Overview
Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan (Zinny Maidagan) are a Berlin based collaborative duo of visual artists. Their work consists mainly on large scale installations, sculptures in dialogue with the surrounding architectural or urban spaces and public art works. They started working together at the beginning of the 90‘.[1]
Life, Career and Education
In 1994, Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan moved to New York City. During 1995-1996 they were fellows of the Whitney Museum ISP, in New York City where they lived until 2002. They moved to Berlin in 2002 on a DAAD Artist in Berlin Residency Award, where they still live and work.[2][3]
Parallel to their collaborative work, they present work individually, as for example, Dolores Zinny Vientos Alisios, a series of drawings and painted fabrics for the Kreeger Museum 2024, Washington DC, reviewed by the Washington Post.[4] Her drawings were exhibited at Carlier Gebauer Berlin, CPM Gallery Baltimore and Herlizka Faria Buenos Aires- New York. Her drawings are in the collection of LACMA.
Juan Maidagan was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1957 and studied Medicine at the University Nacional of Rosario, from 1976 until 1982, but quit before finishing a degree. During the 90’ he studied theater in Buenos Aires, and participated in group projects focusing on biodiversity. He served as visiting artist at a wide range of art universities. Juan Maidagan taught in the Master of Fine Arts at Umea University, Sweden from 2002 until 2006.[1]
Museum Exhibitions and Biennials Commissions
In 2009- 2010, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt MMK ZOLLAMT hosted a show by Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan entitled Compartment/ Das Abteil. It was the couple’s first museum exhibition in Germany, for which they specially devised a group of sculptures, collages and models.[5] The group not only consistently advanced one of the key thrusts of their work, but at the same time are strongly site-specific.
Selected Fellowships
- 2002 DAAD Fellowship, Artists in Berlin Program, German Academic Exchange Service.[3]
- 2000 Pollock Krasner Fellowship, USA.[3]
- 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York.[3]
Selected Awards
- 2019 Fellowship Award, Gwaertler Stiftung Basel. [6]
- 2015 1st Prize Public Art Competition for the IG Farben House, State of Hessen, Goethe University Frankfurt.[3]
- 2015 Research Award 18th Street Art Center partnership with LACMA and Getty Foundation.[6]
- 2011 1st Prize Public Art Competition of the State of Hessen, Fulda University of Applied Sciences.[3]
- 2000 IASPIS Swedish Art Grant Committee’s International Program, Stockholm.[7]
- 1996 Fondo Nacional de las Artes (National Endowment for the Arts), Argentina.[7]
- 1995 35th Anniversary Award, National Endowment for the Arts, Argentina.[7]
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Large Scale Works Commissions
- 2023-24 Immediate Field, Commission Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Artes Argentina.
- 2023 (2020- 2023) A Library of the Tropics, Commission exhibition, and research project. National Gallery Singapore.[8]
- 2022 Not a Flagg in the Sun Keine Flagge in der Sonne, Mid-career exhibition. Commissioned by DAAD, DAADGALERIE Berlin.[9]
- 2019 Misky Mayu, Henrique Faria Fine Arts New York.[10]
- 2018 Moción, Herlizka Faria Fine Arts Buenos Aires.[11]
- 2014 Ore, Galerie Sabine Knust, München. Exhibition Book publication.
- 2013 Cabo Nombre, Commission curated by Juli Carson, CAC Gallery University of California Irvine.[12]
- 2011 Lövenix Inaccessible, 27. März 2011 Knust x Kunz + München.
- 2010 Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires.
- 2010 Rules of Evidence, Commission, Documentary Forum 1 Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin, curated by Okwui Enwezor.[13]
- 2009 Das Abteil, curated by Susanne Gaensheimer. Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt (MMK) Exhibition book publication.[5]
- 2009 Instead of Heaven, Architecture, Galerie Sabine Knust, München.[14]
- 2007 La Costa El Ataque Lo Mismo, commission, curated by Leire Vergara, Sala Rekalde Bilbao Exhibition book publication.
- 2005 I have no revelations to offer you, Galerie Sabine Knust, München.[15]
- 2004 Garden Concluded, Bild Museet Umea.[16]
- 2004 Garden Concluded, MGK Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen.[17]
- 2004 Such a Good Cover, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen.[18]
- 2004 Semantic Gap, Commission, curated by Asa Nackin, Lund Konsthall, Lund Exhibition book publication.[19]
- 2003 Such a Good Cover, Commission DAAD Galerie, Berlin Exhibition book Publication.[20]
- 2003 Untitled, Keine Banner in der Sonne, curated by Kirsty Ogg, The Showroom, London Exhibition book publication.
- 2000 Variaciones, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires.[7]
- 2000 Movement in Art, Commission curated by Maria Lind, Projekt Moderna Museet Stockholm. Exhibition book publication.[21]
- 2000 Where the Lion Goes Through, Commission curated by Alfredo Jaar, Artists Space, New York.[15]
- 2000 Por donde saltó el Leon, curated by Tayiana Pimentel, Museo RufinoTamayo Mexico City.[15]
- 2000 Manuela, Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas.[22]
- 1999 Offside, Project, curated by Dan Cameron, The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York.[23]
- 1992 Installation-Performace, Sala MIMI, Rosario.[24]
- 1991 Moldes I, Sala MIMI, Rosario.[15]
Biennials Exhibitions / Lage Scale Commissions
- 2014 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art Cartagena, curated by Berta Sitchel.[25]
- 2008 7th. Gwangju Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Gwangju.[26]
- 2008 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Nights, curated by Szymczyk & Filipovic.[27]
- 2006 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Seville.[1]
- 2003 50th Venice Biennale, The Structure of Survival Arsenale,. Co-curated by Carlos Basualdo.[28]
Public Art Exhibitions (long-term and permanent)
- 2024 Die Libellen (permanent), commissioned by D-Bahn, Berlin Ostbahnhof.[29]
- 2017 Word for Word, (long-term), Façade LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[30]
- 2017 Una Tirada de dados, (permanent) Promenade Public Art, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires.[31]
- 2016 Hippocampus, (permanent) International Public Art Competition, Goethe Universität Frankfurt.[32]
- 2013 Vergessenskurve, (permanent) Public Art Competition Hochschule Fulda, Land Hessen.[24]
- 2009 Utopia and Monument, (long term) Facade Graz City Hall, Steiricher Herbst Graz.[33]
- 2002 A Façade that, invited by Lynne Cooke, commission Forwart BBL Bibliothèque Royale Brussels.
- 2001 Exterior Enclosure, Art Container, curated by Sandra Skurvida, Soho Square, New York.[7]
- 1994 27 de Marzo, architectural intervention esplanade Centro Cultural B. Rivadavia, Rosario.[7]
- 1993 Acto de Autores, Museo Castagnino, Rosario.[7]
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024 In this Little Bay, - 30th Anniversary - The Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C.[4]
- 2022 Through the Threshold, Carlier Gebauer Berlin.[34]
- 2022 Standing, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin.[34]
- 2021 Not I. Throwing Voices 1500 BCE-2020 CE, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum.
- 2021 New Adquisitions, Bundessammlung, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn.
- 2019 Collection exhibition, Garden Concluded, MGK Siegen Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen.[17]
- 2018 Deutschland ist keine Insel, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn.[35]
- 2017 A Universal History of Infamy, Commission LACMA Los Angeles County Museum.[36]
- 2012 Open Studio Exhibition, Denniston Hill Artist’s Residency, Southern Catskills, New York.[37]
- 2011 MMK 1991-2011 20 Jahre Gegenwart, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt.[5]
- 2010 Radical Conceptual, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.[5]
- 2009 Geometria, Daimler Collection, MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires.[38]
- 2007 Exile of the Imaginary, curated by Juli Carson, Generali Foundation Viena.[39]
- 2001 Inside Space, Large Scale Commission with exhibition publication. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.[7]
- 1996 Domestic Partnerships, Art in General, New York.[7]
Artist Residencies
- 2015 18th Street Residency Visiting Artist, Santa Mónica.[40]
- 2012 Denniston Hill, Southern Catskills.[37]
- 2003 Artists in Residence, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.
- 1995 Residency Award, Art OMI International Artist's Residency, New York.[7]
References
"About". zinny-maidagan.com. Retrieved 2026-03-08. "Künstler mit Z". www.kunst-im-oeffentlichen-raum-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2026-03-08.
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