Richard Wilson

Current exhibition


Artists

2009
2007
2006

Location
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Matthew Bown Gallery
Keithstrasse 10
10787 Berlin

+49 30 2145 8294/5

mail@matthewbown.com

U-Bahn: Wittenbergplatz

Open 12-6, Tuesday-Saturday, during exhibitions

Born 1953  London
Studied London College of Printing (Foundation) 1970/71; Hornsey College of Art (Dip A.D) 1971/74; Reading University (M.F.A.) 1974/76

Solo shows

2008  
- “Richard Wilson”, Edinburgh Festival

2007  
- “RIBA Drawing Show”, Liverpool
- Chris Westbrook Gallery, London
- “Turning the place Over”, Lead work for Year of Culture, Liverpool
- “Meter’s Running”, Pula, Croatia.
- Gallerie Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy.

2006    
- “Richard Wilson”, Curve Gallery, Barbican Art Centre, London
- “5 Piece Kit”, Matthew Bown Gallery, London

2005    
-  “Queen & Gantry”, Storey Gallery, Lancaster

2004    
- “Bank Job”, Caveau, Palazzo delle Papesse Contemporary Art centre, Sienna Program, London

2003    
- “Irons in the Fire”, Wapping Project, London
- “Butterfly”, Wapping Project, London
- “Rolling Rig”, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea

2002  
- “Irons in the Fire”, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield; Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds
-Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

2000      
- “Turbine Hall Swimming Pool”, Clare College Mission Church, London
- “Set North for Japan (74˚33’ 2”)”, Gimpel Fils, London

1999    
- “Hung Drawn and Quartered”, Ha’Mumche Gallery, Tel Aviv
- “Pipe Dreams”, Architectural Association, London (collaboration with After Image)

1997    
- “Going In/Off”, Chateau de Sacy, Picardie
- “Hung, Drawn and Quartered”, Stadtsches Museum, Zwickau
- “Drawings”, Otto Dix Haus, Gera
- “Irons in the Fire”, Globe Gallery, South Shields
- “Tate Christmas Tree”, Tate Gallery, London

1996    
- “Room 6 Channel View Hotel”, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
- “Formative Processes”, Gimpel Fils, London
- “Jamming Gears”, Serpentine Gallery, London

1994      
- “Watertable”, Matt’s Gallery, London
- “Butler Gallery”, Kilkenny Castle, Eire
- “Deep End”, LA/UK, Festival MOCA, Los Angeles
- Galerie Klaus Fischer, Berlin
- Galerie Valeria Belvedere, Milan

1993    
- “Installation”, Kunsterhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1992      
- “Swift Half and Return to Sender”, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais

1991    
- “Lodger”, Valeria Belvedere, Milan

1990      
- “Sea Level”, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
- “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window”, Matt’s Gallery,London
- “High-Tec”, Museum Of Modern Art, Oxford
- “High Rise”, Sao Palo Biennial, Brazil
- “All Mod Cons”, Edge Biennial, Newcastle
- “High Rise”, Great Britain/USSR, Kiev, Moscow
- “Take Away”, Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw

1989
- “Leading Lights”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odensee

1987      
- “20:50”, Matt’s Gallery, London
- “One Piece at a Time”, Tyne Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, TWSA 3D
- “Up A Blind Alley”, Trigon Biennale, Graz
- “Hot Live Still”, Art in Action, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth

1986      
- “Stoke Stack Lightning”, Stoke Garden Festival Commission, Stoke on Trent
- “Halo”, The Aperto, Venice Biennale
- “Heatwave”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1985        
- “Sheer Fluke”, Matt’s Gallery, London
- “Hopperhead”, Café Gallery, London

1983        
- “Viaduct”, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

1978        
- “12 Pieces”, Coracle Press Gallery, London

1976        
- “11 Pieces”, Coracle Press Gallery, London

Selected group shows

2008        
- “Still-Film”, Tate Britain, London
- “Folkestone Triennial”, Folkestone
- “Royal Academy Summer Show”, London

2007        
-”Rummage”, Sculptor’s Drawings, Winchester
- “Royal Academy Summer Show”, London
- “Objects of Art”, Matthew Bown Gallery, London

2006  
- “Royal Academy Summer Show”, London
- “Butterfly”, Platform China, Beijing, China
- “This will not happen without you”, Collective Archive, Locus (+ touring show)

2005  
- “Break Neck Speed”, Yokohama Triennal, Yokohama, Japan

2004  
- “Wings of Art”, Stadt Aachen – Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
- “Marks in Space”, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
- “Galleria Fumagalli”, Bergamo, Italy


2003  
- “Independence”, South London Gallery, London
- “20:50”, Saatchi Gallery, County Hall, London
- “Bad Behaviour”, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

2002  
- “Thinking Big: 21st Century British Sculpture”, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
- “Groove”, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield

2001      
-”Field Day”, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei  
-”Double Vision”, Galerie fur Zeitgenossischekunst, Leipzig
- “Close Encounters of the Art Kind”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- “Multiplication”, The British Council, touring to venues in Romania, Croatia, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Russia (2001/3)

2001  
-”Structurally Sound”, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
- “Cultural Ties”, London

1999      
- “54 x 54”, Times Building, London
- “The Office of Misplaced Events “(Temporary Annexe), Lotta Hammer, London

1998  
- “Drawing Itself”, London Institute, London
- “25 years”, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

1997  
“Dexion 50th Anniversary Sculpture Commission for NEC”, Birmingham

1996  
- “A Matter of Facts”, Kulturamt Munster, Munster
- “Mirades” (sorbre el Museu), D’Art Contemporani, Barcelona
- “Islands”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

1995  
- “Mitzpe Ramon Co-Existence Project”, Israel

1994  
- “Art Unlimited: Artist’s Multiples”, South Bank Touring Exhibition

1993  
-”A Space without Art”, Fernsehturm, Berlin
- “On Siat”, Museet for Samstidskunst, Oslo
- “Private”, Kunstwerk, Berlin
- ”The Boatshow”, Café Gallery, London
-”Time Out Billboard Project”, London

1992        
- “La Casa di Alice”, Gallery Mazzocchi, Parma, Italy
- “Not too Clear on the Viewfinder”, Sydney Biennale
- “Another World”, Mito Foundation, Tokyo
- “Heatwave”, Serpentine Gallery, London (collaboration with Paul Burwell and Anne Bean)

1991          
- Saatchi Collection, London

1988  
- “Made To Measure”, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

1987  
- “Art Of Our Time”, The Saatchi Collection, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

1986          
- “Sculptors Drawings”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham ( and touring)
- “The Elements”, Bookworks, Milton Keynes (and touring)

1984  
- “British Artists Books”, Atlantis Gallery, London

1983  
- “Pagan Echoes”, Riverside Studios Gallery, London
- “Clifftop Sculpture Park”, Portland, Dorset
- “Four Artists”, Galerie Hoffman, Germany

1982  
- “Paper Works”, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
- “South Bank Show”, Coracle Press Gallery, London

1981  
- “Romance Science Endeavour”, Portsmouth City Arts Gallery, Portsmouth
- “Bookworks”, Southhill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell

1980  
- “Wind Instruments”, Coracle Press Gallery, London
- “Portsmouth/Duisberg Link Exhibition, Lehmbruch Museum, Lehmbruch

1979  
- ”Sculptural Views”, Waterloo Gallery, London

1978  
- “Coracle Press in Amsterdam, Galerie da Costa, Amsterdam

1977  
- “Miniatures”, Coracle Press Gallery, London

1976  
- “Whitechapel Open Exhibition”, Whitechapel Gallery, London

1975  
“The London Group”, Camden Arts Centre, London

Permanent works

2005  
- “Rock n’ hole”, Lincoln City & Archeological Museum

2002  
- “Final Corner”, World Cup Project, Fukuroi City, Japan

2001        
- “Off Kilter”, Millennium Square, Leeds

2000        
- “Set North for Japan (74˚33’ 2”),” Echigo Tsumari Project, Niigata Prefecture, Japan    
- “Slice of Reality”, North Meadow Sculpture Project, Millennium Dome, London

1999          
- “Over Easy”, The Arc, Stockton

1994  
- “Entrance to the Utility Tunnel”, Tachikawa Public Art Project, Tokyo, Japan

Performance works

2009  
- “Blast”, Performance, Blackpool

2008  
- “Performance Festival”, Staglinec Croatia

2007  
- “Blast”, Birmingham

2003      
- “Various percussion performances with Sean Dower” (ongoing)

1985  
- “Once Upon a Time in the West End”, performance assisting PDBurwell, Convent Garden

1983  
- Started performance work with Anne Bean and Paul Burwell as the Bow  
- “Gamelan Ensemble.” Performances in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Holland, USA and Japan.
- Recordings released through the Pulp music label and Audio Arts.
- Choronzon, a performance assisting PD Burwell Covent Garden

Collections

Public collections including:
-Tate
-Weltkunst Collection @ IMMA, Dublin
-Boise Collection
-The British Museum
-Government Art Collection
-Arts Council of England Collection
-British Council Collection
-Ulster Museum, Belfast
-Leeds Museums & Galleries
-Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
-Museet for Samstidskunst, Oslo

Private & corporate collections in the UK, USA, Italy, Spain, Australia, and Germany including:
-The Saatchi Collection, London
-British Land Corporation collection, London
-Christies Education, London
-Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Collection, London & Berlin
-Colección Bergé, Madrid & Private

Publications

2007        
- “Unseen work”, Chris Westbrook Gallery

2006  
- “Queen & Gantry”, Storey Gallery, Lancaster.

2005  
“Richard Wilson”, Tate Modern Artists Series, Tate Publishing

2004  
- “Wings of Art”, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
- “Bank Job”, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy.

2001        
- “Field Day”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
- “Double Vision”, Galerie fur Zeitgenossischekunst
- “Multiplication”, The British Council
- “Richard Wilson”, Merrell Publishers, London
- “Thinking Big: 21st Century British Sculpture”, Sculpture at Goodwood

2000        
- “Turbine Hall Swimming Pool”, Café Gallery Projects, London
- “Cultural Ties”, Westzone

1998          
-“Hung, Drawn and Quartered”, Stadtisches Museum, Zwichau

1996  
- “Mirades (sorbre el Museu)”, Museu D’Art Contemporani, Barcelona
- “Jamming Gears”, Serpentine Gallery, London
- “Islands”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

1995  
- “Deep End”, The British Council & MOCA, Los Angeles

1994  
- “Watertable”, 45 rpm record commissioned by Arts Council
- Collection & National Touring Exhibition for Art Unlimited

1993  
- “In Site: New British Sculpture” ( Threshold No 9 Jan 1993, Museet for Samstidskunst, Oslo)
- “Another World”, Mito Richard Wilson, DAAD, Berlin Christmas card for London Arts Board
Great Britain/USSR, The Showroom, London

1990        
- “Edge 90” [Art & Life in the Nineties] (Mediamatic Vol 4#4/Summer 1990)

1989    
- ”Richard Wilson”, Matt’s Gallery, London;
- “Arnolfini”, Bristol; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1987  
- “TSWA 3D Catalogue”,Trigon 87, Graz

1986  
- “Heat wave”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
- “The Elements”, Bookworms, London

1985      
- “Sheer Fluke”, Matt’s Gallery, London

1980        
- “Wind Instruments”, Coracle Press, London

1978      
- “12 Pieces Coracle Press”, London [Edition 150]


TV and video

2003  
- “History of British Sculpture”, Channel 5

2002  
- “Richard Wilson”, The EYE, Illuminations Television [retail video]

1989  
- “Matt’s Gallery -The Making of She Came in Through the Bedroom Window”‚ The Late Show, BBC2
1988  
- “20:50”, After Image Productions, Channel Four

1987          
- “Richard Wilson”, Central Television