Since 1997, El Ultimo Grito (Roberto Feo & Rosario Hurtado) have produced work that responds to an ongoing investigation into the nature and representation of systems. This work is both the means to analyse and advance their ideas in the subject and the object of the investigation itself. The results they produce are presented in various contexts and take different forms that have ranged from installations, objects, films, performances and publications to curatorial, editorial and academic projects.
In 2012 they were awarded the prestigious London Gold Design Medal acknowledging their contribution to design in the UK.
Centre National des Arts Plastiques CNAP, Paris 2017 & 2014
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York 2008, 2014 & 2016
Fundació Per Amor a l’Art_Bombas Gens, Valencia 2015
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2014
Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Indianapolis 2014
Museum of Glass Shanghai, Shanghai 2013
Museum of Art and Design (MAD) New York 2012
Kulturhusset, Stockholm 2005
Manchester Art Galleries, Manchester 2002
Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London 2001 & 2011
Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg 2000
Crafts Council, London 1999
British Council, London 1999
Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam 1999
Science Museum, London 1998
2017 Malfictions @ Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid (solo)
2017 Le Grand Détournement @ CNAP collection + Galerie Poirel, Nancy (collective)
2017-2027 Pure Gold – Upcycled! Upgraded! @ Around the world touring exhibition by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) (collective)
2017 POPCORN Art, Design et Cinéma @ Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, France (collective)
2016 House Life @ CNAP + Musee des Arts Decoratifs et du Design, Burdeaux, France (collective)
2016 Horizons Deferred @ Halle Verriere CADHAME, Meisenthal, France (solo)
2016 Electro Craft @ Boontje Space, London (collective)
2016 Plasticarium @ Art and Design Atomium Museum, Brussels, Belgium (collective)
2015 Glitch @ Week 33_fig-2 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK (solo)
2015 Glass @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Holland (collective)
2015 What is Luxury? @ Victoria & Albert Museum, London (collective)
2015 Future Fictions @ Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (collective)
2015 Cosmorama-Multiplexer @ The Church, Goldsmiths, London (solo)
2014 Burning Down the House - Gwangju Biennale of Art, curated by Jessica Morgan @ Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea (collective)
2014 Home (very) Sweet Home @ Gallerie Thaddaeus ROPAC, Paris, France (collective)
2014 Material Medley @ Museo Pecci, Milan, Italy (solo)
2014 Garden object @ Rice Gallery, Rice University, Houston Texas, USA (solo)
2013 Public Installation @ Abierto de Diseño, Mexico (solo)
2013 Collapscapes part 2 @ Design Project Room Geneva (solo)
2013 Collapscapes part 1 @ Brussels Design Week (solo)
2013 PILOTS investigating next models in design education @ Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, London (Exhibition/Curatorial)
2013 Glassy @ Museum of Glass Shangai, China (collective)
2012 Exchanges Around Construction: El Ultimo Grito @ Derwent London Gallery, London, UK. (solo)
2012 Glasstress Beirut @ Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon (collective)
2012 Glasstress New York @ MAD, Museum of Art and Design, NYC (collective)
2012 Curious Minds @ Israel Museum, Jerusalem (collective)
2011 Escape Into The Upper Air @ Spring SProjects, London (solo)
2011 Power of Making @ Victoria & Albert Museum, London (collective)
2011 Design. Halt. Kunst. Curated by C. Smith and C. Büschbell. Galerie Neumeister, Munich, Germany (collective)
2011 Crafts Council > Breath Taking: New Wave in British Glass Blowing @ Bilston Craft Gaallery, Bilston, UK (collective)
Munich, Germany (collective)
2010 Freak Show @ HELMRINDERKNECHT Gallery, Berlin, Germany (collective)
2010 Sitting and Looking @ Innovative Craft, Edinburgh, UK (collective)
2010 DIALOGUES @ Aram Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2010 Archimovil_Matadero Madrid @ ARCO Madrid, Spain
2009 Biennale of Architecture Bordeaux INSIDERS @ Arc en Rêve, Bordeaux, France (collective)
2009 Super Contemporary @Design Museum, London (project commission)
2009 NULLPUNKT @ MARTa Herford Museum, Herford, Germany (collective)
2009 NOWHERE NOW HERE @ Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijon, pain (collective)
2008 New Work @ Appel Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2008 Sitting Structure Installation @ Bombay Saphire Gallery, DMY, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2008 H100 @ RB-BRUM Reijkiavik, Iceland (collective)
2008 NOWASTEEUR installation and video performance @ ARCO, Ifema, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2008 Happy End @ Circulo de Bellas Artes en Madrid, Spain (collective)
2007 100m Bench installation @ La Casa EncendidaCaja Madrid Foundation, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2007 MACROS installation @ ARCO, Ifema, Madrid Spain (solo)
2007 Make Believe @ Palau de la Musica, Valencia, Spain (solo)
2006 Tagged #7 El Ultimo Grito @ Casa dos Campas, Fundacion Maria Martinez Otero & Xunta of Galicia, Pontevedra. (solo)
2006 Open Your Mind @ Museum Minguzini, Milano, Italy (collective)
2006 TALKING CITIES The Micro Politics of Urban Space @ ENTRY06, Essen, Germany (collective)
2006 Make Believe @ Barnsley Art & Design Center, Barnsley UK (solo)
2006 Make Believe @ Stanley Picker Gallery, London UK (solo)
2005 Import – Export (British designers working with foreign companies) @ Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (collective)
2005 My World, New Crafts @ Experimenta Design 2005, Lisbon, Pt (collective)
2005 Extra Ordinary @ Kulturehusset, Stockholm, Sweden (collective)
2005 Sit @ Geffrey Museum, London, UK (collective)
2004 Jerwood Prize @ Crafts Council, London UK (collective)
2004 Brilliant @ Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (collective)
2004 Import – Export’ (British designers working with foreign companies) @ touring exhibition in Asia by British Council. Starting British Council New Dheli, India. (collective)
2003 Digital Print: a new generation of surfaces’ @ Milan Trienale, It. (collective)
2003 Objetar @ FAD at Convento de los Angeles, Barcelona, Spain(collective)
2003 The Evolution Will Not Be Televised @ Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (solo)
2002 2001 Una Odisea En El Espacio @ Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2001-2003Great Expectations Exhibition (Curated by The Design Council) @ New York FestivalGrand Central Terminal, New York, USA then eight-city tour of North America
and Canada finishing in Los Angeles at the end of 2002. Extended to Shangai, Tokyo, Melbourne and Sydney, Austria (collective)
2001 An Industry of One: Designer-Makers in Contemporary Britain @ Crafts Council, London. UK (collective)
2001 Home Sweet Home. A touring exhibition by The British Council @ Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Copenhagen, Denmark. (collective)
2001 DRIVE IN, Cologne. Germany (collective)
2000 Six Moments @ Design Museum, London, UK. (collective)
2000 El Lltimo Grito @ Garage Regium, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2000 BIG Torino - Torino Bienale of Art, Torino. Italy (collective)
1999 - 2000 Material World @ Design Museum. London. UK (collective)
1999 - 2000 A Grand Design, @ the Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK(collective)
1999 Lost and Found, a touring exhibition by The British Council (collective)
1999 British Weather Attracts Strange Visitors’ @ Lighthouse. Glasgow, UK. (solo)
1999 Stealing Beauty @ Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). London, UK (collective)
1998 El Ultimo Grito @ Trico, Tokyo, Japan. (solo)
1998 Form and Function @ Generous Miracles Gallery. New York, USA. (collective)
PILOTS Investigating Next Models In Design Education @ Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, London, UK 2013.
NOWHERE NOW HERE: Investigating New Lines of Enquiry in Contemporary Design at LABORAL Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain 2009.
Roberto Feo is Professor of Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Rosario Hurtado co-directs the MA Space and Communication at HEAD_Genève.
As part of their current academic activity they have created the research unit: Vehicles for Experimental Practice, based in Goldsmiths University London, of which first outcome is the experimental practice journal Multiplexer.