KUB 2018.04 Press Release Tacita Dean 20 10 2018 06 01 2019 Press Conference Thursday, October 18, 2018, 11 pm Opening Reception Friday, October 19, 2018, 7 pm Press photos for download www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at
British artist Tacita Dean (born in 1965 in Canterbury, United Kingdom) has exhibited at Kunsthaus Bregenz once before in 2003/2004 in the group exhibition Remind... with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Anri Sala, and Jane and Louise Wilson. On that occasion she presented her three film installation Boots on the first floor. Dean is regarded as one of today s most outstanding artists. Her work has always encompassed many mediums but it is photochemical film with which she is most closely associated. Her subjects range from portraits, to architecture, and from solar phenomena such as an eclipse of the sun or a green ray, to films about the medium of film itself. Her films are political as well as poetic, and are amongst contemporary art s most important works. Her wall-based work includes chalk drawings on blackboards, photogravures, lithographs, photographs and found objects. KUB visitors will have the opportunity to see her large-format chalkboard drawing The Montafon Letter, 2017 made after her research into avalanches led her to narratively imagine the Vorarlberg region s famous mountains. Dean will also be completing a new drawing for the exhibition called Chalk Fall, where subject and medium are aligned. The extensive exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz will include three of her most significant film works FILM, 2011 made for Tate Modern s Turbine Hall, her six film installation Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS, 2008, as well as her most recent film project Antigone, 2018. This year has already seen Dean stage an unprecedented collaboration LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE across three of London s most important institutions: the Royal Academy of Arts, National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery respectively. Her subjects range from portraits, to architecture, and from solar phenomena such as an eclipse of the sun or a green ray, to films about the medium of film itself.
Biography Tacita Dean Tacita Dean was born in 1965 in Canterbury, UK. In 2000 she moved to Berlin, and then to Los Angeles in 2014 to become artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute. She currently lives and works in both cities. Dean has been awarded numerous prizes, in 1998 she was nominated for the Turner Prize for her film Disappearance at Sea, and she received the sixth Benesse Prize at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. In 2006 she was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize, and the Kurt Schwitters Prize for Visual Art in 2009. Her solo exhibitions include Tate Britain, London, and MACBA, Barcelona (2001), Schaulager, Münchenstein/Basel (2006), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2007), Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2009), MUMOK, Vienna (2011), New Museum, New York (2012), Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro (2013), Fundación Botín, Santander (2013), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2013), Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2014), TIFF Bell Light Box, Toronto (2015), Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich (2016), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2016), Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018). In 2011, she made FILM as part of the Unilever Series of commissions in Tate Modern s Turbine Hall, which marked the beginning of her campaign to protect the medium of photochemical film (www.savefilm.org). Her works were also included in documenta (13) (2012), 55th Venice Biennale (2013), as well as the Biennale of Sydney (2014).
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