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Liam Gillick

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Edition


 
Photos: Axel Schneider

The first step of Liam Gillick’s work process for the exhibition in the German Pavilion was the fabrication of an edition in the form of a model of Arnold Bode’s 1957 proposal for a new German Pavilion. The model (anodized aluminium, 26 x 30 x 12 cm) is a limited edition of 25 and available at the price of EUR 5.000,00. Each model is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed and dated by the artist.

For further information or ordering please contact: info@deutscher-pavillon.org




Lecture Hamburger Bahnhof

Lecture Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
February 12, 2009





Text downloads


Berlin Statement

Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three?

Halt the expulsion of foreign comrades!

Separate but not marginal:
An interview with Liam Gillick by Cliff Lauson


Nobody asked you to do nothing
A potential school


In the beginning there was nothing. And the Lord said ‘Let there be light’ and there was still nothing, but now you could see it.

Utopia Station For a … Functional Utopia

An investigation of the non-specific qualities that affect the meaning and relative status of the art object in the developed self-conscious neo-liberal productive context

Prevision
Should the future help the past?





Biography

Liam Gillick, born 1964

Selected one-person exhibitions


12/89 84 Diagrams, Karsten Schubert Ltd, London.
12/1991 Documents (mit Henry Bond), Gio’ Marconi, Milan.
12/89 84 Diagrams, Karsten Schubert Ltd, London.
12/1991 Documents (mit Henry Bond), Gio’ Marconi, Mailand.
8/1992 McNamara, Hog Bikes and GRSSPR, Air de Paris, Nice.
6/1994 McNamara, Schipper & Krome, Köln.
11/1994 Liam Gillick, Interim Art, London.
6/1995 Ibuka! (Part 2), Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart.
3/1996 Erasmus is Late ‘versus’ The What If? Scenario, Schipper & Krome, Berlin.
4/1996 The What If? Scenario, Robert Prime, London.
1/1997 Discussion Island, Basilico Fine Arts, New York.
7/1997 McNamara Papers, Erasmus and Ibuka Realisations, The What If? Scenarios, Le Consortium, Dijon.
10/1997 Reclutamento!, Emi Fontana, Milan.
2/1998 Liam Gillick, Kunstverein in Hamburg.
4/1998 Up on the twenty-second floor, Air de Paris, Paris.
5/1998 Big Conference Center, Orchard Gallery, Derry.
7/1998 Révision: Liam Gillick, Villa Arson, Nice.
9/1998 When do we need more tractors?, Schipper & Krome, Berlin.
11/1998 The Trial of Pol Pot, (mit Philippe Parreno), Le Magasin, Grenoble.
11/1998 Liam Gillick, c/o Atle Gerhardsen Oslo.
6/1999 Liam Gillick, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus.
7/1999 Liam Gillick, Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich.
9/1999 “David”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.
3/2000 Consultation Filter, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster.
5/2000 Woody, CCA Kitakyshu.
9/2000 Literally No Place, Air de Paris, Paris.
10/2000 Renovation Filter, Recent Past and Near Future, Arnolfini, Bristol.
11/2000 Liam Gillick, Casey Kaplan, New York.
1/2001 Firststepcousinbarprize Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich.
4/2001 Liam Gillick, Corvi-Mora, London.
9/2001 Annlee You Proposes, Tate Britain, London.
10/2001 Dedalic Convention, Salzburger Kunstverein.
4/2002 The Wood Way, The Whitechapel Gallery, London.
6/2002 Light Technique, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna.
7/2002 Liam Gillick, Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich.
1/2003 Hills and Trays and…, Schipper & Krome, Berlin.
1/2003 …Punctuated Everydays, Max Hetzler, Berlin.
4/2003 Por Favor Gracias de Nada (mit Gabriel Kuri), Kurimanzutto, México City.
5/2003 Exterior Days, Casey Kaplan, New York.
9/2003 Communes, Bars and Greenrooms, The Powerplant, Toronto.
9/2003 Projects 79: Literally, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
4/2004 A Group of People, Air de Paris, Paris.
9/2004 Övningskörning (Driving Practice), Milwaukee Art Museum.
9/2004 Underground (Fragments of Future Histories), Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp.
1/2005 222nd Floor, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich.
1/2005 A short essay on the possibility of an economy of equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
2/2005 Another 2004 Again, Baltimore Museum of Art.
9/2005 Factories in the snow, Meyer Kainer, Vienna.
9/2005 McNamara Motel, CAC Malaga, Spain.
1/2006 Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyyy, Liam Gillick und Philippe Parreno, Kunsthalle Zurich.
11/2006 Literally Based on HZ, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
11/2006 The State itself becomes a super commune, Esther Schipper, Berlin.
2/2007 Weekend in So Show, The Lab, Belmar.
3/2007 The commune itself becomes a super state, Corvi-Mora, London.
4/2007 The state/commune itself becomes a super state/commune, Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp.
1/2008 Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario Part 1, Witte de With, Rotterdam.
1/2008 Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario Part 2, Kunsthalle, Zurich.
5/2008 The State Itself Becomes a Super Whatnot, Casey Kaplan, New York.
9/2008 Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario Part 3, Kunstverein, Munich.
10/2009 Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario Part 4, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.


Collaborative & curated projects


9/1992 The Speaker Project, ICA, London.
12/1992 Instructions, Gio’ Marconi, Mailand.
5/1995 Faction, Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen.
7/1995 Stoppage, Villa Arson, Nice.
1/1999 Oldnewtown, Casey Kaplan, New York.
7/2000 itsapoorsortofmemorythatonlynunsbackwards, Goldsmiths College, Creative Curating, London.
9/2001 Dedalic Convention (mit Annette Kosak), MAK, Vienna.
10/2001 Dedalic Convention/Du und Ich (mit Annette Kosak und Gary Webb), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg.
3/2002 Dark Spring (mit Nicolaus Schafhausen und Markus Weisbeck), Stiftung Ursula Blickle, Kraichtal-Uö.
9/2003 Telling Histories, Kunstverein München.
11/2004 Rider: Law and Creativity Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyyy (mit Philippe Parreno), Konsthall, Lund.
9/2005 Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyyy (mit Philippe Parreno), Vamiali’s, Athens.
12/2005 Edgar Schmitz, ICA, London.
2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin & Mexico City.
6/2007 Il Tempo Postino, Manchester Festival.
2008 The Night School, The New Museum, New York.


Books


1991 Technique Anglaise (mit Andrew Renton), London, One-Off Press/Thames & Hudson
1995 Erasmus is Late, London, Book Works.
1995 Ibuka!, Stuttgart, Künstlerhaus.
1997 Discussion Island/Big Conference Centre, Derry/Ludwigsburg, Orchard Gallery, Kunstverein.
1998 Ein Rückblick aus dem Jahre 2000 auf 1997 (mit Matthew Brannon), Leipzig, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst.
1999 Five or Six, New York, Lukas & Sternberg.
2002 Literally No Place, London, Book Works.
2004 Underground (Fragments of Future Histories), Brüssel/Dijon, Les maitre des forme contemporain, Les Presses du Réel.
2004 Anna Sanders Films Identity Spot, Liam Gillick und Sean Dack, Onestar Press, Paris.
2006 Malaga – An album of Covers, Liam Gillick und M/M, Paris, Brüssel, Two Star Books.
2006 Le Montrachet, Liam Gillick und Heather McGowan, Los Angeles, Rocky Point Press.
2008 Ein Rückblick aus dem Jahre 2000 auf 1997 (with Matthew Brannon), Leipzig, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst.


Selected group exhibitions


12/1990 The Multiple Projects Room, Air de Paris, Nice.
7/1991 No Man’s Time, CNAC, Villa Arson, Nice.
5/1992 Molteplici Culture, (curated von Giorgio Verzotti), Folklore Museum, Rome.
9/1993 Backstage, (curated von Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen & Barbara Steiner), Kunstverein in Hamburg.
10/1994 Lost Paradise, (curated von Barbara Steiner), Kunstraum, Vienna.
10/1995 Brilliant, (curated von Richard Flood), Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis.
1/1996 Traffic, (curated von Nicolas Bourriaud), CAPC, Bordeaux.
6/1997 documenta X, Kassel.
9/1998 Weather Everything, (curated by: Eric Troncy), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.
10/1999 Get Together/Art As Teamwork, Kunsthalle, Vienna.
5/2000 What If/Tänk Om, Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
4/2001 Berlin Biennale, Kunstwerke, Berlin.
2/2002 Art & Economy, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
1/2003 No Ghost Just a Shell, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
3/2004 Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Art from 1951 to the Present, Guggenheim Museum, New York.
7/2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.
11/2006 All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae, IMMA, Dublin.
4/2007 Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
6/2008 The Sydney Biennale, Sydney.


Awards


1998 Paul Cassirer Kunstpreis, Berlin.
2002 Turner Prize Nominierung, Tate, London.
2008 Vincent Award Nominierung, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.


Selected writings


1993 Curating for Pleasure and Profit
1995 Statements on Conceptual Art
1996 Ill tempo: the Corruption of time in Recent Art
1996 Künstlerhaus Stuttgart: A Viable Place: Der Umbau Raum
1998 Prevision. Should the Future Help the Past?
1999 Collaborative Strategies in a Shifting Context We Just Walked In
2000 From Quebec 1907 to Stockholm 2000: What If We Attempted to Address that which seems so apparent?
2003 Kunstverein München: Claiming Contingent Space
2003 Utopia Station. For a… Functional Utopia?
2005 Contingent Factors: A Response to Claire Bishop’s Antagonism and Relational Esthetics
2008 Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three


Further reading


2000 Liam Gillick, Lukas & Sternberg, New York / Oktagon, Köln.
2000 Liam Gillick, Five or Six, Lukas & Sternberg.
2007 Proxemics: Selected Writing 1988-2006, JRP-Ringier.
2007 Factories in the Snow, JRP-Ringier, Zurich.


Text downloads


Berlin Statement

Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three?

Halt the expulsion of foreign comrades!

Separate but not marginal:
An interview with Liam Gillick by Cliff Lauson


Nobody asked you to do nothing
A potential school


In the beginning there was nothing. And the Lord said ‘Let there be light’ and there was still nothing, but now you could see it.

Utopia Station For a … Functional Utopia

An investigation of the non-specific qualities that affect the meaning and relative status of the art object in the developed self-conscious neo-liberal productive context

Prevision
Should the future help the past?










© Deutscher Pavillon 2009

Liam Gillick Standbild Video