Plensa Jaume

Education

He attended the Lottie School of Art and Design and the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts.

Creative development
Since 1980, the year of his first exhibition in Barcelona, ​​he has lived and worked in Berlin, Brussels, England, France, and the United States, and now lives and works in Barcelona.

He was a lecturer at the Paris National Academy of Arts Beaux-Arts in Paris and regularly collaborates with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a visiting professor. He has also delivered many lectures and courses at other universities, museums and cultural institutions around the world.

Jaume Plensa has received numerous national and international awards, including the Medal de Chevalier of Arts and de Lettres, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture in 1993, and the National Award of the Government of the Fine Arts of Catalonia in 1997. In 2005, he invested Dr. Honoris Cause in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In Spain, he received the National Fine Arts Prize in 2012 and the prestigious Velazquez Prize for the Arts in 2013 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Autonomous de Barcelona in 2018.

Plans received a special appreciation of the Chaos-Saliva exhibition in Madrid, which opened in 2000 at the Palace de Velazquez – the National Center of the Arte Rhine Museum Sofia.

Solo exhibiton

2019

Jaume Plensa. Jakobshallen – Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany;

Behind the Walls / Detrás del Muro. Organized by MUNAL–Museo Nacional de Arte, INBAL–Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura in collaboration with Fundación Callia, Ciudad de Mexico;

Jaume Plensa. Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France;

Talking Continents. Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA;

Jaume Plensa. MMOMA–Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia;

Jaume Plensa. Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain;

Jaume Plensa. Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands;

Jaume Plensa a Montserrat. Museu de Montserrat, Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain;

Talking Continents. Telfair Museums, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia, USA;

Jaume Plensa. Galería Pilar Serra, Madrid, Spain;

Jaume Plensa, Nouvelles estampes. Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France;

2018

Jaume Plensa. MACBA–Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;

Invisibles. Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain;

Talking Continents. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, USA;

Jaume Plensa. Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden;

La Música Gráfica de Jaume Plensa. Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo, Marbella, Spain;

Jaume Plensa at Djurgården. Djurgården, Stockholm. Organized by Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Sweden;

2017

Talking Continents. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;

Secret Garden. Gray Warehouse, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA;

One Thought Fills Immensity. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA;

Nocturne, Estampes 2015-2016. Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France;

Jaume Plensa. Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France;

Silence. Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, USA;

Group exhibitions:

2020

Gray Collection, Pure Drawing. The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA;

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California and The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, USA;

2019

Arte Español a partir de la Colección Würth. Museo Würth La Rioja, Agoncillo, La Rioja, Spain;

Sculpture in the Courtyard. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;

Colección Masaveu. Pintura española del siglo XIX de Goya al Modernismo. Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson, Madrid, Spain;

ArtZuid 2019, Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial. Amsterdam, Netherlands;

Glasstress 2019. Collateral Event – 58th International Venice Biennale. Fundazione Berengo Art Space, Murano, Venice, Italy;

Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center. Frieze New York, Rockefeller Center, in collaboration with The Noguchi Museum, New York, USA;

From Head to Toe, Human Images in the Focus of the Würth Collection. Forum Würth Rorschach, Switzerland;

Jaume Plensa, Kiki Smith, Barthélémy Toguo. Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France;

2018

Dream, l’Arte Incontra i Sogni. Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy;

Beyond Borders, Un dialogue inspiré par la collection de la Banque européenne d’investissement. Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium;

Detour. Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden;

Echigo-Tsumari, Art Field. Art Triennale 2018, Japan;

Bijoux d’artistes, de Calder à Koons. La collection idéale de Diane Venet. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France;

2017

SOM: Engineering x (Art+Architecture). Mana Contemporary Chicago / Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, USA;

In Situ 2017, Patrimoine et art contemporain. Abbaye de Fontfroide, Narbonne, France;

Frieze Sculpture 2017. Regent’s Park, London, UK;

Glasstress 2017. Collateral Event – 57th International Venice Biennale. Fundazione Berengo, Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, Venice, Italy;

Blickachsen 11. Contemporary Sculpture in Bad Homburg and Frankfurt Rhein Main, Germany;

40, Celebrating 40 years of Art without walls. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK.

Jaume Plensa’s work can be seen regularly at the Galerie Lelong & Co in Paris and New York, and the Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago and New York.