Julieta Aranda

Julieta Aranda
Born	1975 Mexico City, Mexico
Education	BFA in filmmaking at School of Visual Arts NYC MFA Columbia University

Julieta Aranda (born in 1975 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a conceptual artist that lives and works in Berlin and New York City. She received a BFA in filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts (2001) and an MFA from Columbia University (2006), both in New York. Her explorations span installation, video, and print media, with a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through art making.

Biographical timeline

• 1975 Born in Mexico City
• 1995–1996 2-year grant from the National Foundation for the Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico
• 1996–1998 Merit scholarship awarded by the School of Visual Arts, (SVA), New York
• 1995–1999 Silas H. Rhodes merit scholarship awarded by the School of Visual Arts, (SVA), New York
• 1996–1999 Merit scholarship for young film-makers awarded by the National Board of Review, New York
• 2001 BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York
• 2002 Production grant from the Gulbenkien Foundation, Portugal
• 2002 Jovenes Creadores, 1 year production grant, Mexico
• 2004 Merit award, Columbia University, New York
• 2005 Curatorial fellowship, Columbia University, New York
• 2005 Member of "The Generals", a new advisory board of Art in General, New York
• 2005 Kantor / Zach Feuer Gallery Curatorial Fellowship, Columbia University, New York
• 2006 MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York
• 2006 UNIDEE in Residence – International Program 2006 (Fondazione Pistoletto) – Biella, Italy
• 2007 IASPIS – International Studio Program 2007 – Stockholm, Sweden
• 2007–2008 Art in General new commissions program, New York
• 2008 International Residence Recollets, Paris
• 2009 Art in General new commissions program, 2007–2008, New York

Work

Aranda's complex body of work exists outside the boundaries of the object, and is characterized by the struggle of catching sight of elusive concepts such as time, circulation, and imagination. Her installations and temporary projects, which often examine social interactions and the role that the circulation of objects plays in the cycles of production and consumption, are intensely site-specific. Much of her work takes up the concept of time, sometimes to consider alternative notions of the temporal experience, and other times to approach the arbitrariness of time and freedom from time.

You had no ninth of May

In You had no ninth of May! (2006), Aranda addresses the artificiality of the homogeneous construction of time through the case of Kiribati, an archipelago in the Pacific that, in 1995, changed the position of the International Date Line (IDL). Through a series of installation pieces that conceptually and formally map the international date line at Kiribati, the artist investigates officially assigned time and calls into question concepts such as "today" or "tomorrow".

There has been a miscalculation

Aranda's 2007 work There has been a miscalculation (Flattened Ammunition) is an experiment on the functioning of time. This work consists in a transparent Plexiglas cube containing approximately 100 science-fiction novels with a story line taking place before 2007 (the year in which the work was first produced), which have been shredded, almost pulverized. It also contains a hidden computerized air compressor that unexpectedly and violently blows the dust around at random intervals, recalling a sudden sandstorm. This way, Aranda's work makes books endlessly circulate and swirl in an empty cube, leaving them incessantly suspended in a past future.

Intervals

For Intervals (2009), a solo presentation of four works installed in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Aranda explored and inverted the notion of time as a strictly assigned linear designation marked by clocks and calendars. In this exhibition, all the works were proposed to partially describe, in the artist's words "a sense of time's passage according to subjective experience, rather than subscribed to a strict system of measurement that assigns a fixed duration to any given event". Each piece captures time's passage in an individualized sense, addressing what the artist conceives as "subject formation" and the assertion of one's dominion over one's own time as a condition for individualism.

E-Flux

Julieta Aranda has been actively collaborating on e-flux since 2003, which is a publishing platform, archive, artist project, curatorial platform, and cultural enterprise founded by Anton Vidokle in 1998. Aranda is both a contributor and editor of e-flux journal, and in collaboration with Vidokle, has produced several e-flux art projects that explore unusual models for the circulation and distribution of art.

E-flux video rental

Conceived in 2004 in collaboration with Anton Vidokle, e-flux video rental (EVR) comprises a free VHS video rental store, a public screening room and an archive. Its collection is selected in collaboration with a large group of international curators, and consists of over 500 art films and video works that are available to the public for home viewing free of charge. The project was originally presented in a storefront in New York, and has been presented at various locations around the world, with the inventory of videos continuously increasing. After seven years as a traveling project, EVR was donated to the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana in 2011 for its permanent display, which is a reconstruction of the original storefront at 53 Ludlow Street, New York. As a video rental store entering a museum collection, EVR will preserve and make available for future study not only the videos that comprise it, but also the social form of video rental stores, and the technology that originally made it possible.

Pawnshop

Released in 2007, Pawnshop is an e-flux project by artists Liz Linden, Julieta Aranda, and Anton Vidokle. Both an exhibition and an artwork in itself, this project was originally located in e-flux's 53 Ludlow Street storefront, which temporarily became a pawnshop dedicated to the pawning of artworks. Its initial inventory consisted of over 60 pawned works from a group of artists invited to participate in the project, and after it was opened for business, further artists were able walk in with a work they wanted to pawn. After the initial 30 days, the artworks that have not been retrieved by their original owners became available for sale.

Time/bank

An online platform initiated by Aranda and Vidokle, Time/Bank is based on the premise that everyone in the field of culture has something to contribute and that it is possible to develop and sustain an alternative economy by connecting existing needs with unacknowledged resources. On a practical level, it is a platform where artists, curators, writers and other people in the field, can exchange time and skills—help each other get things done without using money. Idealistically, Time/Bank can become a place where certain types of actions and ideas, that seem to have no value in our market-driven society, can gain a sense of worth.

It is possible to open a time bank account at http://www.e-flux.com/timebank/user/register

Supercommunity

SUPERCOMMUNITY is an editorial project by e-flux journal commissioned for the 56th Venice Biennale, which was run from May to August 2015. Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, and Brian Kuan Wood have been co-editors of this project, which addresses e-flux journal and its readership as the supercommunity and presents a daily piece of writing that often adopts the form of poetry, short fiction or screenplay. It has featured contributions from nearly one hundred authors such as anthropologists, artists, philosophers, poets, theorists and writers.

Awards and recognition

Aranda has been awarded numerous grants and merit scholarships, from institutions such as FONCA, the National Foundation for the Culture and the Arts in Mexico (1995–1996), and both the School of Visual Arts (1995–1999), the National Board of Review (1996–1999) and Columbia University (2004) in New York. She has also been an artist in residence at UNIDEE, the International Program by Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy (2006), as well as at IAPSIS, the International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm (2006) and at the International Residence of Recollets in Paris (2008). Her work has been shown in internationally renowned institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2009); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009); the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (2010); and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain (2010), as well as at international art festivals such as the Liverpool Biennial (2010); the Kassel Documenta, Germany (2012); and the Shanghai Biennale (2012).

Exhibition Timeline

Solo exhibitions

Year	Exhibition title	Institution	City	Country
2017	AS THE GROUND BECOMES EXPOSED	Galleria Francesco Pantaleone FPAC	Palermo	Italy
2014	If a body meet a body	Galería OMR	Mexico City	Mexico
2014	Tools for Infinite Monkeys (open machine)	Ignacio Liprandi Art Contemporáneo	Buenos Aires	Argentina
2014	Video Art at Midnight No. 56	Babylon Kino	Berlin	Germany
2014	Notes for a time/bank	Vdrome (online)
2014	Untitled	NuMu	Guatemala	Mexico
2013	The knot is not (the rope)	ABC (Art Berlin Contemporary)	Berlin	Germany
2013	If a body meet a body	Museo Villa Croce	Genova	Italy
2013	Where there is smoke..	Galleria Francesco Pantaleone FPAC	Palermo	Italy
2013	尸Γσ₠§§ ㏌	Goethe-Institut Library	New York	USA
2012	I wanted to give it to someone else	ArtPositions, ArtBasel	Miami	USA
2012	I wanted to give it to someone else	MACRO	Rome	Italy
2012	Between Timid and Timbuktu	Marilia Razuk Gallery	São Paulo	Brasil
2012	Time/Bank	dOCUMENTA 13	Kassel	Germany
2012	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Moderna Galerija	Ljubljana	Slovenia
2012	Multifamiliar	N.B.K	Berlin	Germany
2012	Time/Bank	Stella Foundation	Moscow	Russia
2012	Time/Bank	STUK	Leuven	Belgium
2011	Between Timid and Timbuktu: (a time without events)	Gallery Niklas Belenius	Stockholm	Sweden
2011	In Search of Lost Time	Galería OMR	Mexico City	Mexico
2011	Time/Bank (collaboration with Anton Vidokle)	Portikus	Frankfurt	Germany
2011	Kopfbau (collaboration with Anton Vidokle)	ArtBasel	Basel	Switzerland
2011	If you tell the story well, it will not have been a comedy	Galeri Niklas Belenius	Stockholm	Sweden
2011	La Hora de la Hora	Galería OMR	Mexico City	Mexico
2011	The tale of the tiger is longer than the tiger's tail…	Zona MACO	Mexico City	Mexico
2011	Arts & Leisure	Performa	New York City	USA
2010	If you tell the story well, it will not have been a comedy	Kunstverein Arnsberg	Arnsberg	Germany
2010	e-flux video rental (collaboration with Anton Vidokle)	Fondazione Giuliani	Rome	Italy
2010	All the Memory of the world (we can remember it for you)	New Museum	New York	USA
2009	Intervals	Guggenheim Museum	New York	USA
2009	….and all I got was this lousy T-shirt	Art in General	New York	USA
2009	Pawnshop (in collaboration with A. Vidokle and L. Linden)	Vitamin Art Space	Beijing	Germany
2008	Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick	Galerie Michael Janssen	Berlin	Germany
2008	There has been a miscalculation.	Galerie Michael Janssen, Volta Art Fair	Basel	Switzerland
2008	we may be done now, but we are not through yet...	Fruit & Flower deli	New York	USA
2008	270 x 400	Word	Stockholm	Sweden
2008	One way only	Art in General	New York	USA
2008	You had no ninth of May!	Sala Díaz	Austin, Texas	USA
2007	Present Future	Galerie Michael Janssen, Artissima	Turin	Italy
2007	There has been a miscalculation	Ersta Konsthall	Stockholm	Sweden
2007	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Maus Maus	Lisbon	Portugal
2007	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	9th Lyon Biennial	Lyon	France
2007	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris	Paris	France
2007	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Carpenter Center	Boston	USA
2007	Pawnshop (with A. Vidokle and L. Linden)	e-flux	New York	USA
2006	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Arthouse	Austin, Texas,	USA
2006	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	1st Biennial of Architecture and Landscape	Canary Islands	Spain
2006	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	PIST	Istanbul	Turkey
2006	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Mucsarnok Kunsthalle	Budapest	Hungary
2006	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Extra-City	Antwerp	Germany
2005	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Portikus	Frankfurt	Germany
2005	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	INSA Art Space	Seoul	South Korea
2005	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Moore Space	Miami	USA
2005	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	Manifesta Foundation	Amsterdam	Netherlands
2005	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	KW Institute for Contemporary Art	Berlin	Germany
2004	e-flux video rental (with Anton Vidokle)	e-flux	New York	USA
2000	Safety Instructions	VII Havana Biennial	Havana	Cuba
1999	Springs of Action	La Panaderia	Mexico City	Mexico
1999	Medidas de Emergencia	La Panaderia	Mexico City	Mexico

Group exhibitions

Year	Exhibition title	Institution	City	Country
2014	The Reluctant Narrator	Museu Coleção Berardo	Lisbon	Portugal
2014	Islands off the Shore of Asia	Para/Site	Hong Kong	China
2014	In __ we trust: Art and Money	CMA (Columbus Museum of art)	Ohio	USA
2014	Coupling	Taylor Macklin	Zürich	Switzerland
2014	8 Berlin Biennale	Berlin Biennale	Berlin	Germany
2014	Secret Codes	Galeria Luisa Strina	São Paulo	Brazil
2014	7,000,000,000	Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló	Castellon de la Plana	Spain
2014	Ökonomie Der Aufmerksamkeit	Kunsthalle Wien	Vienna	Austria
2014	BICI	1a Cartagena Biennale	Cartagena	Colombia
2014	Ir para Volver	12 Biennale of Cuenca	Cuenca	Ecuador
2013	AKTZ	Kraupa-Tuscany Gallery	Berlin	Germany
2013	1:1	Moderna Galerija	Ljubljana	Slovenia
2013	The Past is Prese	MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art)	Detroit	USA
2013	Toward a promise of inquiry	Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art	Rotterdam	Netherlands
2013	The Possibility of an Island	Import Projects	Berlin	Germany
2013	Una Posibilidad De Escape Para Asaltar El Estudio De La Realidad Y Volver A Grabar El Universo	Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló	Castellon de la Plana	Spain
2013	Draft Urbanism	Biennial of the Americas	Denver, CO	USA
2013	AB, a project by Gabriele De Santis	Nomas Foundation	Rome	Italy
2013	The Spirit of Utopia	Whitechapel Art Gallery	London	UK
2013	Money After Money	Eye of Gyre	Tokyo	Japan
2012	Unsaid/Spoken	Ella Fontanal Cisneros and CIFO collections	Miami	USA
2012	El mañana ya estuvo aquí	Museo Rufino Tamayo	Mexico City	Mexico
2012	No glot... c'lom fliday	Shanghai Biennial (postcard project)
2012	Predicting Memories	Vienna Art Week	Vienna	Austria
2012	9th Gwangju Biennial	Gwangju Biennial	Gwangju	South Korea
2012	Searching for the Fountain	Moderna Museet	Stockholm	Sweden
2012	Not Me: Subject to Change	2012 CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition	Miami	USA
2012	Ñew York	AMA Art Museum of the Americas,	Washington DC	USA
2012	Blind Cut	Marlborough Chelsea Gallery	New York	USA
2011	Latin American Pavilion	Venice Biennale	Venice	Italy
2011	Living as Form	CREATIVE TIME	New York	USA
2011	AUSSER HAUS	Kunstverein Heidelberg	Heidelberg	Germany
2011	Based in Berlin	Atelierhaus Monbijoupark	Berlin	Germany
2011	Art Brussel	Gallery Niklas Belenius	Stockholm	Sweden
2011	Weltraum. Die Kunst und ein Traum	Kunsthalle Wien	Wien	Germany
2011	Menos Tiempo que Lugar	Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano	Guadalajara	Mexico
2011	Animal Kingdom – There Was an Old Lady Who…	Schinkel Pavillon	Berlin	Germany
2011	Untitled	Istanbul Biennial	Istanbul	Turkey
2010	Time/Bank. (collaboration with Anton Vidokle)	6 th Liverpool Biennial	Liverpool	UK
2010	Time/Store (collaboration with Anton Vidokle)	e-flux	New York	USA
2010	Chartreuse Jeune	Casa Tabarelli	Bolzano	Italy
2010	Bigminis	Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux	Bordeaux	France
2010	CGEM: Apuntes sobre la emancipación	MUSAC	León	Spain
2010	Take Me To Your Leader! The Great Escape into Space	The Museum of Contemporary Art	Roskilde	Denmark
2010	These gifts must always move	Sutton Gallery	Fitzroy	Australia
2010	Avenue of the Americas	LentSpace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council	New York	USA
2010	Held up by Columns	Renwick Gallery	New York	USA
2010	Not a Place, an Outlook	Governor's Island	New York	USA
2010	Morality Act VI: Remember Humanity	Witte de With	Rotterdam	Netherlands
2010	Model Kits	MUSAC	Leon	Spain
2010	Gabinete Blanco	La Colección Jumex	Mexico City	Mexico
2010	In and Out of Context REDUX	New Museum	New York	USA
2010	Defending our values Lightbox/The Module	Centro Cultural Andratx	Andratx	Spain
2009	Convention	Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA)	Miami	USA
2009	Fax	Drawing Center	New York	USA
2009	Paper Exhibition	Artists Space	New York	USA
2009	Impakt festival	Academiegalerie	Utrecht	Netherlands
2009	Autres Mesures	Centre Photographique de la île de France	Paris	France
2009	Geography and Myth	Bard College	New York	USA
2009	Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City	Nasher Museum, Duke University	Durham	USA
2009	Cargo	Autocenter	Berlin	Germany
2009	28th Biennial of Graphic Arts	Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts	Ljubljana	Slovenia
2009	Auszeit	Kunstverein Arnsberg	Arnsberg	Germany
2009	Narcotica at Schalter	Galerie im Regierungsviertel	Berlin	Germany
2009	Central Nervous System No.2	Galerie im Regierungsviertel	Berlin	Germany
2009	Art Cologne 2009	Art Cologne	Cologne	Germany
2009	Video Pyramid, On from here	Guild & Greyshkul	New York	USA
2009	The Forgotten Bar Project	Peter Bergman	Stockholm	Sweden
2008	YES	A R Contemporary	Milan	Italy
2008	One of these things is not like the other things	galleria 1/9 unosunove	Rome	Italy
2008	The Future as Disruption	The Kitchen	New York	USA
2008	Friday 13th Fashion Week	Kronprinzenpalais	Berlin	Germany
2008	L'Argent (Money)	Frac île-de-France	Paris	France
2008	Salon of the Revolution	The House of Artists	Zagreb	Croatia
2008	The End Was Yesterday – Part II	Kunstraum Innsbruck	Innsbruck	Austria
2008	Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City	Museo Alameda	San Antonio, TX	USA
2008	The Hypnotic Show	Silverman Gallery	San Francisco, CA	USA

See also

• Venice Biennale
• e-flux
• e-flux publications
• SUPERCOMMUNITY
• Accelerationism
• Anton Vidokle