The Storytellers at Worcester College Oxford /
Curated by Iwona Blazwick and Katie Delamere, Curators Inc.
1 May-5 July 2026 in the gardens of the Worcester College
Exhibiting artists: Reza Aramesh, Leilah Babirye, Anderson Borba, Dorothy Cross, Antony Gormley, Jarad Jackson, Oren Pinhassi, Lucía Pizzani, Grace Schwindt, Daniel Silver, Renee So, Francis Upritchard, Hazel Dowling & Lorna Ough, Kira Freije and Elisabeth Frink.
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Ser Vegetal Rama
A magical park sets the stage for an exploration of figurative sculpture today. Right in the heart of Oxford, yet hidden behind a medieval wall, lie the grounds of Worcester College – complete with a park, lake and orchard. Fourteen artists hailing from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Oceania will take visitors on a journey around Worcester College’s verdant gardens and historic architecture, each with a story to tell.
The exhibition is structured in five acts, inspired by a line from Shakespeare, as a tribute to the outdoor plays performed for over 90 years by the Buskins, Worcester’s student dramatic society – the oldest in Oxford.
I am taking part in Act II: “One touch of nature makes the world kin”
Ser Vegetal Totem. Photos by Fisher Studios
Residency at Southcombe Barn with Karst /
I have received the Isternational Womes Day Annual residency award from Southcombe Barn. This artist in residency is also part of the Faunal Succession touring exhibition, Karst the second space where the show will travel has partnered with Southcombe Barn for this residency in the Daartmor National Park.
I will be taking part in a group show as well opening on May the 23rd, a show with Cassinelli and Mills at Southcombe Barn titled “Cartographies of Care” more on that soon.
In tne studio
High Tor
Grimspound Prehistoric settlement
Klima Biennale at the Kunsthaus Wien-Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna /
Seeds. Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures
Open until February 2017 and Curated by Sophie Haslinger
Artists: Ackroyd & Harvey, Maria Thereza Alves, Alexandra Baumgartner, Tue Greenfort, Kapwani Kiwanga, Dominique Koch, Jumana Manna, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Marzia Migliora, Lucía Pizzani, Michaela Putz, Cecilia Vicuña, Munem Wasif
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Flora Totems and Amate collage series on view in the exhibition
Seeds are the very foundation of our life. They provide us with the nutriments and raw materials we need, they embody biological diversity, they preserve and pass on regional knowledge and cultural heritage, and they stand for hope, change and renewal. The group exhibition explores the multilayered meanings of seeds as a mirror of our relationship to the earth and one another. For the fourteen international artists of the exhibition, the seed is the starting point for their investigations from ecological, cultural, and symbolic perspectives. Originating from dierent geographical and cultural contexts, the works collected consider migration and colonialism, indigenous knowledge and biodiversity, agriculture and food sovereignty, but also resistance, selfempowerment, cooperative praxis based on solidarity, and regenerative futures.
The exhibition Seeds. Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures forges links between art, ecology and activism. The sculptures, installations, photographs and video works tell of disappearance and preservation, of loss and regeneration, of the poetic as well as political potential intrinsic to mutual concern and shared growing. Just as a seed contains within itself heritage and potential, histories and futures, a series of multifaceted narratives unfurl in the exhibition, tangibly revealing the interdependencies and complexity of the global climate crisis and inviting us to reflect on possible futures.
Ramo, 2025
TATE Artist Film /
On the occasion of the Tate Annual Symposium where I was invited to participate, this artist film was recorded in autumn last year and release on the Youtube Channel of the Tate
Taking part in SEEDS at the Serpentine Gallery /
Seeds, an extended lunchtime programme addressing worlding through the lens of ecology, part of the Infinite Ecologies Marathon.
Seeds delves into the multifaceted significance of seeds as vehicles for world building. Beyond their role in food production, seeds carry history, memory and serve as potent metaphors for growth, ideas and exchange. More info here
This extended lunchtime series aims to create space to discuss the complex narratives embedded within seeds and their ecological and imaginative potential. Seeds invites participants to envision new commons and methods of knowledge exchange through the embodied experience of communal eating, sharing dishes created in close collaboration with the artists. We invite diners to engage with seeds as nourishment and a catalyst for critical dialogue.
Seeds, 2024. Presented as part of the Infinite Ecologies Marathon. The Magazine, Serpentine, September 2024. Photos:Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy Serpentine.
Seeds will facilitate four artist-led activations at a communal table to explore the revolutionary potential of food in reshaping our relationships to our environments and each other. The participating artists, David Blandy, Exodus Crooks, Lucia Pizzani and Jumana Manna, were invited to work with chef Moonhyung Lee, Sous Chef at the world’s first zero-waste restaurant, Silo, to develop dishes to complement their contributions. Remaining committed to Serpentine’s artist-led approach and the idea that knowledge can be produced and consumed in manifold ways, audiences will enjoy these dishes during the artist presentations, ingesting not only information but food in live activations that remove the mind/body barrier. The artists in Seeds will explore some of the many methods of world-building, and food is appreciated as a means of collectivity, taking care of each other and sharing, as well as a means of consuming knowledge to imagine new futures
Venezuelan artist Lucia Pizzani will share her research into creational myths and symbolic stories around corn in Mesoamerican cultures. Corn often appears as both a symbol and tool in Pizzani’s sculptural work and as part of her presentation for Seeds, she will present La que viste la Piel (The one who wears the skin), a video work about the Xipe Totec god of life and the ritual that marked the start of the harvest corn by the Mexicas. Audience members will also have a chance to engage with Pizzani’s sculptural practice as we use corn to impress textures in clay. Special thanks to the Archivo Lares..
TATE acquires works by Lucia Pizzani /
Textiles exhibited at the Sala Mendoza in 2014. Photo by Ricardo Gómez Perez
Excited to announce that two works of my works have been acquired by the Tate Gallery with funds from the Latin American Acquisitions Committee, via Tate Americas Foundation. The two works acquired are Textiles (2013) and Impronta Series (2013).
On her website Cecilia Brunson Projects, who was responsible to organise this acquisition stays that: “Both works focus on historical and literary narratives revolving around female figures and the ongoing processes of biological transformation found in the natural world. Textiles is made up of four human-scale fabric cocoons that are marked by knots, stitching and folds, whilst the Impronta Series use the 19th century collodion wet plate process to depict a group of women wearing the Textiles as chrysalis suits. Curator Kiki Mazzucchelli understands these works as acting as fictional ethnographic documents, relating to the artist’s invented mythology which alludes to embodying the spirt of caterpillars as part of a mysterious ritual of metamorphosis. These works were part of Pizzani's solo exhibition El Adorador de la Imagen [The Worshipper of the Image] produced at Hagar, Barcelona, as a result of her receiving the XII Premio Mendoza in Venezuela in 2013.”
Article in El Universal
Improntas (2013). Photo by Oskar Proctor
Residency at Casa Wabi /
Sharing the news of this artist in residency at Casa Wabi in the Oaxacan coast, Mexico 🌵
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Pizzani will be developing a sculpture garden with clay pieces about local plants that will be installed permanently at the Puerto Escondido Botanical Garden. Full TEXT HERE
Invited by their curator Alberto Ríos De la Rosa, Pizzani is there with 4 other residents for a period of six weeks.
Created in 2014 by Mexican artist Bosco Sofi the foundation adopts its name from the concept "Wabi-Sabi," which represents a vision of the world focused on the acceptance of the ephemeral and the imperfect. Based on this philosophy, Casa Wabi was designed by the renowned architect Tadao Ando looking to generate a space conducive to interaction; where the residents and the communities of the region come together.
