Tacita dean
Tacita Dean has created a new filmwork for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. FILM is an experimental response of the architecture and the space .
Maya Deren influences Tacita Dean with their work and her idea of vertical film.
Tacita Dean studied art at the Falmouth School of Art in England, the Supreme School of Fine Art in Athens, and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In 1998 she was nominated for a Turner Prize and was awarded a DAAD scholarship for Berlin, Germany, in 2000. She has received the following prizes: Aachen Art Prize (2002); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2004); the Sixth Benesse Prize at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2006). Dean also participated in the Venice Biennale in 2003 and 2005.
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2009
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Still Life, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2008
In My Manor, Villa Oppenheim Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage's composition 4'33" with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007 (six performances; six films), Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York
2007
Tacita Dean, Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2008
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Porzadki Urojone – so ist es und Andres, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
2007
Il Tempo del Postino Group Show, Co-Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno, Manchester International Festival, Opera House Manchester, England
Tacita Dean has created a new filmwork for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. FILM is an experimental response of the architecture and the space .
Mount Analogue by French writer Rene Daumal, has been an important reference to Tacita Dean and for her work, FILM.
Tacita dean invited an international and important artists, critics... To the exposition of her work, FILM. To give their response of her idea about cinema.
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(b. 1965, Canterbury, England. Lives and works in Berlin,)
Tacita Dean studied art at the Falmouth School of Art in England, the Supreme School of Fine Art in Athens, and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In 1998 she was nominated for a Turner Prize and was awarded a DAAD scholarship for Berlin, Germany, in 2000. She has received the following prizes: Aachen Art Prize (2002); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2004); the Sixth Benesse Prize at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2006). Dean also participated in the Venice Biennale in 2003 and 2005.
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2009
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Still Life, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2008
In My Manor, Villa Oppenheim Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage's composition 4'33" with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007 (six performances; six films), Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York
2007
Tacita Dean, Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2008
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Porzadki Urojone – so ist es und Andres, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
2007
Il Tempo del Postino Group Show, Co-Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno, Manchester International Festival, Opera House Manchester, England
