Images from Hands Off!

Here's documentation from the show which has now closed. List of works below.

Harry Burden

Body Part Search Result, 2015

Boxes and Objects bought from internet

Approx. 170 x 150cm

Aleksandra Domanović

Shanghai prototype, 2014

Laser sintered PA plastic, polyurethane, Soft-Touch & brass & flocked finish

Courtesy the artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

Benedict Drew

No Body, 2014

C-Type print on Kodak Metallic paper mounted on 2mm aluminium paper with battens

Edition of 50 (plus 5 artist's proofs)

240mm x 184mm

Courtesy of Matt’s Gallery, London

Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller

The Industrial Revolution, 2013
Replicas of the Rodin sculptures, The Hand of God, The Secret, Two Hands, Hand of Pianist, The Cathedral Bronze, plaster, resin, acrylic paint
Dimensions variable

Courtesy Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

Anonymous

Untitled

Reproduction painting on vintage found manuscript paper

22cm x 17cm

Celia Hempton

Caspar, 2014

Risograph

Edition of 80 + 20 AP

297 x 420 mm

Courtesy Studio Voltaire and Lorcan O'Neill Gallery.

Harry Burden

The Relatives, 2015

Digital print on 300gsm archival paper in artists frame 

297 x 420mm 

Ed. 5 (with 30 free prints on lower paper stock)

Neil Rumming
Pink Nose, 2013
Acrylic, silkscren, relief ink on canvas
50 x 40cm

Anthony Antonellis

dollhead.gif, 2012

Bhakti Baxter

HEADS (Planck)
2012
Ink on vinyl, light bulb, fan
3 x 4 x 5ft

courtesy of Gallery Diet and the artist

Hands Off! A group show opening March 12

Hands Off!

A group show curated by Francesca Gavin

Aleksandra Domanović 

Anthony Anthonellis 

Benedict Drew
Bhakti Baxter
Celia Hempton
Harry Burden
Neil Rumming
Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller

ROOM OF REQUIREMENT @ HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts Altenbrakerstrasse 18
12053 Berlin

Opening: Thursday, March 12th at 7pm Duration: 13.03. – 05.04.2015

On view by appointment: info@horseandponyfinearts.com

This is a show about fragmentation. In a post-digital world we are becoming increasingly detached from our physical selves. Literally cut off from our bodies. The work in this exhibition highlights how this disembodiment creates an image of a prescient computer or digital avatar in search of a body. The results can be uncanny, disturbing, or amusing. These almost-human pieces are unreal or impossible. These body parts feel removed, detached, robotic, sometimes lacking in emotion or presenting a performance of the emotional. Here hands, heads, teeth, cocks and legs appear to exist in a different realm. Hovering outside of the human. Stuck in some digital limbo. Half us, half tech. Together they emphasise the failure of technology to replicate and the failure of art to represent.

Aleksandra Domanović is based in Berlin and represented by Tanya Leighton. She has exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, New Museum and the Kunsthalle Basel. Her work is included in the current New Museum Triennial in New York. Her upcoming solo show is at museum Boijmans Rotterdam in June. aleksandradomanovic.com

Anthony Antonellis is an artist based on the internet in New York. His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Photographers' Gallery, London, Darbast Platform, Tehran, and Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn. He is the creator of online-gallery directory netartnet.net. anthonyantonellis.com

Benedict Drew graduated from Slade School of Fine Art and was a LUX Associate Artist. He is represented by Matts Gallery, London. Recent solo exhibitions include Heads May Roll, Matt’s Gallery, London, Now Thing, Whitstable Biennale and Gliss at Cell Project Space. benedictdrew.com

Bhakti Baxter shows with Federica Schiavo and Gallery Diet in Miami, where he is based. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris. federicaschiavo.com

Celia Hempton exhibited at last year’s Gwangju Biennale, as well as at the Kunstverein Aachen, South London Gallery, and Studio Voltaire. She is represented by Southard Reid in London and Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in Rome. southardreid.com, lorcanoneill.com

Harry Burden is based in London, Burden was included in the New British Art show at MOCCA Toronto and has exhibited at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Palais de Tokyo and Forgotten Bar in Berlin. harryburden.co.uk

Neil Rumming is an artist based in London who studied at Kingston University. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at COLE, HD Projects in New York and inclusions in groups show at Studio Voltaire and Kinman. neilrumming.com

Nina Beier is a Danish artist represented by Metro Pictures in New York and Croy Nielsen in Berlin. She has had solo shows at the Nottingham Contemporary, Proyectos Monclova and soon at Kunstverein Hamburg. metropictures.com, croynielsen.de

Simon Dybbroe Møller is a Danish artist represented by Laura Bartlett Gallery in London and Andersens Contemporary in Copenhagen. He has had solo shows at Objectif Exhibitions, Lulu and upcoming a large commission for the Centre Pompidou. laurabartlettgallery.com, andersenscontemporary.dk

Francesca Gavin is a curator and writer based in London. She is the Visual Arts Editor of Dazed & Confused, Art Editor of Twin, a contributing editor at Sleek and AnOther and the curator of the Soho House Group. She has written five books including ‘The Book of Hearts’, ‘100 New Artists’ and ‘Hell Bound: New Gothic Art’, as well as curating exhibitions including E-Vapor-8 (Site Sheffield and 319 Scholes), The Dark Cube (Palais de Tokyo) and The New Psychedelia (MM).

ROOM OF REQUIREMENT is a series of exhibitions held in alternating spaces throughout Berlin. Different curators are invited to host limited numbers of rotating events until the space is finally returned to its original function. The room could disappear at any given moment yet also reappear at other times and locations in instances of requirement.

Formerly housed in a temporarily unused office building in Kreuzberg, 2015 Room of Requirement will be hosted by HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts.

www.roomofrequirementberlin.tumblr.com www.horseandponyfinearts.com

Room of Requirement Berlin is organised by Hannes Ribarits / funded by BKA Austria

Image 1: Anonymous, reproduction painting on found manuscript paper
Image 2: Neil Rumming, Pink Nose, 2013, Acrylic, silkscreen, relief ink on canvas (50cm x 40cm) 

Last chance in London

I've been missing all these shows in London and intend to see them all this week. Weirdly, Bourgeois aside, they all have a video vibe! I need to start looking at sculpture and paintings again don't I....

1)  Remote Control at ICA (Aleksandra Domanovic still above)

                

2) Louise Bourgeois at The Freud Museum (end May 27)

3) Elizabeth Price at MOT International (ends May 26)

                

    

4) Benedict Drew at Cell Project Space (ends May 27)

Open Sesame, Open Source

I did a talk last night for Its Nice That magazine on open source art projects, alongside amazing graphic designer Ken Garland. Its was really enjoyable and enlightening (and I'm never going to look at political graphics in the same way again).

In hommage to the open source sense of collaboration and information access here is a list of all the links and subjects I discussed:

Roland Barthes ‘The Death of the Author’ 1968

Hennessey Youngman on Relational Aesthetics

Introduction to net.art (1994-1999) by Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin

Olia Lialina 'My Boyfriend Came Back From The War' 1996

Douglas Davis' The World's First Collaborative Sentence' 1994

Natalie Bookchin 'Mass Ornament' 2009

Graffiti Research Lab at Ars Electronica, Linz (complete with a dose of Alicia Keyes)

Hackteria www.hackteria.org

Oliver Laric 'Missile Variations' 2009

Aleksandra Domanovic 'Nineteen Thirty'

Women on Top

I've been going through gallery lists and I'm shocked how few women artists there are represented. As a writer i'm always struggling to find ones to cover. I'm no better - my favourite artists they're all bloody blokes. So to refocus here is a list of my current top ten female artists (even though I know that putting this as a female only list just reinforces their marginality but you get the intention.)

Amie Dicke


Sophie Calle


Marnie Weber


Aleksandra Domanovic


Marlene Dumas


Eva Rothschild


Eli Cortinas


Annette Messager


Sarah Lucas (esp past couple of years)


Agathe Snow

Set Me Free

I'm sad I'm not in NYC to see Free at the New Museum. I really want to see the full installation of Aleksandra Domanovic's 1930 project. Thankfully the New Museum has created a website as a catalogue so I can get a good dose of content from the (dis)comfort of my favourite cafe in Berlin.
The show looks completely on my conceptual wavelength. I'll be expanding on my art-internet obsession for the next six months for the upcoming show at MU - and sort of extension of the show and tell talk I did to coincide with Mark Titchner's GSK Acid Test eventa couple of years back. In the spirit of free here are some images screenshot from the Free website. In order from the top Trevor Paglan, Alexandre Singh (who's in my next book out in April), Andrea Longacre-White, Lisa Oppenheim and Harm van den Dorpel.

Top Ten

At dinner at Oliver Laric and Aleksandra Domanovic's place in Berlin last night we attempted to list our favourite artists. Bloody hard thing to do, so here's my attempt.

1 Cameron Jamie


2 Andro Wekua


3 Mike Kelley


4 Christoph Buchel


5 David Altmejd


6 Douglas Gordon


7 Seb Patane


8 David Noonan


9 Kerry James Marshall


10 Seth Price



I know I havent included any girls, though there are many I like. Just not as much as these above.