2019. Pop-up performance at the Venice Biennale.
My favourite response to the performance was the violent anger that it provoked in some people. And they were right, of course. We are being taken for fools. But when we start laughing at the powerful, they can prove remarkably fragile. Ceausescu’s fall was an education.
Flyers were distributed during the performance, with links to free downloadable 3D models of the heads, and a competition inviting people to make their own creative use of them.
2019. Pop-up performance at the Venice Biennale.
The locally recruited actors responded to wearing these giant heads and the non-stop manic laughter tracks with a fantastically inventive range of gestures and body language. The rictus expressions of the masks seemed to come alive.
Do I Know You? / Dunce Cap – Two person show with Lena Flodman
Curated by Andrea Kronlund
29 September – 14 October 2017
Folkungagatang 103, 11630 Stockholm, Sweden
Image: Do I Know You? – Installation view
In pouring rain, Chief (a 2010 sculpture) was installed outside the Harlow Playhouse in November 2016. It is a long term loan to the Harlow Art Trust, whose collection of public sculpture includes work by Auguste Rodin, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Ralph Brown, Lynn Chadwick, Lee Grandjean and Elizabeth Frink, and joins my 2010 piece ‘Methuselah’, located at Newhall.
Harlow Playhouse,
Playhouse Square,
Harlow, Essex, CM20 1LS
Image: Chief
A programme of performance and projections.
Nunnery Gallery
5 October – 18 December 2016
Liam Geary Baulch & Jeremy Laffon, G. Roland Biermann, Anne Brodie, Lidija Kononenko, Irina Danilova & Hiram Levy, Robert Luzar, Antonis Sideras, Nick Turvey & Joanna Hogg and special screenings from LIMA artists Douwe Dijkstra, Johan Rijpma, Nina Yuen.
181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ
Lap kUNStkLUB
International video and performance night, curated by Patricia London Ante Paris.
1 August 2015
Beate Passow, Eva Lammers, Ossi Fink, Stefano Giuriati, Olaf Probst, Nick Turvey, Martina Bieräugel, Kurt Petz, Andreas Stetka, Martin Zet, Annegret Bleisteiner, Scarlet Berner, Heike Döscher, Josef Felix Müller, Alix Stadtbäumer, Despina Olbrich-Marianou, Georg Loeb, Anja Uhlig, Stefanie Unruh, Gila Stolzenfuß, Tina Bepperling, Wolfgang Stehle, Rita Hensen, Vincent Mitsev, Brygida Ochaim, Jo Arneth, Joanna Hogg.
Schluderstrasse 45, München, Germany
Image: Push Me Pull You – Installation view
A 30 Day Happening
Barbican Gallery
Curated by Doug Aitken
27 June – 26 July 2015
Joanna Hogg and myself were commissioned by Barbican Gallery to produce a work for the Film Programme of Doug Aitken’s multi-media Station to Station project.
Image: Push Me Pull You – installation view
New Sculptures: Bugs, Warheads & Vitrines. Solo exhibition
Eleven Spitalfields Gallery
Curated by Peter Fleissig
4th July – 29th August 2014
11 Princelet Street
London E1 6QH
elevenspitalfields.com
020 7247 1816
Open Monday to Friday 12 -6, by appointment.
Solo exhibition
Gibberd Gallery
19 June-23 August 2013
The Watergardens, Harlow, Essex
Three sculptural installations – claustrophobic, defensive spaces reminiscent of military bunkers – have been built in the gallery, and individuals and groups in Harlow are invited to make use of them. Here is an opportunity to examine the meaning of selfhood and togetherness, developing the idea of a community art gallery as a place of meeting and action.
Image: Bunkers 1,2 & 3
Group exhibition
University of Leicester Botanic Garden
Curated by Almuth Tebbenhoff
July to October 2012
Image: ‘Everything Is Under Control’
One of two installations at ‘Interesting Times’
2012. Sandbags, chipboard, steel spheres. 420 x 198 x 180 cm.
6th April – 3rd May 2012
ASC WindowSpace
Erlang House
128 Blackfriars Road
London SE1 8EQ
Solo exhibition.
The Print Room
16th November – 17th December 2011
34 Hereford Road
London W2 5AJ
Group show
Beukenhof-Phoenix Gallery
1st May – 30th September 2011
Beukenhof-Phoenix, Ronde van Vlaanderenstraat 9-11, B-9690 Kluisbergen, Belgium.
Open daily 14.00 – 19.00 hrs.
Image: Chief
Mercer Residencies Exhibition
Nick Turvey & Anne Mercedes
RBS Studio Gallery
15th August – 23rd September 2011
108 Old Brompton Road
London SW7 3RA
Image: What do you want to be when you grow up?
RBS Members working in Pietrasanta. Group Show.
Chiostro di Sant’ Agostino
26th March – 10th April 2011.
Hanneke Beaumont, Robin Bell, Nicolas Bertoux, Helaine Blumenfeld, Eppe de Haan, Maria Gamundi, Sylvestre Gauvrit, Anat Golandski, Barbara Hodgkins, Immanuel Klein, Briony Marshall, Ron Mehlman, Nicolas Moreton, Louise Plant, Shelley Robzen, Cynthia Sah, Inger Sannes, Eja Siepman van der Berg, Matthew Simmonds, Almuth Tebbenhoff, Nick Turvey, Julia Vance, Maja van Hall, Jill Watson, Lars Widenfalk
Pietrasanta, Italy.
Tuesday – Sunday 16.00 – 19.00 hrs
Image: ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ at Studio Sem
2011 National Sculpture Prize. Finalists exhibition.
Broomhill Art & Sculpture Foundation
June 1st 2011 – Feb 28th 2012
Muddiford Rd, Barnstaple, North Devon, EX31 4EX.
Open daily.
Image: Conscience
Group show
RBS Studio Gallery
17th June – 23rd July 2010
James Capper, Wendy Earle, Mark Firth, Joseph Ingleby, Andrew Revell, Nick Turvey
108 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RA
Wednesday – Friday 11.00 – 16.30 hrs.
Image: Anxiety (detail)