Lontaine, Domein de Kerguennec, Bignan, France.
LAB, Kröller Müller Museuma, Otterloo. (by Nathalie Zonneberg).
Catastrofi Minime, Museo di Arti Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Cerdeña.

2003
Idealism, De Appel, Amsterdam.
Sin Título, Sala Montcada de la Caixa, Barcelona. (by Moritz Kung).
1:1 x temps, quantités, proportions et fuites, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon.
Dispersion, Bas Museum of Art, Miami.

2002
Lost Past, Yeper. (by Moritz Kung)
Bigtorino 2002, Torino Biennial. (by Pistolleto, Corinne Disirennes)

2000
Scripted Spaces, Witte de With, Rotterdam. (by Bartomeu Mari)
Espacio como Realidad, como Proyecto, Pontevedra Biennal (by Maria del Corral).

1999
Stediljk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam.

PROYECTOS EN ESPACIOS PÚBLICOS
2009
Relocated houses, One Day Sculpture, Wellington, New Zealand. (by Claire Doherty).
Scavo, PAV, Torino.

2006   
Het braakliggend terrein van de Norfolkline open voor het publiek”, Den Haag.
Comisioned by STROOM, Den Haag and SKOR, Amsterdam.

2003
Allotment Gardens, Urban Festival, Zagreb.
Een brakliggend terrein, Europoort Rotterdam, Rijksgebouwdienst, Rijkswaterstadt.

2002   
Wastelands Tour, British Architectural Week, FACT, Liverpool.

2000
Opening of a wasteland, Container Project Nicc, Bruxelles.

BIBLIOGRAFÍA  
2009
Pablo Llorca, Lara Almarcegui, Art Forum # February.
Rachel Wolff “Runing over a new leaf”, Artnews, New York # april.

2008
Katherina Deschka-Hoeck: Brachland der Freiheit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, #27 Oktober.
Tijs van den Boomen, Ruine als dankbaar object, NRC, Rotterdam # 10 June.
Jean-Max Colard : Lara Almarcegui, Ruines in Nederland, Inrocks # 656.
Pei-Tsen: Dig into the enviroment, Lara Almarcegui  ARTCO, Taipei # july.
L’art, le territoire, espace public, urbaine, Veduta, Biennale de Lyon, Ed Certu.

2007
Tom Morton: City Limits: Lara Almarcegui, FRIEZE pages 124-127 # Summer 20.
Anna minton, Down to a fine art, The Guardian, London, 10th January.
Francis Alys: Artists Favourites, Spike Art # 11, Wien.
Ecology, Luxury and Degradation, Edited by Lattitudes, Uovo # 14, Torino.
With/Without, Cultures of Space in the Middle east” Edited by Antonia Carver, Shumon Basar and Markus Miessen, New York.
Design and Landscape for people, Edited by Clare Cumberlidge and Lucy Musgrave. Thames & Hudson.

2006
Land Art. A Cultural Ecology Hand Book, Edited by Max Andrews. RSA, London.

2005
Jean Marc Huitorel, Entropic promise: Lara Almarcegui, Art Press February.
Binna Choi, A Statute of the inhabitable, Reader: Contributions to a topical artistic discourse, De Appel.

2004
Ole Bouman: The emancipation of nowhere land, Pasajes de Arquitectura y crítica, Madrid, # February.
Lara Almarcegui, l’idealisme en déconstruction, Bénédicte Ramade. L’œil, Paris summer.

2003
Carole Smidt, La Force de l’abandone, A+ architecture, urbanism, design and art. # agust-september, Bruxelles.
Thorsten Smiededrecht, Art and Architecture a reciprocal relationship?, Architectural Design, London  # may/June.

2002
Santiago Cirugeda: Lara arreglatodo, Subrosa, editions la Letre Volé, Bruxelles.

2001
Anne Pontégnie, Lara Almarcegui takes apart the gallery, Artforum digital, May.

PUBLICACIONES
1999
Wastelands Map Amsterdam, a guide to the empty sites of the city, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam.

2006
Guide of wastelands Sao Paulo, Edited by Biennial Sao Paulo.

2007
Guide to Al Khan, An empty village in the city of Sharjah, Edited by Sharjah Art Biennial.

2008
Ruins in the Netherlands, XIX- XX, Episode publishers, Rotterdam.

2009
Ruins in Bourgogne, XIX-XXI, Le Press du Reel, Dijon.

OBRAS EN COLECCIONES PÚBLICAS 
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo (Arnheem).
FRAC Piamonte, Torino.
Les Abattoirs, Toulousse.
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat.
Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona.
MUSAC, León.
CGAC, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela.
Marcelino Botin Foundation, Santander.
La Panera Art Cenrtre, Lérida.
CAM Foundation.
Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Hsinchu City.

PREMIOS
2007
UNESCO art prize.

2006
Sculpture art prize given by the Madrid Municipality.

TALLERES
Studio visits as guest teacher in De Ateliers, postgraduate art program, Amsterdam; Dutch Art Institute, postgraduate art program, Enschede.  Workshops at Piet Zwart Intitute, postgraduate art program, Rotterdam; Art in Public space master of Art School, Geneve; Umea Art School, Umea; Minerva Art Academy, Groningen; Annecy Art School; Centro Atlántico de Arte Contemporáneo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Art School of Universidad Europea, Madrid; Cuenca Art School; Hangar, Barcelona; La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Graduation jury at Art in Public Space, La Cambre Art School, Brusels, Design of Public Space, Lyon Art School.

CONFERENCIAS 
Architecture master, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam; Faculty of Architecture, Madrid; Faculty of Architecture, International University Catalonia, Barcelona; Architects College, Toledo; Architects College, Madrid;  Architectural School, American University, Beirut; Arts School of  Metz, Angoulleme; Dijon and Nancy; Tate Britain, London; Bluecoats, Liverpool; Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire; Le Lieu Unique, Nantes; Centre de Art Parc St Leger, Pouges les Eaux; BLOK, Zagreb; Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam; Etablissement, Brusels; Reina Sofía Art Centre, Madrid; Palaise des Beaux Arts, Brusels; TENT, Rotterdam; London School of Economics, London; Art Schools of Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Florianólpolis and Puerto Alegre; Faculty of Arts,Taipei University; master of Fine Arts, Massey Univesiy, Wellington;

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