Cecilia Bengolea
Bengolea, born 1979 in Argentina, is a multidisciplinary artist using dance as a tool and a medium for radical empathy and emotional exchange. Through collaboration with others – artists, performers, deejays and dancers – Bengolea develops a broad artistry where she sees movement, dance and performance as animated sculpture, where she herself is both object and subject in her own work.
Bengolea’s work has been extensively exhibited at institutions such as the The Guggenheim Bilbao (2021, 2022), the Gwangju Biennial (2014, 2021), Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris (2021), La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2021), Tank Shanghai (2020), Centre Pompidou (2010, 2016, 2019), SFER IK Tulum (2019), Fondation Giacometti, Paris (2019), Performa, NY (2019), Desert X, Salton Sea (2019), TBA21, Venice and Madrid (2018, 2019), Dhaka Art Summit (2018), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015, 2018), ICA London (2015), Elevation 1049, Gstaad (2017), Dia Art Foundation (2017), Hayward Gallery, London (2016), Biennale de Sao Paulo (2016), Tate Modern, London (2015) and the Biennale de Lyon (2015) to name a few. She recently took part in the exhibition Sections/Intersections, 25 years of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection and has an upcoming residency with Arte Explora in Paris.
Bengolea has collaborated with dancehall artists such as Craig Black Eagle, Bombom DHQ, Damion BG, and with artists Dominique Gonzalez Forster and Jeremy Deller. Her collaborative work with French choreographer François Chaignaud, Pâquerette (2005-2008) and Sylphides (2009), have earned several awards such as the Award de la Critique de Paris in 2010 and the Young Artist Prize at the Gwangju Biennial in 2014. They have also co-created dance pieces for their dance company as well as for the Ballet de Lyon (2013), the Ballet de Lorraine (2014) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal (2015).
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Cecilia Bengolea
Solo-presentation at The Armory Show, New York, 2022.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Solo-presentation at The Armory Show, New York, 2022.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Solo-presentation at The Armory Show, New York, 2022.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Installation view 'Deary Steel' at Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of Senses) at Kunsthal Charlottenborg/ the historical University Library at Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, 2022.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Installation view 'Deary Steel' at MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2022.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Installation view 'Deary Steel' at MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2022.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Installation view 'Deary Steel' at MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2022.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Installation view 'Deary Steel' at MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2022.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Installation view 'Shelly Belly inna Real Life' at Art Basel Parcours, Basel, 2021.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Installation view 'Liquid Guru' at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, 2020.
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Cecilia BengoleaAlliga. Installation view at Sfer ik, Tulum, Mexico, 2019.
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Cecilia BengoleaAlliga. Installation view at Sfer ik, Tulum, Mexico, 2019.
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Cecilia BengoleaMosquito Net, 2019
Installation view at the Salton Sea DesertX. -
Cecilia BengoleaMosquito Net, 2019
Installation view at the Salton Sea DesertX. -
Cecilia BengoleaMosquito Net, 2019
Installation view at the Salton Sea DesertX.
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Cecilia BengoleaFavorite Positions, 2018Installation view and Performance at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019.
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Cecilia BengoleaFavorite Positions, 2018Installation view and Performance at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019.
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Cecilia BengoleaFavorite Positions, 2018Installation view and Performance at FAENA Art Center, Miami, 2019.
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Deary Steel, 2022
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Belval 1500 Celcius, 2022
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Ocean Life Under the Bridge and Chimneys, 2022
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Series-Birth Machine, 2022
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Bodies As Protest, 2022
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Maria's Transformation, 2022
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Pampa Kingston Sunset, 2020
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Pampa Kingston Sunrise, 2020
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Salton Friends, 2020
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Bombom in the Salton Sea, 2020
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Deep Sea Worm, 2019
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Anemone Fragment, 2019
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Anchor Fish, 2019
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Umbrella Fish, 2019
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Bestiaire, 2019
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Danse au fond de la mer, 2019
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The world in Paris+
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Cecilia Bengolea à The Armory Show
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Cecilia Bengolea: Cecilia Bengolea in Esch Tanz den Hochofen
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Cecilia Bengolea: Cecilia Bengolea brings Jamaican dancehall to Art Basel
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Cecilia Bengolea: Transitional States
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Cecilia Bengolea: Liquidity and Flux
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Cecilia Bengolea: Nu vill konsten in i våra kroppars innersta
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Cecilia Bengolea Presents: Oneness
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Cecilia Bengolea Presents: Dub Love
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Cecilia Bengolea presents: Dancehall Weather
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Cecilia Bengolea: Strip-tease, militantisme et art contemporain, rencontre avec Cecilia Bengolea
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Cecilia Bengolea: Summoning Spirits and Dancing in Latex Body Bags
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Cecilia Bengolea: ‘The Energy Goes Through Us'
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Cecilia Bengolea: The Infinite Mix
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Cecilia Bengolea: Emotional Aesthetics
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Cecilia Bengolea: Transe de Dub
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Cecilia Bengolea: Club Echoes, in Sounds and Moves
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Cecilia Bengolea: Bodies Like Statues, Beginning to Move and Then Set Free
Gia Kourlas, The New York Times , October 11, 2010
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Cecilia Bengolea at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain
Performance 22 Apr 2023TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes presents on April 22nd, at 6:30 p.m., the performance Sylphides (2009), by the dancer and multidisciplinary creator Cecilia Bengolea...Read more -
Cecilia Bengolea at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland
Group-exhibition 25 Jan - 11 Jun 2023The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève proudly presents the group exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream (Chrysalide : le rêve du papillon), devoted to the transformations that...Read more -
Cecilia Bengolea and (LA)HORDE at Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris, France.
Group-exhibition 27 Oct - 4 Nov 2022With this performative exhibition, (LA)HORDE explores the plural futures of dance in its passionate relationship with cinema. At the head of the CCN Ballet national...Read more -
Andréhn-Schiptjenko at Paris + par Art Basel
Art fair 20 - 23 Oct 2022For the first edition of Paris+ par Art Basel Andréhn-Schiptjenko presents a curated booth with new works by five artists: Xavier Veilhan, Cajsa von Zeipel,...Read more -
Andréhn-Schiptjenko at The Armory Show
Art fair 8 - 11 Sep 2022We are delighted to invite you to The Armory Show 2022 where we will be presenting a solo-booth of recent work by gallery artist Cecilia...Read more -
Cecilia Bengolea at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Performance 10 Jul 2022Unique ballet performance by Cecilia Bengolea this weekend at the historical Library of Copenhagen University The argentinian coreographer and artists Cecilia Bengolea has previopusly showed...Read more -
Cecilia Bengolea at Mudam Luxembourg
Solo-exhibition & Performances 14 - 29 May 2022Exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg: 14 - 29 May, 2022 Performances at Socle C (Esch-Belval): 14 May, 16h00 & 18h00 Performances at Mudam Luxembourg: 15 May,...Read more -
Andréhn-Schiptjenko at Art Basel
Art fair 21 - 26 Sep 2021Andréhn-Schiptjenko is delighted to premier new works by Martín Soto Climent, Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff and Gunnel Wåhlstrand in this year’s edition of Art Basel,...Read more -
Cecilia Bengolea | Messeplatz Performance
Performance 21 - 24 Sep 2021For Basel's 2021 edition of Art Basel in Basel, artist Cecilia Bengolea has developed a series of videos and collages as well as a performance....Read more -
Cecilia Bengolea at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Solo-exhibition 24 Jun - 24 Oct 2021Cecilia Bengolea (b. 1979, Buenos Aires) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice merges video, choreography, and sculpture. In her investigation, Bengolea explores forms of popular...Read more -
Cecilia Bengolea for MIRE Project, Geneva, Swiss
Public work 1 Jul 2020Cecilia Bengolea’s TRIPTYK (2020) is now as part of the MIRE project in Geneva. With the video-installation TRIPTYK, Cecilia Bengolea proposes a multiple work: she...Read more