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Press

2011

Starling, Simon: 'Artistic Research: Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) - From Hard Graft to Happy Accident', Texte zur Kunst, 06/2011

Degen, Natasha: 'Simon Starling', frieze Issue 137, 04/2011

Starling, Simon: 'A Nuclear Masquerade', Tate etc. Issue 21, 03/2011

Gronlund, Melissa: 'Simon Starling', Catalogue Contemporary Art Magazine Issue 6, 03/2011

Jones, Jonathon: 'Simon Starling - review', The Guardian Online, 23/02/2011

2010

Starling, Simon: 'Micheal Stevenson, On How Things Behave', Artforum International, 12/2010

'Art for the World (the Expo) - The City of Forking Paths', Shanghai World Expo, 05/2010

Starling, Simon: 'Electroretroprotomodern, Les Lendemains d’heir (exhibition catalogue)', MACM Montréal, 05/2010

Johnstone, Lesley: 'Utopianism, Les Lendemains d’heir (exhibition catalogue)', MACM Montréal, 05/2010

Wade Saunders & Annet Rochette: 'Simon Starling Making Connections', Art in America, 02/2010

2009

Gopnik, Blake: 'Head north and follow the signs of contemporary times', The Washington Post, 22/11/2009

Jackson, Matthew Jesse: 'The Quick and the Dead', Artforum, 11/2009

Beasley, Stephen: 'Radical Nature', frieze Issue 126, 10/2009

Egan, Maura: 'Art Awards, and the Nominees Are…', New York Time blogs, 23/09/2009

Stern, Steven: 'The Quick and the Dead', frieze online, 09/2009

Townshend, Emma: 'Barbican shows how to save the planet with Radical Nature exhibition', Times Online, 13/06/2009

Andrea Yablonsky, Linda: 'You Had to Be There', ArtNews, 06/2009

Gabler, Jay: '‘The Quick and the Dead’ at the Walker: A Beautiful Madhouse', Twin Cities Daily Planet, 25/04/2009

Kerr, Euan: '‘The Quick and the Dead’ Brings concepts to the Walker, Minnesota', Public Radio, 24/04/2009

'Walker Art Center Announces Exhibition that Examines the Magic and Mysteries of Conceptual Art', Artdaily.org, 02/04/2009

West, Richard: 'Autoxylopyrocycloboros', Source Issue 58

Jacobson, Alex: 'Boston: Simon Starling', Map Issue 19

Cotton, Michelle: 'Close-Up', frieze Issue 120

Viliani (curs.): 'The Exotic', Kaleidoscope Issue 01

2008

Mahoney, Elisabeth: 'Richard Long/Simon Starling', Art Monthly, 11/2008

Drake, Cathyrn: 'Simon Starling: Galleria Franco Noero', Artforum, 10/2008

Myres, Julian: 'Amateurs', frieze Issue 117, 09/2008

'Making-of: Simon Starling Shedboatshed (Moblie Architecture No 2), 2005', Monopol, 06/2008

McLaughlin, Bryne: 'Simon Starling in Review: 21st-century Colonialism', Canadian Art, 27/03/2008

Sandals, Leah: 'Avenue Questions & Artists: Henry Moore and more', National Post, Toronto, 06/03/2008

Enright, Robert: 'Artist a master of ‘now you see it, now you don’t’', The Globe and Mail, 01/03/2008

Wainwright, Jean: 'Richard Long and Simon Starling', Art World Issue 7

Vegh, Stephanie: 'Toronto: Simon Starling', Map Issue 114

2007

Downey, Anthony: 'Simon Starling: Sustainable Photography', Next Level

2006

Duffy, Damien: 'C.A.M', Circa Issue 115

Stange, Raimar: 'The Dialectician', Spike Magazine Issue 07

2005

Sharp, Jasper: 'Man vs Nature', Art Review, 12/2005

Godfrey, Mark: 'Simon Starling', frieze Issue 94, 10/2005

Reust, Hans Rudolf: 'Simon Starling', Artforum, 10/2005

Schwabsky, Barry: 'Simon Starling', Map Issue 3, 10/2005

Godfrey, Mark: 'Image Structures: Photography and Sculpture', Artforum, 02/2005

2004

Stange, Raimar: 'Mehr oder Weniger', Spike Magazine, 10/2004

Kimmelmann, Michael: 'Simon Starling', The New York Times, 12/03/2004

Vogel, Carol: 'Boss Prize Finalists', The New York Times, 06/02/2004

Birnbaum, Daniel: 'Transporting Visions', Artforum, 02/2004

Jeffrey, Moira: 'I want to ride my bicycle', The Herald, 09/01/2004

Gioni, Massimiliano: 'Simon Starling, The Bricoleur', Carnet

2003

Ehlers, Fiona: 'Sieben Rhododendren reisen nach Hause', Kulturspiegel, 10/2003

Fox, Dan: '50th Venice Bienniale', frieze Issue 77, 09/2003

Vetrocq, Marcia E.: 'Venice Bienniale: Every Idea But One', Art in America, 09/2003

Brevi, Manuela: 'Arte eventi', Arte, 06/2003

Vanderbilt, Tom: 'A Thousand Words', Artforum, 05/2003

Lorch, Catrin: 'La Biennale di Venezia', Kunstbulletin

Milner, Jacqueline: 'Matthew Jones and Simon Starling', Broadsheet

Menin, Samuele, Valentina Sansone: 'Sculpture Forever, Contemporary Sculpture (Part I)', Flash Art

Selvaratnam, Troy: 'The Starling Variations', Parkett

Dunn, Melissa: 'The Venice Biennale: Slouching Toward Utopia', Flash Art

2002

Römer, Stefan: 'Zusammenbiegen, was das Zeug halt', Texte zur Kunst, 12/2002

Hill, Peter: 'Double Vision', The Sydney Morning Herald, 25/10/2002

Low, Lenny Ann: 'Matthew Jones/ Simon Starling', The Sydney Morning Herald, 17/10/2002

Danicke, Sandra: 'Cereus, Kaktus aus Spanien', Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 04/10/2002

Hohmann, Silke: 'Die Überlegenheit des Unwegs', Frankfurter Rundschau, 14/09/2002

'Katkeenhaus von Simon Starling im Portikus', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14/09/2002

Keil, Frank: 'Schwimmtofu an Schweineporträt', Frankfurter Rundschau, 07/08/2002

Mahoney, Elisabeth: 'Into Dundee’s arty jungle', The Guardian, 11/07/2002

Klaas, Nicole and Heiko Klaas: 'West-östliche Vereinigung', Kieler Nachrichten, 06/07/2002

Gardner, Belinda Grace: 'Die Tiere beten jeden Tag zum lieben Tofu', Die Welt, 01/07/2002

Leffingwell, Edward: 'Simon Starling', Art in America, 07/2002

Gale, Iain: 'The resurrection man', Sunday Herald, 30/06/2002

Mansfield, Susan: 'A Wing and a Prayer', The Scotsman, 22/06/2002

Burton, Joanna: 'Simon Starling', Time Out NY, 21/03/2002

Levin, Kim: 'Simon Starling', The Village Voice, 13/03/2002

Gebbers, Anna-Catharina: 'Zusammenhänge herstallen', Artist Kunstmagazin, 03/2002

2001

Asthoff, Jens: 'Simon Starling im Kunstverein', Kunstbulletin, 10/2001

'This Is Your Life', Scotland on Sunday, 16/09/2001

'Briten landen in Berlin', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 05/05/2001

Weinrautner, Ina: 'Werke mit doppeltem Boden', Handelsblatt, 03/05/2001

Stange, Raimer: 'Public Relations', Kunstbulletin, 05/2001

Jeffrey, Moira: 'CUSTOMS AND EXERCISE', Sunday Herald, 21/01/2001

Mahoney, Elisabeth: 'Starling/ Henningsen', The Guardian, 18/01/2001

McKee, Francis: 'Chicken or Egg?', frieze Issue 56

Rosenberg, Angela: 'Variations On A Theme', Flash Art

2000

Griese, Horst: 'Umwege machen das Leben interessanter', Weser Kurier, 07/12/2000

Esche, Charles: 'Undomesticating Modernism', Afterall Issue 1, 10/2000

Mullholland, Neil: 'If I Ruled the World', frieze Issue 54, 09/2000

Hedberg, Hans: 'NU', The Nordic Art Review, 05/05/2000

Paulli, Luca: 'A Project for a Space', Tema Celeste, 03/2000

Hughes, Henry: 'Meyric, Manifesta', Tema Celeste, 03/2000

Schultz, Deborah: 'The Office of Misplaced Events (Temporary Annex)', Art Monthly

1999

Sommer: 'Vieldeutiges Spiel um Erinnerungen', Leipziger Volkszeitung, 08/04/1999

Kowa, Günter: 'Der wundersame Fischzug mit der Museumsvitrine', Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 06/04/1999

'Blinky Palmero-Stipendium', Bild, 12/01/1999

'Leipziger Premiere furs Palmero-Stipendium', Leipziger Volkszeitung, 11/01/1999

Shepheard, Paul: 'Edgeless, Modeless', Afterall Issue 1

Tazaki, Anni L.: 'Ready-Made Made-Ready', Flyer

Esche, Charles: 'Undomesticating Modernism', Afterall Issue 1

1998

Sinclair, Ross: 'Blue Boat Black', frieze Issue 38

1997

Sinclair, Ross: 'Simon Starling', frieze Issue 38

1996

Felmann, Melissa: 'Matters of Fact', New Conceptualism in Scotland

1995

Currah, Mark: 'Showroom', Time Out London, 07/1995

Hunt, Ian: 'Simon Starling', frieze Issue 24

Jaio, Miren: 'Simon Starling', Lapiz

Morgan, Stuart: 'The future’s not what it used to be', frieze Issue 21

1991

Palmer, Roger: 'There is no museum in the exhibition at present', Alba, 07/1991

Exhibition Reviews

2011

Doubal, Rosalie: 'Visual Art Reviews' (review of 'Mystics or Rationalists?', Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh), The List, 25/08/2011

2009

Campbell-Johnston, Rachel: 'Radical Nature at the Barbican' (review of 'Radical Nature', Barbican Art Gallery, London), The Times, 16/06/2009

Townshend, Emma: 'Barbican shows how to save the planet with Radical Nature exhibition' (review of 'Radical Nature', Barbican Art Gallery, London), Times Online, 13/06/2009

Publications

2005

Art Now 2, Taschen, Cologne

Island for Weeds (Prototype), Thames & Hudson, London

2004

Turbulenz: Portikus Projekte 2001-2004, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

2001

Small Gold Medal, Book Works, London

1999

Seven Wonders of the World, Book Works, London

Exhibition Publications

2011

Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima), The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima

Simon Starling: Recent History, Tate St. Ives & Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, St. Ives, Malaga

2010

Simon Starling: Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima): The Mirror Room, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

Les Lendemains d’Hier, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Montreal

2009

Radical Nature, Barbican Art Gallery, London

Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Simon Starling: Plant Room, Verlag fur moderne Kunst, Nurnberg

Simon Starling: Under Lime, Temporäre Kunsthalle,, Berlin

The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis

2008

Concrete Light, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick

Cuttings (Supplement), The Power Plant, Toronto

Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London

Richard Long and Simon Starling, Spike Island, Bristol (exhibition document)

Scotland & Venice 2003 2005 2007, Scottish Arts Council/ British Council/ National Galleries of Scotland/ The Scottish Government, Edinburgh

Three Birds, Seven Stories, Interpolations and Bifurcations, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

2007

Made in Germany, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover (Short guide and catalogue)

Simon Starling: Nachbau, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Steidl, Goettingen (box set)

The Turner Prize, Tate Publishing, London

2006

Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach

[24 hr. Tangenziale], Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

2005

Cuttings, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern

Turner Prize 2005, Tate Publishing, London

Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourists’s Eye, MCA, Chicago

2004

Hugo Boss Prize 2004, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

Schöner Wohnen, kunst van heden voor alle dagen, BE-PART Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem

2003

OUTLOOK, Cultural Olympiad, Athens

Simon Starling, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma

Simon Starling, Villa Arson and Städtische Ausstellungshalle am Hawerkamp, (eds.), Nice and Münster (Box set includes publication and visual essay “Notes on the buildings of Mr. Naujok and Mr. Jeannert”)

2002

Djungel, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

FLAGA 1972 - 2000, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Zachęta Państowowa Galeria Sztuki, Warzsawa

Jones/ Starling, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Kakteenhaus, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen

Still Life, British Council, London

2001

[squatters], Fundação de Serralves, Porto

Circles – Individuelle Sozialisation und Netzwerkarbeit in der zeitenossischen Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe

Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2000, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

Simon Starling CMYK / RGB, FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier

Simon Starling: Inverted Retrograde Theme, Secession, Vienna

2000

Front to Back, Camden Arts Centre and John Hansard Gallery, London and Southampton

1999

Simon Starling, Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

1998

Double Narrative (after Robert Smithson), The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

morning star evening star, 200 Gertrude Street & Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

Project for a Modern Museum, Moderna Museet Project Room, Stockholm

Reconstructions, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam

1997

Blue Boat Black, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

Transference, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

1995

Simon Starling, The Showroom, London