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Bio

La Lorenita
1999

Lorena Rode is an artist based in Rotterdam. Her practice explores the intersections of identity, culture, and nature. With a nomadic upbringing across South America, Africa, and Europe, she draws on diverse ecosystems and cultural landscapes to fuel her curiosity about coexistence.

Her creations defy traditional boundaries, existing as tools, stories, sculptures, or performances that reside between design and art. Rode’s practice focuses on making her works feel liveable and interactive, often inventing new flora or creatures.

Rode works with materials like glass, wool, and ceramics, blending textures to create pieces that are both soft and hard, organic yet otherworldly. She strives for a fluidity and playfulness in her creations, crafting objects that seem both part of our world and alien to it.

Central to her practice is a deep care for symbiosis and a fascination with more-than-human knowledge, as she explores and seeks to understand the shared spaces between humans and the natural world.

Reach out to me!

Lorode99@gmail.com

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Exhibitions

Upcoming: October 2024
International Biennial of Jewellery and Metal Art,
Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius

August 2024
Castillo Nostrum, Centre de la Platja, Barcelona

June 2024
Radical Connection, VOX-POP x Het Klimaatmuseum, Amsterdam

May 2024
Salon der Rotterdamse kunstenaars, The Doelen, Rotterdam

March 2024
Group Exhibition, Tongues, NDSM Treehouse, Amsterdam

March 2024
Performance, “The Cierto-Pluck” Jiny svety, Anezka Praha, Prague

February 2024
Group Exhibition “Fries and Tradion”, Time is the New Space, Rotterdam

December 2023
Book release: “Archipel-J. Slauerhof en 14 Anderen”, Het Moet Publishing

November 2023
Performance: “Dear Shapes in space”, Neck of the Woods Gallery, Rotterdam

October 2023
“Messmerizing”, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

September 2023
Group show, “A Call for Care”, Buitenplaats Briennenord, Rotterdam

August 2023
Group show, "How small can you go", RUIS, Nijmengen

August 2023
Design Fair, Trendz, Gorichem

April 2023
Young Design Selection, Het Niewe Instituut, Rotterdam

April 2023
Performance, “Mama Limonada”, MoMo Festival, Rotterdam

April 2023
Group show: “Music word geserveerd”, Time is the New Space, Rotterdam

September 2022
Performance: “Das Tischdecken”, Garage, Rotterdam

June 2022
Group show, “Ya le pondremos un Nombre”, EtHall, Barcelona

November 2022
Performance: “Washing Trapped Air”, CodArts, Rotterdam

May 2021
Short Film Challenge, "Defragment", Galerie de Jaloezie, Rotterdam

Grants & Programs

July - August 2024
Culture moves Europe Funding for “Castillo Nostrum”, Barcelona

September 2023
Annual Para-Academic Course on Territorial Innovation,
Living Summerschool, Kortrijk

September 2023
Het Grote Atelier Weekend, Rotterdam

May 2023
Art Route, Go west!, Rotterdam

November 2021
Group project, Kunst blijft slapen, Kunsthal, Rotterdam

September 2022
Het Grote Atelier Weekend, Rotterdam

Work Expierience

February -April 2024
Sales assistance, THE DIRT, Rotterdam

August 2021
Workshop curator working with ceramics and glass,
Steiner Pottery, Frankfurt

July 2021
Workshop curator at the Elderly Home Quellenhof,
Bad Vilbel

September 2019 - March 2020
Art assistant of Jessica van Deursen, Rotterdam

November 2018
Art assistant of Pablo Gamboa Santos, Quito

November 2018
Art assistant of Pepe Avilés, Quito

October 2018
Art assistant of Maria Perez, Quito

December 2017
Curator of the workshop for the elderly:
“Recreate memories Artistically”, Bad Vilbel

Education