Cecilia Bengolea

Cecilia Bengolea (Buenos Aires, 1979) works in a range of media including performance, video and sculpture. She uses dance as a tool and a medium for radical empathy and emotional exchange. Infused with the symbolic energies found within nature and relationships, her compositions are formed around ideas of the body –both individually and collectively– as a medium. Cecilia develops a broad artistry where she sees movement, dance and performance as animated sculpture where she herself is both object and subject in her own work.

She has collaborated with artists Dominique Gonzalez Forster and Jeremy Deller and with dancehall artists such as Craig Black Eagle, Bombom DHQ, Damion BG. Her collaborative work with choreographer François Chaignaud, has earned several awards such as the Award de la Critique de Paris in 2010 and the Young Artist Prize at the Gwangju Biennale in 2014. They have also co-created dance pieces for their dance company as well as for the Ballet de Lyon, the Ballet de Lorraine and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal.

Bengolea’s work has been exhibited at venues such as La Bourse du Commerce Paris 2025, Noor Riyadh 2024, Museum Thyssen Bornemisza 2021 and 2024, The Vynil 2024 and 2019, E.A.T – Engadin Art Talks, Switzerland 2019 Contemporary Copenhague 2023, MUDAM, Luxembourg 2022, 2023, le Guggenheim Bilbao 2021, 2022, The Gwanjgu Biennial 2014 and 2020, Bourse de Commerce – Collection Pinault, Paris 2021, Art Basel Parcours, Basel 2021, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2021, Tank Shanghai 2020, Centre Pompidou Spectacles Paris in 2010, 2016, 2019, SFER IK Tulum 2019, Fondation Giacometti, Paris 2019, Performa, NY 2019, Desert X 2019, TBA21 Ocean Space 2019, Dhaka Art Summit 2018, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2015, 2018, ICA Londres 2015, Elevation 1049, Gstaad 2017, Dia Art Foundation Beacon 2017, Hayward Gallery, Londres 2016, Biennalede Sao Paulo 2016, Tate Modern, Londres 2015 and Biennale de Lyon 2014.

Her work can be found in major private and public collections, including Pinault collection, Museo Reina Sofia, Kadist France, Mudam Luxembourg, TBA21 Academy, MIRE – Fond cantonal d’art contemporain, The Vinyl Factory, Le CNAP, Le Consortium, Fiorucci Art Trust, Tank Shanghai, Fundación Arco, and the MONA – Museum of Old and New Art of Tasmania among others.

In 2023, she was a guest teacher for the Performance master’s program of the Architecture University of Venice, Italy.

She lives and works in Paris and Buenos Aires.