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Leandro Erlich was born in Argentina in 1973. He lives and works between Paris, Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Over the past two decades, his work has been shown internationally and featured in the permanent collections of major museums and private collectors. He started the year 2024 in France with two group exhibitions at Le Centre Pompidou Metz (Lacan, l’exposition. Quand l’art rencontre la psychanalyse) and at the Fondation EDF in Paris (Demain est annulé). Previously, he also realized solo shows at the MORI Art Museum (Tokyo, 2017) and the HOW Art Museum (Shanghai, 2018) which have attracted more than 600.000 of visitors. With Liminal, a major anthological exhibition at MALBA (Buenos Aires) and the show The Confines of The Great Void, at CAFAM (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), China’s premiere museum where he became the first non-Chinese artist to occupy the entire exhibition space and the touring retrospective in Brazil (CCBB Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo), he also broke all admission records. In December 2022, a new version of Liminal, first anthological exhibition in the USA, opened at PAMM, Miami and was displayed until September 2023. In April 2023, Europe's first anthology exhibition opened at the PALAZZO REALE in Milan, Italy.

Erlich began his professional career at 18 with a solo exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires and, after receiving several fellowships (El Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Fundación Antorchas), went on to study at the Core Program, an artist residency in Houston, Texas (Glassell School of Art, 1998); there, he developed his signature installations Swimming Pool and Living Room. In the year 2000, he participated in the Whitney Biennale with the work Rain, and in 2001 he became Argentina’s representative at the 49th Venice Biennale with Swimming Pool, a landmark piece that is part of the permanent collection at The 21st Century Museum of Art of Kanazawa (Japan) and the Voorlinden Museum (Netherlands).

His public works include La Democracia del Símbolo, a joint intervention in the Obelisco monument and MALBA Museum that captivated the city of Buenos Aires in 2015; Maison Fond marked the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris and is on permanent display at the Gare du Nord (Nuit Blanche, 2015); the celebrated installation Bâtiment (Nuit Blanche, Paris, 2004) has been reproduced in countries across the globe (France, The UK, Australia, Japan, Argentina, Ukraine, Austria); in 2018, Ball Game was commissioned by the IOC to commemorate the Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Port of Reflections has been exhibited at the MMCA (Seoul, Korea, 2014), at MUNTREF (Buenos Aires, 2016) and at the Neuberger Museum of Art (New York, 2017). Palimpsest is on permanent display at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (Kinare, Japan, 2018). Currently, his monumental work La Carte is a permanent part of the city of Bordeaux, France.

Erlich has received numerous awards, including: The Roy Neuberger Exhibition Award (NY, 2017), the Nomination for the Prix Marcel Duchamp (Paris, 2006), the UNESCO Award (Istanbul, 2001), El Premio Leonardo (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 2000), el Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Buenos Aires, 1992).

As a conceptual artist, his work explores the perceptual bases of reality and our capacity to interrogate these same foundations through a visual framework. The architecture of the everyday is a recurring theme in Erlich’s art, aimed at creating a dialogue between what we believe and what we see, just as he seeks to close the distance between the museum or gallery space and daily experience.

His work is featured in many private and public collections, including: The Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate Modern, London; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; 21st Century Museum of Art Kanazawa, Japan; MACRO, Rome; The Jerusalem Museum; FNAC, France; Ville de Paris et SCNF, Gare du Nord, France; Voorlinden Museum, Netherlands; MUSAC, Spain.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Galería Xippas, Geneva, Switzerland

PAMM, Miami, USA

Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy

Nuit de la Culture, Esch-sur-Yvette, Luxembourg

Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, USA

Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Fonds cré'Atlantique, Bordeaux, France (permanent)

2022

PAMM, Miami, USA (November 29th)

MFAH, Houston, USA (June 27th)

The Labyrinth of Monoculture, KEW Garden, London, UK (May 20th)

Atençao, Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Atençao, Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Galería Xippas, Uruguay

2021

Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The Sea World Cultural Center, Shenzhen, China

Galerie Baronian/Xippas, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

Towada Art Center, Japan (permanent)

Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2020

KAMU, Kanazawa, Japan – Infinite Staircase (permanent)

Voorlinden Museum, Netherlands – The Cloud (permanent)

Galleria Continua, Rome, Italy

Santander Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina- Escalera Horizontal (permanent)

2019

Collection de Nuages, curated by Maura Pozzati, Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, Bologna, IT

Oratorio San Felipe, Bologna, Italy

Casa Naranja, Cordoba, Argentina


Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina


MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina


CAFA Museum, Beijing, China


BUK-Sema, Seoul, Korea

2018

Sous le ciel, Le Bon Marché, Paris, FR

Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Ball Game, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2017

Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain 

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 

2016

Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

Espacio Publico de La Ciudad de Buenos Aires – Arteba

MUNTREF – CAC, Buenos Aires, Argentine

Galería Nogueras-Blanchard, Madrid, Spain

2015

ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany – GLOBALE

National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Taïwan

MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2014

Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Hanjin Box, National Museum of Contemporary Art, MMCA, Seoul, Korea

2013

Galería Nogueras-Blanchard, Madrid, Spain Hospice Saint-Charles, Rosny sur Seine, France

Barbican, London, England

Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

2012

Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Usina del arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina

SongEun Artspace, Seoul, Corea

2011

Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

GALLERIA CONTINUA, Le Moulin, France

2010

MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA

2009

Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

2008

Galería Nogueras-Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano, Italy

PS1 MoMA, New York, USA

2007

Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2006

Galeria Brito Cimino, São Paulo, Brazil

MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea de Roma, Rome, Italy

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA

2005

Galería Nogueras-Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain

Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire, France


Albion Gallery, London, England

2003

Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain

2002

Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France

2001

El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA

2000

Galeria Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1999

Kent Gallery, New York, USA

Moody Gallery, Houston, USA

1997

Consulado General de la República Argentina, New York, USA

1993

Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Espacio Giesso, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1991

Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Lacan l’Exposition. Quand l’art rencontre la psychanalyse, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France

Demain est annulé, Fondation EDF, Paris France

Vivre l’oeuvre / Voyage aux frontières de l’art immersif contemporain, Pully Art Museum, Pully, Switzerland

2023

Argentina Contemporary Art, PAC, Milan, Italy

Naturaleza Abstracta, Galería Xippas, Punta Del Este, Uruguay

La Notte, De Renava, Biennale d’Art Contemporarin de Bonifacio, France

El Paisaje Invisible, Galería Xippas, Punta Del Este, Uruguay

Imagine, Samoca Bienal Sur, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Interstellar, Fondation Opale, Lens, Suisse

Mensonages Blancs, La Crypte d’Orsay, Orsay, France

The building, Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, USA

2022

Le Serpent Cosmique, Lille 3000, Lille, France – (May 14th)

Le Songe d’Ulysse, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France – (April 29th)

Traverser la Nuit – works from Antoine de Galbert Collection, MAAT / Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal 

Vedere a differenti distanze, Galleria “Il Vino dell’Arte”, Panzano in Chianti, Italy  

MUSAC, Léon, Spain

Campo fest, Uruguay

2021

The Tides of the Century, Ocean Island International Art Festival, Danzhou, China

Back to Nature, Arte Contemporanea a Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy

Nothing is Lost: Art and Matter in Transformation, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy

Evolution: The Future of the Public, Cafa Art Museum – Langfang, Beijing, China

MACAU International Biennale 2021, Macau

Reunión, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentine

Super Fusion 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art and Tianfu Gallery, Chengdu, China

2020

Bangkok Art Biennale, Thailand

West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, China

1st Jinan International Biennial, Shandong Art Museum and Jinan Art Museum, Jinan, China

2019

Little Shops on the Island "Laundry", Setouchi Triennale, Megijima Community Area, JP

Tentative de Bonheur, Maif Social Club, Paris, FR

Racing the Galaxy, Astana Art Show 2019, Astana, KZ

Reconsiderando el Monumento, Palacio de Quintanar de Segovia, SP

Parcours BIENAL SUR, Crans Montana, SZ

The Heart of Water, Department of Culture of Abu Dhabi - Al Ain Oasis, UAE (commission)

2018

L’Invention de Morel – la Machine à images
, Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris, France

A Beautiful Elsewhere, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

Prix Marcel Duchamp (2000-2018), Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China

Les Extatiques60 ans de Paris-La Défense, France

Palimpsest
, 2018 Triennal of Echigo-Tsumari, the Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art in Kinare, Japan

The Thirstieth Year, Krinzinger Projekte, Wien, Austria

2017

Dialéctica, Galería Xippas, Punta del Este, Uruguay

No Place Like Home, 
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Non Existent Place, JUT Art Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan

Bienal Sur, Museo de Arte, Tigre, Argentina

Enjoy, Chiostro del Bramante, Roma, Italy

Windowology, The World Through the Window, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan

2016

Impermanencia: La Mutación del Arte en una Sociedad Materialista, XIII Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador

Special Exhibition celebrating SonEun Foundation Chairman Mr. Sang, SongEun Art Fondation, Seul, Korea

Full Moon, Museum Voorliden, Wasenaar, The Netherlands

Borges: Ficciones de un tiempo infinito, Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2015

Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan

Cono Sur, Galería Xippas, Punta del Este, Uruguay

My Buenos Aires, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

PROA, Colección Daros Latinamerica, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Invention, OCA, São Paolo, Brazil

Lexus Hybrid Art, Theatre Rossiya, Moscow, Russia Renaissance, Tripostal, Lille, France - Lille 3000

Follia Continua!, GALLERIA CONTINUA, le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France

Nuit Blanche, Gare Du Nord, Paris, France

Quai d'Angers, France

Follia Continua!, GALLERIA CONTINUA, La Habana, Cuba

2014

Sydney Art Festival, Sydney, Australia

Centre Pompidou Collection, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

In Situ. Arte em el Espacio Publico, Bariloche, Argentina

Reflection, Oi! Art Center, Hong Kong

Tecnopolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina

El Museo de los Mundos Imaginarios, MAR, Mar del Plata, Argentina

Visual Deception II, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland

Ilusiones, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Montevideo 2nd Biennial, Uruguay

Visual Deception II, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

2013

Shanghai International Arts Festival, Shanghai, China

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Antigravity, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

Tecnopolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina

PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Maison particulière (art center), Brussels, Belgium

2012

Echigo - Tsumari Triennale, Niigata, Japan

Art museum Z33, Hasselt, Belgium

Fantastic 2012, Lille, France

Le Voyage à Nantes, Nantes, France

Fruits de La passion, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Tecnópolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Izolyatsia, Donetsk, Ucrania

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

NOMA, New Orleans, USA

Museo cantonale d'arte e Museo d'arte, Lugano, Switzerland

Louvre Abu Dhabi, Gardens of Manarat Al Saadiyat

2011

Museo de arte moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

In-perceptions, 104-Centquatre, Paris, France

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2010

Caves Vranken/Pommery, Reims, France

Lugar Algum, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil

Setouchi International Art Festival, Japan

2009

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil - Argentina Hoy

Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Art in the Auditorium

2008 New Orleans, USA - Prospect.1

Singapore Biennial, Singapore

Liverpool Biennial, UK

GALLERIA CONTINUA / Le Moulin, France

Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; New York, USA- Chanel Mobile Art

2007

Fortunate Objects: Selections from the collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA

Stereovision: From 2D to 3D, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA

Future systems: Rare Moments, Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria

Reconstruction #2, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, UK

Desplazamientos Entre la Escultura y La Instalación, Casa de Cultura, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2006

Espacio Interior, PhotoEspaña 06, Madrid, Spain

Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Niigata, Japan

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France

Notre Histoire, Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2005

51th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

The Plain of Heaven, Meatpacking District, New York, USA

Off Shore, Prix Ricard Paris, France

2004

Doubtiful, Université de Rennes, France

XXVI Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan - Polyphony: Emerging Resonances

2003

Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France

2002

YerbaBuena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA - Faster Than the Eye

Busan Biennale, South Korea

III Shanghai Biennale, China – Urban Creation 2001

Kent Gallery, New York, USA - Vox

49th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

VII International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey

2000

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

White Box Gallery, New York, USA - Site Specific

Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, USA - Natural Deceits

VI Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba - Tourism

1999

Core 1999, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Paralelos/Paralelas, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

1998

Core 1998, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

1997

I Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

1996

AEIOU Instalaciones, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1995

Doce Artistas Argentinos, United Nations, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Taller de Barracas, Galeria Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Spring Roll, Peru Square, Buenos Aires, Argentina



1993

Casa de Catalunya, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Sra. Profilaxis

Awards

2017

Roy.R Neuberger Exhibition 2017 Award

2013

Nomination Zürich Art Prize, Zürich, Switzerland

2006

Nomination. Artes Mundi Prize, Cardiff, Wales

Nomination. Prix Marcel Duchamp, Paris, France

2004

Artist residency. Centre International d'Accueil et d' Echanges des Récollets, Paris, France

2002

Artist residency. Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Fundación KONEX, Buenos Aires, Argentina

UNESCO Award.VII Istanbul Biennale, Turkey

2001

Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.New York, USA

2000

Premio Leonardo. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1998

Eliza Prize. Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Premio Braque de Objetos, Embajada de Francia & Fundación Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1995

Premio Braque de Objetos, Embajada de Francia & Fundación Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1994

Fundación Antorchas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1992

Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Public collections

MUSAC, León, Spain

Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzerland

Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Puteaux, France 

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Tate Modern, London, UK

KAMU, Kanazawa, Japan

Towada Art Center, Japan

Museum Voorliden, Wasenaar, The Netherlands

21st Century Museum of Art Kanazawa, Japan

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy

Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

MUSAC, León, Spain

Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzerland

Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Puteaux, France

New Orleans Museum of Art, USA

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Tate Modern, London, UK