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Langlands & Bell Biography
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1955 |
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Ben Langlands - Born in London, England
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1959 |
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Nikki Bell- Born in London, England
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1978 |
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They have been collaborating since 1978, living and working in London
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2012
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"Medals of Dishonour," State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
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2012
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"Image Counter Image," Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
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2011
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"The Cult of the Difficult (MACC to GAC and Back)," MACC London Metropolitan University in partnership with the Government Art Collection and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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2011
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"Mortel!," Frac Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
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2010
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"A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place," Worksetting, Huddersfield, UK
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2009
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"Breakthrough," Imperial War Museum, London
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2009
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"Artistes dans la Ville," Musée des Beaux-Arts de St Lo, France
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2009
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"Feed Forward – The Angel of History," Laboral, Gijon, Spain
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2009
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"No Visible Means of Escape – Contemporary Art & Imprisonment," Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, UK
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2009
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"Medals of Dishonour," The British Museum, London
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2009
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"English Lounge," Tang Contemporary 798, Beijing
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2008
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"Mapping the Imagination," V&A, London
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2008
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"Cover Versions," Wall paper at Ermengildo Zegna, Milan, Italy
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2008
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"Beyond Measure," Kettles Yard, Cambridge
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2008
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"Conceptual Model, Recent Acquisitions," Tate Modern, London
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2008
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"Tales of Time & Space," Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
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2008
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"Turned On," Alan Cristea Gallery, London
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2008
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"Langlands & Bell – Films and Animations 1978 – 2008," Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
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2008
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"A Muse Um," Alan Cristea Gallery, London (solo)
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2007
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"Whitechapel Laboratory," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (solo)
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2007
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"Superactive i2i," Somerset House, London (solo)
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2007
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"Recent Acquisitions 2001 – 2007," The British Museum, London
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2007
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"War Artists in the Middle East," Imperial War Museum, London
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2007
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"Prison," Bloomberg Space, London
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2007
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"Speed 3," IVAM, Valencia, Spain
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2006
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"Eye on Europe – Prints, Books & Multiples / 1960 to Now," Museum of Modern Art, NYC
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2006
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"Rohkunstbau XIII," Schloss Gross Leuthen, Berlin
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2006
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"DE SIGN," University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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2006
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"Switched On – Lightboxes and Digital Animations," Alan Cristea Gallery, London
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2005
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"Vinyl," Christian Brothers Scool, Cork 2005 European City of Culture, Ireland
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2005
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"Panopticon – The Architecture and Theatre of the Prison," Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
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2005
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"Private / Corporate III," Sammlung DaimlerCrysler, Berlin
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2005
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"Playground - 6th International Exhibition of Architecture," Art Play, Moscow
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2005
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"Zardad’s Dog," Tate Britain, London (solo)
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2005
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"domain," Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (solo)
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2005
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"Plunged in a Stream," Site Archéologique du Coudenberg, Ancien Palais de Bruxelles / Archeologische Site van de Coudenberg, Voormalig Paleis van Brussel (solo)
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2005
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"The House of Osama bin Laden," La Teoretica, San Jose, Costa Rica (solo)
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2004
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"world wide web.af," Alan Cristea Gallery, London (solo)
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2004
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"Re Awakening – Langlands & Bell at Mount Stuart," Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland (solo)
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2004
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"Langlands & Bell," Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne (solo)
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2004
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"Interior View - Shaping The Imagination," De Zonnehof Centrum voor Moderne Kunst Amersfoort, Netherlands. Touring to Firstsite, Colchester, UK; Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria; Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
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2004
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"Seeing is Believing," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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2004
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"Media City Seoul 2004 (Biennale)," Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
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2004
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"Experiments with Truth," Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, USA
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2004
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"Arti & Architettura 1900 2000," Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
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2004
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"Turner Prize 2004," Tate Britain, London
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2004
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"Landscapes After the Battle," Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain
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2004
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"Some Versions of Light," Telephone Repeater Station, Brompton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire, UK
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2004
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"Friendly Fire," IFFR International Film Festival, TENT, Rotterdam
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2003
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"Urban Codes," Espace de l'Art Concret, Chateau de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France
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2003
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"Living Inside The Grid," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
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2003
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"The House of Osama bin Laden," IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) Dublin (solo)
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2003
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"9.11.03," Henry Urbach Architecture, New York (solo)
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2003
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"The House of Osama bin Laden," Imperial War Museum, London (solo)
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2002
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"Langlands & Bell at Petworth – Turner Studio Residency Exhibition," Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex (solo)
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2002
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"Strange Partners / Landlands & Bell," Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (solo)
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2002
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"Language of Places," Alan Cristea Gallery, London (solo)
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2002
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"Fuori Uso," Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy
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2002
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"Cardinales," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo - MARCO, Vigo, Spain
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2002
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"Thinking Big," C21 British Sculpture from Goodwood Biennale di Architettura, Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Italy
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2002
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"Sitting Pretty," Belsay Hall, Northumberland, UK
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2002
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"Colour White," De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea, East Sussex, UK
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2002
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"Private Views," London Print Studio Gallery, London & Kent Institute of Art & Design, Maidstone, Kent
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2001
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"Ctrl. Space - Rhetorics of Surveillance From Bentham to Big Brother," ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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2001
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"Impressions of The Century - Fine Art Prints from the V&A Collection," V&A, London
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2001
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"Close Encounters of the Art Kind," V&A, London
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2001
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"BBC Artzone Website," BBC Arts & The Lux Centre, London
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2001
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"Langlands & Bell + The Artists House," New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury (solo)
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2001
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"Paper Assets: Collecting Prints and Drawings 1996 – 2001," British Museum, London
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2001
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"Creative Quarters - The Art World in London 1700 – 2000," Museum of London
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2000
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"Architecture & Design Moscow 2000," Central House of the Artist, Moscow
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2000
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"Re Presenting Britain 1500 – 2000," Tate Britain, London
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2000
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"Volume, Volume!" Rome (solo)
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2000
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"Architecture as Metaphor," Central House of the Artist, Moscow (solo)
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1999
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"Opening / Capture," Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut (solo)
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1999
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"Architectures du Monde - Utopies Itinérants," Mucsarnok Budapest, Hungary
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1999
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"A Grand Design," V&A, London
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1999
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"Langlands & Bell and Hiroshi Sugimoto," Michael Hue Williams Fine Art, London
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1999
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"Sensation," Brooklyn Museum, New York
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1999
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"As Dark as Light St Ives International," Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwal
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1999
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"Graphic! British Art Now," Yale Center For British Art, Yale, USA
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1999
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"Signature Pieces," Alan Cristea Gallery, London
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1998
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"UK Maximum Diversity," Benger Fabrik Bregenz & Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna, Austria
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1998
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"artranspennine98," Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
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1998
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"TN Probe," Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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1997
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"Frozen Sky," CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan (solo)
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1997
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Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy (solo)
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1997
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Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain (solo)
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1997
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"Sensation," Royal Academy of Arts, London & Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
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1997
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"Futuro, Presente, Pasato 1967-1997," XLVII Esposizione Internationale D'Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Corderie Dell' Arsenale, Venice, Italy
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1997
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"Architecture as Metaphor - Projects 59," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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1997
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"Denys Lasdun, Retrospective," Royal Academy of Arts, London
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1996
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"Double Room," Modern Art Centre, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
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1996
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Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa and Santa Maria dello Spasimo, Palermo (solo)
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1996
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Kunsthalle der Stadt, Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
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1996
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Enclosure & Identity, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Kunst Messe Basel (solo)
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1996
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Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
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1996
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Abbaye aux Dames, FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France (solo)
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1995
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"Architecture(s)" capc Musée, Bordeaux, France
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1994
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"La Criée," Halle d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France (solo)
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1993
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Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, France (solo)
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1993
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Château de Chambord, FRAC Région Centre, France (solo)
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1993
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"Here and Now," Serpentine Gallery, London
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1993
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"Made Strange," Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
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1993
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"Future Perfect," Museum in Progress, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna, Austria
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1993
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"In Site," Norwegian National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
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1992
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"Like Nothing Else in Tennessee," Serpentine Gallery, London
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1992
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"Young British Artists," Saatchi Collection, London
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1992
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Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow (solo)
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1991
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Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy (solo)
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1991
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Interim Art, London (solo)
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1990
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Galerie Luis Campaña, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
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1990
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"Surrounding Time," Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
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1990
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"Loving Correspondence," Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
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1990
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"Interim Art," Interim Art, London
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1989
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Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart, West Germany
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1989
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"Perspectivismus," Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria
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1989
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"Le Magasin, L'Ecole, L'Exposition," Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
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1989
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Galerie Luis Campaña, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
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1988
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"Twenty Years of British Art from the Sackner Archive," Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, USA
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1988
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"That Which Appears is Good, That Which is Good Appears," Galerie Tanja Grünert, Cologne, Germany
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1987
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"Bookworks London," Centre for Book Arts, New York & University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA
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1987
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"Palaces of Culture: The Great Museum," City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent
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1987
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"White November," Air Gallery, London (solo)
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1986
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"Traces of Living," Interim Art, London (solo)
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1986
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"Borough Market," Siteworks, Bookworks, London
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1986
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"Artists' Books," Nexus, Philadelphia, USA
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1984
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"Intercourse," Live Works, Hayward Gallery, London
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1984
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"The Ruined Book," Bookworks, London (solo)
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1982
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"Cinabre," Marseille, France
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1981
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"The Book as Object / Subject," Bookworks National Touring Exhibition, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK
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1980
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"Pseudo," New Films by Young Film Makers, London Film Makers Co-op, London
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1980
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"Pacesetters," Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
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1978
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"Oh La La, Les Legumes & The Kitchen," New Films by Young Film Makers, London Film Makers Co-op, London
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1978
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"Red Ashes," University of Reading, UK (solo)
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| Literature |
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2003
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Living Inside the Grid (catalogue) New Museum of Contemporary Art, text by Dan Cameron
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2003
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Art Monthly (May), “Langlands & Bell” by Dan Smith
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2002
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The Artists Studio, The National Trust
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2002
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Langlands & Bell – Language of Places, Alan Cristea Gallery
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2002
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Tate Magazine (Spring), “Built Environments,” interview
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2002
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The Language of Places (catalogue) by Marco Livingstone
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1998
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Frozen Sky, CCA Kitakyushu
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1996
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Langlands & Bell, Serpentine Gallery, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Grey Art Gallery
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1996
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Surrounding Time – Langlands & Bell (interactive CD-Rom) Serpentine Gallery
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1993
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Surrounding Time, FRAC Region Centre
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