Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Born in 1965 in Strasbourg. Lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

Artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is known internationally for work concerned with the cognitive and sensory relationships between spaces and bodies, movement, behaviour and identity, as well as the construction of environments with direct references to literature, music and architecture.

In her work, which encompasses photography, film, performance and spatial installations, the codes of spatial representation are often projected as a theatrical stage, challenging the so-called neutrality of exhibition spaces. Her inmersive and interactive compositions invite the viewer to play an active role, fostering subjectivities that are influenced by the past, the future and fiction.

Dominique González-Foerster has had solo exhibitions in institutions such as the Serpentine Galleries, London; Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection, Paris; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana, Venecia; Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museo de Arte, Arquitectura y Tecnología MAAT, Lisboa;
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Centro Pompidou, París; Museo de Arte Moderno, Río de Janeiro, among others.

González-Foerster has taken part of six editions of the Venice Biennale and Documenta 11 in 2002, year in which she also received the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize.

Her work is represented in collections such as the 21^st Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona y Madrid; Inothim, Belo Horizonte; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Tate Modern, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; among others.