LIAM GILLICK
b. 1964, United KingdomLiam Gillick lives and works in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include: Standing on Top of a Building: Films 2008-2019, Madre Museum, Naples, Italy (2019); The Lights are No Brighter at the Centre, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania (2017); Campaign, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2016); All-Imitate-Act, Stedelijk Museum/Holland Festival, Amsterdam (2015); From 199C to 199D, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (2014); From 199A to 199B: Liam Gillick, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA (2012); Museum Stzuki, Lodz, Poland (2011); One long walk... Two short piers..., KAH, Bonn, Germany (2010); How will you behave: A kitchen cat speaks, German Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2009); Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland / Kunstverein Munich and MCA Chicago (2008); A short text on the possibility of creating an economy of equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2005); The Wood Way, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2002).
Collaborative projects include Gelatin and Liam Gillick, Stinking Dawn, Kunsthalle Wien (2019); ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.., Manchester International Festival / OGR, Torino / Halle E, Vienna (2017-2018); Development, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama (2016); Confessions of the Imperfect, 1848-1989-Today, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014); To the Moon Via the Beach (with Philippe Parreno), Luma Foundation, Arles (2012); Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner: A Syntax of Dependency, M HKA Museum van Hedendaage Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium (2011).
Selected group exhibitions include: BAU [SPIEL] HAUS, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany (2019); The Log-O-Rithmic Slide Rule: Trix and Robert Haussmann, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK and ETH, Zurich, Austria (2018); True Faith, curated by Matthew Higgs, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, England (2017); 2116, Shanghai Project 2016, curated by Yongwoo Lee and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, China (2016); 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2015); Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract art and society 1915-2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2015); Swiss Pavilion, 14th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy (2014); DLA Piper Series: Constellations, Tate Liverpool, UK (2013); Looking Back for the Future, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (2012).
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