Beneath the Surface I George Stubbs & Contemporary Artists

Beneath the Surface I George Stubbs & Contemporary Artists, Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, 30 July 24 2021—3 November 2024

A major exhibition to celebrate the 300th birthday of artist George Stubbs, including seven works by Stubbs—four painted during Stubbs’ time at Wentworth Woodhouse in 1762. Shown in dialogue with contemporary artists, the exhibition goes ‘beneath the surface’, exploring Stubbs as a bold and curious artist, unpicking themes that remain relevant today. 

Artists: Sutapa Biswas, Tracey Emin, Jochem Hendricks, Kathleen Herbert, Jo Longhurst, Melanie Manchot, Ugo Rondinone, Geroge Stubbs, Mark Wallinger, Hugo Wilson.

Curated by Kate Stoddart and Victoria Ryves.

Work exhibited, I know what you’re thinking, 4 photographs on mdf; The refusal (Part III), 2 photographs on aluminium; Tripod, photograph on mdf; It’s all in my mind, 2 photographs on aluminium; and The refusal (part I) photograph in white box frame.

Installation views: James Mulkeen

Catalogue

Becoming Animal, Willesden Library

Becoming Animal, Willesden Library, London, 8 August—1 September 2024

Curated by Hazel Yiran Liu

The first public exhibition curated by Hazel Yiran Liu of Goldsmiths MFA Curating, influenced by Stefan Sorgner’s Metahumanism and Deleuze & Guattari‘s theory of Becoming-animal – a non-hierarchical, dynamic process in which a subject no longer occupies a fixed form but rather is folded into a nomadic mode.  The exhibition invites viewers to experience the dynamic process of becoming animal by presenting them with different perspectives and perceptions of animals through painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation.

Artists: Masha Barks, Daria Ivans, Jo Longhurst, Tina Ribarits, Thomas Thwaites, Joanna Wierzbicka.

Work exhibited: Pelt (II), 3 bodyscans on mdf, 2018

Here, Now, Studio Voltaire

Here, Now, Studio Voltaire, London, 9 August — 10 September 2023

Curated by Lisa Slominski

Works exhibited: Here, Now, HD video for projection; Crip I, IV, V, VIII, IX, X, photographic collages in yellow box frames; and a wall vinyl artist text.

Here, Now is a new moving image work developed by Jo Longhurst as part of her multidisciplinary project Crip. This ongoing body of work considers the existence of invisible disabilities or differences through video, photography and research.

Crip poetically and critically explores the concept of 'crip time'. The theory, which lies at the intersection of feminist, disability, and queer studies, elaborates how the disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill encounter time and space differently from able-bodied or minded persons.

Key to the development of Here, Now was the formation of unseen collective, a group of eight women and non-binary identifying artists living with unseen disabilities and conditions. The experiences shared through one-to-one discussions, online presentations and group meetings informed and activated Longhurst’s research. The collective members are a central feature of the moving image.

In Here, Now, the history of documenting women held in psychiatric institutions is considered and challenged through explorations of agency, visibility, movement and performance. The artist’s research was informed by a series of 19th-century photographic portraits of women diagnosed as ‘hysterical’.

Importantly, Longhurst implements bindweed as a metaphor for her own disabled experience. While bindweed is considered an undesirable plant, it is known for its tenacity and characteristic of growing in an anti-clockwise direction.

From the bodily activations in Here, Now to the imagery in her Crip collage series, the metaphor of bindweed appears in subtle and overt forms.

Curator’s text On Here, Now

Exhibition ALT TEXT

Subtitled recording of Lisa Slominski and Jo Longhurst in conversation

Studio Voltaire

Unseen collective: Helena Boateng, London Screen Academy; Alessandra Genualdo; Alice Hattrick; Jo Longhurst; Marie-Claire Nonchalente, Submit to Love Studios; Liz Orton; Natasha Trotman; and Ophir Yaron, ActionSpace. 

Modell Tier, Kunsthaus Göttingen

Modell Tier, September 24 2021 — 2 January 2022

The exhibition questions the mutual relationship between animals and humans, through film, photographs, drawings, installations and books.

Artists: Wolf Erlbruch (Germany), Roni Horn (USA), Sanna Kannisto (Finland), Jo Longhurst (UK), Olivier Richon (Switzerland), Michal Rovner (Israel), Thomas Struth (Germany) and Tomasz Gudzowaty (Poland).

Curated by Ute Eskildsen.

Work exhibited, I know what you’re thinking, 4 photographs on mdf; It’s all in my mind, 2 photographs on aluminium; The Refusal (Part II), photograph on aluminium in black tray frame

The works by Jo Longhurst explore the human act of looking, while contemplating the inscrutability of the canine gaze. The titles suggest both certainty and doubt, to underscore the individual agency of the dog. Staring directly at us; asleep, dreaming – eyes firmly closed; averting their gaze from their own image – these photographs of dogs question whether we do know and understand these creatures as we think. A dog is a different kind of vision machine to the human: one more physically engaged with the world, totally unconcerned with image or visual ideals.

A dog portrait is often read as a reflection of the human – a canvas onto which we project our own ideas and concerns. Through these artworks the artist proposes that despite domesticity, and the inextricable intertwining of our two species, the dog retains a distinct animality - a markedly canine approach to the world.

Exhibition archive

Catalogue [in German]

Photos: Kunsthaus Göttingen

2020 Art in Isolation, The Hyman Collection

2020 Art in Isolation, online exhibition of new acquisitions by The Hyman Collection, from April 2020

“Like everyone else, over January and February we watched with increasing horror as Coronavirus spread around the world. With Claire working in the NHS we were acutely aware of the issues within London hospitals, especially after she was redeployed to work in ITU (intensive care) on the Covid ward. So in mid March we decided to do a fundraiser in which all profits would go to the NHS. We were very early to stage such a fundraiser and there were articles in several national papers including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail which helped to generate sales. From April it was also amazing to witness an incredible sense of community and an almost overwhelming number of fundraising initiatives. We have done what we can to support these charities and have acquired works to suport the NHS, Refuge, Crisis, the Trussell Trust and Maggie's Cancer Charity. We have also bought works from the phenomenally successful #artistsupportpledge whereby artists make sales to support themselves. In this online exhibition we present some of the artworks that we have purchased for the collection with details of the fundraisers. Our support is ongoing and we will continue to add further works in the coming weeks.” James Hyman

Artists: Isaac Julien, Julie Cockburn, Lucy Pass, Karen Knorr, Lucy Bryant, Sarah Maple, Gillian Wearing, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Marlene Dumas, Jo Longhurst, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Hannah Starkey, Nicky Hirst, Damien Hirst, Sonia Boyce.

Work exhibited: Untitled, archival pigment print on Canson Baryta, 7.5 x 10”

Énergie animale, Museum für Gestaltung

Énergie animale, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, 14 February — 25 October 2020

Work exhibited: I Know What You’re Thinking, 4 photographs on mdf

“Tiger slippers or feather hats, the silhouette of an alpine procession or a porcelain cat: designers have always used animal materials and forms to create artistic worlds of images and objects. Their handmade or industrial objects, graphics and photographic series tell stories of how we approach animals and the roles they play — from the dreaded wild animal through the farm animal to the beloved domestic pet. Sometimes even mythical creatures may be found and enrich the creative diversity of designs. The exhibition explores animals on the human body, in living areas, and on the plate and addresses current themes like species extinction or veganism. A sanctuary and a parcours invite young animal lovers to explore and design for themselves”. Sabine Flaschberger, Kuratorin Kunstgewer besammlung, 
Curator Decorative Arts Collection

Fotos: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / © ZHdK

Museum archive

New Order I Other Spaces, Perth Concert Hall

New Order I Other Spaces, Threshold Artspace, Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre, Perth, 2 August — 22 November 2018

As part of Festival 2018 — the cultural programme accompanying the inaugural Glasgow 2018 European Championships — Horsecross Arts announces multi-site solo presentation New Order I Other Spaces by London-based artist Jo Longhurst. Co-curated by Tiffany Boyle and Iliyana Nedkova, the project explores the gymnastic body across photography, moving image and installation, presented simultaneously in Glasgow and Perth. New commissions produced in collaboration with gymnasts of all ages and responding to archival research take form in new moving image work, and responses to the life and work of dancer, choreographer and teacher Margaret Morris.

New Order I Other Spaces engages with ideas of perfection, gender, gesture, and inter-generational understandings of movement. Performative interventions were staged as part of both the Kelvin Hall and Threshold artspace opening previews.

Works exhibited: The Refusal (part 4), 22 channel moving image installation; Suspension (I), site-specific wall vinyl; Momentum (melting point), body scans: 2 site-specific wall vinyls, 2 site-specific fabric banners, limited edition print; Present, 5 channel HD video, 1 hour loop; Pivot, HD video 3.44, looped; What is to be done, performance intervention with 9 gymnasts, leotards, cangas, geometric mats; Research archive.

New Order I Other Spaces, Kelvin Hall Ballroom

New Order I Other Spaces, Kelvin Hall Ballroom, Argyle Street, Glasgow, 2 — 12 August 2018

As part of Festival 2018 — the cultural programme accompanying the inaugural Glasgow 2018 European Championships — Horsecross Arts announces multi-site solo presentation New Order I Other Spaces by London-based artist Jo Longhurst. Co-curated by Tiffany Boyle and Iliyana Nedkova, the project explores the gymnastic body across photography, moving image and installation, presented simultaneously in Glasgow and Perth. New commissions produced in collaboration with gymnasts of all ages and responding to archival research take form in new moving image work, and responses to the life and work of dancer, choreographer and teacher Margaret Morris.

New Order I Other Spaces engages with ideas of perfection, gender, gesture, and inter-generational understandings of movement. Performative interventions were staged as part of both the Kelvin Hall and Threshold artspace opening previews.

Works exhibited: A-Z, 215 appropriated photographs under Perspex; Cross, double-faced fabric banner; Pinnacle, 11 tessellating photographs; Peak, photograph in box frame; Space-Force Construction No. 1 (United States of America), Space-Force Construction No. 2 (China), Space-Force Construction No. 3 (India), 6 photographs in sculptural structures; What is to be done, performance intervention with 22 gymnasts, leotards, cangas, geometric mats; Double portrait (after MM), archive image on silk organza, powder-coated steel; Semana da Raça, reproduction of archive photograph in box frame; Untitled, open-frame sculptural structures; Untitled (cangas), bodyscans and pure colours on cotton voile, Momentum (toward a fiscal crisis), 6 flags.

PFF, Deutsches Hygeine-Museum

Pets friends forever. Pets and their people, 28 October 2017 — 1 July 2018

Works exhibited: Twelve Dogs, Twelve Bitches, 24 photographs on aluminium; I Know What You’re Thinking, 4 photographs on mdf

Artists: Woody Allen, Andreas Amrhein, Richard Ansdell, Sophie Bassouls, Tarsh Bates, Maria Giovanna Battista Clementi, Jean Baptiste Jules Davide, Arnoldus van Geffen, William Hogarth, Hörner/Antlfinger, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Erik Kessels, Nicolette Krebitz, Jo Longhurst, Rudolf Letzig, Renate von Mangoldt, Richard Müller, Isolde Ohlbaum, Henrik Olesen, Michael Powolny, Ulrich Seidl, Franz von Seitz, Keren Shavit, Elizabeth T. Spira, Kuraya Takashi, Theodor van Thulden, Cornelius Völker, William Wegman, Christopher Winter, Wols, Xiaoxiao Xu, Pim Zwier.

Curated by Viktoria Krason and Dr. Christoph Willmitzer.

“Right now, across Germany, in lots of meticulously designed high-tech interiors, there are countless kitty cats on the prowl, dogs frolicking around, exotic birds flapping about, and guinea pigs scurrying about. One third of all German households have pets, and they are regarded as part of the family and even partners. These beloved and domesticated creatures have a huge influence on people’s homes and their everyday lives. For most people they are the only animals they will ever come into contact with. It’s the contemporary form of a relationship between human beings and domesticated animals that began more than 10,000 years ago...

The exhibition takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the origins of pets: the moment of domestication, people’s changing attitudes towards animals, and the evolution of pet-keeping into a phenomenon that applies to society as a whole. Taxidermic preparations, historical documents and exhibits from the history of everyday life promise to provide just as many new insights as artworks and products from popular culture. Visitors to the exhibition are to be moved emotionally, entertained, but also led to reflect on the theme itself. What sort of human needs, longings and fears does our relationship with these animals reflect? These are animals we deliberately select as companions, thereby shaping their subsequent evolution? In looking at these special animals, which now influence not just people’s private sphere but also their emotional balance, we hope to explore further the key question posed by the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, namely ‘How should we be living our lives?’” Viktoria Krason and Christoph Willmitzer.

Installation views Oliver Killig.

Perfect I Imperfect, Gallery Andreas Schmidt

Perfect I Imperfect, Galerie Andreas Schmidt, Berlin, 15 September — 21 October 2017

Galerie Andreas Schmidt presents a new exhibition of works by 3 artists who engage with notions of perfection and imperfection in photography.

Artists: Jo Longhurst, Penelope Umbrico and Mariken Wessels. Curated by David Evans.

Work exhibited: Twelve bitches, 12 photographs pinned to wall; Untitled (selected Brazil works), bodyscans: 16 digital c-prints.

Installation views: Galerie Andreas Schmidt

Photography Is Magic, Aperture Foundation

Photography is Magic, Aperture Gallery, New York, July 14 — August 11 2016

“Aperture’s 2016 Summer Open was a call for conributions to the idea of photography as a magical form. This optimistic premise attracted a diverse scope of magical contemporary approaces - from pictures found in the happenstance of everyday life to elaborate stagings of studio or desktop experiments. The photographic practices represented in the final selection are rich with vitality and deep curiosity for the magical medium of photography. They share a fascination with and substantial knowledge of the historical roots and the contemporary state of photography. These artists actively play with the medium’s hertiage - reanimating and re-contextualizing its alchemical properties - to render ideas about its contemporary material value. They are astutely aware of the niewers’ perceptions and trains of thought,gorunded in our shared context of an ever-expanding image world. The invite us to pay attention to the thriving possibility of photography as an experin=mental platform, rich with materiality and visual sleight of hand.” Charlotte Cotton, curator.

Artists: Delaney Allen, Syl Arena, Lucy Wood Baird, Stella Baraklianou, Amelia Bauer, G. Roland Biermann, Thom Bridge, Radek Brousil, Drew Brown, Bubi Canal, Ellen Carey, Jesse Chehak, Joseph Desler Costa, Adam Ekberg, Annabel Elgar, Ailbhe Greaney, Valerie Green, Jill Greenberg, Aaron Hegert, Matthew Herrmann, Sheree Hovsepian, Noah Jackson, Jessica Labatte, Dionne Lee, Matthew Leifheit and Cynthia Talmadge, Jo Longhurst, Jason Lukas, Chris Maggio, Irene Mamiye, William Miller, Chris Mottalini, Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay, Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup, Zachary Norman, Ryan Oskin, Megan Paetzhold, Meghann Riepenhoff, Anastasia Samoylova, Michael Schmid, Marco Scozzaro, Katie Shapiro, Tabitha Soren, Jessica Thalmann, Sonja Thomsen, Patricia Voulgaris, Marta Wlusek, Guanyu Xu, Hyounsang Yoo, Junsheng Zhou.

Work exhibited: New Order (Brazil), 7 dye sublimation transfers on aluminium

Installation views: Aperture Foundation

Other Spaces, Titanic Belfast

Jo Longhurst I Other Spaces, Andrews Gallery, Titanic Belfast, 4 April — 30 May 2016 

Solo exhibition as part of the Youth Edition for Belfast Photo Festival, curated by Michael Weir.

Work exhibited A-Z, 215 appropriated photographs under Perspex; Cross, fabric banner with wood; New Order (Brazil), 7 dye sublimation transfers on aluminium; Pinnacle, 11 framed, tessellating photographs; Peak, photograph in box frame; Space-Force Construction No. 1 (United States of America), Space-Force Construction No. 2 (China), Space-Force Construction No. 3 (India), 6 photographs in sculptural structures; Untitled (intervention), performance intervention with leading Irish gymnasts from Lisburn Salto: gymnasts, geometric mats.

Arche Noah, Museum Ostwall

Arche Noah: Über Tier und Mensch in der Kunst [Noah's Ark: On Animals and Humans in Art], Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, November 14 2014 — 12 April 2015

The exhibition focuses on man’s relationship to animals and its representation in art of the 20th century to the present. August Macke’s 1912 painting ‘The Great Zoo’, and Mark Dion’s installation ‘Frankenstein in the Age of Biotechnology’ made in the late 1990s, provide polar starting points for the exhibition, which includes approximately 150 works from the museum’s permanent collection, national loans, as well as projects with live animals. Curated by Katja Knicker and Kurt Wettengl.

.Artists: Marina Abramović, Francis Alÿs, Steve Baker, Stephan Balkenhol, Thomas Bayrle, André Beaudin, Joseph Beuys, Louise Joséphine Bourgeois, Georges Braque, Björn Braun, Claus Bremer, Heinrich Campendonk, Marc Chagall, Marcus Coates, Fletcher Copp, Mark Dion, Otto Dix, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Max Ernst, Max Esser, finger (Florian Haas, Andreas Wolf), Anett Frontzek, Robert Gernhardt, Alberto Giacometti, Douglas Gordon, Tue Greenfort, HAP Grieshaber, Johannes Grützke, Andreas Gursky, Richard Hamilton, Karl Hartung, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Dick Higgins, Barbara Hlali, Bernhard Hoetger, Candida Höfer, Carsten Höller, Florian Hüttner, Anna Jermolaewa, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Jörg Knoefel, Oskar Kokoschka, Jiří Kolář, Gereon Krebber, Donatella Landi, Abigail Lane, Fernand Léger, Marko Lehanka, Jo Longhurst, August Macke, Helmuth Macke, Franz Marc, Gerhard Marcks, Marino Marini, Ewald Mataré, Joan Miró, Christiane Möbus, Henry Moore, Wilhelm Morgner, Gabriele Muschel, Joker Nies, Frank Noelker, Emil Nolde, Nam June Paik, Yüksel Pazarkaya, Max Pechstein, Hung-Chih Peng, Pablo Picasso, Patricia Piccinini, Émilie Pitoiset, Paola Pivi, Lucy Powell, Germaine Richier, Denise Ritter, Dieter Roth, Anri Sala, Klemens Schliesing, Emil Schumacher, Friedrich Seidenstücker, Deborah Sengl, David Shrigley, Renée Sintenis, Jana Sterbak, Christer Strömholm, Norbert Tadeusz, Hans Traxler, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Claudia Terstappen, Carl Christian Thegen, Mark Thompson, Rosemarie Trockel, Timm Ulrichs, Joos van de Plas, Paloma Varga Weisz, Thomas Virnich, Dorothee von Windheim, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts, Pinar Yoldas, Miki Yui.

Work exhibited, I know what you’re thinking, 4 photographs on mdf.

Catalogue [in German]: ISBN 392599856X

Photos: Dortmund Aggentur / Stefanie Kleeman; Tilmann Abeg [image 2]

Still, Solent Showcase

Still, Solent Showcase, Above Bar, Southampton, 18th November 2013 — 11th January 2014

Curated by Sara Roberts and John Gillett. Artists: Toby Glanville, Jo Longhurst, Mary Maclean, Melanie Manchot, Clare Strand, Gillian Wearing.

Through the work of contemporary British artists, the exhibition focuses on moments of stillness: of repose following exertion, of poise, bearing, balance and control; of space; absence; silence. It is intended to be post-Olympic – a shift from the Olympic focus on physical prowess, activity and exertion, comprising video, photography and installation from British artists, made between the 1990s and the present.

Work exhibited: Space-Force Construction No. 1 (United States of America), Space-Force Construction No. 2 (China), Space-Force Construction No. 3 (India), 6 photographs set in powder-coated aluminium structures.

Present, Sporobole

Jo Longhurst I Present, Sporobole, Sherbrooke, 1 August — 25 August 2008

Solo exhibition for the Canada Summer Games, as part of the Espace [Im] Media festival. “Created in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario during an artist residency, this pared-down installation shows side-by-side, simultaneously, five elite gymnasts. The work seeks to convey the intensity of the moment before a performance, when the gymnast, at the height of her concentration, salutes the members of the jury evaluating her. As the gymnasts prepare for action, their disciplined minds and bodies are presented to camera, revealing moments of slippage between private introspection and public display. The repetition of the same motif within the image highlights the singularity of the work's protagonists. The installation's loops and stutters in continually changing combinations evoke both the anticipation of competitive action, and the arduous training regime of the gymnast." Sporobole, 2013

Work exhibited: Present, 5 channel moving image installation

Exhibition text

Sporobole archive

Other Spaces, Mostyn

Other Spaces, Mostyn, Llandudno, 16 June — 7 October 2012

The artist Jo Longhurst’s new body of work develops her interest in perfection. She turns her enquiry into notions of the ideal body to the pursuit of perfect performance, exploring the physical and emotional experiences of elite gymnasts in training and competition. Gymnastics has a long social and political history and one often entwined with an idea of aesthetic perfection. The exhibited works incorporate classic photographic portraiture, appropriated photographs, and hybrid photographic works inspired by Plato’s perfect solids, and Popova and Rodchenko’s revolutionary experiments with aesthetic forms for the construction of a new society.

The book, published to accompany the exhibition at Mostyn, Llandudno, and at Ffotogallery, Cardiff, 20 October — 26 January 2013, reveals how Longhurst worked with a body of original photographic source material, sketches and studies made as visiting artist at Heathrow Gymnastic Club and at the World Gymnastics Championships. Longhurst transforms photographic images into more sculptural works, which reference Plato and the Constructivists’ earlier attempts to define and create perfect worlds.

Works exhibited: A-Z, 215 appropriated photographs under Perspex, Pinnacle, 11 tessellating photographs, Peak, photograph in box frame, Space-Force Construction No. 1 (United States of America), Space-Force Construction No. 2 (China), Space-Force Construction No. 3 (India), 6 photographs in sculptural structures,  Suspension (1), digital wall vinyl, Untitled (intervention), site-specific performance: gymnasts, geometric mats.

Catalogue: Jo Longhurst I Other Spaces: with artist’s text, foreword by Alfredo Cramerotti and David Drake, essay by Sarah Knelman, artist interview with Charlotte Cotton. Cornerhouse / Ffotogallery Publishing with Mostyn. ISBN 9781872771915

The Grange Prize, Art Gallery Of Ontario

The Grange Prize 2012, Art Gallery Of Ontario, Toronto, 5 September 2012 — January 2013

Four artists who have made a significant contribution to contemporary photography over the previous 5 years are selected by a panel of international experts for the shortlist exhibition. The winner is decided by public vote.

Jurors: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Charlotte Cotton, Sophie Hackett and Sara Knelman. Artists: Jason Evans, Emmanuelle Léonard, Jo Longhurst, Annie MacDonell.

Works exhibited: at AGO, Toronto, A-Z, 215 appropriated photographs on mdf; Suspension (I), digital print on wall vinyl; at Canada House, London, Breed, 4 photographs on aluminium; with an online selection of other works from The Refusal and Other Spaces

“Longhurst was nominated for The Grange Prize 2012 (now the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize) for the impact of her series The Refusal and Other Spaces - series that examine the pursuit of perfection, in dog breeding and in elite sport. In Other Spaces in particular, her combination of appropriated, re-presented images alongside photographic, time-based and sculptural elements reinvigorated a relationship to still photographic images by variously extending their volume, scale and dimension in space. Each decision was keyed to amplify how ideas of perfection shape personal and national identities, and social and political systems. The simplicity of the presentation of her work in the Grange Prize exhibition, which so ably engaged such complex issues, is what led to her win the 2012 prize.” Sophie Hackett, lead juror and AGO Curator, Photography.

A Timely Experiment. The Public Vote and Image Culture, by Sophie Hackett

Photos © Art Gallery of Ontario, 2012

The Worldly House, Documenta (13)

The Worldly House, Karlsaue Park, Kassel, 9 June — 16 September 2012


In recognition of the work and ideas of renowned feminist theorist, Donna Haraway, dOCUMENTA (13) presents “The Worldly House” an archive compiled by Tue Greenfort, within a former house for black swans in Karlsaue Park, that will give visitors the opportunity to think through Haraway’s writings and teachings in the form of artists' materials, texts, books, and videos. As homage to Haraway, the space functions like a concentrated archive of the thoughts that inform the exhibition, and presents multispecies co-evolution as a key position of dOCUMENTA (13).



Participating artists: 

Marina Abramović, Jawad Al Mahli, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Julieta Aranda, Brandon Ballengée, Thomas Bayrle, Lynda Benglis, Francesco Bertelé, Rachel Berwick, Joseph Beuys, John Bock, Marcel Broodthaers, Kristina Buch, Andrea Büttner, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Cheto Castellano, Beatriz da Costa, Marcus Coates, Wim Delvoye, Marta de Menesez, Massimiliano and Gianluca De Serio, Jacques Derrida, Mark Dion, Christa Donner and Andrew Yang, Jimmie Durham, Sam Easterson, Gia Edzgeveradze, Jan Fabre, Thomas Feuerstein, Christian Fogarolli, Claudia Fontes, Gloria Friedmann, Fernando Garcia Dory, Matthew Geller, Tue Greenfort, Henrik Hakansson, Kathy High, Judith Hopf, Khaled Hourani, Pierre Huyghe, Nikola Irmer, John Isaacs, Eduardo Kac, Luk Kahlo, Christoph Keller, Vitaly Komar, Jannis Kounellis, Jeff Koons, Aron Kramer, Louise Lawler, Lee Daniel, Jo Longhurst, Kristin Lucas, Marcos Lutyens, Flo Maak, Tea Mäkipää, Eva Marisaldi, Reiner Maria Matysik, Lin May, Rachel Mayeri, Ryan McGinley, Alexander Melamid, Aurelia Mihai, Antoni Miralda, Ciprian Muresan, Rivane Neuenschwander, Maike Maja Nowak, Shaun O’Dell, Henrik Olesen, Lissette Olivares, Erkan Özgen and Sener Özmen, Paington Zoo Environmental Park, Charlemagne Palestine, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Patricia Piccinini, Lea Porsager, Lucy Powell, Jo Ractliffe, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Hannah Rickards, Coco Rico, Miguel Angel Rios, Paul Ryan, Anri Sala, Shelly Silver, Dana Sherwood, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Tamas St. Auby, Jonathan Trouen - Trend, Jens Ullrich, Koen Vanmechelen, Sergio Vega, Chris Watson, William Wegman, Pablo Wendel, Lei Yan, Sun Yuan and Yu Peng, Adam Zaretsky, Ella Ziegler, Franco Vaccari, Mike Kelley.




dOCUMENTA (13) archive

Power House, Smiths Row

Powerhouse, Smiths Row, Bury St Edmonds, 11 May — 30 June 2012

Artists: Rose English, Nick Kennedy, Jo Longhurst, Jennifer Vickers, Wood & Harrison.

“This exhibition focuses on the physical and explores themes of endurance, discipline, skill and flexibility. The works all share an interest and curiosity in the capacity of the human body; their work collectively plays with physical boundaries, expectations and notions of power.” Rosie Grieve, Curator, Smith’s Row.

Work exhibited: A-Z, 215 appropriated photographs on mdf.

Check In, Harbourside

Check In, Harbourside, Folkestone, 25 — 26 June 2011

Curated by Liv Pennington as part of Folkestone Triennial Fringe.

Three artists take over rooms at Harbourside, a former guesthouse overlooking the Folkestone coast. Photographic installations explore a variety of domestic histories; of Pets, Pornography and Perfection. Artists: Jo Longhurst, Eva Stenram, Liv Pennington.

Work exhibited: Aerial Storm, photograph on aluminium; Coloured Bloodlines, leather lead and collars, 9 digital collages on aluminium; At Home, 3 photographs on aluminium