San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
Roma
Sao Paulo
Paris
Leandro Erlich (b. 1973, Argentina) lives and works between Paris, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo. Over the past two decades, his work has been exhibited worldwide and is part of major museum and private collections.
In 2024, he participated in Lacan, l'exposition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz and unveiled The Nature Above at the Forest Festival of the Arts in Okayama, Japan. His solo exhibition Weightless at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, featuring new works like Moon and Spaceship, runs until July 2025. His past major solo shows include Liminal (MALBA, Buenos Aires, 2019), The Confines of the Great Void (CAFAM, Beijing, 2019), and a record-breaking touring retrospective in Brazil (CCBB, 2022).
Erlich’s career began at 18 with a solo show at Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. After receiving several fellowships, he joined the Core Program in Houston, where he developed his signature Swimming Pool and Living Room. In 2000, he exhibited Rain at the Whitney Biennale and represented Argentina at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) with Swimming Pool, now in the collections of the 21st Century Museum of Art (Kanazawa) and Voorlinden Museum (Netherlands).
His large-scale public works include La Democracia del Símbolo (Buenos Aires, 2015), Maison Fond (Gare du Nord, Paris, 2015), Bâtiment (Nuit Blanche, Paris, 2004, and later in multiple countries), Ball Game (IOC, Buenos Aires, 2018), and Port of Reflections (MMCA Seoul, 2014). His work La Carte, À l’ombre de la ville is now permanently installed in Bordeaux.
Erlich has received numerous awards, including the Roy Neuberger Exhibition Award (2017) and nominations for the Prix Marcel Duchamp (2006) and UNESCO Award (2001). His work, centered on perception and architectural illusion, is included in collections such as MoMA Buenos Aires, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and MACRO Rome.
2024
Weightless, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Un volo notturno dietro una finestra murata, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2023
Liminal, PAMM, Miami, USA
Oltre la soglia, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
Nuit de la Culture, Esch-sur-Yvette, Luxembourg
The Building, Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, USA
A Tensão, Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Sao Paolo, Brazil
La Carte, À l’ombre de la ville, Fonds cré'Atlantique, Bordeaux, France (permanent)
2022
PAMM, Miami, USA
MFAH, Houston, USA
The Labyrinth of Monoculture, KEW Garden, London, UK
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
2024
Ennova Art Biennale, Langfang, CN
The nature above, Okayama Forest Art Festival, Nagi, Japan
GLASSTRESS 81⁄2, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Venice, Italy
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 Extatiques, 60 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
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
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
