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La Lorenita
1999
Lorena Rode is a multidisciplinary artist based in The Netherlands. Her work explores and reimagines the ways in which we cultivate relationships and form communities.
Raised across South America, Africa and Europe, Lorena is fascinated by the moment the foreign becomes familiar and the individual merges into the collective. She examines the concept of belonging through an artisanal approach, combining glass, ceramics, and wool to create what she refers to as 'unlikely neighbours'. These investigations take the form of tools, tales, and sculptures that are tested in participatory performances. She draws inspiration from how other living beings navigate care, cooperation, safety, and beauty, ultimately questioning how we live and how we might live differently.
Beyond her studio practice, Lorena initiates or takes part in community-based projects that root her artistic research in everyday experience. Working with people from different backgrounds allows her to explore ideas of social cohesion and environmental responsibility, and test how art can be applied in tangible ways.
Raised across South America, Africa and Europe, Lorena is fascinated by the moment the foreign becomes familiar and the individual merges into the collective. She examines the concept of belonging through an artisanal approach, combining glass, ceramics, and wool to create what she refers to as 'unlikely neighbours'. These investigations take the form of tools, tales, and sculptures that are tested in participatory performances. She draws inspiration from how other living beings navigate care, cooperation, safety, and beauty, ultimately questioning how we live and how we might live differently.
Beyond her studio practice, Lorena initiates or takes part in community-based projects that root her artistic research in everyday experience. Working with people from different backgrounds allows her to explore ideas of social cohesion and environmental responsibility, and test how art can be applied in tangible ways.
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Exhibitions
June 2025
Group Exhibition: RE:FWR, NDSM Amsterdam x Bijbels Museum, Amsterdam
May 2025
Group Exhibition, “The Garden of Belonging”, Metropolitan Museum, Iasi
March 2025
Group Exhibition, “A fly on the Wall” Oud House, Rotterdam Art Week
Ferbruary 2025
Group Exhibition: RE:FWR, Kunstlinie Almere x Bijbels Museum, Almere
January 2025
Group Exhibition: The Art of transformation, De Zolder, Rotterdam
November 2024
Group Exhibition: BegEHREN, X-pon Art Gallery, Hamburg
October 2024
Group Exhibition: International Biennial of Jewellery and Metal Art, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius
August 2024
Solo Exhibition: Castillo Nostrum, Centre de la Platja, Barcelona
June 2024
Group Exhibition: Radical Connection, VOX-POP x Het Klimaatmuseum, Amsterdam
May 2024
Group Exhibition: 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 Exhibition: “A Call for Care”, Buitenplaats Briennenord, Rotterdam
August 2023
Group show: "How small can you go", RUIS, Nijmengen
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 2024Culture Moves Europe Funding for “Castillo Nostrum”, Barcelona
September 2023
Annual Para-Academic Course on Territorial Innovation,
Living Summerschool, Kortrijk
November 2021
Group project, Kunst blijft slapen, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Work Expierience
May 2024 - March 2025
Gallery Host, DeDoelen Art, Rotterdam
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
September 2019 - July 2023
Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Bachelor of Fine Art
September 2016 - July 2018
Europäische Schule Rhein Main, Bad Vilbel, Germany
European Baccalaureate
August 2011 - July 2016
International School of Uganda, Kampala, Uganda
August 2008 - July 2011
Heiligenstock Schule, Hofheim, Germany
August 2005 - July 2008
Deutsche Schule, San Salvador, El Salvador