SHOWS
selected exhibitions and installations
ANY WAR ANY ENEMY
VENICE ART BIENNALE
2024 Tour Launch
11 April - 22 June 2024
Venice, Italy
Murals and mezzotints
CFZ Cultural Flow Zone - Tesa 1
Zattere al Pontelungo
Dorsoduro 1392 – Venice
LAST WHISPERS
VENICE ART BIENNALE
2022 Tour Launch
21 April - 25 September 2022
Co-presented by UNESCO.
Venice, Italy
3-part show
Virtual Reality / 30 minutes
CZF (Ca’ Foscari Zattere/Cultural Flow Zone)
Zattere al Pontelungo
The Art Night / 30 minutes / Last Whispers featured
(a large scale outdoor projection)
Mural Installation (until 25 September 2022)
Main courtyard of Ca’Foscari
Palazzo Ca’Giustinian
Dorsoduro 3246, Venice
LAST WHISPERS PRESENTATION AT UNESCO
41st Plenary Session of
UNESCO General Conference
Paris, France
18 November 2021
Speech by Lena Herzog during the Launch of the World Atlas of Languages
Future Vision Lab by Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, C-LAB
Hualien, Taiwan
Presented by C-LAB
23 December 2022-5 March 2023
Dome (30 min)
2019-2021:
LAST WHISPERS AV
46-minute audio video Immersive Oratorio Event
LAST WHISPERS VR
VR (7 min)
21 November 2019
Théâtre du Châtelet
Paris, France
Presented by Le Festival d’Automne and Théâtre de la Ville in collaboration with UNESCO
31 October 2019
Los Pinos Presidential Palace
Mexico City, Mexico
16-20 October 2019
PEAK Performances at Alexander Kasser Theater
Montclair, NJ
15 October 2019—4 January 2020
George Eastman Museum
Rochester, NY
14 June 2019
Ford Theater
Co-presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and by the Natural History Museum (NHM)
Los Angeles, CA
Post-screening conversation with Paul Holdengräber and panel
24 February 2019
The Kennedy Center and
The Smithsonian
Washington, DC
Terrace Theater (Millennium Stage Program)
AV + VR dual screening
14 November 2017
Royal Festival Hall
London
Featured / presented by
Royal Festival Hall & Southbank Centre, SOAS University of London &
London Literature Festival
13 November 2016
Museum Fünf Kontinente München
Munich, Germany
Featured / presented by Museum Fünf Kontinente, SOAS University of London & Literaturfest München
21-23 October 2016
PREMIERE
The British Museum
London
Featured / presented by The British Museum, SOAS University of London & Bloomsbury Festival
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20 November - 1 December 2019
IDFA 2019
Amsterdam
21 October 2019
DTLA Film Festival Dome Film Series
Los Angeles, CA
17-30 October 2019
43rd São Paulo IFF Realidade Virtual
São Paulo, Brazil
October 14-18 2019
SFIFF – Santa Fe International Film Festival Virtual Cinema
Santa Fe, New Mexico
7-18 October 2019
Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Montréal, Québec
28 September 2019
Latino Media Fest
Los Angeles, CA
September - 13 October 2019
New York Film Festival Convergence Program
New York, New York
7-22 September 2019
The REACH at the Kennedy Center
Washington, DC
Official VR selection and special presentation for the REACH Opening Festival
5-9 September 2019
World XR Forum
Crans-Montana, Switzerland
24-27 June 2019
SandBox Immersive Festival
Qingdao, China
15 June 2019
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Post-screening conversation with Michael Govan
17 June 2019
Games 4 Change Immersive Cinema
New York, New York
5-13 June 2019
VR HAMBURG
Hamburg, Germany
26-28 April 2019
EarthX Virtual Cinema
Dallas, Texas
8-12 April 2019
WSIS Forum 2019
Geneva, Switzerland
Official VR selection and special presentation at the World VR Forum
8-17 March 2019
South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival
Austin, TX
Official Selection in competition at the Virtual Cinema Program
24 February 2019
Terrace Theater @ The John F Kennedy Center
Washington, D.C.
24 February 2019 The Kennedy Center
Multi-media event, screening both AV and VR. The Last Whispers VR screening marked the first time in VR history that a VR work was shown to over 500 people simultaneously.
25-29 January, 2019
Sundance Film Festival
Park City, Utah
VR PREMIERE and official selection at The New Frontier Program
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS AND PAST SHOWS:
STRANDBEEST AT CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
6 February—1 May 2016
TALK: ROCKS, THE MYSTERY OF BARON VON EGLOFFSTEIN AND PHOTOGRAPHY AT EG
EG conference, Monterey, CA
14 April 2012
PANORAMAS AT FAHEY KLEIN GALLERY
Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Solo show of 24 Silver Gelatin Prints
Curated by David Fahey at
26 January — 3 March 2012
photo by Juliette Atkinson
EVENT: CONVERSATION WITH LENA HERZOG & PULITZER PRIZE WINNER DAVID TURNLEY
At IFC Center, New York, NY
7 November 2010
Press Release:
Lena Herzog presents slides from her recent work Lost Souls and previews her latest work Light Matter in a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner David Turnley. Herzog’s portfolios have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Harper’s among other publications. Lost Souls recently exhibited at the International Center of Photography, documents museum artifacts of human and animal anomalies inspired by Tsar Peter the Great’s collection in Russia’s Kunstkammera. Though sometimes shocking, the photos are also “profoundly humane” writes Luc Sante in his introduction to the Lost Souls book.
TWO YEARS AFTER AT TRACK 16
Track 16, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
November 2010
Press Release:
Two fascinating and complementary portraits of the same phenomenon, “Two years after…” is a disturbing trip into the dark sides of the American Dream. Last summer, Angelino photographers Marc Valesella and Lena Herzog took the road towards opposite directions: Herzog went to Washington DC to document the Restore Honor Rally, while Valesella captured Arizona’s SB 1070 protests. They both had the same idea in mind: to document political rallies, as a symptom of the peculiar social and political climate that defines our present, two years after the historic election.
LOST SOULS AT INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY (ICP)
15 May – 10 September 2010
Curated by Brian Wallis
42 Silver Gelatin Prints & 2 oversized pieces exhibited at International Center of Photography (the Cowin Gallery), New York, NY
EVENT: CONVERSATION WITH LAWRENCE WESCHLER AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY LIVE
8 June 2010
EVENT: LOST SOULS AND PETER THE GREAT'S KUNSTKAMMERA
Curated by Lawrence Weschler
Lecture by Lena Herzog
Wonder Cabinet lecture series
Occidental College, CA
24 April 2010
THE CIRCLE OF BLISS AT LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (LACMA)
Photographic diptych by Lena Herzog (78” x 28”) at the show
The Circle of Bliss
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA
2 October - 3 December 2003
REFLECTING BUDDHA EXHIBITION
3 oversized pieces
Pasadena Museum of California Art, CA
14 - 23 November 2003
FLAMENCO AT FOYLES
Solo Exhibit of 40 Silver Gelatin Prints from the book Flamenco
The Foyles Gallery London, UK
3 November - 28 November 2002
TAUROMAQUIA AT MUSEO CARRUAJES
Solo show of 60 Silver Gelatin Prints from the book Tauromaquia
Museum of Carruajes, Seville, Spain
April - May 2002
ENSAYO AT YERBA BUENA CENTER
Multimedia show, which included projections of 33 images onto a large screen.
Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts, San Francisco, CA
6 - 8 November 2001
BELOW ZERO AT FOCUS GALLERY
Solo show of 34 Silver Gelatin Prints
Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
December 2000
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ANDALUCIA AND SHINXIANG AT FOCUS GALLERY
Solo show of 26 Silver Gelatin Prints
Focus Gallery San Francisco, CA
November 1998