Amalia Pica

Born 1978, Neuquen Capital, Argentina. Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

‘Don’t believe everything you read’, runs the proverbial warning. Yet we do trust certain written sources of information – newspapers, history textbooks – to tell us the truth. We all grow up with a whole range of stories, histories and myths, many of which we accept as true. In her witty and ironic work, Amalia Pica prods us into looking more closely at the sometimes slippery relationship between the reality of objects in the world and what we think we know about them, what we’ve read about them in our textbooks or daily papers. For International 06, Pica will be taking some real-life Liverpool figures and turning them into the stuff of legend. Or will she? Should we believe what we read?

Solo Exhibitions, Performances and Other Projects

2006 Play Station, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005 Goodbye, Stad Amsterdam, Amsterdam Harbour, The Netherlands
Second Pencil Day Celebration, Toermalijn Basis School, Uithoorn, The Netherlands

2004
First Pencil Day Celebration, Toermalijn Basis School, Uithoorn, The Netherlands

2003 Mi casa, tu casa, public space intervention, Cipolletti, Argentina
Final Insomne, INTER/medio, Córdoba, Argentina, solo exhibition

2002 Hora Cátedra, Historical House of Independence, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, public space intervention

2001 La nube infeliz, Sala Ana Itelman/EDA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, performance in collaboration with Eliana Lardone

2000 Mecanima I, La nave de los sueños, Rio Negro, Argentina, performance in collaboration with Eliana Lardone

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 We All Laughed at Christopher Colombus, SMBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In Order of Appearance, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland 

2005 Open Ateliers 2005, Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Poetics of a Place, Utrechtse Voormalige, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Billy Town, The Hague, The Netherlands

2004 Who If Not We…? Cordially Invited, Episode 3, BAK, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2003 Dibujistico, Materia Urbana, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Premio Philips de Arte para Jóvenes Talentos, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2002 Tienda de Arte, Arguibel Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
5 de Noviembre de 2002, Espacio Ridícula, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

2001 4th International Meeting of Experimental Sound and Visual Poetry, Espacio Giesso Reich, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with publication

Further Reading

Michael Gibbs, ‘Reviews/Cordially Invited BAK and Centraal Museum Utrecht’, Art Monthly (February 2005)

‘Hora Cátedra’, in Imágenes, Relatos y Utopías, Buenos Aires: TRAMA, 2002

Maxine Kopsa, ‘And We Watch it on TV’, Metropolis M, Tropicalism (February 2006)

Gerardo Mosquera, ‘Toc-toc’, in Cordially Invited, exh. cat., Utrecht: BAK, 2003

November Paynter, ‘Monument to Change’, Art Review, 61 (February 2005)
2004