Abstraction in Action
Carla Arocha & Stephane Schraenen https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/carla-arocha-stephane-schraenen/
arocha-schraenen, “Circa Tabac”, 2007, Glass mirror and stainlass steel, 52 x 14000 x 150 cm. Photo credit: Arocha-Schraenen.
arocha-schraenen, “Table”, 2012, Glass mirror and stainless steel, 95 x 75 x 175 cm. Photo credit: Jochen Littkeman.
arocha-schraenen, “24/7”, 2009, stainless steel, plexiglass, 406 x 560 cm.
arocha-schraenen, “Breath”, 2013, Leather, MDF and oak veneer, 50 x 680 x 4 cm. Photo credit: Pieter Huybrechts.
arocha-schraenen, “Gold Box”, 2008, mirrored Plexiglass, glass mirror and enameled MDF, 100 x 100 x 25 cm.
arocha-schraenen, “Memory I”, 2013, Steel, glass mirror and enamel, 135 x 165 x 300 cm. Photo credit: Pieter Huybrechts.
arocha-schraenen, “P5bis”, 2008, Mirrored Plexiglas and stainless steel, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Pieter Huybrechts.
arocha-schraenen, “Memory II”, 2013, Steel and enamel, 135 x 165 x 300 cm. Photo credit: Pieter Huybrechts.
arocha-schraenen, “When We Leave They Leave”, 2006, Mirrored acrylic and steel, 200 x 100 cm.
arocha-schraenen, “Chicago Marauder”, 2007, Mirroded Plexiglas and stainless steel, 645 x 330 x 126 cm.
arocha-schraenen, “The Discrepancy Between the Pale and the Dark Zone”, 2012, Plexiglas and enameled MDF, 50 x 250 x 35 cm.
Selected Biographical Information
Solo Exhibitions
2014: “In A Rhyhtmic Fashion”, Glyptotheca, Zagreb ,Croatia.
2014: “(to be titled)”, L.A.R.V.A., Guadalajara, Mexico.
2014: “Persiana”, CC De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium.
2013: “Click”, KaBe Contemporary, Miami, USA.
2013: “What Now?”, Isabella Czarnowska Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
2013: “Sunday”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
2012: “Looking For Clues”, ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA.
2012: “The Discrepansy Between the Pale and the Dark Zone”, Ganes Pratt, MALA Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2012: “After”, CAB de Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
2011: “Cabin Fever”, Cabin, Antwerp, Belgium.
2011: “Five Colors”, Editions Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2011: “Circa Tabac At the Wallace Collection”, curated by Ken Pratt, Wallace Collection, London, UK.
2010: “Undertow”, KaBe Gallery, Miami, FL, USA.
2010: “25°85’08” N – 80°12 ‘03””, Agency PLC at NADA Miami, Deauville Hotel, Miami, FL, USA.
2010: “Waterloo Station”, Peter Pilotto winter collection 2011, Fashion Week, Waterloo Station, London, UK.
2010: “As If”, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA.
2010: “Sequence #4”, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
Group Exhibitions
2014: “Museum to Scale 1/7”, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2014: “HOW SIX MEN GOT ON IN THE WORLD”, Berlin, Germany.
2014: “Museum to Scale 1/7”, The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Florida, USA.
2013: “Selected Works: Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen, Louis Lawler and Markus Döbeli Isabella Czarnowska Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
2013: “Museum to Scale 1/7”, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.
2013: “Place Is the Space”, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis Missouri, USA.
2013: “The Distaff Side”, The Melva Bucksbauam collection at the Granary, Sharon Connecticut, USA.
2013 :”CAB Burgos Collection”, El Centro de Arte Alcobendas Madrid, Spain.
2012: “Caraota von Moules”, with Arturo Herrera and Meyer Weisman, Künstlerhaus Bethaniën, Berlin, Germany.
2012: “Spectral Metropole”, curated by Ken Pratt, City Museum (Mestni Muzej), Vzigalica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2011: “New Art From Belgium”, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany.
2011: “You Never Walk Alone”, curated by Vanessa van Obberghen, Worksound, Portland, OR, USA.
2011: “Artefact 2011”, S.T.U.K., Leuven, Belgium.
2011: “New Art From Belgium”, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany.
2011: “Carla Arocha – Stéphane Schraenen: Framed and Vaast Colson: Screwed”, BeLa Editions, Brussels, Belgium.
2010: “Into the Light”, December 9-19, 2010, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
2010: “The Raw and the Cooked”, curated by Clayton Press and Gregory Linn, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, USA.
2010: “New Art From Belgium”, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, Belgium.
2010: “The State of Things”, curated by Ai Wei Wei and Luc Tuymans, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
2010: “POP-ARTPOP-ART”, NICC (New International Centre of Culture), Antwerp, Belgium.
2010: “Célébration”, F.R.A.C. Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Publications
2014: SIMON, Joan, ‘The Women’: The Distaff Side. Sharon, CT,p 104
2013: NEHB, Julika, ‘What Now’, Kunst, Berlin, Germany. p 6-10
2013: PATT, Ken, ‘Account’, What Now?, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Distanz, Berlin, Germany. p 9-12
2013: MOLESWORTH, Helen, ‘Interview with Carla Arocha’, What Now?, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Distanz, Berlin, Germany. P14-22 / MOLESWORTH, Helen, ‘Interview with Stéphane Schraenen’, What Now?, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Distanz, Berlin, Germany. P 24-31
2013: MOLON, Dominic, ‘Place is the Space: A Building, A Decade, An Exhibition’,Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, p 39, 41, 44-45
2013: KREUGER, Anders, The Collection as a Character, M HKA, Antwerp, p.69
2012: PRATT, Ken, ‘Global Positioning system (GPS) – Or The Bitter Tears of Caraota von Moules’: Caraota von Moules, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.p 3-15
2012: (H)ART, ‘Protject of Arocha-Schraenen: Umbrellas In Olimpyc London, March, pp.21 (ill.)
2012: (H)ART, ‘After’ At CAB Burgos’, January, pp.15
2012: RICH, Sarah, ‘Afterthought’, exhibition catalogue After. CAB de Burgos,Burgos, Spain.
2012: RICH, Sarah, ‘Soto and You in Soto Paris and Beyond 1950-1970’, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, pp. 45-53
Collections
American Express, New York NY, USA.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA.
Benedictine University, Chicago, USA.
British Airways Collection, O’Hare International Airport, Chicago IL, USA.
CAB De Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
C.I.F.O., Miami, Fl, USA.
F.R.A.C. Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
F.R.A.C. Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
Fundación Banco Mercantil, Caracas, Venezuela.
MCA, Chicago, IL, USA.
MOMA, New York NY, USA.
MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium.
Nationale Bank Van België – Banque Nationale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium.
Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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