Venice Biennale 2026, European Cultural Center, Palazzo Mora,
Personal Structures, We Are Inconsolable
May 9 through November 22, 2026
Curator: Francesca Carol Rolla
Director of the European Cultural Center: Sara Danieli
ORLAN is inconsolable in the face of the proliferation of wars, the rise of extreme ideologies—far-right movements, new forms of totalitarianism, masculinism, sexism, racism, homophobia…—and the strong resurgence of religious dogmas. The logic of domination is intensifying: the law of the strongest prevails, dictated by power, violence, and money.
ORLAN believes that artists have a responsibility—that they must react and take a stand: Here, she shouts, screams, and cries—in active and political anger. This rage becomes artistic material, a driving force for creation, and a gesture of resistance.
ORLAN creates manifesto self-portraits by blending traditional techniques with new technologies, including generative artificial intelligence. Her interventions in painting are sometimes visible, highly visible, barely visible, invisible, or simply implied. By scrutinizing the technique, the viewer is confronted with the conflicts that exist within both the works and the world. The spectator is no longer merely an “eye”; they move beyond passivity in the face of contemporary belligerence and recognize the urgency of both individual and collective responsibility.
The Centre Pompidou—
National Museum of Modern Art—announces the seven works from its collection that have changed the world
Marcel Duchamp, “Fountain”; Kasimir Malevich, “Black Square on a White Background”; Yves Klein, “Ant 82, Anthropometry of the Blue Period”; Niki de Saint Phalle, “Tir”; Piero Manzoni, “Merda d’artista”; Valie Export, “Aktionshose: Genitalpanik,” ORLAN, “The Artist’s Kiss.”
ORLAN: Artistic Intelligences,
Muffathalle, Munich, Germany, 2026
Curated by Dr. Jens Hauser, featuring the artist’s “Slow” concert-performance with Les Tétines Noires during the exhibition’s opening reception
ORLAN: Artistic Intelligences, 2026
Published by Muffathalle Munich
On the occasion of the solo exhibition “ORLAN: Artistic Intelligences,”
, curated by Dr. Jens Hauser, Muffathalle, Munich
ORLAN Combines Geometric Problems with AI & IAA, 2025
ORLAN Toute(s), Ceysson & Bénétière,
Retrospective, Saint-Étienne, 2025
ORLAN: HYBRIDS A.RTISTIC I.NTELLIGENCE, POHANG MUSEUM OF STEEL ART, SOUTHKOREA, 2025
ORLAN’S PARTICIPATION IN THE AI SUMMIT, ”
” THÉÂTRE DE L’ODÉON, Paris, 2025
Watch the video: ORLAN’s presentation at the AI summit—Théâtre de l’Odéon, February 11, 2025
I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO BE ME, I GIVE MYSELF PERMISSION TO BE YOU,
, LA MAISON FRANÇAISE, NYU, NEW YORK, USA, 2024
ORLAN: A RETROSPECTIVE, THE OPENING GALLERY,
NEW YORK, USA, 2024
STRIP-TEASE: ALL ABOUT MY LIFE, ALL ABOUT MY ART
, PUBLISHED BY THE EVERYDAY PRESS
Strip-tease: Everything About My Life, Everything About My Art, Gallimard
Strip-tease: Everything About My Life, Everything About My Art, Edições Sesc
ORLAN HYBRIDS AI, SPECIAL RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
, PART OF THE GWANGJU BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART,
GMAP, SOUTH KOREA, 2024
Omnipresence II, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2024
We would like to thank our friends at the Centre Pompidou for acquiring this major work by ORLAN, based on a suggestion by Sophie Duplaix.
Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture,
Published by Routledge, 2024
The endangered polar bear and new robots made from recycled objects and materials. Version 2, 2024
Disfiguration-Refiguration, Maya Self-Hybridizations: ORLAN hybridized with anthropomorphic Maya figures No. 13,
Photo montage, 2022
ORLAN X CHARLIE LE MINDU
ORLAN X CAMILLE FOURNET,
“DE CORPS EN CORPS” CAPSULE COLLECTION“
The endangered African forest elephant and new robots made from recycled objects and materials
BECOMING ORLAN: CREATION AND EMANCIPATION,
SESC PAULISTA SÃO PAULO, 2023
ORLAN – Visiting Mérida, 2022
Edited by Leila Voight
LE SLOW DE L’ARTISTE 2022-2023
ORLAN: SIX DECADES, 2023
PUBLISHED BY THE VERBUND COLLECTION AND HATJE CANTZ
The Origin of War,2023
ORLAN: This Is My Story… of Art, PhotoESPAÑA 2023,
Rocio Santa Cruz Gallery, Barcelona
ORLAN draws inspiration from Empress Eugénie and carries on her legacy for the exhibition *Chère Eugénie* at Maison Guerlain in Paris, 2022
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This is my body… This is my software…
Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière , Luxembourg, 2023
Face Lace campaign, 2023
PHOTO BY ALI MAHDAVI
Cyber campaign for Jean-Paul Gaultier, 2022
Watch the video: JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER’S CYBER CAMPAIGN
“Women Who Cry Are Angry ” by Femme avec tête(s), 2019–2020
ORLANoïde at the Grand Palais, 2018
The Kiss of the Smiling Artist, 1977
Avatar of the masks of Peking Opera, 2014
Differences and Repetitions, Bodyless Dresses: Sculptures of Folds,
Exhibition view at the Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium, “Women’s Modesty and Anger,” 2011
