Person Darren Almond

* in England / United Kingdom lives and works in London / United Kingdom

b. in Wigan/England
Working predominantly in film and video, Almond's practice encompasses sculpture, installation, performance and photography. He creates minimal yet emotionally charged works focusing on objects, places and situations that meditate on time, space and human experience. Influenced by the tension between stillness and transition in 17th century paintings of Jan Vermeer, Almond frequently exposes and intensifies our experience of place as in the works Night and Day, a series of moonlit mountain scenes that project an intensely eerie sense of frozen time; and Oswiecim, March 1997, a profound exploration of time lived in the wake of the historical trauma in the town once known as Auschwitz...

Almond has had solo shows at Tate Britain, London; De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich; The Approach, London; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; and Whitecube, London. His recent group shows include Apocalypse, Royal Academy, London; the Berlin Biennale, Berlin; and Geographies, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. His work is held in the public collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Almond's live video link work, HMP Pentonville for the ICA, was the winning project for the Toshiba Art & Innovation Commission, London, in 1997. The artist is represented by Jay Jopling/White Cube, London; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.

2005 Nominierung für den Turner-Prize

If I had you. Videostill. Courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler (jpeg)

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Objects (14)

(Archival material, Publications)

Year
2015 Landschaft als Politik als Kunst (Text)
2009 The Collection Book (Publication)
2008 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Sammlung als Aleph (Publication)
2008 Die Zeit des ewigen Eises (Text)
2006 Zitty: Fünf Fragen / Five Questions (Text)
2005 INFO: Turner-Preis, Whiteread (Text)
2005 Kunstwert. "Schloss Fuschl Collection" - "Turner-Prize"-Kandidaten - Picasso aus US-Supermarkt - Maharadscha-Luxus (Text)
2004 ein-leuchten (Publication)
2004 Interview: Hey! Echtzeit! (Text)
2004 Gefängnisbilder im Museum (Text)
2004 Freier Eintritt am "Tag des Feierns" (Text)
2004 Presseinformation: Darren Almond. If I had you (Archival object)
2001 2. Berlin Biennale 2001 (Publication)
2000 Schatzkästlein. Österreichische Galerien bieten momentan ein hervorragendes Programm zeitgenössischer Künstler: Eine Auswahl (Text)

Exhibitions / events (26)

Year
2017 Visions of Nature, KunstHausWien, Wien
2017 Tidalectics, Thyssen-Bornemisza Augarten Contemporary, Wien
2015 Landschaft in Bewegung. Filmische Ausblicke auf ein unbestimmtes Morgen, Galerientage 2015. Aktuelle Kunst in Graz, Graz, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
2008 Die Weite des Eises, vom Durchmessen von Arktis und Alpen 1860 bis heute, Atelier Birfelder, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien
2008 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Sammlung als Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
2007 New Visions - Sammlungen in Österreich, Viennafair 2007, Wien
2006 20 anni della Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli
2005 Darren Almond. Only sound needs echo and dreads its lack, Galerie Chantal Crousel , Paris
2005 Präsentation White Cube / Jay Jopling, Frieze Art Fair 2005, London, White Cube, Hoxton Square, London
2005 Präsentation Sommer Contemporary Art, Frieze Art Fair 2005, London, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2005 Präsentation Matthew Marks Gallery, Frieze Art Fair 2005, London, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2005 Präsentation Chantal Crousel, Frieze Art Fair 2005, London, Galerie Chantal Crousel , Paris
2005 Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London, Turner Prize 2005
2004 2. Busan Biennale, Busan Biennale, Pusan
2004 ein-leuchten, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
2004 Darren Almond: Live Sentence, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz
2004 Darren Almond. If I Had You , Galerie Max Hetzler Köln, Köln
2004 Video Time, Green On Red Gallery
2003 Einbildung - Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
2001 Darren Almond, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
2001 Nature in Photography, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien (Fotografie)
2001 2. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst e.v., Berlin, KW - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Postfuhramt Berlin, Berlin, Öffentlicher Raum Berlin, Berlin
2000 Darren Almond, Mark Hosking, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Wien
1999 Darren Almond, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
1998 UK Maximum Diversity, Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Wien
1998 UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger Bregenz, Bregenz