|
|
Martin Boyce Biography
|
 |
 |
|
1986 - 1990 |
|
BA Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
|
|
1996 |
|
California Institute for the Arts, Valencia/CA, USA
|
|
1995 - 1997 |
|
MFA, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
|
|
|
|
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland
|
|
|
| Selected Exhibitions |
|
|
|
2011
|
|
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/NY, USA (solo)
|
|
2010
|
|
Missing Beat, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
|
|
2010
|
|
La carte d'après Nature, Nouveu Musee National de Monaco, Monaco (curated by Thomas Demand)
|
|
2010
|
|
Parkliv, Marabouparken, Stockholm, Sweden
|
|
2010
|
|
Living Rooms, Centre d'art contemporain, Chamarande, France
|
|
2010
|
|
HIGH IDEALS & CRAZY DREAMS, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
|
|
2010
|
|
Material Intelligence, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, Great Britain
|
|
2010
|
|
Galerie Sultana, Chansons de Geste, Paris, France
|
|
2010
|
|
Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Minimalism And Applied II – Zeitgenössische Kunst im Dialog mit Design und
|
|
2010
|
|
Marabouparken Art Space, Park liv, Sundbyberg, Sweden
|
|
2010
|
|
The New Order, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
|
|
2010
|
|
Silent Revolution, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
|
|
2010
|
|
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
|
|
2010
|
|
The 4th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
|
|
2010
|
|
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London
|
|
2010
|
|
The New Decor, Hayward Gallery, Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
|
|
2010
|
|
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
|
|
2010
|
|
Commission for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (solo)
|
|
2009
|
|
No Reflections, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Nethergate (solo)
|
|
2009
|
|
We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Paris, France
|
|
2009
|
|
Tonite, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
|
|
2009
|
|
Between the Days of Now and Then, Galerie Linn Lühn, Cologne, Germany
|
|
2009
|
|
Yellow and Green, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
|
|
2009
|
|
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Nethergate, Scotland
|
|
2009
|
|
The Eternal Nework, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France
|
|
2009
|
|
Being and Nothingness, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
|
|
2009
|
|
Material Intelligence, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
|
|
2009
|
|
Biennale di Venezia, 53rd International Exhibition of Art, Scottish Pavilion, Venice, Italy
|
|
2008
|
|
Lights (on/off), Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
|
|
2008
|
|
We Burn, We Shiver, SculptureCenter, (two person show with Ugo Rondinone), New York
|
|
2008
|
|
We Are Shipwrecked and Landlocked, RMIT University Alumni Courtyard, Melbourne, Australia (with Kaldor Art Projects)
|
|
2008
|
|
Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
|
|
2008
|
|
This Place is Close and Unfolded, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Germany (solo)
|
|
2008
|
|
Out Of This Sun, Into This Shadow Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, GB (solo)
|
|
2008
|
|
Gio Marconi, Mailand, Italy (solo)
|
|
2008
|
|
Heavy Metal. Die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
|
|
2008
|
|
The Eternal Nework', FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France
|
|
2008
|
|
Open Plan Living, Art, Berlin, Art TLV, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
|
|
2008
|
|
Heavy Metal. Die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
|
|
2008
|
|
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
|
|
2008
|
|
Peter Saville : Accessories to an artwork, Paul Stolper, London, Great Britain
|
|
2008
|
|
...5 minutes later, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
|
|
2007
|
|
Minimalism and Applied, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
|
|
2007
|
|
La Camara del Eco. Arte Britanico, Alcala 31, 28014, Madrid, Spain
|
|
2007
|
|
The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Paris, France
|
|
2007
|
|
'Jubilee Exhibition', House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland
|
|
2007
|
|
Unmonumental: The Art Object in the 21st Century’, The New Museum, New York
|
|
2007
|
|
We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
|
|
2007
|
|
The Eternal Nework, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France
|
|
2007
|
|
Open Plan Living, Art, Berlin Art TLV, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv , Israel
|
|
2007
|
|
Peter Saville : Accessories to an artwork, Paul Stolper, London, Great Britain
|
|
2007
|
|
Extracting from the World, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
|
|
2007
|
|
Echo Room, Alcalá 31, 28014
|
|
2007
|
|
Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France
|
|
2007
|
|
Winter Palace, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
|
|
2007
|
|
SeeHistory2006 – Schätze Bilden, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
|
|
2007
|
|
New Museum, New York (solo)
|
|
2007
|
|
A Lost Cat and Alleyways, Back Gardens, Pools and Parkways, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genf, Switzerland (solo)
|
|
2007
|
|
Martin Boyce. This Place is Close and unfolded, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany (solo)
|
|
2007
|
|
STAY FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER, South London Gallery, London, UK
|
|
2007
|
|
We Make an Unsubstantial Territory, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/NY, USA (solo)
|
|
2007
|
|
Munster Sculpture Project, Munster, Germany
|
|
2007
|
|
Suspended Breath, Atelier Hermes, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
|
|
2007
|
|
The Modern Institute, Glasgow (solo)
|
|
2007
|
|
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
|
|
2006
|
|
We Are the Breeze, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
|
|
2006
|
|
Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai
|
|
2006
|
|
When the moon shines on the moonshine, Breeder, Athens, Greece
|
|
2006
|
|
Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Tate Britain
|
|
2006
|
|
Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, Germany
|
|
2006
|
|
Punching Through The Clouds, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
|
|
2006
|
|
abstract art now - floating forms (Teil 1 | part 1), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
|
|
2006
|
|
Draft Deceit, Kunstnmernes Hus, Oslo, Finland
|
|
2006
|
|
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
|
|
2006
|
|
Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
|
|
2006
|
|
Art unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
|
|
2006
|
|
Concrete Autumn (Broken Fall), the Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (solo)
|
|
2006
|
|
Electric Trees and Telephone Booth Conversations, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (solo)
|
|
2006
|
|
Life’s a Beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
|
|
2006
|
|
Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, Great Britain
|
|
2006
|
|
Body: New Art from the UK, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa/ON, Canada
|
|
2006
|
|
Body: New Art from the UK, Oakville Galleries, Oakville/ON, USA
|
|
2006
|
|
Body: New Art from the UK, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton/AL, USA
|
|
2006
|
|
Body: New Art from the UK, Art Gallery Novia Scotia, Halifax/NS, USA
|
|
2005
|
|
Martin Boyce, Armin Boehm, Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
|
|
2005
|
|
Erste Haut, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany (mit | with Martin Boyce, Benjamin Edwards, Annika von Hausswolff, Sonfia Hultén, Jenny Rosemeyer)
|
|
2005
|
|
spinnwebzeit – die eBay-Vernetzung, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt a. M, Germany
|
|
2005
|
|
Naturalia. Collections sans frontières V. Oeuvres des collections des FRAC du grand est, Futura, Centre for contemporary art, Prague, Czech Republic
|
|
2005
|
|
Gallery Ruediger-Schottle Munich, Germany (solo)
|
|
2005
|
|
Concrete Autumn, Project of Peter Heimer and Clemens Tissi, Galerie Jochum and Tissi, Berlin
|
|
2005
|
|
Body: New Art from the UK, British Council group show, Ottawa Art Gallery (touring until 2007)
|
|
2005
|
|
This Storm is what we call Progress, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
|
|
2005
|
|
ThickDesign05, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of Art Institute of Chicago
|
|
2005
|
|
De Sculptura, Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg
|
|
2005
|
|
Andrew Kreps, New York
|
|
2005
|
|
What’s New Pussy Cat, New Acquisitions, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
|
|
2005
|
|
Die gute Form, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
|
|
2005
|
|
Broken Fall, Kabinett fur aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany (solo)
|
|
2004
|
|
'The Sculptural Sphere', Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
|
|
2004
|
|
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (solo)
|
|
2004
|
|
Adolf Luther Prize, Krefeld Museum, Krefeld, Germany (solo)
|
|
2004
|
|
We Are Resistant, We Dry Out In The Sun, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switerland (solo)
|
|
2004
|
|
In Between Breaths and the Sodium Spill, Johnen und Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (solo)
|
|
2004
|
|
Formalismus Moderne Kunst Heute, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
|
|
2003
|
|
Lyon biennale, Lyon, France
|
|
2003
|
|
Archibald Campbell and Harley Photography Prize, Stills, Edinburgh, UK
|
|
2003
|
|
Contemporary Arbstraction, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK
|
|
2003
|
|
3D, Friedrich Petzel, New York, USA
|
|
2003
|
|
Sodium Dreams, Bard College, New York, USA
|
|
2003
|
|
Discussing Sculpture, Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna, Austria
|
|
2003
|
|
Special Dedicace, Rouchechouart Museum
|
|
2003
|
|
M_ars – Art and War, Neue Galerie, Graz, Switzerland
|
|
2003
|
|
Art concept, Paris, France (solo)
|
|
2003
|
|
RomaRomaRoma, Undead Dreams, Rome, Italy (solo)
|
|
2003
|
|
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser, Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
|
|
2003
|
|
Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun the Trees and the Birth, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CAN (solo)
|
|
2003
|
|
Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
|
|
2002
|
|
When Now Is Night, Art Unlimited, Basel Art Fair, CH
|
|
2002
|
|
This Building is, Exterior Projection, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
|
|
2002
|
|
Happy Outsider, zacheta gallery, Warsaw, Poland
|
|
2002
|
|
For 1959 Capital Avenue, Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
|
|
2002
|
|
Tramway, Our Love is like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Glasgow, UK (solo)
|
|
2002
|
|
Half the World Away, Hallways CAC, Buffalo/NY, USA
|
|
2002
|
|
Hell, Galerie Neugeriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
|
|
2002
|
|
Group Exhibition, Johnen and Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
|
|
2002
|
|
Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
|
|
2002
|
|
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Torino, Italy
|
|
2002
|
|
Martin Boyce & Toby Paterson, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
|
|
2002
|
|
Greyscale CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
|
|
2002
|
|
Non Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
|
|
2001
|
|
Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece (Solo)
|
|
2001
|
|
Here and Now, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK
|
|
2001
|
|
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlands und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
|
|
2001
|
|
Open Country, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, France
|
|
2001
|
|
Circles, Gallerie ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
|
|
2001
|
|
Stratagies Against Architecture, Fondazione Teseco, Pisa, Italy
|
|
2001
|
|
G3, Casey Caplan, New York/NY, USA
|
|
2001
|
|
Trauma, DCA, Dundee, MOMA Oxford, UK
|
|
2000
|
|
Pavillion, Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich, CH
|
|
2000
|
|
Can 303’s Heal, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland
|
|
2000
|
|
Fear View, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (solo)
|
|
2000
|
|
Model Model, NAK, Aachen, Germany
|
|
2000
|
|
Living, Chicago Project Rooms, Los Angeles
|
|
2000
|
|
Becks’ Futures, The I.C.A., London, UK
|
|
2000
|
|
The British Art Show, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK
|
|
2000
|
|
What If, The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
|
|
2000
|
|
A Shot in the Head, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
|
|
2000
|
|
Future Perfect, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardif, the Cornerhouse, Manchester
|
|
2000
|
|
If I Ruled the World, CCA, Glasgow, UK
|
|
2000
|
|
Waiting, Mjellby Konstgard, Halmstad, Sweden
|
|
2000
|
|
Jerwood Gallery, London, UK
|
|
1999
|
|
Jacob Fabricius / recent projects, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
|
|
1999
|
|
Fruitmarket Gallery, When Now is Night, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
|
|
1999
|
|
The Office of Misplaced Events (Temporary Annexe), Lotta Hammer, London, UK
|
|
1999
|
|
Please Touch, SCP, London, UK
|
|
1999
|
|
Please Touch, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1999
|
|
Furoshikibility,Fly Gallery, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1999
|
|
Disaster, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK
|
|
1999
|
|
Word Enough to Save a Life Word Enough to Take a Life, London, UK
|
|
1999
|
|
In the Midst of Things,Bourneville, Birmingham, UK
|
|
1999
|
|
Anarchitecture, de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
|
|
1999
|
|
If I Ruled the World, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
|
|
1999
|
|
The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
|
|
1999
|
|
Round Room, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
|
|
1999
|
|
Slip Of The Mind, Centre Regional D’art Contemporain, Sete, FR
|
|
1999
|
|
Getting The Corners, Or gallery, Vancouver, CAN
|
|
1998
|
|
Strolling, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, AUS
|
|
1998
|
|
Habitat, Tottenham Court Road, London, UK (solo)
|
|
1998
|
|
Nettverk Glasgow, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
|
|
1997
|
|
Life/Live, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
|
|
1997
|
|
Group Exhibition, Lotta Hammer, London, Great Britain
|
|
1997
|
|
Airport, Photographers Gallery, London, Great Britain
|
|
1997
|
|
Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain
|
|
1997
|
|
Wish You Were Here Too, 83 Hill Street, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1996
|
|
You Are Here, Lime Gallery, California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
|
|
1996
|
|
The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow School of Art, Girls High, Glasgow, Scotland
|
|
1996
|
|
Transmissions, Free Parking, Toronto/ON, USA
|
|
1996
|
|
Fuse, McLellen Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland
|
|
1996
|
|
Brain Mail, Broad, Studio 17 California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles/CA, USA
|
|
1996
|
|
Life / Live, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , Paris, France
|
|
1996
|
|
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire University, City Limits, Great Britain
|
|
1996
|
|
Wallpaper, C.C.A., Glasgow, Scotland
|
|
1996
|
|
No Tell Hotel, Moat House Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland
|
|
1996
|
|
Loggia Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
|
|
1995
|
|
Fairy Tales in the Supermarket, Multiples Show, Scotland Street Museum, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1995
|
|
30 Seconds + Title, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
|
|
1995
|
|
New Rose Hotel, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1995
|
|
Hopeless, C.C.A., Glasgow, UK
|
|
1995
|
|
Martin Boyce & David Allen, Mu-Tereem, Budapest, Hungary
|
|
1995
|
|
Something’s Got To Give, The Agency, London, UK (solo)
|
|
1995
|
|
30 Seconds + Title, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CAN
|
|
1994
|
|
Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London, UK
|
|
1994
|
|
Miniatures, The Agency, London, UK
|
|
1994
|
|
Modern Art, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
|
|
1994
|
|
Wish You Were Here, The Bourse, Leeds, UK
|
|
1994
|
|
Difficult Relationships, 99 Gallery, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1993
|
|
Matter and Fact, Collection Gallery, London, UK
|
|
1993
|
|
Home and Away, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1993
|
|
Left Luggage, Traveling group project, Hanru’s home, Paris, FR
|
|
1992
|
|
Love At First Sight, The Showroom Gallery, London, UK
|
|
1992
|
|
Contact 552 4813, Group show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1992
|
|
How Noisy Everything Grows, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
|
|
1992
|
|
l’u di carte, Cafe Picasso, Rome, Italy
|
|
1991
|
|
Windfall, Seamen’s Mission, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1991
|
|
The Living Room, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1991
|
|
Speed, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
|
|
1990
|
|
5 Artists From Glasgow, Exchange between Transmission Gallery and Hordaland
|
|
1989
|
|
Information, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Literature |
|
|
|
2006
|
|
Royal College of Art, Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London, 2006
|
|
2005
|
|
Lunn, Felicity, Martin Boyce: Reviews - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, in: Artforum International Magazine, XLIII, No. 5, January, 2005, p. 192
|
|
2004
|
|
Derieux, Florence, Martin Boyce, géomètre, in: Art Press, September 2004
|
|
2004
|
|
Mansfield, Susan, Martin Boyce, in: The Scotsman, 22 May 2004
|
|
2004
|
|
Iain Gale, in: The Scotsman, 14 May 2004
|
|
2004
|
|
Mottram, in: The List, 29 April – 13 May 2004
|
|
2003
|
|
Larsen, Lars Bang, Martin Boyce. Tramway, in: Artforum International, summer 2003, No.10, p.202
|
|
2003
|
|
Fabricius, Jacob, in: Flash Art, May / June 200
|
|
2002
|
|
Dorment, Richard, in: The Daily Telegraph, 15th January 2002
|
|
2002
|
|
Garavelli, Dani, in: Scotland on Sunday, 17th November 2002
|
|
|
|
|
|