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An essentially multidisciplinary artist, Oleñka Carrasco experiments and questions photography, writing, drawing, and performance to address themes that are always closely related to her intimate experience. Poetry is never absent from this process of exploration: it is the backbone of her projects.
Her exhibitions are immersive experiences, photographic installations similar to true inner journeys, which awaken powerful emotions in the audience by putting them in the presence of themselves or by taking a demanding look at a social reality that she intends to make visible.
IG Oleñka Carrasco
photo: Marie Docher
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Academic studies
2022 – Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Photographie, Arles / Professional Mentorship program with Susan Meiselas, Gilles Saussier and Pierre Leguillon – Photography
2015-2020 – Ateliers Beaux-Arts, Paris / Photography
2009-2010 – Universidad Carlos III, Madrid / Humanities: Theater, Interpretation and Dance Theory
1998-2003 – Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas / Literature
Solo exhibitions
2025
– PATRIA – TOBE Gallery / Budapest (upcoming)
2024
– In the heart of (the) PATRIA – Les arches citoyennes / Paris (upcoming)
– Nous, rêves, nous sommes ! – Festival C’est pas du luxe / Avignon
– Nous, rêves, nous sommes! (Residency Final Show) – Maison Hestia / La Garenne-Colombes
– PATRIA. Chapter I and Performance – Studio Florída / Genova
2023
– PATRIA. Chapter I and II. Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles – Croisière / Arles
2022
– La liste de Prénoms – Espace Cariño / Paris
– La liste de Prénoms – Sist’her / Paris
– Le cimetière des vivants – Iris Arles Galerie / Arles
2021
– Le cimetière des vivants – Médiathèque Edmond Rostand (Fonds Photo) / Paris
2019
– La liste de Prénoms – Mairie du 2ème arrondissement / Paris
2017
– La liste de Prénoms – Maison des Femmes Thérèse Clerc / Montreuil
2013
– Histoires Analogiques Extraordinaires – Lomography Gallery / Madrid
Group exhibitions
2024
– Ecofeminist Performance: Le Tourbillon à la table. Under a Carte Blanche of LeBIR, for La.ima. with the artists: Clémence Vazard, Elsa Leydier and the curators Ioana Mello, Marie Guillemen – LeBIR / Arles
– AnArchipel. Monumental Light Sculpture with the artists Sara Campo and Mon Ross. Screening and performance of S A L I T R E (work in progress) – Nuit Blanche Paris, Les Arches Citoyennes / Paris
2023
– PATRIA. Chapter 1: Maison prêtée pour un deuil – Rencontres Photographiques du 10e / Paris.
Artistic direction: Collectif Fétart. Curator: Emmanuelle Halkin. With the artists: Juliette Alhmah, Julien Bonnaire & Antoinette Giret, Oleñka Carrasco, Bastien Deschamps, Souleymane Bachir Diaw, Adrien Selbert, Rebecca Topakian, Anthony Voisin.
2022
– Le cimetière des vivants. Invernario – Festival Fotografia Europea OFF / Reggio Emilia
– Restitution Mentorat. – ENSP / Arles
2021
– S’écouler Performance with Lucía Sanchez Napal – Point Ephémère / Paris
– La multiplicité de l’autofragmentation – Biennale d’Art contemporain Campagn’ART / Parisot
2020
– Simbiosis. Exhibition and Performance with Lucía Sanchez Napal – Point Ephémère / Paris
– La liste de Prénoms. Exposition L’Amour et la violence – MPAA, Breguet / Paris
2019
– La liste de Prénoms. Exposition Sorcières d’aujourd’hui – MPAA, Breguet / Paris
– Le cimetière des vivants. Vedere Parole :Mostra Internazionale dell libro d’artista / Rossano
– Le cimetière des vivants. Parcours Voies Off, Rencontres Arles – La Casa de la Tapicera, with Nía Diedla / Arles
2018
– La liste de Prénoms. 3 jours 1 femme, with Camille Gharbi and Arianna Sanesi – Galerie L’Aberrante / Montpellier
– La liste de Prénoms. Symposium PhotoTexte engagée – MSH-CNRS / Paris
2017
– La liste de Prénoms. Performance 25 Nov – Place de la République / Paris
2015
– La Multiplicité de l’autofragmention – Immix Gallery / Paris
– Lettres de Paris – Rencontres Photographiques du 10e / Paris
2013
– Histoires Analogiques Extraordinaires – Salon des Arts / Saint-Jory
Presence in Art Fairs
2024
– Paris Photo | Main sector – TOBE Gallery / Paris (upcoming)
Awards, scholarships
2024
– Shortlisted. PATRIA. The Eyes Publishing. APhF Pick:24 Book Award / Athens
2023
– Winner of the Open Call Rencontres Photographiques du 10e / Paris
2022
– Winner of the Photo Folio Review award at the Rencontres d’Arles / Arles
– Shortlisted. The dummy of the book Maison prêtée pour un deuil finalist of the Rencontres Luma Dummy Book Award and has been exhibited with the other 9 finalists at the Rencontres d’Arles 2022 / Arles
– Winner of the Open Call Híbridos y Rupturas. Cali Foto Festival / Cali
– Shortlisted of the Open Call. Gibellina Photo Road / Sicily
2015
– Shortlisted. Letters from Paris. Dummy nominated for the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award and shortlisted among the 9 finalists. Exhibited at Les Rencontres de la Photogrpahie, 2015 / Arles
2014
– Jury Prize for the project Historias Analógicas Extraordinarias. Salon des arts / Toulouse
Publications
2023
– PATRIA. Chapter I and II. The Eyes Publishing / Paris
2021
– Le cimetière des vivants. Self Published. 2nd edition. Sold out.
2019
– Le cimetière des vivants. Self Published. 1st edition. Sold out.
2018
– La Latitud de los pasos. Ediciones Casiopea / Madrid
2017
– La Nostalgia es una revuelta. Tigres de Papel. Espagne. Nominated to Prix Livre Photo-Texte de l’Année (“Photo-Text Book Prize of the Year”) and exhibited at Les Rencontres Photographiques de la Photographie, 2017 / Arles
2015
– Lettres de Paris. Dummy. Shortlisted to the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award and exhibited in Les Rencontres de la Photographie / Arles
Research director / Co-Curator
2024
– La chair du tourbillon
Research direction and artistic conception.
Group exhibition La.ima. Curated by Ioana Mello
With the artists: Daniela Balestrin, Jennifer Cabral, Alessandra França, Franklin García, Stéphanie Kowalski, Laurence Lebon, Simone Marinho, Flavia Raddavero, Marilene Ribero, Bella Tozini, Mezli Vega Osorno.
From 05th / 11th June 2024.
Location: Les Arches Citoyennes. 75004. Paris.
2023
– Le fil des noeuds
Research direction and artistic conception.
Group exhibition La.ima. Curated by Ioana Mello
With the artists: Bruna Azevedo, Stéphanie Kowalski, Laurence Lebon, Anne-Marie Rodriguez.
From 10th June – 29th July 2023.
Location: Fonds Photo. Mediathèque Edmond Rostand. 75017. Paris.
2022
– À la recherche du corps perdu.
Conceived and curated.
Group exhibition. La.ima.
With the artists: Flora Nguyen, Stéphanie Kowalski, Stéphanie Knibbe, Anne-Marie Rodriguez, Bruna Azevedo, Laurence Lebon, Françoise Constant, Christelle Boulin, Gloria Karayel.
From 11th June – 29th August 2022.
Location: Fonds Photo. Médiathèque Edmond Rostand. 75017. Paris.
Oleñka Carrasco is member of the ADAGP Paris (Société des Auteurs dans les Arts graphiques et plastiques)
