The Inoperative Community: Exhibition X Practice, UCI 1965–2025
Group Exhibition
University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine
September 27–December 13, 2025

This exhibition at UC Irvine’s University Art Galleries (UCI UAG) provides an unprecedented look at the gallery’s evolving curatorial and artistic legacy from 1965 to the present, highlighting its significant role in shaping the artistic and academic communities at UCI and beyond. The exhibition takes its title from Jean-Luc Nancy’s famed “Inoperative Community” essay, in which a non-hegemonic, fluid model of community is presented. In this context, the UAG’s history is understood not as a linear narrative, but as an evolving, collective moment where diverse voices and practices converge and shift over time.

Minimal
Group Exhibition with Nancy Holt, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, David Lamelas, Senga Nengudi and Bridget Riley
Bourse de Commerce, Paris
October 8, 2025–January 18, 2026

Bringing together an exceptional group of works from the Pinault Collection in dialogue with those of prestigious collections, Minimal traces the diversity of this movement since the 1960s, when a whole generation of artists (Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, On Kawara, Agnes Martin, François Morellet, among others) initiated a radical approach to art. This exhibition is curated by Jessica Morgan, director of Dia Art Foundation (New York), who has selected over a hundred works by some forty international artists, including Nancy Holt, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, David Lamelas, Senga Nengudi and Bridget Riley.

It’s About Time
Group Exhibition
Groninger Museum, Groningen
Through May 10, 2026

Travel crisscross through time at the Groninger Museum. In this new collection presentation, the boundaries of linear time are broken. We usually imagine time and history as a straight line, but what happens when we move crisscross through it? Or in circles? Seven rooms filled with artworks from the museum’s own collection invite you on a personal journey of discovery through the different faces of time. In addition, twice daily (2pm and 3pm), David Lamelas’ performance Time from 1970 is brought to life by visitors themselves. Following the artist’s instructions, you experience that time is more than a clock or calendar: it is something we experience, pass on, and shape together.

David Lamelas
Time as Activity
September 7–October 21, 2017
Los Angeles

David Lamelas’ Time as Activity (1969–2017) is the Argentine artist’s groundbreaking and ongoing series of structural films and videos. First conceived in the late 1960s in the early days of the conceptual art movement, of which Lamelas was an integral part, Time as Activity has grown to include numerous iterations, each filmed in different cities throughout Europe and the Americas.

David Lamelas
January 29–April 2, 2016
Berlin

David Lamelas has been an iconic figure in conceptual art for over fifty years. In the 1960s and 1970s, his early experiments in structuralist film and media installations evolved an on-going exploration of a number of core conceptualist concerns. For his fourth solo show with Sprüth Magers, he brings together a range of important film and sculptural works dating from 1966 to 1993 that thrive with antagonisms of space and language, the limit of art’s temporality, as well as its potential for providing new models of knowledge and self-awareness. In addition, a thoughtful reconsideration of his 1970s ‘Reading Films’ is presented in a new multimedia installation, Mon Amour (2014).

Source Codes
Kenneth Anger, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Bruce Conner, Richard Hamilton, David Lamelas, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, John Stezaker, Paul Thek
June 26–August 29, 2009
Berlin

Source Codes juxtaposes a selection of works by a number of artists and filmmakers from Europe and America who mapped essential conceptual groundwork in the 1960s and 1970s and whose work remains influential to many artists today By examining new ways to rethink and translate visual information and cultural codes in the gaps between Minimalism and Pop Art, and through an interest in process-based performative practice, their work has exerted significant influence on younger artists in a variety of ways.

David Lamelas
Conflict of Meaning (Film Script)
November 27, 2008–January 31, 2009
Berlin

Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles
Doug Aitken, John Baldessari, Patterson Beckwith, Lecia Dole-Recio, Jack Goldstein, Richard Hawkins, Patrick Hill, Sister Corita Kent, Norman M. Klein, Barbara Kruger, David Lamelas, John McCracken, Matthew Monahan, Lari Pittman, Sterling Ruby, Allen Ruppersberg, Lara Schnitger, Kim Schoenstadt, Paul Sietsema, Catherine Sullivan, Robert Therrien, Pae White
curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen
September 14–November 3, 2007
Munich

Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles is a thematic exhibition comprising the creative production of contemporary artists, writers, and filmmakers living and working in Los Angeles. In light of Umberto Eco’s and Jean Baudrillard’s notion of hyperreality, the exhibition perceives Los Angeles as just such a place—with unclear boundaries separating reality and the imaginary.

David Lamelas
September 6–September 29, 2007
London

David Lamelas emerged in the early sixties with an arsenal of artistic strategies and a clarity of concept that at the time had not previously been formulated within any cultural context in Europe and the United States. Characteristically, his use of different media is wide ranging, and has included sculpture, site specific installation and performance, as well as drawings, photographs and film, the latter of which he is perhaps most known for. What unifies this wide range of medium is the artist‘s focus on the transmission of “information”: the conditions for the production of art and its perception, the notion of 'time' and 'space', the role of the viewer, and perhaps more crucially the generation and manipulation of meaning in contemporary mass media.

David Lamelas
Early Works
February 8–March 24, 2007
Munich