Léa Lublin

Lea Lublin (born 1929, Brest, Poland) was an Argentine-French performance artist.

Early life Lea Lublin was born in a Jewish family. She emigrated to Argentina in 1931 and grew up in Buenos Aires. She graduated from Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts in 1949. Later on, Lublin worked as a painter. In mid-1960, she moved to Paris. This led her to the Centro de Artes Visuales of the Institute Torquato di Tella, an Argentine center for experimental and avant-garde art.

Career Lublin's work investigates imagery, often searching for what may not have yet been seen within otherwise familiar imagery.

Lublin also created performance art sometimes called "exhibition-performances." In "Mon fils" (1968), she participated in the respectable May Exhibition in Paris by taking her toddler son to the museums during the regular exhibition hours and exhibiting herself with her child by changing diapers, breastfeeding and putting her son to sleep in his bed that she had brought with them.

A major retrospective of her work was organized by the at Lenbachhaus Munich, Germany in 2015. In 2021, Lublin's work was featured in the group exhibition Terapia (Therapy) at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina.

Works in collections (selection) Her works are in the collections of

Museum of Modern Art in New York Hammer Museum, at University of California, Los Angeles Centre national des arts plastiques, the Fonds régional d’art contemporain Alsace Bibliothèque nationale de France

Literature Matthias Mühling and Stephanie Weber (ed.): Lea Lublin: Retrospective. Snoeck 2015,