OLIVIA PLENDER

During the private view the gallery will launch Rise Early Be Industrious - the new monograph published by Sternberg Press in collaboration with MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; Arnolfini, Bristol; The Banff Centre, Banff and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Edited by Remco de Blaaij, Gerrie van Noord and Olivia Plender, with texts by Angus Cameron, Maeve Connolly, Lars Bang Larsen, Olivia Plender and Tirdad Zolghadr. Design by Nuno da Luz. ISBN 978-3-95679-174-1.

In 2014 Plender curated an exhibition of Sylvia Pankhurst’s art works at Tate Britain, London (with The Emily Davison Lodge). Earlier solo shows include Rise Early And Be Industrious (touring) MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, Arnolfini, Bristol and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 2012; Aadieu, Adieu Apa (Goodbye Goodbye Father), Gasworks Gallery, London, 2009; Information, Education, Entertainment, Marabouparken Annex, Stockholm 2007; and The Folly of Man Exposed or the World Turned Upside Down, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 2006.

Selected group shows include the El Teatro Del Mundo, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 2014; The Crime was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Netherlands, 2014; Arbeidstid, Henie Onstad, Oslo, 2013; British Art Show 10, Hayward Gallery, London, 2011; Folkestone Triennial, Kent, 2011; Taipei Biennial, 2010; Altermodern: Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, 2009; Bucharest Biennial, 2010; The Greenroom, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson and The Great Transformation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 2008; Tate Triennial Tate Britain, London and Busan Biennial, 2006; BMW: 1X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC, Vilnius, 2005; Romantic Detachment, PS1/ MoMA, New York, 2004.