Ryan Gander
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Ryan Gander lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include the StedelijkMuseum Bureau, Amsterdam in 2003 and 2007, MUMOK, Vienna, and CCA Wattis Institute
for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco in 2007.
In January 2008 Gander's solo show, 'Heralded as the new black', curated by Nigel Prince,
premiered at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. The exhibition traveled to the South London
Gallery, London, 2008, and to the Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, 2009. In 2008, new works
were also shown in group exhibitions at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, the Sydney
Biennial and the Whitstable Biennale. 'The Die is Cast', Gander's most extensive solo
exhibition to date, is on view at Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, until
18 October 2009. The exhibition includes new work that Gander developed during a three-
month residency at Villa Arson.
In 2003 Gander won the 'Prix de Rome' for sculpture and in 2005 he was short listed for
the British art Prize 'Becks Futures' and won the Baloise Art Statement Prize at Art Basel. In
2006, he won the ABN AMRO prize of the Netherlands and he was awarded the 2007
Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts. He has recently been awarded the prestigious Zurich
Art Prize. In 2010, as part of the prize, Gander's work will be presented at the Haus
Konstruktiv, Zurich. The exhibition will be accompanied by a new extensive monographic
publication.
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Ryan Gander Press
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Ryan Gander Exhibitions
Ryan Gander Public Exhibitions
Art ParcoursLoose Associations 1.1, 2002, Loose Associations 2.1, 2003, Natural History Museum, Auditorium, Basel
Ryan Gander will perform a series of "Loose Association Lectures" in the lecture hall of the Natural History Museum of Basel, which is decorated from floor to ceiling with portraits of famous Swiss scientists and academics. Unlike these scientists, who are celebrated for their use of logic, Gander seemingly defies reason in his ongoing series of public speeches.
Art Parcours
Ryan Gander – Preisträger «Zurich Art Prize» 09
Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich
10 June - 1 August
Haus Konstruktiv
Ryan Gander
As it presents itself - Somewhere vague
Art Unlimited - Hall 1, Art 41 Basel, Basel
16 June - 20 June
Art Unlimited
Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago
6 February - 30 May
MCA Chicago
Alchemy Box
Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur Marne
3 June 2010 - 18 July 2010
Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz
Tatton Park Biennial 2010
Tatton Park Biennial, Knutsford, Cheshire
8 May 2010 - 26 September 2010
Tatton Park Biennial 2010
Resonance
Suntory Museum, Osaka
3 April 2010 - 20 June 2010
Suntory Museum
DOUBLE BIND / Arrêtez d'essayer de me comprendre!
Villa Arson, Nice
5 February - 30 May
Villa Arson
The Magnificent Seven
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
September 2009 - July 2012
Ryan Gander is one of seven participating international artists who will, over a three-year period, be integrated into every aspect of CCA Wattis' structure and activities. Each will present a solo exhibition, complete a Capp Street Project artist residency, produce a publication, teach a number of courses as a CCA faculty member, deliver a public lecture, and participate in other aspects of the institution's programming.
CCA Wattis
The die is cast
Villa Arson, Nice, FR
2009
Villa Arson
Heralded as the new black
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2009
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Heralded as the new black
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2008
Ikon Gallery
Something Vague
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
2008
Bonner Kunstverein
Passengers
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
2007
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Ryan Gander Catalogues and Editions
Ryan Gander Images
Ryan Gander Parapossible movement, or Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade Bronze, Wooden plinth and Cube Dimensions variable 2010
Ryan Gander Basquiat or I can't dance to it, one day - but not now, one day I will but that will be it, but you won't know it and that will be it Single Channel HD video projection, sound duration: 5:30 2008 Single Channel HD video projection, sound, duration N/A. The video shows gallerist Niru Ratnam riding a bicycle in a park wearing pajamas. The work is a loose reconstruction on a scene from the film 'Basquiat' 1996. The audio element consists of a voice over of Ratnam reading a press release he had written for the work following the production of the visual element of the video. The press release was written with the full knowledge that it would become the voiceover for the final edit.
Ryan Gander Linus Van Pelt and a world of Endeavour, Ambition and Optimism Rubdown transfers, Blanket, paper bag 2008 A baby blue crochet blanket with blue silk edging measuring 75 cm x 75cm hanging on a wall mounted coat hook, above a brown closed grocery bag measuring 25 cm x 40 cm x 13 cm, left on the floor. Around the entire exhibition space there is a horizontal line 100 cm from the floor, made up of every shape made by the mouth of the cartoon character Linus Van Pelt during his high school president election speech in the episode of Peanuts entitled 'You're not elected' 1969 in sequential order. The distance between each mouth drawing is determined by the size of the exhibition space.
Ryan Gander Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange) 2008 16mm film transferred to HD video projection, sound, loop 16' 27". Fifty, ten second takes of the same cinematic sequence. A man whilst walking over a bridge seems to notice something over a railing, as he moves in for a closer inspection, the film cuts which is then followed by another take of the same shot.
Ryan Gander Like being balanced on the handlebars of a blind mans bike Dimensions variable 2008 A series of balls in differing colours and sizes, that represent the Google logo translated to Braille, the sizes of which represent a corrected view from the perspective of a fixed position on entering the gallery space.
Ryan Gander Corkboard D - While its edges and the walls were lit Corkboard 120 x 120 2006 Corkboard used for the associative research of the myth of concrete cancer.
Ryan Gander My family before me Black and white photographic print 20 x 15 cm 2006
Ryan Gander A blood that runs against that kind of blood Twenty-four 5cm wooden cubes 60 x 43 cm 2006 Twenty-four 5cm wooden cubes to appear in a pile on the floor as a game or puzzle. Twelve screen printed with drawings by three budding novelists showing their impression of Sherlock Holmes living room, in addition to three texts from the 1951 Sherlock Holmes Exhibition at Abbey house, London. The second set of twelve 5cm wooden cubes, each side painted with a differing pastel tones, ('intellectual colours' taken from L'espirit Noveau pavilion by Le Courbusier).
Ryan Gander Writing my life Still from single Channel video, to be played on monitor with headphones or speakers. Narrated by Aurelien Froment, duration: 7:34, 2005
Ryan Gander Oxidised Silver on Paper, 2008 contact print 8" x 10"
Ryan Gander A shadow of 'Here is a work' (for the crows to pluck), 2009 Aluminium elements, hook and tread Dimensions variable
Ryan Gander If anything happened to me - (Alchemy Box No. 19), 2009 Rhodia A4 sized notebooks 30 x 21.5 x 30cm
Ryan Gander Everything is learned, 2010 Purbeck Marble 55 x 85 x 68 cm
Ryan Gander Contact
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