59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia — Dora Budor

Dora Budor (b. 1984, Croatia) is a New York-based artist and writer. Trained as an architect, Budor surveys the sites where the built world and private life work upon one another. Focusing on the continuing and inevitable encroachment of commercial relations, her work explores techniques of the built environment and various forms of psychosocial control induced by it, honing in on the dissolution of life as a shared and consistent social form.

Working within a wide material range - including video, sculpture, installation, and sound – Budor’s works are context-dependent, and highlight dedication to the exhibition-form as her main medium. Her recent solo exhibitions include Nottingham Contemporary (2024), De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024), Galerie Molitor, Berlin (2023), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2022), GAMeC Bergamo (2022), Progetto, Lecce (2021), Kunsthalle Basel (2019) and 80WSE, New York (2018). Her upcoming solo exhibitions will be held at Bonner Kunstverein and n.b.k. Berlin in 2026.

Budor’s work has been featured in major international exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial (2024), the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024), the Venice Biennale (2022); October Salon | Belgrade Biennale (2021); the Tbilisi Biennale (2021); 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2020); Geneva Sculpture Biennale (2020); Istanbul Biennial (2019); Baltic Triennial (2018); Vienna Biennale (2017); Art Encounters (2017) and Berlin Biennial (2016), as well as numerous group exhibitions. Her work was on view recently at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, and MoMA PS1, New York.

Budor was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Her recently published books include Autoreduction, Continent, and By the Highway (with Ser Serpas and Rafik Greiss). Budor is a contributor to art publications such as Mousse Magazine and Texte zur Kunst. In 2024 she was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, and currently she is a professor at the Städelschulein Frankfurt.

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Dora Budor

59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia

59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia

23 April — 27 November 2022