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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.
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.
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Exhibitions
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
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