Simon Starling
Print-friendly versionBorn 1967, Epsom; Lives in Copenhagen
Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions
| 2012 |
Casey Kaplan, New York (Solo, 06/09/2012) neugerriemschneider, Berlin (Solo, 09/2012) 'When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes', CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (Group, 09/2012) 'Transit of Venus', Radcliff Observatory, Oxford (Solo, 06/06/2012. One day event) La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse (Solo, 23/05/2012) |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2012 |
'Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) Screening', ICA, London |
| 2011 |
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 'F as in Foglia', Franco Noero, Turin |
| 2010 |
'Recent History', Contemporary Art Centre, Malaga 'Red Rivers', Kamel Mennour, Paris |
| 2009 |
'Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Songbird)', Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Miami 'Paul Henningsen - BLACK OUT', Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark (with Superflex) 'Red White Blue', Casey Kaplan, New York 'The Long Ton', neugerriemschneider, Berlin 'THEREHERETHENTHERE (La Source)', Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux 'THEREHERETHENTHERE (Works 1997-2009)', MAC/VAL, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne 'Under Lime', Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin |
| 2008 |
'CONCRETE LIGHT', Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick 'Cuttings (Supplement)', The Power Plant, Toronto 'Plant Room', Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn 'Richard Long and Simon Starling', Spike Island, Bristol 'The Nanjing Particles', MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts 'Three Birds, Seven Stories, Interpolations and Bifurcations', Galleria Franco Noero, Turin |
| 2007 |
'Kintsugi, Simon Starling', Aktuelle Kunst im Schaukasten, Herisau, Switzerland (Appenzell Biennale) 'Nachbau/Reconstruction', Museum Folkwang, Essen 'Particle Projection (Loop)', Wiels Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels 'Simon Starling', Casey Kaplan, New York |
| 2006 |
'[24 hr. Tangenziale]', Galleria Franco Noero, Turin 'Autoxylopyrocycloboros', Heidelburger Kunstverein, Heidelberg 'Autoxylopyrocycloboros', Cove Park, Scotland 'Wilhelm Noack OHG', Galerie neugerriemschneider, Berlin |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 |
'Tabernas Desert Run', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow Casey Kaplan, New York 'Exposition', Fundacio Juan Miro, Barcelona 'One Ton', neugerriemschneider, Berlin |
| 2003 |
Villa Arson, Nice 'Carbon', Städtische Ausstellungshalle am Hawerkamp, Münster 'Work, Made-Ready, In Light of Nature', Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome |
| 2002 |
'FLAGA, (1972-2002)', Franco Noero, Turin 'Hammer Projects – Simon Starling', UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 'Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA', Casey Kaplan, New York 'Kakteenhaus', Portikus, Frankfurt 'Matthew Jones / Simon Starling', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
| 2001 |
neugerriemschneider, Berlin 'Burn-Time', Lichthaus Plus Neue Kunst, Bremen 'Burn-Time/ Reading Room', Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Barbara ClaassenSchmal, Bremen 'CMYK / RGB', FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier 'Inverted Retrograde Theme, Rescued Rhododendrons', Secession, Vienna 'Poul Henningsen Simon Starling', Cooper Gallery, Dundee 'Simon Starling', John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton 'Work, Made-Ready', Les Baux-de-Provence, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
| 2000 |
Studio 2000, Cologne Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporãnea, Porto Preston Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England 'Method 1', Signal, Malmö 'Open Studio', Camden Art Centre, London |
| 1999 |
'Blinky Palermo Prize', Galerie fur Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig |
| 1998 |
'Le Jardin Suspendu', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow 'Project for a Modern Museum', Moderna Museet Project Room, Stockholm |
| 1997 |
'Blue Boat Black', Transmission, Glasgow |
| 1995 |
'An Eichbaum Pils beer can', The Showroom, London |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2012 |
'Camera Work', The Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington |
| 2011 |
'Inaccessible Poem', Mario Merz Foundation, Turin (Curated by Simon Starling) 'e.g.', Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (with Superflex) 'Found in Translation', Casino Luxemburg, Luxemburg (Curated by Emmanuel Lambion) Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (Musée les Jacobins, Curated by Anne Pontégnie) 'Carlo Mollino. Maniera Moderna', Haus der Kunst, Munich (Curated by Chris Dercon) 'Mystics or Rationalists?', Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (Edinburgh Art Festival) 'Ostalgia', New Museum, New York 'MOMENTUM 2011', Nordic Biennial for Nordic Contemporary Art, Moss (6th Nordic Biennial) 'Measuring the World. Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art', Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (with Superflex) 'Staging the Archive', MACE Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Elvas, Portugal, Elvas, Portugal |
| 2010 |
'Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)’ Curated by Simon Starling', Camden Art Centre, London 'A Place Out of History', Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City 'México esperado/inesperado', Espace de Creation Contemporaine de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi 'Les Lendemains d’hier', Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal 'Languages and Experimentations', MART museum, Rovereto (curated by G. Verzotti) 'Fall Out', Malmö 'BOOK SHOW', Eastside Projects, Birmingham 'Tracks, Traces and Transformations', Nest, Den Haag 'Unsichtbare Schatten – Bilder der Verunsicherung', MARTA Museum of Art & Design, Herford (With Superflex) |
| 2009 |
'Altermodern', Tate Triennalle, London 'Capturing Time', Kadist Art Foundation, Paris 'Fare Mondi/Making Worlds', 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice 'Free as Air and Water', The Cooper Union, New York 'Radical Nature', Barbican Art Gallery, London 'Space as Medium', Miami Art Museum, Miami (curated by René Morales) 'The Quick and the Dead', Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis 'The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object', Sculpture Center, New York |
| 2008 |
'Amateurs', CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco 'Close Up', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 'Ephemera', Green on Red Gallery, Dublin 'GREENWASHING Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities', Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino (and Palazzo Ducale di Laurino, Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Salerno) 'ITALIA ITALIE ITALIEN ITALY WŁOCHY', ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Sannio, Benevento, Italy 'Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art', Barbican Art Gallery, London 'Objects of Value', Miami Art Museum, Miami 'Reality Check', Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 'Turner Prize: A Retrospective', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (touring to Moscow Museum of Modern Art) 'What is Life – Christine Borland, Graham Fagen and Simon Starling', The Plant Exhibition Hall, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh |
| 2007 |
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow 'Des mondes perdus', CAPC, Bordeaux 'Held Together With Water - Art from the Verbund Collection', Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art, Vienna 'Immagini, Forme e Natura delle Alpi', Fondazione Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, Palazzo Pretorio, Sondrio (curated by Danilo Eccher) 'Made in Germany', Sprengel Museum, Hannover (Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover; kestnergesellschaft, Hannover) 'Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change', Sharjah Biennale 8, Sharjah 'The history of a decade that has not yet been named', Biennale de Lyon, Lyon 'Turner Prize: A Retrospective', Tate Britain, London 'ZPC Volet #3 entreprises singulières', Musèe d’art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris |
| 2006 |
'Busan Biennial', Busan, South Korea 'Ectopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video', International Center for Photography, New York 'If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history', The Showroom, London 'Periferic 7: Focussing Iasi/Strategies of Learning', International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Iasi 'Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before', Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach 'The Turner Prize', Tate Britain, London (winner) |
| 2005 |
'Goodbye Fourteenth Street', Gallery Casey Caplan, New York 'Omaggio al Quadrato', Franco Noero, Turin 'Parallel Life', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt 'The Turner Prize', Tate Britain, London (Winner) 'Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye', MCA Chicago |
| 2004 |
Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo 'In the beginning there was the journey', 28th Biennale de Arte de Pontevedra, Pontevedra 'LAB', Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo 'Schöner Wohnen, kunst van heden voor alle dagen', BE-PART, Platform voor actuele kunst |
| 2003 |
Sculpture Biennale, Münsterland, Germany Franco Noero, Turin Special Dédicace, Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art 'Faking Real', Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts 'GNS (Global Navigation System)', Palais de Tokyo, Paris 'Hands up, baby, hands up', Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg 'Independence', South London Gallery, London 'Individual Systems', Venice Biennale, Venice 'Interplay', The Moore building, Miami 'Moving Pictures', Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao 'OUTLOOK', International Art Exhibition, Athens 'The Moderns', Castello di Rivoli, Turin 'Zenomap', Scottish Pavilion, Venice Biennale |
| 2002 |
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (Europäische Biennale Zeitgenössischer Kunst) Roma Roma Roma, Rome 'Barby Asante, Journey into the East', The Showroom, London 'Der Globale Complex - continental drift', Grazer Kunstverein, Graz 'Exchange and Transform', Kunstverein, Munich 'Happy Outsiders', Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw 'Lap Dissolve', Casey Kaplan, New York 'My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love', Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen 'No return, Positionen aus der Sammlung Haubrock', Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach 'Sphere', Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 'Still Life', British Council touring show 'Summer Cinema', Casey Kaplan, New York 'Wrong Time, Wrong Place', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 'Zusammenhange herstellen', Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg |
| 2001 |
'1998 - 2001', DESTE Foundation, Athens 'Circles', Karlsruhe, Germany 'Der Larsen Effekt', Centre für Gegenwartskunst Linz/ Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg 'Dévoler vivent les Frac', Institute d’Art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France 'East Doors (North)', Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston (project) 'Experiment the Real', Albi, France 'G3', Casey Kaplan, New York 'Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001', Dundee Contemporary Arts & Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK 'Let’s Get to Work', Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg 'Open Country', Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne 'Silk Purse', Arnolfini, Bristol 'Squatters', Serralves Foundation, Porto 'Squatters 2', Witte de With, Rotterdam 'Strategies Against Architecture II', Laboratorio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Pisa 'Total Object Complete With Missing Parts', Tramway, Glasgow 'Words and Things', CCA, Glasgow |
| 2000 |
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills 'Artifice', DESTE Foundation, Athens 'Futureperfect', CVA, Cardiff 'If I Ruled the World', CCA, Glasgow 'Manifesta 3', European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana 'Micropolitiques', Le Magasin, Grenoble 'Play-Use', Witte de With, Rotterdam 'Robières/ Roberies', Marres Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht 'Spaceship', Bluecoat Gallery, LIverpool 'The British Art Show 5', Edinburgh, Cardiff 'The work in this space is a response to the existing conditions and/or work previously shown within the space', neugerriemschneider, Berlin 'What If…', Moderna Muséet, Stockholm |
| 1999 |
'Artist’s Project', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee 'Dummy', Catalyst Arts, Belfast 'Fang den Hut', Galerie Eigen 'Fireworks', De Appel, Amsterdam 'If I Ruled the World', The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik 'The Office of Misplaced Events', 51 Cleveland St., London 'Thinking Aloud', Camden Art Centre, London 'Tyrebagger Sculpture Project', Aberdeenshire, Scotland 'Un Certain', ATA Centre d’Art Contemporain, Sofia |
| 1998 |
The Modern Institute, Glasgow at Sadie Coles HQ 'Bad Faith', 3 month Gallery, Liverpool 'Family', Inverleith House, Edinburgh 'Lost and Found', Decima Gallery, London 'Moderna Museet Project', Moderna Muséet, Stockholm 'Reconstructions', Smart Project Space, Amsterdam 'Strolling', Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne |
| 1997 |
'B.c.c.', Cleveland and The Tannery, London 'Fishing For Shapes', Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 'Glasgow', Kunsthalle Bern, Bern 'L’Automne dans toutes ses collections', MAC, Marseille 'Nerve', ArtSpace, Sydney 'Wish You Were Here Too', 83 Hill Street, Glasgow |
| 1996 |
'After You Made Me Soft Again', Galerie Barz, Hanover 'City Limits', Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent 'Fishing for Shapes', Projektraum Voltmerstrasse, Hanover 'Kilt ou Double', La Vigie, NÓmes 'Once Removed', Laure Genillard, London 'Sick Building', Transmission Gallery at Globe Space, Copenhagen |
| 1995 |
'About Place', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 'Kabinett fur Zeichnung', Kampnagel, Hamburg 'Maikafer Flieg', Bunker Köln-Ehrenfeld, Köln |
| 1994 |
'Die Zweite Wirklichkeit Aktuelle Aspekte des Mediums Kunst', Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart 'Institute of Cultural Anxiety', ICA, London 'Miniatures', The Agency, London 'Modern Art', Transmission, Glasgow 'Oriel Mostyn Open', Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno |
| 1993 |
'BT New Contemporaries', Travelling Exhibition 'Left Luggage', Travelling Exhibition 'Matter and Fact', Collection Gallery, London |
| 1992 |
'Gesture No. 5', Post West Gallery, Adelaide 'Invisible Cities', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 'Three New Works', Transmission, Glasgow |
| 1991 |
'Museum Piece', Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art |
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'Camera Work', The Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 'Hugo Boss Prize 2004', Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
