ORLAN
ORLAN
Born in 1947, in Saint Etienne, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Presentation
Emblematic of the interest that contemporary artists have taken in performance art and in the possibilities of using one’s body as a creative medium, ORLAN stands out thanks to her use of multiple practices and medias. Questioning representations of art, genres, sexuality and the self, this international artist has constantly brought her appearance and her identity into play, reinventing herself in a continuous work of “self-sculpture”.
Awards & Grants
2021 Chevalier de la légion d'honneur
2017 Grand Prix International de l'Excellence Féminine,
Ministry of International Affairs of Genova, Italy
2013 Grand Prix de l'E-REPUTATION 1ère artiste plasticienne, awarded by
Alexia Guggémos at Christie's Paris, France
2004 Premier prix du Festival de la Photographie de Moscou, Russia
1999 Prix Arcimboldo for her work in digital photography
by Hewlett Packard, France
Prix Griffel-Kunst d'Hambourg, Germany
1993 Prix Lavoisier, France
1989 Bourse du FIACRE for her research in residence in Madras, India
1992 Bourse du FIACRE for her research in residence in Madras, India
Residencies
2007 SymbioticA, The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory,
Université d'Australie de l'ouest, Perth, Australia
2006 Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, United-States
2005 Studio International et programme sponsorisée par l'AFAA,
New York, United-States
Public Collections
Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Musée de la Photo de Bièvre, France
Musée d’Epinal, France
le Musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle, France
le Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
National Fund of Contemporary Art, Paris, France
FRAC (Fonds régional d’art contemporain), Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France
FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbane, France
FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
Arthotèque la Réunion, France
Musée d’Art contemporain d’Anvers, Belgium
Los Angels County Museum of Art, United-States
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, United-States
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United-States
Museum of contemporary art, Los Angeles, United-States
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Malibu, United-States
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, United-States
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Sungkok Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Mali National Museum, Bamako, Mali
The Bandjoun Station, Cameroun
Emblematic of the interest that contemporary artists have taken in performance art and in the possibilities of using one’s body as a creative medium, ORLAN stands out thanks to her use of multiple practices and medias. Questioning representations of art, genres, sexuality and the self, this international artist has constantly brought her appearance and her identity into play, reinventing herself in a continuous work of “self-sculpture”.
Trained at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and at the School of Fine Arts of Saint-Étienne (ESADSE), she shows, from the age of 17, performance pieces in which she quotes classical masterpieces by replaying them in Tableaux Vivants (1967-1975). In Étude documentaire : le drapé, le baroque (1974-1984), an ensemble mixing performance, photography and sculpture and revisiting Judeo-Christian iconography and baroque aesthetic, her bridal trousseau’s linen, diverted from their matrimonial vocation, become the medium for provocative pieces.
In 1977 she brings Le Baiser de l’artiste (The Artist’s Kiss, Frac des Pays de la Loire) to the FIAC (International Fair of Contemporary Art) in Paris. Sitting behind a photography of her own naked torso, she sells French kisses to the fair’s visitors or invites them to light a votive candle to her image dressed as a Madonna. The installation superposed the sacred woman – Sainte-ORLAN – and the objectified woman – ORLAN-corps – and created a scandal that costed the artist her teaching position. Since this first period, her creation has moved forward by revisiting her older pieces; most of her performances and derived pieces enter long-term series.
Other occasional works keep their individual status such as her parody of Courbet’s L’Origine du monde turned L’Origine de la guerre (1989) and showing a close-up of the lower abdomen of a man in erection. ORLAN also played a pioneering role in the artistic use of telematics, via the Minitel (a network developed prior to the Internet in France). In the 1990s, assisted by medical doctors, she began a series of “surgical-operation-performances”. She transforms the operating room into an atelier, where her body is surgically operated and modified under her direction. Some of these surgical interventions were filmed and transmitted live through satellite to high-art spaces (Omniprésence, 1993). If the whole process, from project to result, constitutes a work of art in itself, interventions also bring about videos, photographs, drawings and other pieces recycling body matter derived from the surgeries. The artist associates these performances to readings of essays by philosophers like Michel Serres, and writes her own "Carnal Art Manifesto" (1992) that explains the issues at stake in her work. As a critical diversion of cosmetic surgery, a demonstration of the new plasticity of the flesh that allows the contemporary subject to claim authorship of her/his own body, a questioning of beauty codes and their violence, her project distinguishes itself from body art by rejecting pain and making her body “a space of public debate”. In Reconfigurations-Self-Hybridations (starting from 1998), she uses digital image processing technologies to blend her face and pieces representing physical and artistic canons from pre-Columbian art, African sculpture, paintings of North-american natives by George Catlin (1796-1872) and Chinese art. These hybrid portraits blur distinctions in individuality, sexuality, temporality, ethnicity, religion or artistry in order to create as many mutant figures. In parallel, ORLAN pursues her exploration of the impact of biotechnology.
In 2007, her installation Harlequin’s Coat mixed video-projections, Petri dishes and a bioreactor allowing the in vitro culture of her own cells combined with those of other human and animal stems. Patchwork, collaboration and reprise equally govern the creation of clothing-artworks, when she collaborates with fashion designers to exhibit garments recycled from her own closet. This logic of recombination continues when she invests Maubuisson Abbey with her exhibition Unions mixtes, mariages libres et noces barbares (2009). The thoughtful and complex path of this norm-challenging artist, which mixes intensely art, life and sociopolitical questions, has always taken place in close dialog with her audience, gleefully mocking consensus.
Hugues Marchal
Translated from French by Emily Freeman.
From the Dictionnaire universel des créatrices
© 2013 Des femmes – Antoinette Fouque
© Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions
ORLAN, Wandhaff
April 01 - May 13, 2023
ORLAN, Lyon
November 25, 2021 - January 15, 2022
ORLAN, Paris
February 18 - March 19, 2021
ORLAN, New York
September 12 - November 02, 2019
ORLAN BEFORE ORLAN, Paris
October 18 - December 08, 2018
Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
Clairvoyant, New York
September 12 - October 19, 2024
Jabberwocky, Paris
June 29 - July 28, 2023
The gaze of Barbara Rose, Paris
December 14, 2022 - January 28, 2023
At Jean Prouvé, Offsite
July 15 - July 18, 2021
Spring Saint-Étienne, Saint-Etienne
June 12 - July 25, 2020
Spring Paris, Paris
May 18 - July 23, 2020
Guerre(s), Paris
December 18, 2019 - February 01, 2020
Le grand détournement , Paris
June 27 - August 03, 2019
Tribute to Vicky Rémy, Offsite
July 13 - July 14, 2019
Solo shows (selection)
2024
Centro Cultural de Belém, curator : Alexandra Silviano, Lisbonne, Portugal
Hibridaciones, Terreno Baldio Arte, curator : Leila Voight, Eduardo Mier y Terran, Mexico City, Mexique
2023
Solo show São Paulo, curator : Alain Quemin, SESC Museum, São Paulo, Brésil
2022
Les Femmes qui pleurent sont en colère, Musée national Picasso-Paris, commissaire d’exposition : François Dareau, Paris, France
Manifeste ORLAN, CORPS et SCULPTURES, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Les Abattoirs, commissaires d’exposition : Julie Crenn et Annabelle Ténèze, Toulouse, France
2021
ORLAN in The Sammlung Verbund Collection, Vertical Gallery, Vienna, Austria
ORLANoïde 2.0, curated by: Cian Walsh, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2020
ORLAN, Institute Gallery, Beyrouth, Libanon
2019
ORLAN SAINTE-ORLAN, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, United-States
Pétition contre la mort, curated by: Richard Martel, Le Lieu, Québec, Canada
Femme avec tête(s), curated by: Yann Toma Paris, Sorbonne Art Gallery, Paris, France
Projection Apparition et Gloide de Sainte ORLAN, L’hybride Lille, Lille, France
2018
ORLAN AVANT ORLAN, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Andrea Valencia, Mexico, Mexico
Vertical Gallery, Daniela Hahn, Vienna, Austria
2017
VideORLAN - Technobody, curated by: Alessandra Mammì,
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
ORLAN EN CAPITALES, curated by: Jérôme Neutres,
Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris, France
2016
ORLAN TODAY, curated by: Sylvia Froux, FRAC Basse-Normandie,
Caen, France
ORLAN-Techno-Body Retrospective, curated by: Soukyoun Lee,
Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2015
Temps variable et baiser de méduses, curated by: Carme Sais,
Bòlit Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain
Terapia dell'Ibrido, curated by: Sabrina Zannier, Castello di Susans,
Majano, Italy
Octobre rose, Projection on Tour Horizon de Jean Nouvel,
curated by: Gilles Drouault, Paris, France
ORLAN, Strip-tease des cellules jusqu'à l'os, curated by: Emmanuel
Cuisinier, Centre des arts, Enghien-les-bains, France
Temps variable et baiser de méduses, curated by: Jackie-Ruth Meyer,
Centre d'art LE LAIT, Albi, France
2014
Pekin Opera facing design and augmented reality, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Self-hybridations artworks with Mask of the Pekin's Opera,
curated by: Jooyoung Sung, Galerie Sejul, Seoul, South Korea
L'origine de la guerre, curated by: Syvie Zavatta,
FRAC de Franche-comté, Besançon, France
Hysteria (Salon Hystérique), curated by: Gabriella Daris, Blacks, London, United Kingdom
ORLAN: The icon of the French contemporary art, Guest artist of "Riga, European City of Culture",
curated by: Inese Baranovska, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia
2013
Men sana in corporel..., curated by: Pierre-Olivier Rollin,
B.P.S.22, Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose, Lessines, Belgium
2012
Hybridization and Refiguration, curated by: Ricardo Arcos-Palma,
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
Carnal Art and Obsolet Body, curated by: Ricardo Arcos-Palma,
Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
Pictures and objects from the MesuRages, curated by: Bart de Baere,
M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Anvers, Belgium
The Factory Direct, curated by: Eric Shiner,
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, United-States
2011
Un boeuf sur la langue, curated by: Blandine Chavanne,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
2010
Bodies, Technology, Fashion, curated by: Daniel J. Veneciano,
Lincoln, United-States
ORLAN Remix, Est-ce que vous êtes Belges ? Ou les draps-peaux hybrids,
curated by: Johan Muyle, Project Room | La Cambre | Ecole Supérieure des
Arts Visuels, Brussels, Belgium
2009
Unions Mixtes, Mariages Libres et Noces Barbares, curated by:
Caroline Coll Seror, Abbaye de Maubuisson, France
Self-Hybridations, curated by: Annick Notter,
Musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
2008
Self hybridation, American-Indians, galerie Michel Rein, France
2007
Le récit, Musée d'art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
2005
Eléments favoris n°4, Artothèque de la Réunion, La Réunion, France
Pièce lumineuse (in collaboration with Philippe Chiambaretta),
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2004
Méthodes de l'artiste, 1964-2004, retrospective, Centre National de la Photographie,
Paris, France
ORLAN 04/04/04, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, France
2003
Tricéphale, galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
2002
Eléments favoris, retrospective, FRAC des Pays-de-la-Loire, Carquefou, Nantes, France
2001
ORLAN 1964-2001, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2000
Ceci est mon corps...ceci est mon logiciel, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Magazin 4, Austria
Group shows (selection)
2024
The Infinite Woman, Carmignac Foundation, curator : Alona Pardo, Hyères, France
Surrealism – Worlds in dialogue, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany
Omniprésence II, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
The Verbund collection, Vienna celebrates it’s twentieth anniversary, Albertina Museum, curator : Gabriele Schor, Vienna, Austria
2023
Picasso 50 ans déjà, curator : Jacques Simonin, Village des peintres, Barbizon, France
L’argent dans l’art, curator : Jean-Michel Bouhours, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
Les femmes guerrières, curator : Isabelle De Maison Rouge, La Banque, Bethune, France
2022
Métamorphose, La photographie en France 1968-1989, curator : Michel Poivert, Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France
Territories of performance: Path and Practices in Italy (1967-1982), curator : Lara Conte et Francesca Gallo, Maxxi Museum, Roma, Italy
Une Avant-Garde Féministe, commissaire d’exposition : Gabriele Schor, Les rencontres d’Arles, Mécanique Générale, LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
Feministe Avant-Garde, curator : Gabriele Schor, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Cultural capital, Novi Sad, Serbia
Miroir du Monde, curator : Patricia Laigneau, Château Du Rivau, Léméré, France
Femmes Guerrières, femmes en combat, La Topographie de l’Art, curacrot : Isabelle de Maison Rouge, Paris, France
The Spirit of Europe, Pavillon de l’union Européenne, 9ème Biennale Internationale d’Art de Beijing, curator : Lucia Sollinger Muñiz, Beijing, China
2021
Revolutions, Records & Rebels (1966-1970),La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s, Works from the Sammlung Verbund Collection,
International Center of Photography, New York, United-States
Ex Africa, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, curated by: Philippe Dagen, Paris, France
100 HEROINES, London Photo, London, United Kingdom
Self-portrait of the artist as a clown, curated by: Joanna de Vos,
Rony Van de Velde Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Spatiu Intact Project, Centrul de interes, Cluj, Romania
Real utopias, curated by: Bianca Cerrina Feroni, Manifesta 13,
Maison RC, Marseille, France
Frida Kahlo, Afterlife, The Drents Museum, Assen, The Netherlands
Exposition aux frontiers de l’humain, Musée de l’homme, Paris, France
2020
Printemps, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Printemps, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Étienne, France
Bodyscapes, Le Musée d'Israël, Jerusalem, Israel
Real Utopias, Manifesta 13, Maison RC, Marseille, France
ID.ART:TECH Cyland Media Art Lab & The Kolodzei Art Foundation, National Art Club,
15 Gramerci Park South, New York, United-States
Tout le monde m'adore, Crypte d'Orsay, Orsay, France
Drapé, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
2019
This is not a selfie, Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, United-States
Australia Tour, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill, Australia
Show Me Your Wound, curated by: Johanna Schwanberg & Klaus Speidel,
Dom Museum, Vienna, Austria
Bodyfiction(s) 3, curated by: Paul di Felice & Pierre Stiwer,
Cercle-Cité, Luxembourg
Wunderkammer, curated by: Axel Vervoordt,
Diane Venet Collection, Antwerp, Belgium
2018
Middle Gate II – L'histoire de Dimpna, Gasthuismuseum, Geel, Belgium
Perfection, Science Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne School of Design,
Université de Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
In The Cut - The Male Body in Feminist Art, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
Artistes & Robots, Grand Palais, Paris, France
L'art vous va si bien! Bijoux d'artistes de Picasso à Jeff Koons, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, France
La photographie française existe... Je l'ai rencontré, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, France
Hybrids, Palacio de bellas artes, Mexico, Mexico
2016
Ouverture pour Inventaire, FRAC des pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
2014
Roll Up ! Roll Up ! An anatomical wax cabinet meets art, Deutsches Hygiene-museum,
Dresde, Germany
MASCULIN / MASCULIN, Musée d'Orsay, curated by: Guy Cogeval, Tobias G. Natter,
Dr. Ulrich Pohlmann, Paris, France
Skin : Totem and Tatoo, curated by: Osvaldo Romberg,
Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, United-States
Les esthétiques d'un monde désenchanté, CAC Meymac, Meymac, France
Feminine Futures, curated by: Adrien Sina, Consortium, Dijon, France
Metropolitain pavillion 3D Printshow, curated by: Lucy Cottrell, New-York city, United-States
Metamorphoses of the virtual, curated by: David Rosenberg, K11 exhibition, Shanghai, China
2013
Ici, Ailleurs, curated by: Juliette Laffon, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Talkie walkiy, curated by: Michel Rein, galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Re. act. feminism #2. a performing archive, curated by: Bettina Knaup
& Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelone, Spain
Elles, women artists from the Pompidou Center, curated by:
Cécile Debray & Emma Lavigne, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
CODE NOIR. 30 ans de Shopping, curated by:
Lidewij Edelkoort et Trend Union, F.R.A.C Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
International Woman Day, curated by: Marina Loshak, Olesya Turkina
& Natalia Kamenetskaya, Moscow Museum and Exhibition Centre the Manege, Moscow, Russia
La Photographie en France ; 1950 - 2000, curated by: Alain Sayag et Gilles Mora,
La Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris, France
The Metamorphoses of the Virtual - 100 years of Art and Freedom,
producer Pia MyrvoLD, Officina Delle Zattere, Biennale de Venise, Venice, Italy
The Artist as Jeweler, curated by: Diane Venet, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, United-States
2012
Andy Warhol Museum, Factory Direct: Pittsburgh exhibition, United-States
Art Public Liège, curated by: Joahn Muyle, Musée de Bogota and Musée de Medellin, Colombia
Biennale 2012, Shanghai, China
Speaking Artist, promenade project, curated by: Lorand Hegyi,
Busan Museum of Modern Art, South Korea
Mois de la photographie, la Photographie en France de 1950 2000,
curated by: Gilles Mora et Alain Sayag, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
FIAC, galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
« XXth Century Masters: The Human Figure », curated by: Sylvie Ramond,
Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, Sous Africa
Elles : Women Artists from the Pompidou Center, Seattle Art Museum, Paris, Seattle, United-States
Re. act. feminism # 2. A performing archive, curated by: Bettina Knaup &
Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
Collective Performance, curated by: Lauren Rosati, Exit Art , New York, United-States
Liquids in Contemporary Art, curated by: Marie Shek, Litvac Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
L'amour du risque; The tast for risk, curated by: Leila Topic,
assisted by Emannuel Latreille & Pascal Neveux, Museum of Modern Art of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Re. act. feminism # 2. a performing archive, curated by: Knaup & Beatrice Ellen Stammer,
Wyspa Art Institute, Gdansk, Poland
Man as Object : Reversing the Gaze, curated by: Tanya Augsburg, Priscilla Otani,
Karen Gutfreund & Brenda Oelbaum, Kinsey Institute, Indiana, United-States
2011
Dry baroque, curated by: Carmelo Strano, ACAOS Gallery et Villa Fortuna, Aci Trezza, Italy
Isole mai trovate, Island never found, exhibition tour, curated by:
Lorand Hegyi, Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
Le temps de l'action / acte 1, Villa Arson, Nice, France
From the cartography of power into the itineraries of knowledge, curated by: Catarina Pires,
Paulo Amarea, Sebastio Formoshino, Theresa Baumann, University de Coimbra, Portugal
Man as object - reversing the gaz, curated by: Brenda Oelbaum,
SOMARTS, San Francisco, United-States
Tour de France / Florida Contemporary Artists from France in Florida's Private Collections,
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Art Basel Miami, Miami, United-States
Colères et pudeurs de femme, curated by: Diane Hennebert,
Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
Iles jamais trouvées, curated by: Adriano Berengo,
Musée de Saint Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne, France
Sculpture Elles, curated by: Anne Rivière,
Musée des années trente, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Beauty (cult)ure, curated by: Kohle Yohannan,
The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, United-States
2010
Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, What Is Beautiful ?, Dresde, Germany
Palazzo Ducale, Isole Mai Trovate - Island Never Found, Geneva, Italy
P.S.1, 100 Years - Version #2, New-York, United-States
Laboratoria, (Hypotheses/Verification), Moscow, Russia
Unimediamodern, Bad Girls, Geneva, Italy
EN MAI FAIT CE QU'IL TE PLAIT, curated by: Juliette Laffon,
Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France
2009
elles@centrepompidou, curated by: Camille Morineau,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
La Force de l'art, Grand Palais, curated by: Jean-Louis Froment,
Jean-Yves Jouannais, Didi Ottinger, Paris, France
SK-interfaces, Exploring Borders in Art, Technology and Society,
curated by: Jens Hauser, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2008
Le plateau, L'argent, curated by: Caroline Bourgeois,
Elisabeth Lebovici, Paris, France
2007
J'embrasse Pas, curated by: Eric de Mézil,
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
2006
La Force de l'Art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Into Me/ Out of Me, PS1, New York, United-States
Autopoesis, National Slovakian Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005
Superstars - Das Prinzip Prominenz. Von Warhol bis Madonna,
Kunsthalle & Kunstforum Wien, Austria
Inside Out Loud, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, United States
Mirror Mirror: reflections on beauty, National gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2004
Body extensions, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Moi ! Autoportraits du XXè siècle, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Making Faces: the death of the portrait, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Je t'envisage, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Les Dix Commandements, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresde, Germany
2002
Tableaux Vivants, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Art contemporain international, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, Mexico
Magazin 4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Germany
2000
Fondation Deste, Athens, Greece
Partage d'exotisme, Biennale d'Art contemporain de Lyon, France
The wounded Diva: Hysteria, the body and Technologie in the art,
Kunsthaus Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunsteverein, Munich, Germany
The self is something else, Kunstsammlung NRW 235, Düsseldorf, Germany
Full biography and bibliography on www.orlan.net
Sarah Cascone, "Provocateur Orlan Reflects on How She Went From Being Reviled for Her Body Art to Claiming Her Place in the Art World", Artnet
2018
Laurence Devillers, Ariel Kyrou et Virginie Martin, « ORLANoïde robot hybride avec intelligence artificielle et collective », Editions Lienart, Paris.
Bernard Ceysson, Léa Chauvel-Lévy, Eli Hill, ORLAN BEFORE ORLAN, Ceysson éditions, Saint-Etienne
2017
Jérôme Neutres, Shelley Rice, Tatyana Franck, Jean-Luc Monterosso, « ORLAN ARTISTE EN CAPITALE », Éditions SKIRA, Paris.
Frédéric Acquaviva, « ORLAN Exogène », AcquAvivA.
2016
Domenica Quaranta, « ORLAN TechnoBody Retrospective 1966-2016 », Éditions Scala.
Moon Soon Park, Soukyoun Lee, Jinsang Yoo, Donatien Grau, Philippe Piguet, Imma Prieto.
2015
Donatien Grau, Jackie-Ruth Meyer, Philippe Piguet, Imma Prieto, Domenico Quaranta, " ORLAN, Striptease des cellules jusqu'à l'os ", Editions Scala, Paris.
2014
Inese Baranovska, Catherine Grenier, Dominique Païni, Jean-Pierre Rehm; "ORLAN, The Icon of the French Contemporary Art", Editions Neputns, Riga, Latvia.
2013
Jose Ignacio Benito Climent, "El Arte-Carnal en ORLAN, hacia una estetica del sacrificio", Editions Devenir, Madrid, Spain.
2012
Hubert Besacier, Alain Charre, Bart De Baere, Sophie Gregoir et Win Van Mulders, "ORLAN mesuRages (1968-2012) actions: ORLAN-body", M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium.
Ricardo Arcos-Palma, Nicolas Bourriaud et Michael La Chance, "Art Charnel et Corps Obsolète / Hybridations et Refigurations", Editions Musée Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
Anne Morelli, Johan Muyle et Pierre-Olivier Rollin, "Est-ce que vous êtes Belge ? ORLAN", Yellow Now/ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium.
2011
Blandine Chavanne, Christine Buci-Glucksmann et Camille Morineau, "Un Boeuf Sur la Langue", Éditions Fage, France.
2010
Rhonda K. Garelick and Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Homi K. Bhabha, Michel Serres, Isabel Tejeda, Paul Virilio, Lan Vu et Faboulous Harlequin, "ORLAN and the patchwork self", The University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, United States.
Simon Donger, Simon Sheperd, Gianna Bouchard, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Howard Caygill, Simon Donger, Sander L. Gilman, Markus Hallensleben, Jens Hauser, Dominic Johnson, Stéphane Malysse, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Catherine Petitgas, Simon Shepherd, Paul Virilio et Sarah Wilson, "ORLAN, a Hybrid Body of Artworks", Routledge Editions, London, United Kingdom.
Raphael Enthoven, Raoul Vaneigem et ORLAN, "Unions Mixtes, Mariages Libres et Noces Barbares", Editions Dilecta, Paris, France.
2009
Paul Virilio and ORLAN, "Transgression, transfiguration [conversation]", Editions L'Une et L'Autre, Paris, France.
2007
Joerg Bader, Lorand Hegyi, Marcela Iacub, Donald Kuspit, Peggy Phelan, Eugenio Viola, ORLAN, The Narrative/Le Récit, Éditions Charta, Milan, Italy.
2004
Bernard Blistène, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Caroline Cros, Régis Durand, Eleanor Heartney, Laurent Le Bon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Vivian Rehberg, Julian Zugazagoitia and ORLAN, "ORLAN, Carnal Art", Éditions Flammarion, Paris, France.
2000
Marc Partouche, Monographie CD-Rom et Papier, Se placer au centre du monde, ORLAN, Editions Jériko.
LUXUS + - Art Basel Miami : découvrez le programme - 2022
LUXUS + - La Redaction
December 01, 2022
Voir le fichierBEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE - Beaux Arts Frieze master - 2022
BEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE - Armelle Malvoisin
October 01, 2022
Voir le fichierLA TRIBUNE DE LYON - Lyon 1er. Avec son exposition, l’artiste ORLAN questionne la féminité - 2021
LA TRIBUNE DE LYON - Caroline Sicard
December 18, 2021
Voir le fichierLE PETIT BULLETIN - Féminisme - En corps Elle - 2021
LE PETIT BULLETIN -
December 15, 2021
Voir le fichierLA TRIBUNE DE LYON - ORLAN - 2021
LA TRIBUNE DE LYON - Caroline Sicard
December 15, 2021
Voir le fichierLE PETIT BULLETIN - Féminisme - En corps Elle - 2021
LE PETIT BULLETIN -
December 15, 2021
Voir le fichierARTS MAGAZINE - ORLAN Telle qu'en elle m'aime - 2021
ARTS MAGAZINE -
December 09, 2021
Voir le fichierLE PETIT BULLETIN - Cinq expos à voir en décembre à Lyon - 2021
LE PETIT BULLETIN - Jean-Emmanuel Denave
December 03, 2021
Voir le fichierLE PETIT BULLETIN LYON - ORLAN, des oeuvres de jeunesse à la galerie Ceysson & Bénétière - 2021
LE PETIT BULLETIN - Emmanuel Denave
November 30, 2021
Voir le fichierEXIT MAG - Orlan ou le deuxième sexe en premier - 2021
EXIT MAG - Caroline Sicard
November 29, 2021
Voir le fichierTOUT LYON - Ceysson & Bénétière Lyon présente Orlan - 2021
TOUT LYON -
November 27, 2021
Voir le fichierART SIX MIC - ORLAN telle qu’en elle m’aime - 2021
ART SIX MIC - Jean-Marc Lebeaupin
November 04, 2021
Voir le fichierL'OEIL - ORLAN, Strip Tease - Fabien Simode - 2021
L'OEIL - Fabien Simode
September 01, 2021
Voir le fichierLE JOURNAL DES ARTS - Orlan, strip-tease - 2021
LE JOURNAL DES ARTS - Fabien Simode
August 24, 2021
Voir le fichierBEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE - ORLAN Entretien - 2021
BEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE - Fabrice Bousteau
May 01, 2021
Voir le fichierSAY WHO - ORLAN - 2021
SAY WHO - Maxime Der Nahabédian & Marie Cheynel
March 20, 2021
Voir le fichierArt Absolument - ORLAN Striptease historique - 2021
ART ABSOLUMENT - Tom Laurent
March 17, 2021
Voir le fichierLE JOURNAL DES ARTS - À l'origine d'ORLAN - 2021
LE JOURNAL DES ARTS - Anne-Cécile Sanchez
March 12, 2021
Voir le fichierPARIS FANTASTIC - ORLAN, STRIPTEASE HISTORIQUE - 2021
PARIS FANTASTIC - Michèle Villemur
March 07, 2021
Voir le fichierFRANCE CULTURE - ORLAN sous toutes les coutures - L'ART EST LA MATIÈRE - Jean de Loisy - 2021
FRANCE CULTURE - Jean de Loisy
March 07, 2021
Voir le fichierLE MONDE - Sélection galeries : ORLAN chez Ceysson & Bénétière - 2021
LE MONDE - Philippe Dagen
March 05, 2021
Voir le fichierLA GAZETTE DROUOT - Traversées photographiques - 2021
LA GAZETTE DROUOT - Alain Quemin
March 04, 2021
Voir le fichierL'ORIENT LE JOUR - ORLAN : J’aurais bien aimé ne pas avoir le souci d’être féministe ! - 2021
L'ORIENT LE JOUR - Gilles Khoury
February 28, 2021
Voir le fichierSLASH - ORLAN — Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris - 2021
SLASH - Léone Metayer
February 25, 2021
Voir le fichierLES HARDIS - Parcours de galeries : quelles expositions voir à Paris en ce moment ? - 2021
LES HARDIS - Aymeric Mantoux
February 18, 2021
Voir le fichierPARIS ART - Orlan, Striptease historique, galerie Ceysson-Bénétière - 2021
PARIS ART -
February 18, 2021
Voir le fichierLE MONDE - La déesse qui veille sur ORLAN - 2021
LE MONDE - Emmanuelle Jardonnet
January 26, 2021
Voir le fichierPARIS ART - Elles x Paris Photo ORLAN, Les femmes qui pleurent sont en colère - 2020
PARIS ART - Laura Sibony
November 25, 2020
Voir le fichierTHE ART NEWSPAPER - Le Paris Gallery Weekend, antidote à la crise - 2020
THE ART NEWSPAPER - Alexandre Crochet
July 02, 2020
Voir le fichierBEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE - Les maîtres du pixel - 2020
BEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE -
June 05, 2020
Voir le fichierSTEMP MAGAZINE - Voir ! Mais pas seulement - 2020
STEMP MAGAZINE - Gilles Rossary-Lenglet
March 23, 2020
Voir le fichierLA GAZETTE DROUOT - Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière Guerre(s)- 2020
LA GAZETTE DROUOT - Alain Quemin
January 24, 2020
Voir le fichierHYPERALLERGIC - The Fearless Faces of a Feminist Firebrand - 2019
HYPERALLERGIC - Anthony Haden-Guest
November 05, 2019
Voir le fichierTHE ART NEWSPAPER - Exposition New York - 2019
THE ART NEWSPAPER -
September 19, 2019
Voir le fichierARTNET MAGAZINE - Provocateur Orlan Reflects on How She Went From Being Reviled for Her Body Art to Claiming Her Place in the Art World - 2019
ARTNET MAGAZINE - Sarah Cascone
September 14, 2019
Voir le fichierCONNAISSANCE DES ARTS - Le saviez-vous ? Le Body Art - 2019
CONNAISSANCE DES ARTS -
February 14, 2019
Voir le fichierACTUART - Exposition Solo Show: ORLAN AVANT ORLAN - 2018
ACTUART - Eric Simon
November 17, 2018
Voir le fichierArt Basel Miami Beach 2021
December 02, 2021
Luxembourg Art Week
November 12, 2021
Paris Photo
November 11, 2021
De la collection à l'atelier
June 29, 2021
Photo Days
December 04, 2020

ORLAN - Portrait
January 01, 2021

A visit with ORLAN
March 10, 2021
