VITA EXTREMIS : 1992-2022: LUCY+JORGE ORTA

Lucy + Jorge Orta founded Les Moulins in 2000 as an extension of their practice, to create a community dedicated to artistic research and production of contemporary art.

Les Moulins is informed by the natural environment and the industrial heritage of the former factories and paper mills along the Grand Morin valley in Seine-et-Marne. The complex spans an 8km stretch of the river and unites different actors in contemporary art across four historical buildings: Moulin Sainte-Marie, Moulin de Boissy, Moulin La Vacherie and La Laiterie. Today, Les Moulins is home to artist studios, production workshops, residencies, exhibition and performance venues set within a 20-hectare sculpture park.

Orta's artwork has been the focus of important exhibitions, including: the Argentine representation at the 46th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition (1995); 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (1997); Secession, Vienna (1999); Gwangju Biennale (2004); The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (2005); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; 9th Havana Biennale (2006); Biennial of the End of the World, Ushuaia and the Antarctic Peninsula (2007); Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Natural History Museum, London (2010); MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome and Shanghai Biennale (2012); Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2013); Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and Parc de la Villette, Paris (2014); London Museum, Ontario (2015); Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester; City Gallery Museum, Peterborough; Emsherkunst, Rhur (2016); Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2017); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2018); Palazzo Vecchio, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Museo Novecento, Florence (2019); Les Tanneries, Amilly; Drawing Lab, Paris (2020).