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Talk Vital Ghost Kyoto Arts Center, Kyoto, JP With Rev. Taishi Kato and Sakai Moving Services.
Book Zenith Boil Limited edition publication With Nicholas Weltyk, Co-Ed (New York). Link
Exhibition Leaking Place Basel Pavillion CIVIC, Institut Kunst HGK FHNW, Basel, CH
Educational Programme Take-away Architectural Design Studio Royal College of Arts, London, UK September 2021 — June 2022 With High Holdings. Link Link

PAST

2021

Talk Take-Away Dreams At Elles Publishing House Cairo, EG 24 February With writer Amr Ezzat and filmmaker Maha Maamoun (Kayfa Ta Editions).
Text Medina, Valle. "Primeval Canvases" In "Zenith Boil" New York, US
Text Reynolds, Benjamin. "A Textless Life" In "Zenith Boil" New York, US
Review Buehlmann, Vera. "IMAGINES SPIRITUS (ASPER ET LENI)" In "Zenith Boil" New York, US
Review Longino, Alan. "The Temper in August" in "Zenith Boil", New York, US. In "Zenith Boil" New York, US
Book Dom Gross Five essays by Pa.LaC.E with a prologue "Vastly Modern" by Vera Buehlmann. Self-published and handbound in Vienna, AT.
Publication Azumi and Iori. (Triptych) In "The Lake from the Louvres" record by composer James Rushford. Publisher: Shelter Press, FR
Performance Pastoral Complex Venice Biennale, IT 24 June With writer Zairong Xiang.
Exhibition Pastoral Complex Solo Show La Becque, La Tour-de-Peilz, CH 5 June — 5 July With contributions by Daisy Lafarge, Ania Marincek and Dong Young Lee. Link
Exhibition In Ballast in "Grandfather’s Axe" Group Show Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, CH 10 October — 15 November Link
Educational Programme Melee Architectural Design Studio Royal College of Arts, London, UK September 2020 — June 2021 With High Holdings. Link

2020

Talk OPTI—LAX Part of the panel "Intimate Inhabiting" ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture, CH 15 January With Katja Novitskova, Jorge Orozco, Yngve Holen. Curated by An Mihye
Educational Programme Sight/Seeing Architectural Design Studio Royal College of Arts, London, UK September 2019 — June 2020 With High Holdings. Link

2019

Talk Zenith Boil At "Sophistication" talk series Vienna University of Technology, AT 15 November
Exhibition Lever et courcher In "Chambord Inachevé" Château de Chambord, FR 19 May — 15 September With Dominique Perrault (Curator).
Educational Programme CHRONOCOPIA Architectural Design Studio Royal College of Arts, London, UK September 2018 — June 2019 With High Holdings. Link
Educational Programme Gearing At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics" Vienna University of Technology, AT March — June With Dom Gross. Link
Talk The Conjurer and the Seer At "Constructing Engaged Practice" series Columbia University, GSAPP, New York, US 29 March With Professor Juan Herreros. Link
Exhibition Highest Good Solo Show MAGAZIN, Vienna, AT 07 December — 01 February Link
Educational Programme Levitation At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics" Vienna University of Technology, AT October — January With Dom Gross. Link
Exhibition Documents to Come In the Spanish Biennale of Architecture La Arquería, Madrid, ES 22 January
Talk Constructing Engaged Practice For GSAPP Podcast series. New York, US 22 January With GSAPP Communications. Link
Talk Doing as You Must Artist talk on customary practices. MAGAZIN, Vienna, AT 18 January With Alexi Kukuljevic, Klaus-Peter Speidel, Marlies Wirth. Link

2018

Exhibition Drawing Rights In "Trade Markings". Frontier Imaginaries No. 5. Curated by Vivian Ziherl i.c.w. Charles Esche and Annie Fletcher. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL 04 April — 01 July With Richard Bell (with As Long As It Takes), Marcel van den Berg, Blade, Alice Creischer, Bonita Ely, Ho Rui An, Gordon Hookey, Patricia Kaersenhout, Karrabing Film Collective, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Tom Nicholson, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Rachel O'Reilly (with Pa.LaC.E Valle Medina & Benjamin Reynolds), Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ryan Presley, Rammellzee, Farida Sedoc, The Otolith Group, Erwin Thomasse, Dondi White and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe. Link Link
Educational Programme Success At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics" Vienna University of Technology, AT March — June With Dom Gross. Link
Performance The Mount St. Helens of Trying At "Universität der Künste" Berlin, DE 04 June
Talk Pulverisation At Architectural Association School of Architecture London, UK 02 May Link
Educational Programme Ĵʊ˅Ȝɲ1ℓɨΔ At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics" Vienna University of Technology, AT October — January With Dom Gross. Link
Educational Programme Un Rules At Architectural Association School of Architecture London, UK September 2017 — June 2018 Link

2017

Talk Higher Noir In "The Very Many and the Big Plenty: Quantity and the Precious" Vienna University of Technology, AT 18 December
Commission Crevasses Bibliothek Andreas Zuest, Oberegg, CH November Link
Book Launch Paris Hermitage At AA Bookshop, Architectural Association School of Architecture London, UK 26 April With Nicholas Weltyk, Co-Ed (New York). Link Link
Educational Programme No Ghost At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics" Vienna University of Technology, AT March — June With Dom Gross. Link
Educational Programme Every- but not Any- At Architectural Association School of Architecture London, UK September 2016 — June 2017 Link
Educational Programme Spa in Nature At Lixil Inc., Hokkaido, JP with Vienna University of Technology, AT December 2016 — March 2017
Exhibition L'Espace du Temps OMI International Arts Center, New York, US 27 January — 12 March Link

2016

Exhibition The Gas Imaginary, Part Two In "Before and After Origins". Curated by Vivian Ziherl, Frontier Imaginaries. Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, IL 06 October — 31 October With Rachel O'Reilly, Valle Medina, Benjamin Reynolds and Rodrigo Hernandez. And: Bisan Abu Eisheh, Jawad Al Malhi, Richard Bell, Benji Boyadgian, Megan Cope, Alice Creischer, Decolonizing Art Architecture Residency, Aiman Halabi, Gordon Hookey, Saba Innab, Yazan Khalili, Yasser Khangar, Karrabing Film Collective, Jumana Manna, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Randa Mdah, Muhammad Mughrabi, NGO (icw Dineo Seshe Bopape, Donna Kukama, George Mahashe & Sinethemba Twalo), Tom Nicholson, Christian Nyampeta, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ryan Presley, Shada Safadeh, Wael Tarabieh, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe. Link Link
Publication New Value In "After Belonging". Lars Mueller Publishers. With Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Ignacio G. Galan, Carlos Minguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, and Marina Otero Verzier (eds.) Link
Exhibition New Value In "Oslo Architecture Triennale". Curated by After Belonging Agency. Oslo, NO 08 September — 27 November With Adrian Lahoud, Andres Jaque/Office for Political Innovation, Bouchra KhaliliCenter for Political Beauty, Daniel Fernandez Pascual & Alon Schwabe, Coralie Gourguechon, Design Earth, Einar Sneve Martinussen & Jørn Knutsen, Enorme Estudio, Femke Herregraven, FFB, Folder, Frida Escobedo & Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa, Jill Magid, Kadambari Baxi, Janette Kim, Meg McLagan, David Schiminovich & Mark Wasiuta, Kër Thiossane with Amadou Kane Sy, Khaled Malas, Laura Kurgan, Juan Saldarriaga & Angelika Rettberg, L.E.FT & Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Luis Callejas & Charlotte Hansson, Martha Rosler & Pelin Tan, Martti Kalliala, Nora Akawi, Nina V. Kolowratnik, Johannes Pointl & Eduardo Rega, OMA & Bengler, Pa.LaC.E, Paulo Tavares, Paulo Moreira, Ana Naomi de Sousa & Pétur Waldorff, ROTOR, estudio SIC | VIC, Sputniko!l, Supersudaca, Superunion, Unfold, Link
Exhibition Things that Haven't Happened Yet Koneen Saatio Foundation, FI September — October Link
Exhibition The Gas Imaginary, Part Two In "No Longer at Ease" Curated by Vivian Ziherl, Frontier Imaginaries. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU 14 May — 09 July With Megan Cope, Alice Creischer, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency), Juan Davila, Demian DinéYazhi’, Bonita Ely, An Ho Rui, Gordon Hookey, Claire Humphreys, Karrabing Film Collective, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Helmut Newton, Tom Nicholson, North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum, Kevin O'Brien, Rachel O'Reilly (w PA/LA/CE Valle Medina, Benjamin Reynolds; and artist Rodrigo Hernandez), Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ryan Presley, Real Estate Maps of the John Oxley Library, Shell Film Unit Australia, Virtual Songlines, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe. Link Link
Exhibition Studies on Freedom Supported by the The Danish Arts Foundation. Can Lis, Mallorca, ES June Link
Exhibition Al qalīy Solo Show Villa Straeuli, Winterthur, CH May — July Link
Educational Programme Comfort and Lightness At Lixil Inc., Hokkaido, JP with D-ARCH, Applied Virtuality Laboratory, ETH Zurich, CH December 2015 — March 2016
Educational Programme WILD At Architectural Association School of Architecture London, UK September 2015 — June 2016 Link

2015

Publication Architecture from the CPU A Conversation with Philippe Morel EP II, Sternberg Press (Alex Coles, Eds.) With Valle Medina, Benjamin Reynolds (authors) and Philippe Morel (interviewee). Link Link
Publication Paris Hermitage In vol. 100 of “THE JAPAN ARCHITECT” magazine Tokyo, JP Link
Publication Paris Hermitage In December 2015 issue of “SHINKENCHIKU” magazine Tokyo, JP Link
Talk Pulverization: Paris Hermitage In "Konstruktion eines Argumentes". The Computational Object At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics" 27 October, 6 — 7 pm With Prof. Vera Buehlmann Link
Award 1st Prize Central Glass International Competition At Tokyo International Forum Tokyo, JP 17th October With Riken Yamamoto, Reiichi Okamoto, Taro Ashihara, Teruo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Naito, Kengo Kuma, Satoshi Takayama, Shozo Baba Link
Educational Programme Art School Identities ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne, CH 07 — 11 September With Jonas Berthod, Davide Fornari, Roland Frueh, Christoph Knoth, Robert Lzicar, Nina Paim & Corinne Gisel, François Rappo, Aleksandra Santoemma, Alexandre Oliveira, Ana Carolina Shiaku, Anaïs Bloch, Barbara Acevedo Strange, Benjamin Reynolds, Bjorn Giesecke, Daria Kiseleva, Fosca Salvi, Federica Sosta, Frederik Mahler-Andersen, Inken Zierenberg, Isabel Seiffert, Kaja Kusztra, Matylda Krzykowski, Nicolas Polli, Rasmus Schønning, Raya Stefanova, Sebastian Berns, Simon Mager, Valle Medina, Vanja Jelic. Link
Publication YATA In ECOCORE IV The G ( ) D Issue. Alessandro Bava (Ed.) With Anne De Vries, Luis Miguel Bendaña+Sam Lipp, Cedric Fargues, Pablo Larios, Harry Burke, Billy Rennekamp, Josh Bitelli, Alex Mackin Dolan, Caspar Jade Heinmann, Dora Budor, Eric Veit, Alexander May, Albin Werle, Jacopo Mazzetti, Juliette Bonneviot, Katja Novitskova, Samia Mirza, Aaron McLaughlin, Anna Mikkola, Rosa Aiello, Octave Perrault, Greg Ponchak, Jack Self, Oskar Kahn, Alessandro Bava, Sydney Shen. Link Link
Exhibition Supercomputer In "Feelers" Boston Center for the Arts, US 9 October — 20 December Link
Exhibition Paris Hermitage In "A Call For Drawings". Curated by: Klaas Hoek Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK & Basis voor Actuele Kunst (BAK), Utrecht, NL 24 June — 12 July & Autumn With Pieter Adriaans, Gemma Anderson, Jack Bangerter, Koštana Banović, Andrew Barber, Peter Baren, Sara Berman, Maura Biava, Peter Bowyer, Paul Buchanan, Natalia Calderon, Hyunju Chung, Alexander Costello, Penny Demertzi, Claire Dorsett, Ronit Eden, Stephen Farthing, Emma Febvre-Richards, Helen Frik, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mikel van Gelderen, Lotte van Geijn & Sue van Geijn, Maximilian Goldfarb, Niels Goos, David Griffin, Geoffrey Harrison, Jutta Herden, Helena Hernandez, Edward Hillel, Hiroomi Horiuchi, Anna Ioannidi, Eun-Hyung Kim, Jae-Kyung Kim, Yoonhee Kim, Andreas Kopp, Nektaria Lampitsi, Heleen Langkamp, Elvira Mambetisaeva, Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen, Valle Medina & Benjamin Reynolds, Alan Montgomery, Elena Nemkova, Emanuele Ortoleva, Reinoud Oudshoorn, Dusko Pavlovic, Alejandro Ramirez, Joke Robaard & Hajo de Reijger, Aubrecht Ruben, Mark Rutkoski, Kristin Sigurdardottir, Floris Solleveld, Marina Stavrou, Ivan Suletic, Marianne Theunissen, David Tomas, Nathan Thompson, Raul Valverde, Hèctor Vargas, Lieselot Versteeg, Vitalist Cuisine, Ivana Wingham, Tessa Whitehead & Heino Schmid, and Erin Woodbrey. Link Link
Exhibition The Weight of the Wall Real Casa de la Moneda, Segovia, ES 14 Dec 2015 — 31 Jan With UNESCO International and IE University
Award Light of Ancestral Seas Special mention. LAMP International Prize Barcelona, ES
Talk Pulverization, Treasure Order, Rarity In "Artificial Intelligence: The end of intelligence and architecture as we know them" Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais, FR 8 — 9 April Link
In Ballast. 2020. Velvet, soap, sand, rhine river pebbles, ink, pine, steel cables, acrylic paint. 300 x 180 x 450 cm. Wing-shaped veneers conforming a roof (detail).
Crypt. 2022. Various materials, 800 x 500 x 400 cm. The creation of a history that never was.
Pastoral Complex. 2021. Single Channel, HD Video. A mountain shepherd who migrated from the mountain to the valley lives a simulated life at altitude level 2,250 m.
Letter from Foehn. 2021. Paper. A letter written by poet Daisy Lafarge is received in the letterbox of the space of the Pastoral Complex.
Pastoral Complex. 2021. Single Channel, HD Video. A mountain shepherd who migrated from the mountain to the valley lives a simulated life at altitude level 2,250 m.
Hypoxic Air Pond (Scythe One). 2021. Multiple materials, 1600 x 250 x 350 cm. Nitrogen escapes from this “air pond” to lower the oxygen content of the Pastoral Complex.
Highest Good. 2019. Inkjet Print, 180 x 90 cm. Exhibition containing excerpts from a location situated remotely from a city, where norms are incomparable to ours.
In Ballast. 2021. Velvet, soap, sand, rhine river pebbles, ink, pine, steel cables, acrylic paint. 70 x 40 x 45 cm. One of the four washboards forming the lavoir and soap remains.
Paris Hermitage, 2016. Offset press. 29.7 x 21 cm. Monograph. A building as a large temporal oscillator that yields time in material. Co-published with Nicholas Weltyk (Cooperative Editions, NY).
Paris Hermitage (Auditorium). 2016. Inkjet Print, 180 x 90 cm. Or auditions, the public occupies the central space and its perimeter which is constituted of pulverized matter offset walls.
Paris Hermitage (Refectorium). 2016. Inkjet Print, 180 x 90 cm.
DiMAGE. 2021. Camera and digital images, 11 x 7 cm. A Minolta DiMAGE X (serial No. 55209798) found well-preserved under a rock along a contour.
Pastoral Complex. 2021, multiple materials, 1600 x 250 x 350 cm. Drawing room reconstructing the conditions of a contour-line at 2,250 m.a.s.l., where 14.3 % of oxygen is available.
G— —R (Geodesic Rectangle), 2016, nanometer lght-absorbing optical film, steel 160 X 70 cm. A table from a spheroid whose major axis equals the draught of Japanese tanker “Seawise Giant”.
Column Braces. 2021, Brushed aluminium, 12 x 5 cm. Engravings signifying the passing of time of its inhabitants much as the graffitis etched by “armaillis”