Sharjah Biennial Prize 2017

Uriel Orlow, Reader for the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster, received the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2017 for his work Theatrum Botanicum that was exhibited in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The multi-component work Theatrum Botanicum (2016) envisions the botanical world as both witness to and actor in the enduring legacy of colonialism in South Africa, looking to the botanical world as a stage for politics at large through film, photography, installation and sound.

Working from the dual vantage points of South Africa and Europe, the project considers plants as both witnesses and actors in history, and as dynamic agents – linking nature and humans, rural and cosmopolitan medicine, tradition and modernity – across different geographies, histories and systems of knowledge, with a variety of curative, spiritual and economic powers.

23 Jan ’26

Soil Assembly #3 | Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India

Screening of We Have Already Lived Through Our Future – We Just Don’t Remember It, within the film programme of Soil Assembly #3, held at Pavilion Batsion Bungalow for the 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

Screening along side works by Daniel Hengst and Arathi M.R.

23 January 2026, 1:30pm

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8 Nov ’25 – 30 Dec ’25

With love to Palestine | Mala, Lisbon

Exhibition with works in support of Palestine by artists in Portugal.

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24 Nov ’25 – 30 Nov ’25

Rencontres Internationales | Jeu de Paume, Paris

Screening of the film Forest Futures as part of the festival Rencontres Internationales – New cinema and contemporary art, at Jeu de Paume, Paris.

27 November, 2pm.

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16 Nov ’25

Majlis Talks: Reseeding Stories | Alserkal Art Week, Dubai

Al Serkal’s yearly Majlis Talks for Dubai Art Week is curated by artist and writer Uriel Orlow and curator Andrea Thal, offering a shared space for listening, remembering, mourning, and re-seeding through performance, text, and sound-based works from the wider region.

6 Dec ’25 – 31 Mar ’26

Materials and Makers: Goa Past and Present | Sunaparanta, Goa

Uriel Orlow is presenting a new commission in the group show Materials and Makers: Goa Past and Present, at Sunaparanta, in Goa. The exhibition is curated by Leandre D’Souza with Kelli Wood.

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1 Oct ’25 – 22 Nov ’25

We Have Already Lived Through Our Future—We Just Don’t Remember It | Dialogue Gallery, Lisboa

Uriel Orlow is presenting We Have Already Lived Through Our Future—We Just Don’t Remember It, a solo show at Dialogue Gallery, in Lisbon.

27 Sep ’25 – 2 Nov ’25

Busan Biennale: Sea Art Festival 2025 | Busan, Korea

Uriel Orlow will present his performance “Reveries of Collective Walkers (Busan)” as part of the Sea Art Festival 2025 in Busan.

Under the title Undercurrents: Waves Walking on the Water, the exhibition traces the subtle metabolic exchanges hidden between land and sea, seeking to reveal their invisible yet vital flows as part of our sensory and embodied experience. This edition of Sea Art Festival asks how the shifting metabolic rhythms of the sea intersect with our daily lives, and how these unseen processes might surface as shared awareness.

Group show with works by Anna Anderegg, Antje Majewski, Diana Lelnonek, Heike Kabisch, Hyeong‑seob Cho, Janine Antoni, Jeewi Lee & Phillip C. Reiner, Jin Lee, Marco Barotti, Marie Griesmar, Mathias Kessler and Ahmet Civelek, and many others.

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19 Jul ’25

Power of nature! | Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle

Performance “Reveries of Collective Walkers” by Uriel Orlow and Lecture by Sophie von Redecker as part of the exhibition “Planetary Farmers.”

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18 Jul ’25 – 17 Aug ’25

Begehungen Art Festival | Chemnitz, Germany

Under the title EVERYTHING IS INTERACTION, the art festival Begehungen aims to make the complexity of the issues of resource consumption, species loss and the climate crisis visible. The festival is intended to be an inspiring place for new, forward-looking discourse – a space for encounters, exchange and creative impulses. It is part of the official program of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025.

With works by Ana Alenso, Ursula Biemann & Paulo Tavares, Elza Gubanova, Diana Lelonek, Anna Weberberger and many others.

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26 Apr ’25 – 28 Sep ’25

Confluences | Fondation François Schneider, France

The Confluences exhibition brings together the collections of the Fondation François Schneider, FRAC Alsace, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne and 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine. Inspired by the concept of “confluences”, it explores the interactions between different works, like rivers that meet. Through different themes, the works engage in a dialogue of forms, compositions, narratives and colors. Visitors are invited to imagine themselves in moments of life inspired by water, whether admiring a sparkling sea, exploring urban beaches or observing the harmony between body and water.

Group exhibition curated by Sarah Guilain, with works by Claude Batho, Mégane Brauer, Pat Bruder, Cécile Carriere, Julie Chaffrot, Gigi Cifali, and many others.

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